English Department Calendar

A little slow in the start-up, but we will be continuing the Zoom pedagogy chats this semester. We’ll try a slightly different arrangement this time: Instead of alternating between two schedules, we’ll try meeting at one consistent time (Wednesdays 3:00-4:00) but alternating weeks (

For now, no specific topics are planned—just open conversation—but we’re open to the possibility of “themes.” Feel free to come and go as you are able.

Anticipate an email message on each appropriate Monday—both to serve as a reminder and to render a Zoom link.

Featured Reader: Holly Goddard Jones

Holly Goddard Jones
is the author of several books of fiction,
most recently the novel The Salt Line (Putnam, 2017). Her
collection of short fiction, Antipodes , is forthcoming in May 2022
from University of Iowa Press. Her fiction has appeared in Tin
House Epoch Best American Mystery Stories New Stories from
the South , and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe
Foundation Writers' Award, the Kentucky Literary Award, the
Hillsdale Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the
Judy Gaines Young Book Award for Appalachian Writers .
She lives in Greensboro, NC.