May 2nd, 2022

On Thursday, April 28th, the WKU Department of English wrapped up the 2022 Creative Writing Reading series by hosting the 18th annual Goldenrod Poetry Festival.

Apr 29th, 2022

Congratulations to the 2022 department scholarship and award winners!

Apr 11th, 2022

WKU junior Joseph Shoulders was awarded the Stemmler/Dennis LGBT Award at the 2022 Sigma Tau Delta Convention in Atlanta. OTher WKU English majors who presented at the convention were Valerie Feldker, Eli Edens, Lizzy Roth, Kayla Spears, and Faith Yonts.

Apr 7th, 2022

The WKU Department of English held an award ceremony announcing the finalists and winners of the fifth annual High School Writing Contest on Saturday, March 26. Around 80 guests gathered in Cherry Hall to honor the high school students for their outstandi

Mar 29th, 2022

Gabe Feinn of Louisville is a senior Chinese major in the Chinese Flagship Program with minors in child studies and teaching English as a second language. For the second time, Feinn won the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad, w

Mar 14th, 2022

The WKU Department of English will recognize Ato Quayson for winning the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award this fall. His book Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature won the award for outstanding literary scholarship and criticism.

Mar 3rd, 2022

Ellie Schueler, a senior majoring in English for Secondary Teachers, has won the Excellence in English/Language Arts Instruction award. The award is offered through WKU’s CEPT course, in which Schueler completed clinical teaching at Drakes Creek Middle

Feb 15th, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Alex Poole for being selected as the Chair of the WKU Department of Modern Languages! Dr. Poole has taught for the WKU Department of English since August 2003. He is a strong advocate for language studies and has served as Interim D

Feb 15th, 2022

Brooke Larson, a junior from Cookeville, Tenn. is one of 19 WKU students who earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.

Feb 9th, 2022

Ato Quayson has been named winner of the 2021 Warren-Brooks Award for his book Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature. The award is presented each year by the Robert Penn Warren Center at WKU to honor an outstanding work of literary scholarship that embodies