WKU News

Apr 23rd, 2025

Poet Heather Neidlinger, a teaching graduate assistant and second-year student in WKU’s three year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Creative Writing program, has won the highly-competitive Intro Journal Award.

Apr 15th, 2025

Students from WKU’s Creative Writing Graduate program traveled to Los Angeles, California on March 26th to attend the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP).

Apr 3rd, 2025

On Wednesday, April 9 at 5 p.m. in Cherry Hall 125, the Gender & Women’s Studies Program and Hope Harbor will present First Things First: Your Story, Your Words.

Mar 24th, 2025

Nicholas Jenkins is the 2024 recipient of the Warren-Brooks Award for his book The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England, published by Harvard University Press.

Feb 21st, 2025

On March 6,  Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou, Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Berea College and inaugural Director of Berea College’s bell hooks center, will give a talk titled “Preserving the Legacy of bell hooks

Feb 4th, 2025

On February 6 at 7 p.m., the WKU English Department and Gender and Women’s Studies program will host poet, advocate, and educator Willie Carver Jr., who will read from his award-winning poetry collection Gay Poems for Red States.

Nov 11th, 2024

Western Kentucky University’s Professional Writing (PW) Club, sometimes affectionately referred to as the “p-dub” club, is a club “dedicated to providing [students with] opportunities to listen to and meet with individuals and businesses”

Oct 25th, 2024

Third-year Creative Writing MFA Sydney Thier's short film, True Love Stays, won the Best Narrative Short Film award at the 3rd annual Sky Arts Film Festival last weekend.

Oct 24th, 2024

The Naylor Workshop celebrated its tenth anniversary of welcoming undergraduate researchers and faculty mentors from across the country to the intensive weekend-long event.

Oct 21st, 2024

On Friday, November 1, Dr. Amy Brausch, Professor of Psychological Sciences, will present her research at the annual Genderations Luncheon.

Oct 16th, 2024

The WKU English Department hopes you will join us for the 28th annual Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing on Sunday, October 27, in Cherry Hall 125 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., followed by a reception in Cherry Hall 101.

Jul 23rd, 2024

Apr 15th, 2024

The Department of English will hold its annual Foundations conference from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday (April 17) in Cherry Hall, room 125.

Mar 15th, 2024

WKU hosted its very first English Day here at Cherry Hall on March 1st with students from Bowling Green High School who were interested in studying anything related to English.

Mar 14th, 2024

“I want you guys to get out there and succeed and do the best you can. Having just a little bit of project management on your resume will help put you above other English majors.” - Kellie McDermott

Mar 7th, 2024

Research studies can be difficult, especially if a student has never conducted a research study before. Thankfully, the Naylor Workshop is here to help students learn how to conduct these studies and explore research in writing studies as a whole.

Mar 4th, 2024

Dr. Gary Saul Morson, Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, is the winner of the 2023 Warren-Brooks Award, presented each year by the Robert Penn Warren Center at Western Kentucky University.

Feb 15th, 2024

Daniel Keller is a new Assistant Professor here at WKU and is originally from Sierra Vista, Arizona. Dr. Keller will mainly teach Grammar, English Language, Language Acquisition, and TESOL-related subjects. However, English is not his only passion.

Feb 15th, 2024

Dr. Kishonna Gray will present "Augmenting Reality: Black Praxis in Digital Gaming" on March 1 as part of the annual Gail Martin Lecture Series.

Feb 6th, 2024

When May joined WKU as a college student, she decided to study Computer Science and Professional Writing in English. May says that these two fields interact more than some would think.