This summer, Prof. Joe Kelly published America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War. According to Charleston historian Robert Rosen, Dr. Kelly’s book “vividly and accurately portrays Charleston as ‘ground zero’ in America’s long struggle over…
Bret Lott Publishes Letters & Life
Bret Lott’s newest book, Letters & Life: On Being a Writer, On Being a Christian, offers six engaging and candid essays that reflect on his life and faith, the value of humility, and on the art and practice of writing. The book delights…
Alumna Offered Three-book Deal
Congratulations to Ryan Graudin who sold world rights to her young adult novel The Walled City to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers! Her work will appear as a three-book series. Read more about her story here at Publishers Weekly.
Student Essay Featured in CofC Magazine
The CofC Magazine (Summer 2013) has reprinted English major Phoebe Doty’s essay on the Unitarian Church’s graveyard in Charleston, South Carolina, “A Matter of Life and Death.” This essay written for Dr. Devet’s Advanced Composition course was published originally at The…
Hot Off the Presses: Alumnae Publish First Poems
The finely wrought poetic lines of graduates in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing have debuted recently in national literary journals in print and on the web. Alexandra Daley (’12) published two poems: “Knowing” in Emerge Literary Journal and…
Belles-lettres: Eudora Welty on the Life of Gardening
For many writers, the life of letters and flowers are closely intertwined: Emily Dickinson created a herbarium (a homemade book of pressed plant specimens) when she was just fourteen; Sir Walter Scott designed the garden that surrounds his home in…
English Department alum and faculty reading in Piccolo Spoleto events
Tonight, June 3rd at 6:30 PM, Dr. Emily Rosko will read in the Dock Street Theatre courtyard for the Piccolo Sundown Poetry Series. On Saturday, June 1st, John Warner (English faculty) and Sara Thomason (English alum) read at the Piccolo…
From English Student to English Teacher
Best wishes to two of our recent graduates who will apply their newly minted baccalaureate to the English classroom. Chris Cimorelli (’13) has been accepted into the Baltimore City Teaching Residency, which is an alternative-route-to-teacher-certification program fronted by The New…