Raena Shriali, a College of Charleston undergrad alumna, recently won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Shriali received this prestigious recognition for her first poetry collection, GILT. GILT is an experimental collection focusing on societal standards enforced by family,…
The Department of English seeks a Department Media Intern to start fall semester and continue through the academic year. This paid internship requires a commitment of 7 hours per week, at a rate of $10 per hour. The intern will be responsible for creating and managing multimedia…
Before we log-off for the summer, we wanted to share one last post to thank our interns for their work this year and to do a little summing up of the year. It’s been a bang-up year for the English…
This semester, we at Folio have been brainstorming new ways of sharing department news. In the past these end-of-year posts, previously titled “Faculty Notes,” have organized news based on who contributed it. This year, we’re trying a different arrangement to…
As some of you may–or may not–know, when our esteemed Creative Writing faculty aren’t busy being fabulous teachers and writers, they’re hard at work editing the literary magazine Crazyhorse. For those in the know, the reputation of Crazyhorse precedes itself. Work printed in…
Our ongoing Sequel series features stories about our alumni. If you’re interested in pursuing digital editing work like Erin, the department is launching a minor and concentration in Writing, Rhetoric, and Publication. Both are designed to provide the writing and editing experiences that Erin describes. The…
When the College of Charleston’s Film club re-emerged on campus last Fall, it did so with a bang. Filming a tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” Film club students wanted to make a statement that their revival meant they were serious…
John Poole, one of CofC’s EDEN students (an English and Education cognate program), was awarded a 2018 Student Research Fellowship for his project, “Homegrown: The Importance of Palmetto Writers in Carolina Classrooms.” John’s project focuses on studying the works of South Carolinian…
