Three cheers for new poetry professor Gary Jackson on being named a “New American Poet”–one of the Poetry Society of America’s coveted distinctions for emerging poets! Jackson was selected by poet Jennifer Chang, who praises his first poetry collection Missing…
Congratulations to Sara Peck on the publication of Yr Lad, Bob—a poetry chapbook that experiments with the art of influence. Her poems incorporate and respond to the innovative works of three poets–Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov–who themselves collaborated…
The new academic year is off to a good start and the English Department is happy to introduce the three new Assistant Professors who have joined us this Fall. Colleen Glenn (PhD, U. of Kentucky ’12) teaches Film Studies, with…
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’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…
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.
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…
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…
