Wilkinson College Professor Tom Zoellner (Department of English) is the winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction for his book, “Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire,” published by Harvard University Press. “This book in particular, it was the voices of Jamaican and enslaved people that
Dr. Ian Barnard (Department of English, Chapman University), has won the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship’s Book Award for, Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions. The CCCC is an association within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). This award is presented annually to
From Our Eyes showcases Wilkinson students’ first-hand accounts of their undergraduate and graduate experiences. This post features Tryphena Yeboah (MFA ‘21). Yeboah is a 2019-21 MFA fellows and an international student from Ghana. She recently took 3rd Place for her nonfiction essay titled “The Ravages of an Unloved Life” with Narrative, an online literary magazine
On Friday, January 10th, two Wilkinson College students, senior Bria Holt (Creative Writing) and first-year, first-gen Joselyn Perez-Rivera (Political Science), attended the OC Literary Society Luncheon with Casey Cep, author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. Wilkinson helps sponsor the OC Literary Society Collaborative, directed by Professor Jan Osborn,
As an English major, there is no clear path for what to do after graduation. Both in my undergraduate and now graduate career, one of the most common questions I am asked is “What will you do with a degree in English literature?” In the spring of this year, I began to seriously wonder that
Dual MA English and MFA Creative Writing student Daniel Strasberger participated in Chapman University’s Graduate Student Research Showcase on Friday, April 12, 2019 at the Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus. Daniel presented a poster on “The Efficacy of Differing Small Group Workshops” that summarizes the research he has been doing for his MA thesis
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 16th! Chapman University is hosting its annual Pub(lishing) Crawl in the Center for American War Letters in Leatherby Libraries. No, we won’t be drinking our way from O’Hara’s to Chapman Crafted at this year’s pub crawl. Instead, the Pub(lishing) Crawl is a jam-packed event where successful writers talk with
Please join us for the 2019 Literary Arts Reading Series, featuring authors, Enrico Deaglio (Feb. 11), Francesco Spagnolo (March 11), Susan Suleiman (Mar. 25), Christophe Boltanski (Apr. 22), and Chuck Fishman (Apr. 29). All readings are in Beckman Hall 404 at 5 p.m. and these events are free and open to the public. ABOUT FOWLES CENTER
Ian Barnard, Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of English at Chapman, recently gave a presentation entitled “Do ‘Facts’ Really Matter?” at the Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Professor Barnard’s presentation, an updating of their 2017 article in Anastamos, Chapman’s graduate interdisciplinary journal, argued that one of
Southern California has the privilege of hosting hundreds of Jane Austen fans this year on a very important anniversary. Join Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) members at The Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa in Huntington Beach to experience an edifying weekend, Friday, October 6-Sunday, October 8 as they celebrate the legacy of Austen