English News
Sarah Anderson '13 Headed to Zambia as Peace Corps Volunteer
June 9, 2013
Sarah E. Anderson, a May 2013 graduate of DePauw University, "will leave June 11 for Zambia to begin training as a community outreach volunteer for the... Read More
Jud Fisher '91 Joins Indiana Trust & Investment Management Company's Board
May 22, 2013
Michael "Jud" Fisher Jr., president and chief operating officer of the Ball Brothers Foundation and 1991 graduate of DePauw University, has joined Indiana... Read More
Collection of Essays, Including Work by Prof. Samuel Autman, is Finalist for Benjamin Franklin Award
May 8, 2013
The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays, which includes a work by Samuel A. Autman, assistant professor of English at DePauw University, has... Read More
Student Journalists Honored with Seven Regional 'Mark of Excellence' Awards
April 29, 2013
DePauw University student journalists are the recipients of seven 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Region 5 Mark of Excellence Awards. Presented... Read More
Prof. Eugene Gloria Wins 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry
April 22, 2013
Eugene Gloria, associate professor of English at DePauw University, is the recipient of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for poetry for My Favorite Warlord... Read More
April 24th Visitor George Saunders Among TIME's '100 Most Influential People in the World'
April 19, 2013
"Fiction writers don't often get credit for their influence on the world -- it is often invisible and unheralded. But among those on TIME magazine’s annual... Read More
Award-Winning Author Richard Peck '56 Living the "Impossible Dream"
April 16, 2013
"It was the dream of my life to be a writer, but I believed people when they said you couldn’t get your first book published," Richard Peck, the award-winning... Read More
Anne Keller '96 Joins Economic Development Organization
April 15, 2013
"One Southern Indiana, the chamber of commerce and economic development organization for Clark and Floyd counties, has hired Anne E. Keller as senior director... Read More
Kendall Quisenberry '13 to Teach in Malaysia with Fulbright Award
April 14, 2013
Kendall C. Quisenberry, a senior at DePauw University, is the recipient of an English Teaching Assistantship from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition... Read More
Prof. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. in California to Present Three Lectures
April 11, 2013
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., professor of English at DePauw University, will discuss "Does Science Fiction Music Have a Story of its Own?" in a lecture on... Read More
Sarah Gerkensmeyer '01 Authors What You Are Now Enjoying
April 7, 2013
What You Are Now Enjoying, a collection of short stories by Sarah Gerkensmeyer, a 2001 graduate of DePauw University, features "surreal elements, often... Read More
George Saunders, Here April 24, Wins 2013 PEN/Malamud Award
April 3, 2013
George Saunders, who will visit the campus of DePauw University on Wednesday, April 24, is the recipient of the 2013 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in... Read More
TV's Bret Baier '92 "At the Top of His Game"
April 2, 2013
"Bret Baier is at the top of his game: His Fox News show, Special Report with Bret Baier, has been the No. 1 news program on TV for 50 consecutive months... Read More
Take Two
March 26, 2013
With his crowdfunded film starring Olympia Dukakis set to premiere in April, Alex Thompson '12 already has another ambitious project underway. Read More
Wendi Taylor Nations '85 Joins Fleishman-Hillard as Sr. VP & Partner
March 26, 2013
Wendi Taylor Nations, a 1985 graduate of DePauw University, has joined Fleishman-Hillard International Communications as senior vice president, partner... Read More
J.C. Pankratz '12 Takes Second in Prestigious Playwriting Competition
March 12, 2013
Joan Catherine “ J.C.” Pankratz, a 2012 graduate of DePauw University, finished second in the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award competition for her... Read More
Ed Garnes '99 Contributes Essay to New Anthology, Where Did Our Love Go
March 7, 2013
Edward M. Garnes Jr., a 1999 graduate of DePauw University, contributes an essay to the newly-published anthology, Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships... Read More
Jane Stacy '34 Honored on Her 100th Birthday
March 6, 2013
"Some just can’t resist the glamour of the stage," begins a story in the Doings of Western Springs, Illinois. "But it wasn’t the spotlight that attracted... Read More
David Singer '91 Among Barron's Top 1,000 Financial Advisors
February 26, 2013
David L. Singer, senior vice president in the private banking and investment group at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and 1991 graduate of DePauw University... Read More
Former Tiger Golfer, TV's Bret Baier '92, Competes in AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
February 18, 2013
"I can speak to millions and millions of people when the red light on the camera goes on. But when you have to physically perform and turn on a little... Read More
Award-Winning Poet & Essayist Danielle Cadena Deulen Here February 27
February 7, 2013
Poet and essayist Danielle Cadena Deulen, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize, will visit DePauw University... Read More
Book Review by Prof. Meryl Altman Published in Academe
January 28, 2013
"Sara Ahmed’s valuable new book is something of a departure from her previous work in phenomenology and cultural criticism, which has focused particularly... Read More
Linda Heuring '76 Has Three Short Stories Published
January 25, 2013
Short stories by Linda Heuring, a 1976 graduate of DePauw University, appear in three recent publications. Read More
Prof. Joseph Heithaus Discusses Inaugural Poem with Maine Newspaper
January 23, 2013
"The poem that was read aloud Monday at President Obama's second inauguration was deeply personal to the Maine poet who wrote it, scholars said, but its... Read More
CBS News Talks with Prof. Tom Chiarella About Latest Esquire Piece
January 14, 2013
"I went in with a little naïveté. I went in thinking, well, I don't know everything. I'm gonna let people tell me and then I'm going to vet what they say... Read More
"Literary Phenomenon" George Saunders Here April 24 as Guest of Kelly Writers Series
January 13, 2013
Hailed as "the writer for our time" in a New York Times Magazine piece, George Saunders will visit the campus of DePauw University on Wednesday, April... Read More
Prof. Tom Chiarella Discusses 'Fracking' on MSNBC
January 11, 2013
"When there's energy to be harvested, money to be made, people are going to go after it," Tom Chiarella told MSNBC's The Cycle today. A visiting professor... Read More
Dan Korb '79 Named Indiana Sportswriter of the Year
January 6, 2013
Dan Korb, an assistant sports editor with the Evansville Courier & Press and 1979 graduate of DePauw University, has been named Corky Lamm Indiana Sportswriter... Read More