News and Events
Rhetoric doctoral student Margaret Williams wins William Tanner award for best paper
3/12/20
TWU doctoral student in rhetoric Margaret Williams won the William Tanner Award for Best Rhetoric Paper by a Graduate Student at the 2020 meeting of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE). Her paper, "Vir Bonus, Hortensia: A Good Woman Speaking Well in Ancient Rome," grew out of her History of Rhetoric I class at TWU. She argues that in Hortensia’s 1st-century BCE speech in which she convinced the three post-Julius Caesar rulers to refrain from over-taxing 1,400 of her fellow widows, she was a good woman speaking well (a feminist play on the good-man-speaking-well trope). This award comes with a $100 cash prize and publication in the next issue of the CCTE Studies Journal.
TWU receives top national ranking for best bachelor's degrees in English
2/6/20
The undergraduate English program at Texas Woman's University is featured at #13 on the 2020 GradReports Best Colleges list. Rankings are based on median early-career salary data of over 5 million graduates from the U.S. Department of Education.
ESFL professor and chair's Zora Neale Hurston collection hits shelves, tops 2020's most anticipated book lists
1/14/20
Congratulations to TWU ESFL's Genevieve West, Ph.D., editor of Zora Neale Hurston's short story collection, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick. The collection, which hits shelves today, includes 8 "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales and has already received a rave review from The New York Times. It is one of Forbes' and Newsweek's most anticipated books of 2020, and the Miami Herald and Seattle Times, among many others, also listed the book in their "5 most highly anticipated books of 2020."
Poet Laureate educates and inspires at writing workshop, poetry reading
11/18/19
2020 Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez visited Texas Woman’s University on Wednesday, Nov. 13, to lead a daytime writing workshop followed by an evening poetry reading. Pérez draws much of her inspiration from her personal relationships and natural surroundings. Her experiences working with Native American reservation communities, female prison inmates and young people in juvenile detention centers have shaped her work. Her travels along the Texas borderlands and Rio Grande Valley informed her most recent collection, "With the River on Our Face."