In Memoriam

Dr. Elvin Holt with Komi Begedou, Fulbright Alumnus, Texas State University (2014-15)

Dan Price, 2022

Arun Raman, January 2020

Wade Martin, May 2020

"I knew Wade as a bright, passionate, vocal student [...] He was wonderfully innovative, applying his deep understanding of traditional forms as foundation to his projects, one of which was his unforgettable ‘cento.'

Ms. Amanda Meyer, April 2020

In Fall 2013, Amanda began her career as a lecturer in the English Department, teaching College Writing I and II. She grew to become one of the English Department’s most loved writing instructors, always looking for ways to improve her courses in order to meet the changing needs of her students.

Dr. Edgar Laird, June 2019

Edgar lived the words he often taught and repeated, taken from a description in the General Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales about another scholar, the Clerk of Oxford: “gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.”

Dr. Lydia Blanchard, May 2019

Lydia was an accomplished scholar of American literature, with a focus on the works of D. H. Lawrence, their presentation of female characters, and their relation to sexual politics and feminist theory.

Dr. John Hill, 1929-2019

After 1982, John taught in the Department of English until he retired in 2008. He offered graduate seminars on creative writing, T. S. Eliot, Stevens, Frost, Bellow, Updike, and others.