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Spectrum magazine recently featured Professor Christopher Okonkwo, who grew up in Nigeria and earned his doctorate at FSU. The article highlights how he bridges historical, cultural, and literary connections through his teaching and award-winning research.
English-Editing, Writing, and Media major Maddox Goodman was elected in the Spring 2026 semester to serve as FSU’s Student Body Treasurer. His English studies allow Goodman to focus on what he loves to do, write, while also preparing him for a future as an attorney.
Five Department of English graduate students brought their dishes of poetry to celebrate the 2026 Festival of the Creative Arts' music and dance "party," this year's opening event. Partygoers enjoyed a night of cross-disciplinary, artistic collaboration.
Doctoral alumna Tana Jean Welch joined a multidisciplinary panel for the 2026 Festival of the Creative Arts Arts-Health-Humanities Symposium. She discussed the College of Medicine's creative arts journal Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature.
Nineteen English majors participated in the Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement's Undergraduate Research Symposium. Several faculty members and graduate students mentored undergraduates in other departments.
Three English majors based part of their coursework for Assistant Professor Charles McMartin’s Spring 2026 course on co-founding the FSU Memory Project, an online survey for students to anonymously fill out and address issues of gun violence on campus and beyond.
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Kaley Hoppenworth and Sophia Ferraro, hosts of The HCFSU Edit
Hoppenworth and Ferraro both graduated at the end of the Spring 2026 semester with bachelor degrees in English-Editing, Writing, and Media. They were YouTube/Video co-chairs for Her Campus at FSU.
Creative Writing doctoral students published in Best New Poets 2025 anthology
University of Virginia Press chose Kate DeLay (left in photo), and Caroline Laganas as two of 50 emerging writers for its annual publication.
Alumnus discovers palm thought to be extinct in the wild: Coccothinax viridescens
Andrew Street, self-proclaimed 'passionate palm nut', has stories to tell related to his work as a palm curator at the Montgomery Botanical Center in Coral Gables, Florida.
English department celebrates National Day on Writing
The National Council of Teachers of English established National Day on Writing in 2009. The Reading-Writing Center and Digital Studio highlighted the role of Notes in Our Lives, the ways we write each day.
Alumnus Stewart Moore joins College of Arts and Sciences podcast Nole Edge
Moore is evening anchor at WESH 2 News Orlando, and he was recently featured on Nole Edge to talk about his post-graduation work and success.