Eberly News

West Virginia’s poet laureate and the winner of the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize will be instructors at this summer’s West Virginia Writers’ Workshop. The workshop, in its 22nd year, will be held on West Virginia University’s downtown campus from July 19 to July 22.

West Virginia University English professor Stephanie Foote has been named one of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellows for her work related to cultural production in and around the Anthropocene, the geological epoch in which human activity has had a global effect on Earth’s climate and environment. 

As West Virginia seeks to re-imagine its future both economically and culturally, new skills beyond technical training will be necessary to generate innovative paths forward.  

WVU student researching social change in Appalachia

The  School of Social Work at  West Virginia University shot up into the top third in the latest rankings of graduate programs by  U.S. News & World Report.

The Department of English will host a reading by Nick Flynn on Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the WVU Downtown Library's Milano Reading Room. 

Author Dennis Hinrichsen will give a reading as the West Virginia University Department of English’s2017-18 Virginia Butts Sturm Writer-in-Residence. He will read on Monday, Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the WVU Downtown Library’s Milano Reading Room. 

The  WVU Department of English will host a reading by Geoffrey Hilsabeck on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the  WVU Downtown Library’s Milano Reading Room. 

The  Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University has named four recipients of the 2017-18 Outstanding Teacher Award: Gwen Bergner, Ned Flagg, Krystal Frazier and Carrie Rishel.

Department of English's West Virginia Dialect Project launches 'WVU Voices' documentary