News and Events
Fire official finds high reward in PhD
5/13/22
Megan Schuth, the first woman battalion chief in the Denton Fire Department, will be awarded her PhD in rhetoric in Friday’s graduation ceremony at TWU.
ESFL student Annah Stewart receives TWU scholarship
2/8/22
Undergraduate English major Annah Stewart won a scholarship from the Empowering Women as Leaders program at TWU.
Dr. Genevieve West participated in An Evening with Zora Neale Hurston
1/13/22
NYT bestselling author, Morgan Jerkins, moderates a conversation with Lucy Ann Hurston (scholar and niece of Zora Neale Hurston), Patrick Dougher (cover artist for Their Eyes Were Watching God), and Genevieve West (co-editor of You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays).
Genevieve West, PhD, featured in Publisher's Weekly interview
1/6/22
We are proud to announce that TWU ESFL professor and chair Genevieve West, PhD, is featured in the Publisher’s Weekly interview "You Don’t Know Zora Neale Hurston" over the publication of the book You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays (Amistad)—a comprehensive collection of Hurston’s essays co-edited by West and the noted Harvard scholar and author Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
TWU student Demetria Ober spreads wings, flies solo in Spain
12/16/21
Texas Woman’s social work undergraduate Demetria Ober is studying abroad in Granada, Spain this year. As an individual who experiences blindness, she never imagined having the courage to leave her support system behind in order to fully immerse herself in a foreign language and culture.