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‘People need to know about this’: App State professors champion Indigenous voices [faculty featured]
Oct 16, 2026
On a trip to the ancestral Catawba town of Joara with students in fall 2019, App State professors Paul Worley and Melissa Birkhofer heard from a colle...
English professor Mark Powell reflects on Halloween, folklore, and wonder in WNC Magazine
Oct 15, 2026
There’s nothing quite like autumn in the mountains. The air crisps, and by September, you can feel fall in the deeper shade. By October, the forests...
ENG 4860: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature with Dr. Jennifer Wilson
Oct 12, 2026
300th Anniversary of Gulliver’s TravelsThis year marks the 300th Anniversary of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), an instant sellout c...
ENG 5640: Cultural Studies with Dr. Craig Fischer
Oct 12, 2026
“American Humor Periodicals, 1950-2000”MAD (1952- ), THE REALIST (1958-2001), ZAP (1968-2014), NATIONAL LAMPOON (1970-1998), SPY (1986-1998), and ...
ENG 3150: Approaches to Film and Media Studies with Dr. Craig Fischer
Oct 12, 2026
This class will be useful in two ways. First: we’ll explore the important ideas and methods in the history of film theory—realism, formalism, aute...
ENG 4172 and 4173: Advanced Studies in Film / Capstone Advanced Studies in Film with Dr. Craig Fischer
Oct 12, 2026
“The Wind Will Carry Us: Post-Revolution Iranian Cinema”This course is a deep dive into the remarkable Iranian cinema: its development before the ...