Tarleton English and Languages Department

07/15/2026

The Modern with Dr. Sam Dodson—what an evening that will be!

Experience an evening of poetry with Fort Worth poet, scholar, and educator Dr. Sam Fisher Dodson in partnership with Recluse Books! 📖✨

This is a free event that you don’t want to miss!

📍Modern Auditorium
🎟️ Free and open to the public

03/23/2026

01/23/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Waltrip!

01/07/2026

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT ALERT 🚨

Ringing in the new year with another faculty spotlight, featuring Dr. Jacob Brewer, from the Department of English and Languages. This lecture will convey weird fiction and the monstrous body that he portrays in his artistic writings. We hope to see you there! 💜

January 20, 2026
📍 Math Building, Room 125
⌚ 3:00pm

10/29/2025

Don’t forget to join us at the 5th annual Share Your Scare Event hosted by the Department of English and Languages!👻📚

📍O.A Grant Humanities Room 116
⏰ 6pm

09/23/2025

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, The Department of English & Languages will be hosting a film series🎥 Join us for a movie and discussion with our very own Spanish experts!🍿

📅 09/25/25 & 10/09/25
⏲️ 5:30pm
📍Grant 116

Anyone is welcome to participate in this program regardless of race, s*x, ethnicity, or national origin.

08/21/2025

Welcome to the department, Dr. Widmayer!

English and Languages Department Head - Welcome!


The College of Liberal and Fine Arts at Tarleton State University is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Anne Widmayer as Department Head of English and Languages, effective July 21.

Dr. Widmayer joined Tarleton from Wisconsin, where she taught for 23 years at several University of Wisconsin System. She has published numerous articles in academic journals, as well as two books with Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment: Theatre and the Novel from Behn to Fielding, and Gender and Emotion in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Raging Women and Crying Men. Dr. Widmayer is currently working on articles about the Chevalier/Chevaliere d’Eon and the playwright-novelist Mary Pix.

Prizing transparency and collaboration as a department head, Dr. Widmayer embraces leading a vibrant department that includes specialists in literature, public and professional writing, creative writing, rhetoric, Spanish, French, ASL, and medical humanities.
COLFA congratulates her on this well-earned appointment and looks forward to her continued leadership.

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Widmayer!