FAMU English Department

We recently celebrated our Spring 2026 graduates (Jayla Fox, Kimora Hardy,and Angel Joseph were in attendance) at our biannual Senior Luncheon. We continue to send them our best wishes and invite them to “Dream the world as it ought to be. Don’t let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be”—Toni Morrison

We are not done with our recaps of the 18th Annual Spring Literary Forum. The highlight of the forum was our Keynote Address on Friday, April 3 from Tananarive Due. She was introduced by one of our outstanding majors .louard. She gave an inspiring message about inspiration, memory, and resistance using the written form. It was followed by a book signing and reception in the beautiful

We are not done with the recaps of our 18th Annual Spring Literary Forum. The second day of the forum featured Tananarive Due Tananarive Due and Kimora Hardy, a Spring 2026 English major graduate and president of FAMU English Literary Guild, engaging in an awesome conversation about inspiration, collaboration, and the art of adaptation. Listen to the latest episode of the CAKE CaKe Literary Journal Podcast to hear their conversation. The link is in our bio or can be found here https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/cake-the-podcast/episodes/Ep—4–Tananarive-Due-e3hs605

DEML faculty and students have had a busy week, from Spring Preview to this week's Spring Literary Forum (co-sponsored by The Department of English and Modern Languages and the Center for African and African American Studies)! There's still time to join us! Come out this evening for the closing event featuring keynote speaker Tananarive Due. The talk is at 6pm in the Grand Ballroom.

More pics from today's Spring Literary Forum events!

Congratulations, Dr. Troy Spier! We are proud of you.

ACLS is pleased to announce the 2026 awardees of the ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship and Grant Program: https://bit.ly/4vdyDp5

This year’s awards support exceptional research by 20 faculty in the humanities and social sciences at 18 different HBCUs.

Our keynote address tonight with Tananarive Due closes out our 18th Annual Spring Literary Forum. Join us for a great lecture and time.

We are back for a second day of the 18th Annual Spring Literary Forum Florida A&M University. Join us for our panel on The Memorial South.

Our next event, featuring Dr. Marlo David, begins at 3:30 PM today. Her talk poses the question, “why black memory matters.”

Congratulations to our dean, Dr. Valencia Matthews! We are proud of you!👏🏽🎉