WWU’s English Department Celebrates Prof. Yu and Prof. Beasley

Please join WWU’s English Department in congratulating Professor Ning Yu and Professor Bruce Beasley on their illustrious careers at Western and in wishing them all the best in their next chapters.

On May 31, 2023, English Department faculty members gathered on campus to celebrate Prof. Yu (front center) and Prof Beasley (front right), who are retiring this year.
  • Ning Yu

    The English Department bids a fond farewell to Ning Yu, who is retiring to devote more time to his writing.  Initially trained and educated as an aeronautical engineer and international relations expert in China, Professor Yu read Thoreau one evening after work and his life—and our department—was forever changed.   Jettisoning his first career and…

  • Bruce Beasley

    The Department bids a fond farewell to Professor Bruce Beasley, who is retiring after 31 years at Western. Known for his broad smile, infectious chuckle and passionate love for poetry, Bruce taught an extraordinarily wide range of courses in poetry and poetics at Western, including such curricular innovations as Slam and Spoken Word Poetries and Poetry…

Every year English graduates enter many fields: they become teachers, lawyers, doctors, community organizers, curators, editors, publishers, agents, art program directors, screenwriters, film directors, game designers, reviewers, essayists, novelists, scholars, poets, environmentalists, publicists, historians, musicians, and mountain climbers. They generously offer us their hard-won knowledge.

Whatever endeavor has engaged you, all of you are contributing to our global social, political, and cultural conversation. Thank you!

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