The English Department is proud to present some of the work of our own students and from students taking English courses in this student stories section!

Featured Work

Enjoy perusing work from our own majors! 

McKenna Graf | Lafayette College ‘26 | English (Writing Concentration) & FAMS Double Major

Gilded in Gold_ A Portfolio

Goodness Obadofin | Lafayette College ‘26 | English Major (Writing Concentration) | Data Science Minor

Final Immersion Story (1)

Amanda Serpi | Lafayette College ‘26 | English (Writing Concentration) & Government/Law Double Major | WGS Minor

The Education of Women in the Victorian Era-Amanda Serpi (1)

Kristen Vincent | Lafayette College ‘26 | English Major (Writing Concentration) | Government/Law Minor

Seeing Is Believing – Kristen Vincent (Winner of the Jean Corrie Poetry Prize-2024)

Check out some work from students in English courses!

Urvi Thakker | Lafayette College ‘26 |English (Writing Concentration) Major | Art Minor | Written in: ENG 361 Advanced Poetry taught by Professor Megan Fernandes

Urvi Thakker Collected Works

Pore over the poems from the winner and finalists of the 2025 Jean Corrie Poetry Contest!

Urvi Thakker | Winner: Love Letter to Bandra (and leisure) | Lafayette College ’26 | English (Writing Concentration) Major | Art Minor

Love Letter to Bandra and leisure

Lonan Jennings | Finalist: American History // The Land We Are | Lafayette College ’27 | English (Literature Concentration) & Classical Civilization Studies Double Major | German Minor

American History __ The Land We Are

Clare Socolow | Finalist: if I had more time I would have hit you harder | Lafayette College ’27 | Biology Major | Writing Minor 

if I had more time I would have hit you harder

Take a look at the work from the winner and finalists of the 2025 H. MacKnight Black Poetry Contest! 

Benry James | Winner: dear wormwood, | Lafayette College ‘25 | English (Writing Concentration) & Geology Double Major | Theater Minor

dear wormwood,

Fathima Yumna Hussain | Finalist: Beneath the Veil | Lafayette College ’25 | Mathematics-Economics Major | Data Science Minor

Beneath the Veil

James Boateng | Finalist: Gather Them and Sell | Lafayette College ’25 | Computer Science Major | Mathematics Minor

Gather Them and Sell – James Boateng