Hendrix-Murphy Foundation - Programs in Literature and Language

Dr. Tyrone Jaeger, professor of English-creative writing, chair of the English department, and director of the creative writing program at Hendrix College, has been named interim ...

Hope Coulter, Director of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation and Associate Professor of English, will retire May 31 after more than 30 years of service at Hendrix College. Coulter b...

Thirty-seven first-year Hendrix College students selected for the Murphy Scholars Program were formally inducted at a ceremony held the evening of April 1, 2025. View event photos...

The Hendrix-Murphy Foundation announces the winners of the 2024-2025 Student and Alumni Playwriting Contests. “Duelling Hamlets” by Dawn Branch ’05 from North Hollywood, Calif. r...

Conway, Ark.—The Hendrix-Murphy Foundation will host Marcelo Hernandez Castillo as Murphy Visiting Poet on Wednesday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall in the Trieschman...

Hendrix Players will perform (title) Unknown | a devised performance at Hendrix College’s Cabe Theatre March 5-7 at 7:30 p.m. and March 8 at 2 p.m. Admission is free for the pub...

Due to inclement weather, An Evening with Murphy Visiting Writer Caroline Randall Williams, set for Wednesday, February 19, has been canceled, along with all visit-related events....

The poem “Arkansas” by Annie Crouch, senior psychology major from Fayetteville, recently appeared in the American Literary Review, a literary magazine published through the Depar...

Conway, Ark.—The Hendrix-Murphy Foundation will host Caroline Randall Williams as a Murphy Visiting Writer on Wednesday, February 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix...

Hendrix College recently suffered the loss of an alum, former faculty member, and current Hendrix parent, who touched the campus community in many ways throughout his life—Werner ...

Conway, Ark.— Calling all Hendrix playwrights. Submissions are open for the 2024-2025 Hendrix-Murphy Student and Alumni Playwriting Contests, co-sponsored by the Hendrix-Murphy Fou...

Conway, Ark.—The Hendrix-Murphy Foundation awarded $163,245 in grants in October for three student cocurricular projects and four faculty-led study-travel projects in literature an...

Conway, Ark.—The Hendrix-Murphy Foundation will host Alberto Rojo as a Murphy Visiting Writer on Thursday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix College. He wi...

Conway, Ark. - Murphy Visiting Writer Carmen Maria Machado will read and discuss her work on Wednesday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix College. A rece...

CONWAY, Ark. (September 5, 2024) Hendrix-Murphy Visiting Playwright Candrice Jones will give a public talk on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall on He...

Join us for a semester full of French films (with English subtitles)! free and open to the public no tickets or reservations required all screenings held in the Hundley-Sh...

Hendrix Players and the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation present the 27th annual Playwright’s Theatre on Friday, September 6, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. in Cabe Theatre at Hendrix College. This e...

Murphy Scholar Sable Alysse ’24 recently completed an independent archival research project at the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chic...

Using his Murphy Scholar travel funds, accounting major and Murphy Scholar Trevion Williams ’24 explored his passion for Korean language and culture by taking two trips to South K...

With the support of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation, Murphy Scholar and English-Creative Writing major Samantha Broussard ’24 was able to explore her passion for writing though an o...