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Faculty Teaching & Mentoring Awards
The department's faculty have won such awards as the Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the James M. Johnston Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the department's Association of Graduate Students Mentoring Awards.
The Invention of Scientific Reading by Adrian Johns
Part of the UNC Critical Speaker Series, this talk was delivered on Tuesday, April 10, 2012.
2012 Morgan Writer-In-Residence: Athol Fugard
Presented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 21, 2012 at the Paul Green Theater.
2012 Morgan Writer-in-Residence Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard will visit the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the 2012 Morgan Writer-in-Residence from March 19-23. Mr. Fugard will give a public talk, “Milestones of a Literary Journey,” as the 2012 Morgan Writer-in-Residence Reading on Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Paul Green Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art. For more information on events in celebration of Mr. Fugard's artistic and literary achievements, visit fugard.web.unc.edu
Ruth von Bernuth: The Wise Men of Chelm
Ruth von Bernuth's Furst Forum lecture traces the origins of "Eastern European Jewry's favorite folk tradition" to German folly literature.
