English and Comparative Literature

A graduate student conference jointly sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and King’s College London.

March 29-31, 2012

To learn more or to register for the conference, visit shakespeareconference.web.unc.edu.

John Ribó, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, gives a talk entitled "Ground Zeroes, New Worlds: 'Race' and Post-Apocalyptic Mutants in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."  January 25, 2012.  Film by the SITES Lab.

Click here to see the Fall/Winter 2011 Newsletter for the Comparative Literature Program!

The UniVarsity Film Series began last evening with a screening of The Last Wave at 7pm. This was the first of nine fantastic films that the department will be showing, in their original and glorious cinematographic format, over the course of the semester at the Varsity Theater.  All of the films in the series are free and open to the public--so, please, come, bring friends and colleagues, etc. You won't be disappointed!  For more information about upcoming films and screenings, please follow the link below.

Spring 2012 UniVarsity Film Series