As members of the faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, we write to express our alarm about the recent denial of tenure of Nikole Hannah-Jones for an endowed Knight professorship at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

Prof. Gabriel Bump’s award-winning novel is being adapted for the screen.

Congratulations to Prof. Jane Thrailkill on her fellowship from the National Humanities Center!

Congratulations to ECL PhD candidate Anne Fertig! Fertig was recently awarded the American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women