Ben Fountain, UNC-CH alum and 2024 Thomas Wolfe Prize Recipient, will visit campus and read on Tuesday, September 24 in Moeser Auditorium.

The Department of English and Comparative Literature is honored to celebrate our graduate students’ accomplishments in research and teaching.

Congratulations to the seniors who completed a Senior Honors Thesis!

Meet Abigail Gillespie, who is a double major in ECL and biology. Gillespie is working on a thesis project examining the role of art in public health communication regarding HIV/AIDS in Kenya.

Jordan Klevdal, an ECL PhD student, was recently featured in a UNC Endeavors news story.

Brendan Chambers, a PhD student in the ECL department, recently published an interview in The Millions: “Dan Sinykin on Fiction, Scholarship, and Academic Twitter.” The interview focuses on Dan Sinykin’s book Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature.

Adam McKible, who earned his PhD in English from UNC in 1998, published a new book in February: Behind the Lines: How Plagiarism Popularized the Harlem Renaissance. 

The ECL is proud to highlight the outstanding work of Emily Waller Singeisen, a doctoral student and teaching fellow researching how ancient texts and their reception can inform contemporary gender & queer theory and, likewise, how this theory might enrich our readings of ancient texts.

Professor Marc Cohen’s English 105 class had a unique experience this semester! On February 26, the class visited the Cat’s Cradle music venue in Carrboro. Prof. Cohen’s class had previously interviewed the band Hotel Fiction and then had the opportunity to see them play live. 

The DOECL is excited to welcome Professor Shinjini Chattopadhyay! Professor Chattopadhyay joins the ECL faculty as an Assistant Professor of English.