Prof. Lithgow leads a humanities intensive for incoming student veterans.

A digital timeline of the department’s 225-year history is now live.

By Rose Steptoe Meet one of ECL’s newest faculty members, Stephanie DeGooyer. Professor DeGooyer specializes in intersections of law and literature with interests in immigration, and health and medical humanities. Her forthcoming book Acts of Naturalization is slated for publication … Read more

Celebrate the 225th anniversary of the Department of English and Comparative Literature with us!

ECL PhD student Elizabeth Shand delivered virtual lecture series called “The History of the Book” for residents at Galloway Ridge, a senior living community in Pittsboro, NC.

Meet one of the Department of English and Comparative Literature’s newest faculty members, Gabriel Bump!

Congratulations to the students who completed honors theses during Spring 2021!

Gwendalyn Flick, a double major in English and Business Administration, values the interdisciplinary focus of her classes. “I feel so lucky that I am able to be a part of two programs that see the value in cross-departmental learning,” she says.

Watch “Two Wings Take Flight: Writers, Poets, Scholars, and Artists Reflect on Randall Kenan’s South”

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