Meet Jennings Dixon, senior double major in political science and ECL!

The Department of English and Comparative Literature is welcoming a cohort of twelve new PhD candidates!

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.

“My experience with literature has been a willingness to sit in the discomfort of someone else’s experience… Reading and literature have helped me to seek out different ways that people contextualize and make meaning from their experiences.”

Meet Alexis Dumain, Psychology and English and Comparative Literature double major!

“It was very crucial for me to remember who I was as a writer, who I am as a person, where I want to go, who I’m looking to reach with my work—and I think that was something that I got better at understanding each English class I took.”

“I’ve honestly loved every single English class I’ve taken at Carolina.”

Meet Krysten Voelkner, ECL PhD student researching Latinx environmentalisms and the environmental humanities.

Meet Tiffany Tran, this week’s undergraduate student spotlight! “Picking up the ECL minor helped me find new enjoyments while also improving skills that I believe are essential!”