The ECL would like to congratulate sixteen of our students for their acceptance into UNC’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Alpha of North Carolina. 

Dr. James W. Clark, Jr., a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s English department in 1965, received a Distinguished Alumnus Award at this year’s University Day ceremonies. The University Day ceremonies were held on Thursday, October 12th at 11 a.m.  James Clark … Read more

The DOECL is excited to welcome Professor Daelena Tinnin-Gadson!

Check out a few of the DOECL’s exciting graduate-run organizations!

UNC students won at least one award in every category!

Congratulations to Allison Bigelow, an alumnus of the department’s PhD program, on this prestigious award!

Creative Writing Professor Karen Tucker’s novel ‘Bewilderness’ was longlisted for the prestigious Aspen Words Literary Prize.

DOECL Professor Jane Thrailkill released last November her new academic monograph, Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James.

Congratulations to Megan Anderson Busbice, Michaela Faith Campbell, Emily Lauren Clemente, Katie Margaret Leonard, Jamie Marie Lukow, Lucas Kennedy, and Li-Anne W Wright on being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

The Department of English & Comparative Literature invites applications for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor Latinx Studies.