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.

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

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

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

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.

Meet Emily Sferra! Emily is an ECL PhD student researching female friendships in 19th century British novels.

Get to know the DOECL’s Professor Kym Weed!