Emeritus Faculty Members
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Marianne Gingher
Email Degrees B.A. in art and English, Salem College M.F.A. creative writing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro About I … Read more
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William Harmon
Email About Scholar, Poet, Editor, Essayist. Between 1970 and 1986 published five books of poetry, including winners of the Lamont … Read more
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Trudier Harris
Email About In 2009, I retired from the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where, … Read more
Fred Colby Hobson, Jr.
Email About Fred Hobson is a retired Professor of English and Lineberger Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at UNC-CH. A … Read more
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Susan H. Irons
Email About Dr. Irons’s professional focus is the student learning experience in the undergraduate classroom. She teaches courses in Literature … Read more
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Joy Kasson
Email About Joy Kasson retired in 2015 after 44 years teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and … Read more
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Ritchie D. Kendall
Email About Ritchie Kendall works primarily in Early English drama and the social and economic history of the period. … Read more
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Edward Donald Kennedy
Email About Edward Donald Kennedy (Don), a member of the UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature for 45 years, … Read more
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Erika Caroline Dorothea Lindemann
Email Degrees 1968, BA English, University of Georgia 1969, MA English, University of North Carolina 1972, PhD English, University of … Read more
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Megan Matchinske
Email About Megan Matchinske is an Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature