Distinguished author Ana Castillo will read from her poetry and prose collections tracing her writing as acts of resistance.

Dr. Marion Quirici will discuss her experiences designing writing assignments that get students involved in campus and community disability activism.

David Davis' talk focuses on WWI novels that inspired Faulkner's career-long artistic vision and imaginings of WWI.

What does Research in the Humanities Look Like  and How Can Undergraduates Get Involved? *** Are you interested in writing an Honors Thesis, applying for a  $3000 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship  or just wanting to learn more about  Undergraduate Research Opportunities in the  Dept. of English and Comparative Literature?  *** If … Read more

"Vitalizing the Bildungsroman" When: November 14th, 2019 3:30 PM Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall Abstract: The novelistic Bildungsroman is most often understood to narrate an individual's initiation into social life, but this talk, instead, recovers the form's roots in eighteenth-century … Read more

This event will feature a 2015 ECL alum who was one of the first UNC graduates to be selected as the Lenovo Accelerated Sales Rotation Program and is currently an enterprise account executive at Nutanix (a software company in RTP) who will … Read more

"Post Rational Personhood in Contemporary Criticism and its Turn-of-the-Century Precursors" When: November 15th, 2019 3:30 PM Where: Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall (Optional) Reading // Chapter Abstract: For much of the nineteenth century in the U.S. and Britain, the will was … Read more

The Digital Literacy and Communications (DLC) Lab will be hosting a "Teaching with Tech" workshop on Tuesday, November 19 from 3:30-4:30pm in the Greenlaw Gameroom (316) led by Teaching Assistant Professor Dr. Sarah Boyd and graduate student David Hall.  During … Read more