Gram-O-Rama is a 40+ year UNC tradition. Students of ENGL 308 perform comedy sketches that use wordplay, word power, linguistic acrobatics, the elasticity of syntax, and the profundity of the absurd and incongruous to explore the music of language and … Read more

Are you interested in studying abroad next summer? Enjoy creative writing? Join ECL professors Michael Gutierrez and Soren Palmer, alongside the UNC Study Abroad Office, to learn about Life Writing in Ireland, a Summer 2024 study abroad program. No creative … Read more

This presentation, by Dr. Miriam Posner from UCLA, discusses the origins and current state of supply-chain management (SCM), the discipline that moves goods across the world. It focuses specifically on the technology behind SCM, explaining how a specific vision of … Read more

The DOECL's Critical Speakers Series has three fascinating speakers visiting campus this semester. Next week, we begin our slate of events with a visit from Daniel Sinykin, Assistant Professor of English at Emory University. Thursday, January 25th at 2:00-3:30 PM … Read more

In coordination with his Thursday lecture "Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Book Industry and American Literature," Daniel Sinykin will lead a Graduate Student Seminar.

Marta Caminero-Santangelo is University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Kansas. Professor Caminero-Santangelo has authored three books and dozens of journal articles and book chapters. Currently the editor of the journal Latino Studies, … Read more

The first of our Graduate Lecture Series presentations for the 2023-2024 cycle. “In his tale “Hop-Frog,” Edgar Allan Poe presents a thoughtless, repressive, and violent court as an allegory for contemporary American politicians and literary elites. The story depicts the … Read more

This talk will describe some of the conclusions drawn through the creation of a research and development project that seeks to bring "chorographies" (also known as "city views") into digital mapping environments that acknowledge the pseudo-perspectival nature of these early … Read more

The second Graduate Lecture Series event of the year! "After the titular hero of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko kills the second of two tigers, he cuts the heart from its breast to find “Seven Bullets of Lead in it” (46). Given … Read more

In celebration of Dr. María DeGuzmán's 20th anniversary as Founder and Director of the Latina/o Studies Program and the 25th Anniversary of the Latina/o Cultures Speaker Series, the LSP has re-invited the very first speaker in the Speaker Series,: Dr. … Read more