Join us on Tuesday, April 2, for a free, virtual creative writing workshop with Lesley Peterson! Lesley Peterson was, until her retirement, Professor of English at the University of North Alabama, where she taught Shakespeare and Jane Austen. In this … Read more

Annual Latina/o Studies Program Symposium! Morphology refers to the study of the size, shape, structure, and relations between the parts of living organisms and, likewise, of words. Life forms and word formation, the regulation of life forms through semantics, and … Read more

The final Graduate Lecture Series event of the semester! “From the predatory gaze of her enslaver to the “loophole of retreat,” the themes of surveillance and sousveillance play an important role in Harriet Jacobs’s narrative, Incidents in the Life of … Read more

Please join us for the second Furst Forum event of the semester! Our department's very own Dr. María DeGuzmán will be giving a presentation at 5:30pm on April 16th, in Greenlaw 225. Dr. DeGuzmán's presentation is entitled "Accidental Photos, or … Read more

The UNC-Duke Americanist Speaker Series presents Stephanie Li, Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Her talk will concern the topic of her latest book, Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America, which "explores representations of … Read more

"Richard" (the band) will be performing original songs from Florence Dore's English 408 class this term at the Pitch (downstairs) 8pm-10pm. Richard has written a range of pop tunes, from camp country and Ed Sheeran-esque ballads to pop melodies that would … Read more

Join us on Monday, April 29, for live discussion and Q&A with actress and playwright Laura Rocklyn! Laura is a produced playwright, whose credits include an original adaptation of Jane Eyre that she co-authored with Sally Boyett, and Laura’s one-woman … Read more

Our August 2024 LMCC meeting (and our first of the new semester) will take place on Wed. Aug. 28 at 5:30pm in the HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library or Greenlaw Hall, Room 524.