News & Events

Meet Professor Destiny Hemphill, the 2022-23 Kenan Visiting Writer in the Creative Writing Program.

2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Monique Truong’s reading Tuesday, March 26, 2023 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall on UNC Campus.

Check out a few of the DOECL’s exciting graduate-run organizations!

Congratulations to the Gram-O-Rama team for another year of hard work and for an incredible show!

Please join us in welcoming one of the newest additions to the ECL faculty: Professor Steven Gotzler.

This August, DOECL Professor Courtney Rivard released her book Layered Lives: Rhetoric and Representation in the Southern Life History Project.

DOECL Professor Daniel Wallace—novelist, essayist, and illustrator—will speak to this winter’s graduates on December 11.

Dailihana Alfonesca, a Literature, Medicine, and Culture master’s student, finds herself—and success—in creative writing. Alfonesca was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Prof. Richards’ project, The Collected Works of George Moses Horton: A Critical Edition, will serve as the first complete critical edition of George Moses Horton’s work.

Department of English and Comparative Literature Ph.D. candidate Theodore Nollert just concluded his first full semester as Graduate and Professional Student Government (GSPG) President.