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Meet the Faculty: Destiny Hemphill

Meet Professor Destiny Hemphill, the 2022-23 Kenan Visiting Writer in the Creative Writing Program.
Monique Truong, 2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence

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.
DOECL Graduate Students Gather Around Lectures, Poetry, Films

Check out a few of the DOECL’s exciting graduate-run organizations!
Gram-O-Rama Performs “Past the Participle of No Return”

Congratulations to the Gram-O-Rama team for another year of hard work and for an incredible show!
Meet the Faculty: Steven Gotzler

Please join us in welcoming one of the newest additions to the ECL faculty: Professor Steven Gotzler.
Dr. Courtney Rivard Publishes “Layered Lives”

This August, DOECL Professor Courtney Rivard released her book Layered Lives: Rhetoric and Representation in the Southern Life History Project.
Prof. Wallace to Give Winter Commencement Speech

DOECL Professor Daniel Wallace—novelist, essayist, and illustrator—will speak to this winter’s graduates on December 11.
ECL Graduate Student Dailihana Alfonesca Shares Stories, Successes

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. Eliza Richards uses Hyde Fellowship for George Moses Horton Book

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.
Theodore Nollert Concludes First Full Semester as GPSG President

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.
Events
Playing with the Climate: Situatedness and Immerselessness in Environmental Video Games
February 3 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Greenlaw Gameroom, Room 316Kenan Visiting Writer Reading: Destiny Hemphill
February 9 @ 3:30 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Med-Ren Colloquium: Will West (co-sponsored with MEMS)
February 9 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Law School Info Session for ECL Students
February 9 @ 5:30 pm Greenlaw 301Med-Ren Colloquium: Holly Crocker
February 23 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Monique Truong, 2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Reading
March 28 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Hill Hall, Moeser AuditoriumMed-Ren Colloquium: Carmen Hsu
March 30 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Med Ren Colloquium: Maggie Solberg
April 6 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Med Ren Colloquium: Jessica Brantley
April 20 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233