News & Events
News
Don Holmes Nominated for ACLS Fellowship
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ECL PhD candidate Don Holmes has been selected as one of UNC’s four institutional nominees for the ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship.
Student Spotlight: Rachel Sauls
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“My experience with literature has been a willingness to sit in the discomfort of someone else’s experience… Reading and literature have helped me to seek out different ways that people contextualize and make meaning from their experiences.”
Graduate Student Spotlight: Emily Sferra
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Meet Emily Sferra! Emily is an ECL PhD student researching female friendships in 19th century British novels.
New Faculty Publication: Video Scholarship and Screen Composing
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Dan Anderson’s new project, Video Scholarship and Screen Composing, takes up digital composing with a deliberate emphasis on bringing the expectations associated with print.
Professor Tyree Daye’s Surprise Student Chapbook
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Tyree Daye, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Writing was surprised last semester when his class gifted him with a chapbook of their poems.
Student Spotlight: Alexis Dumain
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Meet Alexis Dumain, Psychology and English and Comparative Literature double major!
Student Spotlight: Grace Morse
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“It was very crucial for me to remember who I was as a writer, who I am as a person, where I want to go, who I’m looking to reach with my work—and I think that was something that I got better at understanding each English class I took.”
ECL Supports Professor Heidi Kim’s statement on the March 16th shootings in Atlanta
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Asian American Center Director Dr. Heidi Kim on March 16 shootings in Atlanta. It gives me great sorrow to write to all of you again about anti-Asian violence, but I wanted to reach out in the wake of last night’s shootings.
PhD in a Pandemic: Researching and Writing during COVID-19
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PhD candidate Sean DiLeonardi discusses his experience writing his dissertation during the pandemic.
Events
First Day of Class Fall 2024
August 19