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Marianne Gingher Offers First-Year Seminar on the Puppet Stage
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Professor Gingher’s course used resources from UNC BeAM’s Makerspace to give students practical experience with cutting-edge technologies as they honed their creative writing and performance skills.
ECL Professor Bland Simpson Coteaches Seminar on Coastal Ecology
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The course gave students firsthand experience in field research and brought creative writing together with the marine sciences.
Student Spotlight: Joi Dunston
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Can the world of video games connect to the world of ECL? As Joi Dunston’s story demonstrates, a humanistic perspective can contribute quite a lot to the world of video games and eSports.
Professor James Coleman Dies at 73
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Coleman joined the ECL faculty in 1990. The department has set up a memorial page where his students and colleagues can share tributes.
Short Story Vending Machines Installed on Campus Connect UNC Writers and Readers
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This updated article includes a video, narrated by Professor Daniel Wallace, showing the machines in action.
Elizabeth Spencer, Author and Former UNC Visiting Writer, Dies at 98
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Spencer served as a visiting writer in UNC’s creative writing department from 1986 to 1992. A funeral service will be held on February 1.
ECL Statement on Silent Sam Decision
![Silent Sam Toppling Photo by Taryn Revoir in the Daily Tar Heel](https://englishcomplit.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/570/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2018-11-13-at-12.26.30-PM-150x150.png)
The Department of English & Comparative Literature fully endorses the statement composed by the council of chairs of the College of Arts and Sciences of UNC Chapel Hill.
ECL Professor and Undergraduate Coedit Chapbook
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Professor Gabrielle Calvocoressi and undergraduate Marina Greenfeld worked together to create the chapbook “Bounty Everlasting.”
Student Spotlight: Sophia Purut
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Meet Sophia Purut, this week’s undergraduate student spotlight! Sophia interned for W. W. Norton over the summer.
Astronaut Candidate and ECL Alumna Zena Cardman Visits Campus
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NASA astronaut candidate Zena Cardman discusses her time with ECL and how creative writing and science have worked together in her career.
Events
First Day of Class Fall 2024
August 19