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Dr. Søren George Palmer Recieves 2023 Chapman Family Teaching Award

Congratulations to DOECL Professor Søren George Palmer for receiving the 2023 Chapman Family Teaching Award!

DOECL Faculty Black History Month Recommendations

Three people walk down an empty sidewalk, with their silhouettes casting just shadows across the gray pavement.

Check out what the DOECL faculty recommend for reading, listening, and watching this Black History Month!

Meet the Faculty: Destiny Hemphill

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

Student Spotlight: Tyson Weeks

Meet ECL and history double major Tyson Weeks!

DOECL Graduate Students Gather Around Lectures, Poetry, Films

A group of masked and unmasked graduate and undergraduate students sit in a classroom auditorium, waiting for a film to be screened.

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.

Events

A Reading with Alexander Chee: Hanes Writer in Residence
March 18 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Hill Hall, Moeser Auditorium
Grad Placement Workshops: Career with Academic Presses
March 20 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Zoom
Careers with Centers of Teaching and Learning
April 3 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Zoom
A Reading with Jared Lemus: Kenan Visiting Writer
April 3 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 223
Premodern Literature and Culture Colloquium: Dr. Markus Cruse
February 13 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 223
Alt-AC Career Pathways
April 15 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Zoom