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Student Spotlight: Gwendalyn Flick

Gwendalyn Flick, a double major in English and Business Administration, values the interdisciplinary focus of her classes. “I feel so lucky that I am able to be a part of two programs that see the value in cross-departmental learning,” she says.
Randall Kenan’s South

Watch “Two Wings Take Flight: Writers, Poets, Scholars, and Artists Reflect on Randall Kenan’s South”
Statement on BOT’s Decision Regarding Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Appointment

As members of the faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, we write to express our alarm about the recent denial of tenure of Nikole Hannah-Jones for an endowed Knight professorship at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
Prof. Gabriel Bump’s “Everywhere You Don’t Belong” to be Adapted for TV

Prof. Gabriel Bump’s award-winning novel is being adapted for the screen.
Prof. Jane F. Thrailkill Awarded National Humanities Center Fellowship

Congratulations to Prof. Jane Thrailkill on her fellowship from the National Humanities Center!
Anne Fertig Awarded AAUW Fellowship

Congratulations to ECL PhD candidate Anne Fertig! Fertig was recently awarded the American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women
2020-2021 ECL Graduate Student Awards

Departmental awards for ECL students were awarded on Friday, April 23. Congratulations to the awardees!
Don Holmes Nominated for ACLS Fellowship

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

“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

Meet Emily Sferra! Emily is an ECL PhD student researching female friendships in 19th century British novels.
Events
Humanities Data and Technology Collective Kick Off Meeting
September 27 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Greenlaw 431Tell It Slant Poetry Festival and Emily Dickinson Marathon Reading
September 28 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Virtual EventColloquium on Premodern Literature and Culture: Michael Gadaleto
September 28 @ 5:15 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 2332023 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture, Allison Hedge Coke
October 3 @ 7:30 pm Hill Hall, Moeser AuditoriumColloquium on Premodern Literature and Culture: Mariah Min
October 5 @ 5:15 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Writing Afrofuturism: An Afro Queer Arts Project in Puerto Rico
October 11 @ 4:00 pm ZoomColloquium on Premodern Literature and Culture: Jamie Taylor
November 2 @ 5:15 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Colloquium on Premodern Literature and Culture: Matt Aiello
November 9 @ 5:15 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Colloquium on Premodern Literature and Culture: Lanier Walker
November 30 @ 5:15 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233