News & Events

Creative Writing Professor Michael Gutierrez released his most recent novel, “The Swill,” in late September of this year.

Cathy Choi, a 2021 graduate who completed an ECL minor in Medicine, Literature, and Culture recently published a comic in Literature & Medicine.

Congratulations, Prof. Christmas on this prestigious award!

Prof. Collins is the new chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Sophomore Victoria Wlosok will be publishing her debut novel in 2023. “How to Find a Missing Girl,” is a sapphic YA thriller that follows amateur teenage detective Iris Blackthorn as she investigates the disappearance of her cheerleader ex-girlfriend—who also happens to be the creator of a notorious local true-crime podcast about Iris’s missing older sister.

Read about the exciting events this month upcoming from the Latina/o Studies Program.

The English and Comparative Literature Department congratulates this year’s winner of the 2022 Thomas Wolfe Prize, Percival Everett. This prize is awarded to contemporary writers with distinguished bodies of work in the honor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s own Thomas Wolfe.

Please join us on Sunday, September 11, 2022, as we celebrate the life, work, and legacy of our beloved colleague and friend Randall Kenan.

This fall, the Department of English and Comparative Literature welcomes fifteen new PhD candidates! The department is very excited to introduce this special cohort, and their wide-ranging research interests.

Meet Denise Stroud, who recently won the spring 2022 Bland Simpson writing award!