News & Events

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!

Check out a few of the unique undergraduate classes that still have seats available this fall.

When Prof. Floyd-Wilson left the position this summer, we took a look back at her time as DOECL chair.

Meet Chelsea Deitelzweig, a pre-med English major and Morehead-Cain Scholar!

Three members of the DOECL were recently awarded prestigious fellowships from the Wilson Library.

Congratulations to all the ECL seniors who completed an Honors Thesis in the Department this year!

Ph.D. Candidate Theodore Nollert was recently elected president of the UNC Graduate and Professional Student Government.