News & Events
News
Jane Thrailkill Releases Book on James Siblings
DOECL Professor Jane Thrailkill released last November her new academic monograph, Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James.
Julia Ridley Smith’s “Sum of Trifles” Out Now
Prof. Julia Ridley Smith’s memoir in essays, “The Sum of Trifles,” was published in November by UGA Press.
Bland Simpson releases new book on North Carolina
Simpson’s “North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky,” an exploration of North Carolina through nonfiction narrative and photography, was released in October.
Critical Gaming Tournament a Smash Hit
The ECL recently hosted a Super Smash Bros. tournament with a scholarly twist.
Student Spotlight: Latonya Dalton
As we continue to highlight the wide array of students in the DOECL, we’re turning our attention to non-traditional student Latonya Dalton,
Luisa Peñaflor wins Thomas Wolfe Scholarship
Congratulations to Peñaflor on being awarded the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship for her literary promise!
Seven ECL Majors to be Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to Megan Anderson Busbice, Michaela Faith Campbell, Emily Lauren Clemente, Katie Margaret Leonard, Jamie Marie Lukow, Lucas Kennedy, and Li-Anne W Wright on being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
Student Spotlight: Jennings Dixon
Meet Jennings Dixon, senior double major in political science and ECL!
Carolina Arts and Science Magazine features ECL’s 225th Anniversary
This week, Carolina Arts and Sciences featured the 225th anniversary of the study of English at the university.
Furst Forum Announces Fall 2021 Speaker Lineup
This week, the Lilian R. Furst Forum in Comparative Literature announces its speaker lineup for Fall 2021.
Events
UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program Research Symposium
March 19 @ 12:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Spring Into Latinx Studies!- Latina/o Studies Program (LSP) Open House
March 19 @ 4:00 pm Greenlaw 225Andreley Bjelland Graduate Lecture: “A Corasie and a Scandal to the World”: Childhood, Inheritance, and Legacy in Early Modern Domestic Crime”
March 20 @ 4:00 pm Greenlaw 225Voicing the Margins: Gender, Revolution, and the Queering of Desire
March 21 @ 12:00 pm Virtual EventJennifer Fleissner Lecture: Maladies of the Will, The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
March 25 @ 2:00 pm Pleasants Family Room in Wilson LibraryMosquita y Mari: Spring Kino Corner-Latina/o Studies Program (LSP) Collaboration
March 26 @ 7:00 pm Genome Sciences Building Room 100Critical Pedagogy Workshop with Adela Licona
April 2 @ 4:00 pm Virtual EventLSP Symposium: Morphology: Knowledge Circulation in LatinX Production
April 3 @ 4:00 pm Virtual EventAngelique Bassard Graduate Lecture: “Perilous Passages: Nineteenth Century Respectability Culture and ‘Soft Surveillance’ in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)”
April 4 @ 3:00 pm Greenlaw 225