News & Events
News
Meet the Faculty: Gabriel Bump
Meet one of the Department of English and Comparative Literature’s newest faculty members, Gabriel Bump!
Congratulations 2021 Undergraduate Honors Students
Congratulations to the students who completed honors theses during Spring 2021!
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.
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