News & Events
News
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.
New Faculty Publication: Video Scholarship and Screen Composing
Dan Anderson’s new project, Video Scholarship and Screen Composing, takes up digital composing with a deliberate emphasis on bringing the expectations associated with print.
Featured Faculty: Kym Weed
Get to know the DOECL’s Professor Kym Weed!
Professor Tyree Daye’s Surprise Student Chapbook
Tyree Daye, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Writing was surprised last semester when his class gifted him with a chapbook of their poems.
Student Spotlight: Alexis Dumain
Meet Alexis Dumain, Psychology and English and Comparative Literature double major!
Student Spotlight: Grace Morse
“It was very crucial for me to remember who I was as a writer, who I am as a person, where I want to go, who I’m looking to reach with my work—and I think that was something that I got better at understanding each English class I took.”
ECL Supports Professor Heidi Kim’s statement on the March 16th shootings in Atlanta
Asian American Center Director Dr. Heidi Kim on March 16 shootings in Atlanta. It gives me great sorrow to write to all of you again about anti-Asian violence, but I wanted to reach out in the wake of last night’s shootings.
PhD in a Pandemic: Researching and Writing during COVID-19
PhD candidate Sean DiLeonardi discusses his experience writing his dissertation during the pandemic.
Writing From Home: ECL Students on Completing Senior Theses During the Pandemic
Honors English and Comparative Literature students tell their experiences of writing their senior theses during the pandemic.
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