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The Department of English and Comparative Literature is welcoming a cohort of twelve new PhD candidates!

Prof. Lithgow leads a humanities intensive for incoming student veterans.

A digital timeline of the department’s 225-year history is now live.

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Celebrate the 225th anniversary of the Department of English and Comparative Literature with us!

ECL PhD student Elizabeth Shand delivered virtual lecture series called “The History of the Book” for residents at Galloway Ridge, a senior living community in Pittsboro, NC.

Meet one of the Department of English and Comparative Literature’s newest faculty members, Gabriel Bump!

Congratulations to the students who completed honors theses during Spring 2021!

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.

Watch “Two Wings Take Flight: Writers, Poets, Scholars, and Artists Reflect on Randall Kenan’s South”