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News
Prof. Jennifer Ho on WCHL’s show “Oh the Humanities”
Listen to Professor Jennifer Ho discuss the importance of multiculturalism in the humanities and the film “Crazy Rich Asians” with WCHL’s host of “On the Humanities,” Aaron Keck.
Departmental Statement on Silent Sam
On Monday August 20, 2018, the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam was toppled to the ground. ECL faculty to respond to this historic moment.
Publication: “Dangerous Conjectures: Ophelia’s Ballad Performance”
Professor David Baker and graduate students, Travis Alexander, Adam Engel, Katharine Landers, Mary Learner, and Ashley Werlinich recently published a chapter within Ballads and Performance: The Multimodal Stage in Early Modern England.
Bland Simpson Receives NC Humanities Council’s Highest Honor
The North Carolina Humanities Council awarded Bland Simpson the 2017 John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, in recognition of his extensive contributions to the field of the humanities in North Carolina.
Reconstructing Frankenstein’s Monster: Mary Shelley’s World in Print
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the groundbreaking modern novel, members of Professor Jeanne Moskal’s English class reconstruct the world in which Mary Shelley created Frankenstein’s monster.
María J. Durán Receives IME Doctoral Candidacy Award
María J. Durán, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, has been awarded the Initiative for Minority Excellence (IME) Doctoral Candidacy Award.
Events
Erica Fretwell Seminar: “Sensory Experiments in 19th-Century America” (American Literature and Sciences Series)
January 25 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ZoomErica Fretwell Lecture: “Towards a Craft Epistemology” (American Literature and Sciences Series)
January 26 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ZoomCritical Speakers Series: Lecture Alexander Weheliye
February 1 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ZoomCritical Speakers Series: Seminar Alexander Weheliye
February 2 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ZoomHow to Succeed in Business with an English Major
February 4 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ZoomA Reading, Conversation, and Q&A with Rev William Barber II and Jaki Shelton Green, with Gene Nichol moderating
February 22 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pmA Panel on Environmental Justice with Rev William Barber II, Jaki Shelton Green, and N.C. Attorney Josh Stein, with WUNC’s Leoneda Inge moderating
February 25 @ 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm Zoom