News & Events

Prof. Gabriel Bump’s award-winning novel is being adapted for the screen.

Congratulations to Prof. Jane Thrailkill on her fellowship from the National Humanities Center!

Congratulations to ECL PhD candidate Anne Fertig! Fertig was recently awarded the American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women

Departmental awards for ECL students were awarded on Friday, April 23. Congratulations to the awardees!

ECL PhD candidate Don Holmes has been selected as one of UNC’s four institutional nominees for the ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship.

“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.”

Meet Emily Sferra! Emily is an ECL PhD student researching female friendships in 19th century British novels.

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.

Get to know the DOECL’s Professor Kym Weed!

Tyree Daye, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Writing was surprised last semester when his class gifted him with a chapbook of their poems.