News & Events
News
Remembering Sally Sasz
The Department of English and Comparative Literature was deeply saddened to learn of the loss of Sally Sasz ’21 last month.
Kenan Visiting Writer, Melissa Faliveno, releases new book
This year’s Kenan Visiting Writer, Melissa Faliveno, has a new book, TOMBOYLAND, coming out August 4th from Topple Books.
ECL’s Statement of Support of the Black Lives Matter Movement
George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Sandra Bland, Akiel Denkins…And too many more. A movement powered by generations that include our own students and alums- the Black Lives Matter Movement- has taken up the call. The Department of English & Comparative Literature supports the movement for Black lives.
Dr. María DeGuzmán named the Eugene H. Falk Distinguished Professor
Dr. María DeGuzmán has been appointed the Eugene H. Falk Distinguished Professor, an endowed professorship bestowed by the college.
Dr. Candace Epps-Robertson named the first Jonathan M. Hess Term Professor.
Epps-Robertson is the Associate Director of the Writing Program, Director of Writing in the Disciplines, and studies rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies.
Student Spotlight: Keely Hendricks
Meet Keely Hendricks, an ECL and French and Francophone Studies double major (class of 2020) who will be teaching English in Senegal thanks to an English Teaching Assistantship through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Nora Augustine and Jane McGrail awarded Humanities Professional Pathways Award
UNC’s Humanities for the Public Good Initiative has awarded the Humanities Professional Pathways Award to two ECL PhD students: Nora Augustine and Jane McGrail.
The Homebound Project
With the theatres dark, ECL alumna Catya McMullen is turning her creative energy in a new direction, an online charity helping those affected by COVID-19.
Celebrating Honors Thesis Students
With all that has been happening this semester, we wanted to make sure that we took a moment to give credit to ECL’s amazing honors thesis students.
Christopher Armitage Recalls J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis
In a recent interview with The Well, ECL Professor Christopher Armitage discussed his time at Oxford with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
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