News & Events

Congratulations to Professor David Baker and his fellow collaborators for the official launching of MACMORRIS!

In “This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew,” Daniel Wallace tries to come to terms with the life and death of his multi-talented longtime friend and brother-in-law, who had been his biggest hero and inspiration, in a poignant, lyrical, and moving memoir.

The DOECL is excited to welcome Dr. Sarah Ficke as Teaching Assistant Professor. Dr. Ficke holds a PhD and an MA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Meet Ana Hoppert, a senior ECL major focusing on media production. Hoppert is the president of the Carolina Film Association and an editor for Aspect. 

The DOECL is excited to welcome Dr. Sarah Leilani Parijs as a Postdoctoral Research Associate through the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity.

Please join us in congratulating DOECL Ph.D. candidate Colin Dekeersgieter on being awarded the 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize for his poetry collection Opium and Ambergris!

Please join us in welcoming the twelve new PhD students joining the Department of English and Comparative Literature this fall!

Join us to hear Allison Hedge Coke, 2023 Thomas Wolfe Prize recipient, read on Tuesday, October 3 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. Free and open to the public.

In the 2022-2023 school year, the ECL congratulated a great number of our doctoral and masters students on the completion of their degree. Today we’re excited to spotlight a few of our recent masters and doctoral graduates who have recently received exciting job and academic placements!

Meet Luke Morton, an English and Comparative Literature and Classics double major who published an article in the latest edition of UNC’s Journal of Undergraduate Research (JOURney) and recently presented for the Johns Hopkins Richard Macksey Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium.