News & Events
News
Prof. Florence Dore Publishes Article on her Rock ‘n’ Roll Sabbatical
Professor Florence Dore recently published an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “My Rock ‘n’ Roll Sabbatical: A literature professor hits the road.”
Student Spotlight: Liam Furlong
Meet Liam Furlong, an English and Comparative Literature and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures double major!
Honoring Professor James Kimball King
Professor James Kimball King’s extraordinary impact goes far beyond the confines of traditional classroom walls and continues to reverberate through the profoundly fond memories of family, friends, former students, and the wider University community. In light of his exceptional legacy, a group of alumni are working together to create an endowed professorship in honor of Professor King, who passed away in 2019.
Gram-O-Rama Performs “Meat Prey Troll”
The ECL would like to extend a heartfelt congratulations to this year’s Gram-O-Rama team for this year’s production of “Meat Prey Troll”!
2024 Frank B. Hanes, Writer-in-Residence, Terrance Hayes
2024 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Terrance Hayes, will give a reading on Tuesday, February 27 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium. The reading is free and open to the public.
Dr. Reva E. Sias Speaks at the Inaugural Hess Lecture
The inaugural Hess lecture took place on Monday, November 13 at 5:30. Dr. Reva E. Sias spoke on “The Rhetorical Presence and Activism of the First Nineteenth-Century African American Women Physicians.”
Student Spotlight: Georgia Chapman
Meet Georgia Chapman, an ECL and anthropology double major and creative writing minor!
Critical Speaker Series welcomes Pardis Dabashi and Lauren Michele Jackson
This semester, the ECL was delighted to welcome the distinguished speakers of Critical Speaker Series, Pardis Dabashi and Lauren Michele Jackson!
Student Spotlight: Claire Warr
Meet Claire Warr, a senior double majoring in English and music!
Student Spotlight: Luna Hou
Meet Luna Hou, ECL major and winner of the competitive One Teen Story fiction contest.
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