News & Events
News
Prof. Jane F. Thrailkill Awarded National Humanities Center Fellowship
Congratulations to Prof. Jane Thrailkill on her fellowship from the National Humanities Center!
Anne Fertig Awarded AAUW Fellowship
Congratulations to ECL PhD candidate Anne Fertig! Fertig was recently awarded the American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women
2020-2021 ECL Graduate Student Awards
Departmental awards for ECL students were awarded on Friday, April 23. Congratulations to the awardees!
Don Holmes Nominated for ACLS Fellowship
ECL PhD candidate Don Holmes has been selected as one of UNC’s four institutional nominees for the ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship.
Student Spotlight: Rachel Sauls
“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.”
Graduate Student Spotlight: Emily Sferra
Meet Emily Sferra! Emily is an ECL PhD student researching female friendships in 19th century British novels.
New Faculty Publication: Video Scholarship and Screen Composing
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.
Professor Tyree Daye’s Surprise Student Chapbook
Tyree Daye, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Writing was surprised last semester when his class gifted him with a chapbook of their poems.
Student Spotlight: Alexis Dumain
Meet Alexis Dumain, Psychology and English and Comparative Literature double major!
Events
The UNC Latina/o Studies Program: Past Present and Future. 22 Years of Culture and Exploration at UNC Chapel Hill with Conversation/Charla
September 23 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Zoom“Spellbinding: The Cinematic Virtuosity of Barry Jenkins” Discussion of The Underground Railroad episodes + Discussion with Joi McMillon (editor), James Laxton (cinematographer), and Onnalee Blank (supervising sound editor)
October 5 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ZoomWhat does it mean to be an E(nglish) and C(omparative) L(iterature) major today?
October 7 @ 6:00 pm ZoomBack to the Classroom!
October 14 @ 6:00 pm ZoomTrudier Harris, “Are We Literate Yet? Adventures in Education, Politics, and Culture”
October 27 @ 6:00 pm ZoomThomas Wolfe Lecture, Frank Bruni
October 28 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ZoomJill McCorkle, “Ambiguity”
October 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ZoomRecording of Tift Merritt & Joseph Terrell, followed by live Q&A
October 29 @ 7:30 pm Zoom