News & Events
News
Geovani Ramírez Receives Two University-Wide Honors
ECL PhD candidate Geovani Ramírez has won a Diversity Award and been selected for induction into the Frank Porter Graham Honor Society.
John McGowan Receives Thomas Jefferson Award
The university-wide award honors the member of the faculty who “has best exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas Jefferson.”
Jennifer Larson Interviewed on Serving as Remote Teaching Peer Mentor
In an interview with The Well, ECL Teaching Associate Professor Jennifer Larson discusses her work as a peer mentor helping faculty transition to online teaching.
Bland Simpson Inducted into North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
On the basis of a remarkable body of fiction and creative nonfiction, Professor Bland Simpson has been inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
Student Spotlight: Elliot Melfi
Meet Elliot Melfi, the Game Studies Specialist Intern for Digital Literacy as part of the new Greenlaw Gameroom Initiative!
David Zucchino Visits Campus, Delivers Lecture
Creative writing students had the opportunity to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent David Zucchino discuss his new book.
English and Comparative Literature University Teaching Award Winners
Four ECL instructors among 25 recipients of University Teaching Awards.
Nan Z. Da Visits for Critical Speaker Series
Nan Z. Da, Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver a public talk and seminar on March 4 and 5.
Nikky Finney, Writer-in-Residence, To Give Public Reading February 25
Nikky Finney, ECL’s 2020 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, will be giving a public reading on February 25 and participating in two panel discussions on February 24 and 27.
Marianne Gingher Offers First-Year Seminar on the Puppet Stage
Professor Gingher’s course used resources from UNC BeAM’s Makerspace to give students practical experience with cutting-edge technologies as they honed their creative writing and performance skills.
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