News & Events
News
Departmental Statement on Silent Sam
On Monday August 20, 2018, the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam was toppled to the ground. ECL faculty to respond to this historic moment.
Publication: “Dangerous Conjectures: Ophelia’s Ballad Performance”
Professor David Baker and graduate students, Travis Alexander, Adam Engel, Katharine Landers, Mary Learner, and Ashley Werlinich recently published a chapter within Ballads and Performance: The Multimodal Stage in Early Modern England.
Bland Simpson Receives NC Humanities Council’s Highest Honor
The North Carolina Humanities Council awarded Bland Simpson the 2017 John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, in recognition of his extensive contributions to the field of the humanities in North Carolina.
Reconstructing Frankenstein’s Monster: Mary Shelley’s World in Print
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the groundbreaking modern novel, members of Professor Jeanne Moskal’s English class reconstruct the world in which Mary Shelley created Frankenstein’s monster.
María J. Durán Receives IME Doctoral Candidacy Award
María J. Durán, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, has been awarded the Initiative for Minority Excellence (IME) Doctoral Candidacy Award.
Events
Graduate Lecture Series Talk: “The Korean Demilitarized Zone as a Speculative Landscape”
January 28 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ZoomCritical Speaker Series Lecture: Kevin Quashie’s “Here is the Hour: Thinking about Black Literary Criticism Now”
February 9 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm ZoomCritical Speaker Series Presents Kevin Quashie’s Graduate Student Seminar: “Blackness, Being, and Aesthetics”
February 10 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Zoom