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ECL Professor Michael Chitwood Poetry Finalist for Virginia Literary Awards
ECL Professor Michael Chitwood is a finalist for the Library of Virginia’s 22nd Annual Literary Awards for his poetry collection, Search & Rescue.
PhD Students Awarded 2019 Humanities Professional Pathway Fellowship
Anne Fertig and Sarah Schaefer Walton earned HPP Fellowships awarding $5,000 in summer funding.
Two awarded Thomas Wolfe Scholarship in creative writing
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Student Spotlight: Lydia Thompson
ECL is taking Lydia Thompson to the Happiest Place on Earth, other than Greenlaw Hall! Not only is Lydia a great student, one of the 2018-2019 “Top Ten Scholar Athletes,” but she is also now an intern at Walt Disney World!
HHIVE Lab Researchers Find Dance Can Help People Manage Chronic Illness
Can dance help people struggling with chronic illness? After a visit to the Health and Humanities Interdisciplinary Venue for Exploration (HHIVE Lab), Chancellor’s Science Scholar Maebelle Mathew was determined to find out.
PhD Candidate Eddie Moore Wins Inaugural J. Lee Greene Award
In honor of Dr. Johnny Lee Greene, the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill established the J. Lee Greene Award: for Excellence in Postgraduate Work on Race and Ethnicity.
Student Spotlight: Annabel Chung
Meet Annabel Chung, ECL and Chemistry double major and Fulbright award winner!
UNC Alumnus, Blake Crouch, and his book, Recursion, featured in News and Observer
Upon the release of his newest book, Recursion (Penguin Random House, 2019), The News & Observer featured UNC Alumnus (Class of 2000), Blake Crouch.
Student Spotlight: Andreamarie Efthymiou
Andreamarie Efthymiou, an undergraduate who had originally placed herself on the pre-med track, quickly found herself more at home in the English and Comparative Literature Department than anywhere else.
Dr. Jessica Wolfe on BBC’s “In Our Time”
On June 6th, Dr. Jessica Wolfe, professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, spoke on the BBC’s weekly podcast, “In Our Time.”
Events
Critical 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