News & Events
News
William Blake Archive Announces Publication of Digital Edition of Blake’s Notebook

Blake’s newly digitized notebook offers a look at the evolution of Blake’s art throughout the Romantic Period.
Sigma Tau Delta: Applications Open for UNC’s ECL Honor Society

The quickly-growing ECL Honor Society has a ton of great events lined up for the Fall semester.
Stephanie Elizondo Griest discusses U.S. Borderlands on C-Span

Associate Professor of Creative Nonfiction Stephanie Elizondo Griest appeared on C-Span this weekend, discussing her latest book at the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Welcoming New and Visiting Faculty to the Department of English and Comparative Literature

The ECL Department welcomes Dr. Helen Cushman, Dr. Candace Epps-Robertson, and Dr. Tiber F.M. Falzett.
CURE Courses Introduce Students to Research in ECL

The two CURE courses offered this fall are ENGL 353: Metadata, Mark-up, and Mapping: Rhetoric and Digital Humanities, taught by Dr. Courtney Rivard, and ENGL 385: Literature and Law, taught by Dr. Jennifer Larson.
Come study, chat, or take a break in the new Alan Shapiro Graduate Lounge

The Shapiro Lounge will be open for graduate student use throughout the academic year.
Double Up with ECL’s Redesigned Undergraduate Major

This fall, the Department of English and Comparative Literature (ECL) began offering seven new concentrations within a newly revised major.
Prof. Jennifer Ho on WCHL’s show “Oh the Humanities”

Listen to Professor Jennifer Ho discuss the importance of multiculturalism in the humanities and the film “Crazy Rich Asians” with WCHL’s host of “On the Humanities,” Aaron Keck.
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.
Events
Playing with the Climate: Situatedness and Immerselessness in Environmental Video Games
February 3 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Greenlaw Gameroom, Room 316Kenan Visiting Writer Reading: Destiny Hemphill
February 9 @ 3:30 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Med-Ren Colloquium: Will West (co-sponsored with MEMS)
February 9 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Law School Info Session for ECL Students
February 9 @ 5:30 pm Greenlaw 301Med-Ren Colloquium: Holly Crocker
February 23 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Monique Truong, 2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Reading
March 28 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Hill Hall, Moeser AuditoriumMed-Ren Colloquium: Carmen Hsu
March 30 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Med Ren Colloquium: Maggie Solberg
April 6 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Med Ren Colloquium: Jessica Brantley
April 20 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233