News & Events

We lost an incredible friend, colleague, mentor, professor and literary giant. Our collective hearts are aching with grief at the loss of Professor Randall Kenan.

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities named two ECL professors, Dr. Rebecka Rutledge Fisher and Dr. Courtney Rivard, 2020-2021 Faculty Fellows.

Beloved teacher and author, Daphne Athas, died in the early hours of July 28th.

The Department of English and Comparative Literature was deeply saddened to learn of the loss of Sally Sasz ’21 last month.

This year’s Kenan Visiting Writer, Melissa Faliveno, has a new book, TOMBOYLAND, coming out August 4th from Topple Books.

It is with a heart of renewed commitment that the Department of English and Comparative Literature issues a statement of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Dr. María DeGuzmán has been appointed the Eugene H. Falk Distinguished Professor, an endowed professorship bestowed by the college. 

Epps-Robertson is the Associate Director of the Writing Program, Director of Writing in the Disciplines, and studies rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies.

Meet Keely Hendricks, an ECL and French and Francophone Studies double major (class of 2020) who will be teaching English in Senegal thanks to an English Teaching Assistantship through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

UNC’s Humanities for the Public Good Initiative has awarded the Humanities Professional Pathways Award to two ECL PhD students: Nora Augustine and Jane McGrail.