News & Events
News
Meet the Faculty: Sarah Ficke
The DOECL is excited to welcome Dr. Sarah Ficke as Teaching Assistant Professor. Dr. Ficke holds a PhD and an MA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Student Spotlight: Ana Hoppert
Meet Ana Hoppert, a senior ECL major focusing on media production. Hoppert is the president of the Carolina Film Association and an editor for Aspect.
Meet the Faculty: Sarah Leilani Parijs
The DOECL is excited to welcome Dr. Sarah Leilani Parijs as a Postdoctoral Research Associate through the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity.
Colin Dekeersgieter Awarded 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Please join us in congratulating DOECL Ph.D. candidate Colin Dekeersgieter on being awarded the 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize for his poetry collection Opium and Ambergris!
Meet the 2023-24 DOECL PhD Cohort
Please join us in welcoming the twelve new PhD students joining the Department of English and Comparative Literature this fall!
2023 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture with Allison Hedge Coke
Join us to hear Allison Hedge Coke, 2023 Thomas Wolfe Prize recipient, read on Tuesday, October 3 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. Free and open to the public.
2022-2023 Graduate Job Placement Spotlight
In the 2022-2023 school year, the ECL congratulated a great number of our doctoral and masters students on the completion of their degree. Today we’re excited to spotlight a few of our recent masters and doctoral graduates who have recently received exciting job and academic placements!
Student Spotlight: Luke Morton
Meet Luke Morton, an English and Comparative Literature and Classics double major who published an article in the latest edition of UNC’s Journal of Undergraduate Research (JOURney) and recently presented for the Johns Hopkins Richard Macksey Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium.
Student Spotlight: Elena Carabeau
Meet junior Elena Carabeau, an ECL major and Spanish and Studio Arts double minor who recently began interning with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
2022-2023 Graduate Degree Recipients
Congratulations to all the doctoral and masters students who earned their degrees in the 2022-2023 academic year. Their research, teaching, and community were invaluable to the department and UNC.
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