News & Events

Collaboratively, Dr. DeGuzmán, Dr. Irizarry, and the LSP Crew—graduate assistants Ryan Carroll, Meleena Gil, René Marzuk, Victoria Valle, and Cody Ward—have lined up several exciting speakers for this Spring 2024.

Professor Hilary Lithgow has been involved with book groups for veterans since 2015.

Professor Florence Dore recently published an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “My Rock ‘n’ Roll Sabbatical: A literature professor hits the road.”

Meet Liam Furlong, an English and Comparative Literature and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures double major!

Professor James Kimball King’s extraordinary impact goes far beyond the confines of traditional classroom walls and continues to reverberate through the profoundly fond memories of family, friends, former students, and the wider University community. In light of his exceptional legacy, a group of alumni are working together to create an endowed professorship in honor of Professor King, who passed away in 2019.

The ECL would like to extend a heartfelt congratulations to this year’s Gram-O-Rama team for this year’s production of “Meat Prey Troll”!

2024 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Terrance Hayes, will give a reading on Tuesday, February 27 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium. The reading is free and open to the public.

The inaugural Hess lecture took place on Monday, November 13 at 5:30. Dr. Reva E. Sias spoke on “The Rhetorical Presence and Activism of the First Nineteenth-Century African American Women Physicians.”

Meet Georgia Chapman, an ECL and anthropology double major and creative writing minor!

This semester, the ECL was delighted to welcome the distinguished speakers of Critical Speaker Series, Pardis Dabashi and Lauren Michele Jackson!