News & Events
News
Nan Z. Da Visits for Critical Speaker Series

Nan Z. Da, Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver a public talk and seminar on March 4 and 5.
Nikky Finney, Writer-in-Residence, To Give Public Reading February 25

Nikky Finney, ECL’s 2020 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, will be giving a public reading on February 25 and participating in two panel discussions on February 24 and 27.
Marianne Gingher Offers First-Year Seminar on the Puppet Stage

Professor Gingher’s course used resources from UNC BeAM’s Makerspace to give students practical experience with cutting-edge technologies as they honed their creative writing and performance skills.
ECL Professor Bland Simpson Coteaches Seminar on Coastal Ecology

The course gave students firsthand experience in field research and brought creative writing together with the marine sciences.
Student Spotlight: Joi Dunston

Can the world of video games connect to the world of ECL? As Joi Dunston’s story demonstrates, a humanistic perspective can contribute quite a lot to the world of video games and eSports.
Professor James Coleman Dies at 73

Coleman joined the ECL faculty in 1990. The department has set up a memorial page where his students and colleagues can share tributes.
Short Story Vending Machines Installed on Campus Connect UNC Writers and Readers

This updated article includes a video, narrated by Professor Daniel Wallace, showing the machines in action.
Elizabeth Spencer, Author and Former UNC Visiting Writer, Dies at 98

Spencer served as a visiting writer in UNC’s creative writing department from 1986 to 1992. A funeral service will be held on February 1.
ECL Statement on Silent Sam Decision

The Department of English & Comparative Literature fully endorses the statement composed by the council of chairs of the College of Arts and Sciences of UNC Chapel Hill.
ECL Professor and Undergraduate Coedit Chapbook

Professor Gabrielle Calvocoressi and undergraduate Marina Greenfeld worked together to create the chapbook “Bounty Everlasting.”
Events
Erica Fretwell Seminar: “Sensory Experiments in 19th-Century America” (American Literature and Sciences Series)
January 25 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ZoomErica Fretwell Lecture: “Towards a Craft Epistemology” (American Literature and Sciences Series)
January 26 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ZoomCritical Speakers Series: Lecture Alexander Weheliye
February 1 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ZoomCritical Speakers Series: Seminar Alexander Weheliye
February 2 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ZoomHow to Succeed in Business with an English Major
February 4 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ZoomA Reading, Conversation, and Q&A with Rev William Barber II and Jaki Shelton Green, with Gene Nichol moderating
February 22 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pmA Panel on Environmental Justice with Rev William Barber II, Jaki Shelton Green, and N.C. Attorney Josh Stein, with WUNC’s Leoneda Inge moderating
February 25 @ 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm Zoom