News & Events
News
Writing From Home: ECL Students on Completing Senior Theses During the Pandemic
Honors English and Comparative Literature students tell their experiences of writing their senior theses during the pandemic.
Four ECL Majors to be Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to Chelsea Tate Deitelzweig, Alexandra Catherine Mao, Jessica Maria Pereira, and Hannah Kaitlin Whittington!
Student Spotlight: Laura Crook
“I’ve honestly loved every single English class I’ve taken at Carolina.”
Susan Iron’s ENGL 304 Course Creates a Healthier Campus
Professor Susan Irons’ English 304 “Advanced Business Communication” course has helped create a healthier campus.
Poetry and Play in the Pandemic: English Gaming Courses in the Digital Classroom
Last semester, Professors Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Courtney Rivard’s courses found success in the digital classroom.
A Reading and Conversation with Rev William Barber II and Jaki Shelton Green
2021 Frank B. Hanes Writers-in-Residence events, a reading and a panel, featuring Rev William Barber II and Jaki Shelton Green.
MA Student Megan Swartzfager’s COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons ArcGIS Story Map Featured in Synapsis
Megan Swartzfager, current ECL MA student in Literature, Medicine, and Culture, created a ArcGIS StoryMap about COVID-19 in US Prisons that was featured on Synapsis.
Critical Speaker Series: Alexander Weheliye
Alexander G. Weheliye, Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, joins the Critical Speaker Series.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Marcy Pedzwater
Meet Marcy Pedzwater! Marcy is an ECL PhD student researching contemporary Latin American and LatinX writers’ depictions of dictatorship.
Events
Graduate Lecture Series Talk: “The Korean Demilitarized Zone as a Speculative Landscape”
January 28 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ZoomCritical Speaker Series Lecture: Kevin Quashie’s “Here is the Hour: Thinking about Black Literary Criticism Now”
February 9 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm ZoomCritical Speaker Series Presents Kevin Quashie’s Graduate Student Seminar: “Blackness, Being, and Aesthetics”
February 10 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Zoom