News & Events
News
Undergraduate Film Journal “Aspect” Launches
The Department of English & Comparative Literature is home to a new undergraduate journal! “Aspect: Journal of Film & Screen Media” launched this fall.
Celebrating Honors Thesis Students
While we still cannot celebrate in person, we want to congratulate the ECL’s honors thesis students graduating this December!
2020-21 PAGE Fellow Trisha Remetir
Congratulations to ECL graduate student Trisha Remetir on being awarded the PAGE Fellowship!
Katherine Stein Awarded Adams Fellowship
Congratulations ECL graduate student Katherine Stein on being awarded the Adams Fellowship!
Professor Florence Dore Creates Community Through Music in ENGL 408 Songwriting Class
Professor Florence Dore is navigating distance learning and making musical community in her ENG 408 songwriting class: “Collaboration: Composers and Lyricists”!
Meet the Professor: Liz Gualtieri-Reed
Get to know Professor Gualtieri-Reed! Professor Gualtieri-Reed has been with ECL since 2000.
Graduate Student Spotlight: Krysten Voelkner
Meet Krysten Voelkner, ECL PhD student researching Latinx environmentalisms and the environmental humanities.
Homegoing: A Celebration of the Life of Randall Kenan
Please join UNC’s Department of English and Comparative Literature as we celebrate the life of our beloved colleague and friend Randall Kenan on Oct. 21 at 5:00pm.
Fall 2020 Latina/o Studies Teaching Award Winners
Congratulations to Chloe Hamer, Jo Klevdal, emilio Taiveaho, Nikki Roulo, Leslie Rowen, and Krysten Voelkner!
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