News & Events

Please join us in welcoming the twelve new PhD students joining the Department of English and Comparative Literature this fall!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Check out the spotlight on recent DOECL grad Sonny Griffith!

Read about the efforts of DOECL graduate students to address the stressors of graduate school.

SOUL, the Student Organization for Undergraduate Literature, was recently featured in The Daily Tar Heel.

Congratulations to all of our accomplished graduate students on another academic year! Read about this year’s graduate awardees in the department.