News & Events
News
Congratulations 2021 Undergraduate Honors Students

Congratulations to the students who completed honors theses during Spring 2021!
Student Spotlight: Gwendalyn Flick

Gwendalyn Flick, a double major in English and Business Administration, values the interdisciplinary focus of her classes. “I feel so lucky that I am able to be a part of two programs that see the value in cross-departmental learning,” she says.
Randall Kenan’s South

Watch “Two Wings Take Flight: Writers, Poets, Scholars, and Artists Reflect on Randall Kenan’s South”
Statement on BOT’s Decision Regarding Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Appointment

As members of the faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, we write to express our alarm about the recent denial of tenure of Nikole Hannah-Jones for an endowed Knight professorship at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
Prof. Gabriel Bump’s “Everywhere You Don’t Belong” to be Adapted for TV

Prof. Gabriel Bump’s award-winning novel is being adapted for the screen.
Prof. Jane F. Thrailkill Awarded National Humanities Center Fellowship

Congratulations to Prof. Jane Thrailkill on her fellowship from the National Humanities Center!
Anne Fertig Awarded AAUW Fellowship

Congratulations to ECL PhD candidate Anne Fertig! Fertig was recently awarded the American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women
2020-2021 ECL Graduate Student Awards

Departmental awards for ECL students were awarded on Friday, April 23. Congratulations to the awardees!
Don Holmes Nominated for ACLS Fellowship

ECL PhD candidate Don Holmes has been selected as one of UNC’s four institutional nominees for the ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship.
Student Spotlight: Rachel Sauls

“My experience with literature has been a willingness to sit in the discomfort of someone else’s experience… Reading and literature have helped me to seek out different ways that people contextualize and make meaning from their experiences.”
Events
Monique Truong, 2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Reading
March 28 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Hill Hall, Moeser AuditoriumUNC Med-Ren Colloquium: Carmen Hsu (UNC)
March 30 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Critical World-Building with Tabletop Games
March 30 @ 5:30 pm Greenlaw Gameroom, Room 316UNC Med-Ren Colloquium: Emma Maggie Solberg (Bowdoin)
April 6 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Douglas Luman on Learning from Digital Debris
April 7 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pmPotrait of a Woman in Silk: London Designer Anna Maria Garthwaite with Zara Anishanslin
April 18 @ 5:00 pmSenior Honors Creative Nonfiction Readings
April 19 @ 6:30 pm Graham MemorialUNC Med-Ren Colloquium: Jessica Brantley (Yale)
April 20 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 233Department of English and Comparative Literature Commencement
May 13 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Paul Green Theatre