Dr. Marame Gueye was invited to contribute a text to a collateral exhibition at this year’s Venice Architectural Biennale. The project, entitled “Following the Fish," is a collaboration between the Ramon Llull...
Dr. Peter Makuck, distinguished professor emeritus, passed away on June 21, 2023. Makuck founded Tar River Poetry and taught English and creative writing at ECU from 1978 until his retirement...
Dr. Andrea Kitta recently gave two online lectures about her ongoing COVID-19 research. The first, on COVID-19 legends, at the University College Dublin, and the second, on health legends and...
Brent Cameron (M.A., 2022) won the 2023 Council of Writing Program Administrators Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA Studies. His submission was part of his MA thesis, which started...
John Hoppenthaler's three poems from his forthcoming book, Night Wing over Metropolitan Area, were published recently. "Eureka Springs," what Hoppenthaler calls a "quirky, herky-jerky" sonnet, is based on the history...
Dr. Helena Feder and the team Clean Carolinas won the first-ever NSF Engines Developmental Award focused on Sustainable Energy in the Eastern US. Feder and Dr. Tarek Abdel-Salam, from the...
Dr. Marame Gueye reviewed the latest North Carolina Pulitzer-prize-winning work—Omar, an opera by Rhiannan Giddons about formerly enslaved Omar Ibn Said. "The opera Omar, which had its North Carolina premiere at Carolina...
Carson Stanley's essay “The Politics of Attention: Indigenous Postmodernity in Heid Erdrich's Pre-Occupied” has been selected as the winner of this year’s Paul Farr Memorial Essay Award. The English Department’s...
Christy Hallberg interviewed Garth Risk Hallberg for her podcast, Rock is Lit, about Garth's novel, City on Fire, which has been made into an eight-episode TV series on Apple TV+. In...
Gera Miles recently completed the ELEVENTH GameP.L.A.Y. event and the first mini-event the program has put on. GAME P.L.A.Y (Police, Life, And Youth) is an award-winning 501 (c) (3) non-profit...