Timm Hackett Archives

Oct 10, 2024
  • English Department

Glover and Hoppenthaler Receive Research Reassignment Award

Dr. Brian Glover and Professor John Hoppenthaler received the ECU research reassignment award for Spring 2025 The Research and Creative Activities Committee and the Office of Research, Economic Development and...

Sep 26, 2024
  • English Department

Tuck Wins AWP’s James Alan McPherson prize

Dean Marshall Tuck's novel Twinless Twin was selected as the recipient of the James Alan McPherson prize for the novel by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. The AWP recently...

Sep 12, 2024
  • English Department

Kitta Gives Byokin Lecture at LOC

Dr. Andrea Kitta gave one of the Botkin Lectures at the Library of Congress. In this lecture, "Conspiracy Theories, Folklore, and Belief," Kitta discussed some definitions of conspiracy theories and...

Aug 20, 2024
  • English Department

Blackmon Wins CPTSC Graduate Student Research Award

Codi Renee Blackmon is one of the winners of the second annual CPTSC Graduate Student Research Award. The committee selected three winners from an excellent pool of applications. Codi Renee's...

Aug 15, 2024
  • English Department

Gueye Featured in THCAS and World Literature Today

A news article about Marame Gueye's work and upcoming Fulbright stay Gueye receives Fulbright to teach, research the politics of feminism, wifehood has been published on the Harriot College website. Also,...

Aug 15, 2024
  • English Department

Feder Publishes Article and Poem

Dr. Helena Feder has published an article in Green Letters titled "Desexualisation of the Species or Frankenstein and Possibility of an Island." In the article, Feder writes, "Shelley imagined the creation...

Aug 12, 2024
  • English Department

Hoppenthaler Poetry Featured in Multiple Outlets

John Hoppenthaler has two poems in the Gallery for Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders: A companion to the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1), Forthcoming, Fall...

Aug 12, 2024
  • English Department

Bauer Featured in Green Documentary and Book

Dr. Margaret Bauer was a featured scholar in a documentary on Paul Green that aired on PBS North Carolina on July 11. Additionally, her new co-edited (with Georgann Eubanks) collection...

Aug 10, 2024
  • English Department

Dr. Erwin Hester (March 24, 1931 – August 10, 2024)

Dr. Erwin Hester, a devoted faculty member and administrator who served ECU and our department for 30 years, recently passed away. His life will be celebrated on Tuesday, August 20,...

Jul 12, 2024
  • English Department

Tuck Publishes First Chapter in Alaska Quarterly Review

ECU Creative Writing grad Dean Marshall Tuck has published a chapter from his forthcoming novel, “Before Crossing the Desert,”  in Alaska Quarterly Review. Tuck was a CW grad student, an...