Timm Hackett Archives

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

Baker Receives RCC’s “Excellence in Teaching” Award

Alumna Dr. Alana Baker (PhD RWPC, 2017) recently received the most prestigious award Rockingham Community College offers: RCC's "Excellence in Teaching" award (colloquially, "Faculty of the Year") for 2020-2021. She...

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

MA Student Senhal Publishes Essay

MA student Tyler Sehnal recently published his essay “Self-Derived Happiness, Defamiliarized: Ambiguity and Agency in Nella Larsen’s Passing” in the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. He is pursuing a concentration...

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

Banville Featured on TBR Podcast

ECU English PhD student Morgan Banville was featured on an episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Banville’s research interests include the intersection of technical communication and privacy/surveillance studies, often informed...

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

Sharer Contributes Chapter to New Book

Dr. Wendy Sharer just published a chapter, “Venues and Voices: Welcoming Greater Participation in Feminist Rhetorical History and Inquiry,” in Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry (University of Pittsburgh...

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

Klein Featured in The New York Times

Dr. Amanda Klein is quoted on The Wonder Years and its reboot, in The New York Times. In the article, Klein stated about the original series, “A big hole was...

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

Hallberg Interviewed on Heart on Markness

Christy Hallberg was just interviewed about her forthcoming novel from Livingston Press, Searching for Jimmy Page, on Heart of Markness, The Led Zeppelin/Jimmy Page Podcast. Hallberg’s book will be released...

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

Hamilton Featured in Pirate Profile

Ms. Samantha Hamilton, the English Undergraduate Studies Assistant, was featured as a Pirate Profile on the ECU website. In the article, Hamilton states, “There’s been a couple of times where...

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

Feder Appears in ECU News

Dr. Helena Feder, English, and Great Books are featured in an ECU news story about Helena’s forthcoming anthology, You are the River, and the new Great Books sculpture near Mendenhall. You...

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

Atkinson Hired by Wake Forest University

Dr. LaKela Atkinson, a recent graduate of the PhD program in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication, accepted a full-time one-year visiting assistant professor position at Wake Forest University. Each semester,...

Sep 21, 2021
  • English Department

Squint Published in The Literary Encyclopedia

Dr. Kirstin Squint’s article “LeAnne Howe” was published in The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Encyclopedia is a constantly evolving and updating repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural...