Glover Receives NEH Summer Stipend
Dr. Brian Glover received a $6,000 NEH Summer Stipend for his project “The Boswell Club of Chicago.” He will be writing an article based on his research in the archives...
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Recent PhD’s Shelton and McKoy Publish New Article
Two recent ENGL PhD alums, Cecilia D. Shelton and Temptaous McKoy, have just published a new article. “Dressed but Not Tryin’ to Impress: Black Women Deconstructing “Professional” Dress” by Brittany...
Squint’s Chapter Featured in Award-Winning Book
ECU’s current Whichard Chair, Dr. Kirstin Squint, contributed to Appalachian Reckon: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, which won the 2020 Weatherford Award for best non-fiction book about Appalachia. Her chapter...
Matthews Accepts Offer to Begin Ph.D.
Holly Mathews, who was the English Department’s outstanding MA student in December 2019, officially accepted an offer, with funding, from Indiana University – Bloomington to start her Ph.D. in Folklore....
Manizza Roszak Publishes Three Poems
Dr. Suzanne Manizza Roszak just published three poems — “Family Reunion,” “Missing Person,” and “Santissimo Nome di Maria” — in the Spring 2020 issue of the journal Puerto del Sol....
Hatcher and Alexander win 2020 Amplification Awards
Alicia Hatcher, a current ECU English Ph.D. Student in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication, and Jamal-Jared Alexander, who graduated from ECU in 2018 with an MA in English (concentration in...
Flora Thomas Publishes New Works, Receives Residencies
Amber Flora Thomas has been quite busy with writing and working with fellow writers. She had two poems published in Quarterly West. In addition, Thomas has been offered a month-long...
English Department Features Service, Spirit Winners, and Servire Society Members
At this year’s Chancellor’s Horizon Awards for Service Ceremony, English had a lot to celebrate. Drs. Cheryl Dudasik-Wiggs and Tracy Ann Morse, both received Centennial Awards for Excellence. Dudasik-Wiggs was...
Kitta Featured in Several New Stories Concerning COVID-19
Dr. Andrea Kitta has been interviewed and quoted as an expert on medical folklore in several recent articles on coronavirus: Al Jazeera News Center for Inquiry The ECU News Bureau...
Squint Publishes Book; Gives Lecture
Whichard Professor Dr. Kirstin Squint’s co-edited collection Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies was published March 4 by LSU Press. The book expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern...