Hallberg Wins American Writing Award
Christy Hallberg's podcast, Rock is Lit, the first podcast devoted to rock novels, has been named the 2025 American Writing Awards Podcast of the Year in Music. The podcast was...
Timm Hackett Archives
Dighton’s Work Assists Roseboro
Dr. Desiree Dighton, Mallory Picken (BS PWID) and Zebediah Demorest (MA TPC) are part of a team — along with Tiffany Blanchflower (Department of Interior Design and Merchandising, College of...
Wilson-Okamura Authors Essay in PopMatters
Dr. David Wilson-Okamura's article "Uptight Funk," on Prince and James Brown, was published in PopMatters and linked to at Arts & Letters Daily. In the article, Wilson-Okamura wites, "In fact,...
Four Graduate Students Travel to TALGS
At the 24th annual TALGS (TESOL and Applied Linguistics Graduate Student) Conference, former ECU ENGL professor Dr. Ekaterina Sudina (University of Maryland, College Park)was the keynote speaker. Sudina joined students...
Bernard Publishes Five Stories
Dr. Rebecca Bernard recently published five stories. She wrote the short stories "The Flirt" in Oxford American, "The Theft" in The Cincinnati Review, and"Wig Shop" in The Los Angeles Review. In...
Tedesco Pens Essay in What the Presidents Read
Dr. Laureen Tedesco’s essay “The Little Brown Sister: A Children’s Book Model for William Howard Taft’s Benevolent Paternalism” has appeared in What the Presidents Read: Childhood Stories and Family Favorites,...
Klein Discusses Media Literacy
Dr. Amanda Klein recently discussed the importance of media literacy in an interview with WNCT. In the interview, Klein explained, “Understanding, not changing the images that are out there, not...
Kirkland Honored for 55 Years of Service to ECU
Dr. Jim Kirkland received the Special Service Award in recognition of his 55 years of service to ECU teaching in the Department of English. “I never imagined what my career...
Shields Appears on Hunting History
Tom Shields, emeritus in the English Department, along with Charlie Ewen, Anthropology, will appear on a new History Channel series, “Hunting History,” hosted by author, TV host, and outdoorsman Steve...
Cory Writes Article in Comparative American Studies
Dr. Jessica Cory (M.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing 2012 graduate) published "'We are of One Ecology': How Indigenous Pacific Islander Poetics Map Anthropogenic Climate Change" in...