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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Christy Hallberg’s flash fiction story “Winter Women” was just published in Deep South Magazine. Deep South is an online magazine covering the literature and culture of the South. It strives...
Dr. Angela Raper’s class is the lead story on ECUNOW, the official blog about news, honors, and events at East Carolina University. Raper is using a Reacting to the Past...