English News Archives

Apr 01, 2025
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Dr. Marie Farr (1940-2025)

Dr. Marie Farr, Associate Professor Emerita, served as the Founding Director of the Women's Studies Program, Acting Chair of the Department of Communication, Assistant Dean of the College of Arts...

Apr 01, 2025
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Morris Receives Outstanding Dissertation Award

Dr. Abby Morris won the 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts. Morris received this award for her dissertation, Encouraging Preventive Action by Employing Effective Rhetoric in...

Mar 27, 2025
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Squint and Bradley Presents at SNS Conference

On March 21, 2025, Dr. Kirstin Squint, and English M.A. student Anna Bradley presented papers at the 20th annual Southeast Native Studies Conference, held at the University of North Carolina...

Mar 20, 2025
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Klein’s Film Class Discusses The Substance

On March 2, Amanda Klein's film studies class students attended The Substance screening. Film student Haley Richards provided a brief recap of the event, "The Substance is a contemporary horror...

Mar 13, 2025
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Nicholson Delivers 2025 TAG Lecture

Writer and scholar Renée K. Nicholson delivered the 2025 TAG Lecture. Her creative and academic work has appeared widely in venues such as The Gettysburg Review, The Millions, Electric Literature,...

Mar 13, 2025
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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...

Feb 26, 2025
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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...

Feb 17, 2025
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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,...

Feb 17, 2025
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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...

Feb 13, 2025
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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...