Hallberg Joins ETSU’s Cody For Book Launch
On April 22, Christy Hallberg led an in-conversation event with novelist and East Tennessee State University English professor Michael Amos Cody. The event, held at The Generalist in downtown Johnson...
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ECU Zine Lab First Workshop is a Success
The ECU Zine Lab’s first workshop, March 28-29, has produced more than a dozen themed zines. The new zine lab, a collaboration with Missouri S&T through a PIT-UN grant, leverages...
English Alumna Sutton Publishes in Film Matters
Jennah Sutton, one of the department’s 2024 BA English graduates, will have an essay she wrote on the reality series Wife Swap in Dr. Amanda Klein's FILM 4985 class published...
Dighton, Abel, and Bikmohammadi Publish Article
Dr. Desiree Dighton, along with two PhD students, Ben Abel, and Mina Bikmohammadi published "Localizing with GAI in the Archives: Exploring Practitioner Attitudes on Challenges and Opportunities" in Technical Communication...
Cariño Wins Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
Alum Ina Cariño (BA English and Creative Writing Minor, ’16) received the 2025 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award for her poem, “What’s the First Word in ‘Illegal Immigrant’?”. Cariño is a...
Alumni Gorczyca Deconstructs Taylor Swift Lyrics
ECU English MA alumni Jamie Gorczyca was interviewed about her Taylor Swift class taught at Vol State Community College. In the article, Gorczyca, "contests that the skills used in analyzing...
Feder Interviews Hal Whitehead
Dr. Helena Feder's interview article “Wild Culture: A Conversation with Hal Whitehead” has been published on Terrain.org. Whitehead studies the behavior, ecology, and conservation of deep-diving whales, mainly sperm and...
Squint Presents at ASAIL
On April 3-4, Dr. Kirstin Squint and English M.A. (Multicultural and Transnational Literature concentration) alumnus, Aries Farrington, presented at the online Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures conference....
Gueye Share Updates on Fulbright
Marame Gueye's Fulbright updates highlight her recent activities. Gueye supported her African literature students in creating "Women in Higher Ed," an organization addressing gender disparities in academia by providing sanitary...
Hoppenthaler Publishes in Ploughshares
John Hoppenthaler 's "Glendale Mill, 1837-2004" is published in the Spring 2025 issue of Ploughshares. Dubbed “the Triton among minnows” by the New York Times, Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of...