Squint’s Book Receives Positive Review
Dr. Kirstin Squint's book Conversations with LeAnne Howe (2022) received a positive review in the latest issue of The American Indian Quarterly, an influential journal in the field of Native...
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Hoppenthaler Serves as Poet-in-Residence
John Hoppenthaler served as a poet-in-residence for The Chautauqua Institution last week, offering a reading (with New York Times best-selling memoirist, Julie Metz), a lecture (“Indigenous Poets at the Center...
Gueye Contributes to Venice Architectural Biennale
Dr. Marame Gueye was invited to contribute a text to a collateral exhibition at this year’s Venice Architectural Biennale. The project, entitled “Following the Fish," is a collaboration between the Ramon Llull...
Dr. Peter Makuck (1940-2023)
Dr. Peter Makuck, distinguished professor emeritus, passed away on June 21, 2023. Makuck founded Tar River Poetry and taught English and creative writing at ECU from 1978 until his retirement...
Kitta Gives Lectures at UCB and MNV
Dr. Andrea Kitta recently gave two online lectures about her ongoing COVID-19 research. The first, on COVID-19 legends, at the University College Dublin, and the second, on health legends and...
Cameron Wins CWPA Research Award
Brent Cameron (M.A., 2022) won the 2023 Council of Writing Program Administrators Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA Studies. His submission was part of his MA thesis, which started...
Hoppenthaler Publishes Three Poems
John Hoppenthaler's three poems from his forthcoming book, Night Wing over Metropolitan Area, were published recently. "Eureka Springs," what Hoppenthaler calls a "quirky, herky-jerky" sonnet, is based on the history...
Feder and Clean Carolinas Win NSF Award
Dr. Helena Feder and the team Clean Carolinas won the first-ever NSF Engines Developmental Award focused on Sustainable Energy in the Eastern US. Feder and Dr. Tarek Abdel-Salam, from the...
Gueye Reviews the Opera Omar
Dr. Marame Gueye reviewed the latest North Carolina Pulitzer-prize-winning work—Omar, an opera by Rhiannan Giddons about formerly enslaved Omar Ibn Said. "The opera Omar, which had its North Carolina premiere at Carolina...
Stanley’s Essay Wins Paul Farr Memorial Award
Carson Stanley's essay “The Politics of Attention: Indigenous Postmodernity in Heid Erdrich's Pre-Occupied” has been selected as the winner of this year’s Paul Farr Memorial Essay Award. The English Department’s...