English News Archives

May 19, 2025
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PhD Students and Faculty Publish Special Issue

Four doctoral students and four RWPC faculty members have published a co-edited special issue of Technical Communication and Social Justice. The special issue is on Digital Activism, Pedagogy, and Advocacy,...

May 19, 2025
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Herron’s Shakespeare AI Project Wins Award

Dr. Thomas Herron has won a Research Reassignment Award of one course release in Fall 2025, which will allow him to prepare a grant application of additional development of his...

Apr 24, 2025
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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...

Apr 24, 2025
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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...

Apr 24, 2025
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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...

Apr 24, 2025
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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...

Apr 24, 2025
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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...

Apr 16, 2025
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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...

Apr 16, 2025
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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...

Apr 10, 2025
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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....