English News Archives

Mar 28, 2024
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Squint Presents at Appalachian Studies Conference

Dr. Kirstin Squint presented her paper, “Gadugi and Duyvtka: Cherokee Values in Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle’s Even As We Breathe” at the 47th annual Appalachian Studies Conference held at Western Carolina University...

Mar 28, 2024
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Hoppenthaler Featured on Verse Daily

John Hoppenthaler, poetry has been featured on Verse Daily. "Nocturne" is from Hoppenthaler's latest book, Night Wing Over Metropolitan. Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem...

Mar 19, 2024
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Hallberg’s Podcast Wins American Writing Awards

Christy Hallberg's podcast, Rock is Lit, has just won the 2024 American Writing Awards Podcast of the Year in the Music and Arts categories. Per the announcement email from AWA,...

Mar 17, 2024
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Gueye Serves on Discussion Panel

Dr. Marame Gueye participated in a panel entitled "Celebrating African Women’s Research, Knowledge Production and Activism within Africa and in the Diaspora" in celebration of Women's History Month. The panel...

Mar 12, 2024
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Cope Interviewed in Czech Language News

Věra Dvořák's interview with Dr. Lída Cope about her academic journey and research on Texas Czech was published in the Spring 2024 issue of Czech Language News, the journal of...

Feb 27, 2024
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ECU Alumnus Tuck Publishes in Rattle

ECU English/Creative Writing alumnus Dean Marshall Tuck has a new poem in Rattle. Tuck was a CW grad student, an advisory editor for Tar River Poetry, and an English instructor...

Feb 15, 2024
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Squint Authors Chapter

Dr. Kirstin Squint has authored a chapter “The US South and Multiethnic Literature of the United States,” which appears in the book, A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United...

Feb 09, 2024
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Caswell and Banks Receive Awards for Excellence in Queer Scholarship

Late last spring, the Utah State UP published Dr. Stephanie West-Puckett, Dr. Nikki Caswell, and Dr. Will Banks’s monograph Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment (2023). This project began...

Feb 06, 2024
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Banville’s Dissertation Wins CCCC Award

PhD Alumna Dr. Morgan Banville's dissertation, “Am I Who I Say I Am? The Illusion of Choice: Biometric Identification in Healthcare” has won the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s...

Feb 06, 2024
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Haywood Co-Authors Article in TCSJ journal

Dr. Constance Haywood and a few colleagues published an article, "Graduate Students’ Coalitional Healing in Writing Programs and Colonial Institution," in the spring 2024 special issue of "Social Justice and...