English News Archives

Sep 22, 2022
  • Timm Hackett

Banville Selected as Fearing Doctoral Award Winner

Morgan Banville is the winner of the 2022 Fearing Award for doctoral student. Morgan is an ABD, 4th-year doctoral student who intends to complete her dissertation this coming spring. The...

Sep 21, 2022
  • English Department

Kain and Feder Featured on WITN

Drs. Donna Kain and Helena Feder were featured on WITN as they discussed the subject of banned books. Joyner Library featured Banned Books from September 18-24. During the interview, Kain...

Sep 20, 2022
  • English Department

Froula Receives Grant For Veteran to Scholar Boot Camp

Dr. Anna Froula has been awarded, with Dr. Sheena Eagan (Brody School of Medicine), a large grant from North Carolina Humanities Council. With cost-sharing support from THCAS and Brody, as...

Sep 20, 2022
  • English Department

Hallberg Interviewed on Podcast

Christy Hallberg was a guest on Bookin' podcast and #badasswriters podcast to discuss her novel, Searching for Jimmy Page.The audiobook of the novel is coming out in a month or two....

Sep 07, 2022
  • English Department

Johnson’s Article Appears in Applied Linguistics

Drs. Mark Johnson and Mahmoud Abdi Tabari (University of Nevada, Reno) have just had their study, "Task Planning and Oral L2 Production: A Research Synthesis and Meta-analysis," published in the journal...

Aug 26, 2022
  • English Department

Sharer Wins THCAS Distinguished Professorship

Dr. Wendy Sharer was named as one of the 2022 Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professorships. The appointment to distinguished professor is the highest honor within the...

Aug 26, 2022
  • English Department

Mallory Wins THCAS Teaching Award

Dr. Anne Mallory was named a recipient of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Fixed Term Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for 2022. This award recognizes and rewards...

Aug 20, 2022
  • English Department

Froula and Others Publish in Journal of Veterans Studies

Dr. Anna Froula and her team (Sheena Eagan, Nicole Kukuchka, Sean Morris, Andrea Kitta, Zachary Perkinson, Nicole Messina, and Jonathan Vincent) just published “Odysseus Goes to University—the Veteran to Scholar...

Aug 04, 2022
  • English Department

Shields Authors “Early Contact Souths”

Dr. Tom Shields published a chapter entitled "Early Contact Souths" with a spotlight section “La Florida: Three Sixteenth-Century Poems” in The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South, edited by Katharine...

Aug 03, 2022
  • English Department

Cope Accepted Into 2022 BRIDGES

Dr. Lida Cope has been accepted into the 2022 BRIDGES program, “Leading in a Time of Transformation,” sponsored by UNC-Chapel Hill. BRIDGES is an inclusive professional development program dedicated to...