English News Archives

Jun 03, 2022
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BA alumna Saraceno Accepts Director Position

BA English alumna June Sylvester Saraceno is now the director of the MFA program at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe Sylvester Saraceno's most recent full-length poetry collection is...

Jun 03, 2022
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Hallberg Interviewed on Rock School Podcast

Christy Hallberg was recently a guest on Dr. Joe Burns' podcast, Rock School, to talk about her novel, Searching for Jimmy Page, among other topics such as East Carolina University,...

Jun 02, 2022
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Hallberg Interviewed on Podcast

Christy Hallberg was recently a guest on the podcast Ridiculous Rock Record Reviews, during which she talked about her novel, Searching for Jimmy Page, and, as part of a rowdy...

May 28, 2022
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Squint Presents Paper at SSSL

Dr. Kirstin Squint presented the paper, “Indigenous Removal and (Un)Recognition in the Plantationocene: Documenting Louisiana’s Rising Waters” at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference. Squint also had the...

May 17, 2022
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Hoppenthaler Featured in Poetry Project

John Hoppenthaler's untitled haiku was chosen to be displayed at a variety of sites in Newton, MA as part of Poetry Newton's Haiku Newton project, sponsored by the Newton Cultural...

May 17, 2022
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Gueye Translates and Reviews Film

Marame Gueye did the English translation of the subtitles for a documentary film, El Maestro Laba Sosse (2021). She has just published a review of the film on the website...

May 03, 2022
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Cox Co-Authors Chapter

Dr. Matt Cox co-authored a chapter in the new publication, “Queering the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine: Bodies, Embodiment, and the Future,” in The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric. The...

Apr 29, 2022
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Sharer Publishes Article in College English

Dr. Wendy Sharer's essay, "Feminist Rhetorical Challenges to Significance, Certainty, and Disconnection," was just published in College English, volume 84, no. 4. The essay synthesizes and critiques four recent scholarly...

Apr 28, 2022
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Hallberg Appears at Literary Festival

On Saturday, May 14, Christy Hallberg participated in the Pinecones & Pages Literary Festival, where authors were paired with actors and/or musicians to bring their work to life in front...

Apr 28, 2022
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Hoppenthaler Publishes New Poem

John Hoppenthaler published a new poem, "At 2 AM," which appears in the inaugural issue of a new regional journal, Appalachian Lit. Also in the issue is former NC poet...