Miles Wins Centennial Award in Spirit
Gera Miles won the East Carolina University 2022 Centennial Award in Spirit. The Centennial Awards for Excellence represent the highest awards given to ECU faculty and staff for excellence in each of...
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Bauer Receives North Carolina Humanities Grant
Dr. Margaret Bauer received a $2000 grant from North Carolina Humanities for a project entitled “Teaching North Carolina Literature.” In collaboration with Carolina K-12, the North Carolina Literary Review will...
Hallberg Appears on Two Podcasts
Christy Hallberg was just featured on the podcast Analog Smile to discuss her novel Searching for Jimmy Page, launching the book in NYC during the pandemic, teaching and writing, and several...
Taylor Wins Outstanding Staff Award
Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication PhD student Ashleigh Taylor was honored with the Outstanding Staff Award from the Student Affairs division. Taylor is the University Program Associate for Student Affairs...
Sharer and Morse Join WPA Editorial Team
Drs. Tracy Morse and Wendy Sharer have officially started as part of the editorial team for WPA: Writing Program Administration, the flagship journal for writing program and writing studies scholarship....
Cariño Selected For Whitling Award
Alum Ina Cariño (BA English and Creative Writing Minor, ’16) is one of ten winners of the 2022 Whiting Award, a major national award for emerging writers that carries a $50,000 prize....
Hallberg Wins Honorable Mention from BookFest
Christy Hallberg's novel, Searching for Jimmy Page (Livingston Press, 2021), was just awarded Honorable Mention in Fiction by The BookFest Awards. The novel also was recently named a Distinguished Favorite...
Bauer Publishes Two Essays
Dr. Margaret Bauer recently published two essays. “There Is No Road Less Traveled” appeared in Chautauqua on March 3. “Queen Me,” which was a finalist in Missouri Review’s prestigious Jeffrey E. Smith...
Montgomery Honored with Leadership Award
Dr. Marianne Montgomery received one of ECU’s highest honors, the Talton Leadership Award. The Talton Leadership Award was created to honor the servant leadership of the late James R. Talton Jr. ('65). The award goes to...
Harjo Appears as Part of the Big Read — Greenville
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) will read from An American Sunrise and other works on March 30 at 7 p.m. at the Black Box Theater in the ECU Main Campus Student...