English News Archives

Sep 20, 2021
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Feder Publishes Article in Guernica

Dr. Helena Feder published the essay, “Cold Inside: Sexual Climate Change,” in Guernica. In the essay, Feder writes, “Literature, in any language, is often the story of sex or death...

Sep 20, 2021
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Valcin Wins People’s Choice Award

Mariot Valcin, Jr., a student in our MA program with a concentration in MTL, won the People’s Choice Award for the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The Dean of ECU’s Graduate...

Sep 20, 2021
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Banville Co-Edits The Peer Review

PhD student Morgan Banville co-edited the newest issue of The Peer Review journal. In the letter from the editors, Banville and her co-editors trace out the unique opportunity afforded to them...

Sep 20, 2021
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Johnson and Variorum Staff Complete Last Volumes

Dr. Jeffrey Johnson and the staff of the John Donne Variorum just submitted the last two volumes of the 10 printed volumes to Indiana University Press. Those volumes are the...

Sep 20, 2021
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Kitta Wins 2020 Chicago Folklore Prize

Dr. Andrea Kitta won the 2020 Chicago Folklore Prize for her book The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (Utah State University Press, 2019). This is the highest book...

Sep 20, 2021
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Bauer’s Publishes Two Essays

Dr. Margaret Bauer’s creative nonfiction essay “Navigating the Pod People” was published in the Spring/Summer 2020 issue of Cold Mountain Review. In the essay, Bauer writes, “I am an English...

Sep 20, 2021
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Caswell Receives OED Grant

Dr. Nikki Caswell received a mini-grant from the Office for Equity and Diversity for her project “Write On through Anti-Racist Pedagogy.” Caswell will collect stories from students about racist experiences...

Sep 20, 2021
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Banville Publishes Pilot Study

Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication PhD student Morgan Banville’s pilot study “Resisting Surveillance: Responding to Wearable Device Privacy Policies” has been published in the 2020 proceedings of the Association for...

Sep 20, 2021
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Dudasik-Wiggs Honored with ECU’s Highest Leadership Award for Women

Dr. Cheryl Dudasik-Wiggs was announced as the winner of the Dr. Linda Allred Profiles in Leadership Award. This is ECU’s top leadership award for women. In addition, Dudasik-Wiggs was named one...

Sep 20, 2021
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Getto Awarded a Grant for Work on SOBOS App

Dr. Guiseppe Getto, with several colleagues at the university (Marti Van Scott and Ariana Billingsley), was recently awarded an Innovation Corps – National Innovation Network Teams Program grant for $50,000....