English News Archives

Sep 20, 2021
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Klein Highlighted on ECU’s Homepage

Dr. Amanda Klein is featured on the ECU homepage in a Halloween-themed article about horror films and her upcoming spring ENGL 1500 class, “Fear and the American Horror Film.” In...

Sep 20, 2021
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Kitta Receives Reassignment Award

Dr. Andrea Kitta’ received a Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Reassignment Award for Spring 2020 for her project “Opioid Epidemic: An Ethnographic Investigation into an American Tragedy.” The award...

Sep 20, 2021
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Hallberg Publishes Essay

Christy Hallberg just published a flash creative nonfiction essay, “The Ballad of Evermore” in Entropy. To Hallaberg’s piece, go here. Go English!

Sep 20, 2021
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Feder Pens Two New Works

Dr. Helena Feder has two new publications. Her article on H.G. Wells, “The ingenious unraveling of evidence”: Empathy, Extinction, and The Croquet Player,” was published in Twentieth-Century Literature. Her interview,...

Sep 20, 2021
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Raper’s New Short Story Published

Congratulations to Angela Raper, who published a new short story, “The Murder of Crows,” in the just-released collection Cabinet of Curiosities: Tales of Oddities, Gadgets, and Trinkets: To read Raper’s...

Sep 20, 2021
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Combs Completes PhD

D. Shane Combs (ECU, MA 2015) completed his doctorate in English Studies at Illinois State (2019) and is now in his first year as Assistant Professor of English Composition and...

Sep 20, 2021
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Cope Delivers Keynote Address

Dr. Lida Cope was a keynote speaker at the conference on Multilingualism and Regionality, marking the opening of a new Master’s program in this field at the University of Regensburg in Regensburg, Germany....

Sep 20, 2021
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Gonzales Gives 2019 TAG Lecture

Dr. Laura Gonzales, from the University of Florida, gave the 2020 Tag Lecture, “Language, Technology, and Power in Community Healthcare Contexts,” on October 16 at ECU. Drawing on examples from three...

Sep 20, 2021
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Klein Delivers Keynote Address

Dr. Amanda Klein delivered the keynote at the annual Literature/Film Association conference in Portland, Oregon. The title of her talk was, “‘They should never have given us uniforms if they...

Sep 20, 2021
  • English Department

Kitta Authors The Kiss of Death

Dr. Andrea Kitta’s book The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore has just been published by Utah State University Press. Using examples of specific legends and rumors, The Kiss...