Jennette Named Robert H. Wright Alumni Leader
English major Matthew Jennette was named as one of this year’s recipients of the 2020 Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award. This prestigious university-wide award is given by the ECU...
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Herron Awarded Visiting Fellowship
Dr. Tom Herron has received a visiting fellowship from the Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute (MUAHI) in Ireland. He will be in residence there for two weeks this summer,...
Wieland Receives ECU Lifetime Award for Excellence
Dr. Liza Wieland was named this year’s winner of the ECU Lifetime Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity. Wieland’s long and impressive record of creative activity will be...
McKoy Receives Outstanding Dissertation Award at CCCC
ECU English alumna Dr. Temptaous Mckoy (Ph.D. 2019), now an assistant professor at Bowie State University, has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and...
Roszak Publishes Two New Chapters
Dr. Suzanne Manizza Roszak recently published two book chapters: “Rewritings and Relevance: Teaching Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills Alongside Dante’s Inferno,” in Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy. “Where Spirituality Ebbs...
Eble Wins Book Award
Congratulations to Michelle Eble, whose book Key Theoretical Frameworks: Teaching Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century (Utah State UP 2018, co-edited with Angela Haas of Illinois State University) has won...
Kitta Publishes New Chapter
Dr. Andrea Kitta has a chapter, “American Folk Medicine and Health Practices,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore And Folklife Studies (Oxford University Press, 2019). This book was recently...
Klein Publishes Two New Essays
Dr. Amanda Klein had two essays recently published. “Teaching Fake News and Resisting the Privilege of Forgetting,” invited essay for Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age....
Feder’s Interview Featured in The Writer’s Chronicle
Dr. Helena Feder’s interview with poet Marianne Boruch is featured in the February 2020 issue of The Writer’s Chronicle, the quarterly magazine of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs....
Banks and Cox Win Book Award
Drs. Will Banks, and Matt Cox’s book Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects (Utah State UP 2019, co-edited with Caroline Dadas of Montclair State University) has won the 2020...