English Department Archives

Feb 26, 2025
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Dighton’s Work Assists Roseboro

Dr. Desiree Dighton, Mallory Pickens (BS PWID) and Zebediah Demorest (MA TPC) are part of a team — along with Tiffany Blanchflower (Department of Interior Design and Merchandising, College of...

Feb 17, 2025
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Wilson-Okamura Authors Essay in PopMatters

Dr. David Wilson-Okamura's article "Uptight Funk," on Prince and James Brown,  was published in PopMatters and linked to at Arts & Letters Daily. In the article, Wilson-Okamura wites, "In fact,...

Feb 17, 2025
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Four Graduate Students Travel to TALGS

At the 24th annual TALGS (TESOL and Applied Linguistics Graduate Student) Conference,  former ECU ENGL professor Dr. Ekaterina Sudina (University of Maryland, College Park)was the keynote speaker. Sudina joined students...

Feb 13, 2025
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Bernard Publishes Five Stories

Dr. Rebecca Bernard recently published five stories. She wrote the short stories "The Flirt" in Oxford American, "The Theft" in The Cincinnati Review, and"Wig Shop" in The Los Angeles Review. In...

Feb 11, 2025
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Tedesco Pens Essay in What the Presidents Read

Dr. Laureen Tedesco’s essay “The Little Brown Sister: A Children’s Book Model for William Howard Taft’s Benevolent Paternalism” has appeared in What the Presidents Read: Childhood Stories and Family Favorites,...

Feb 11, 2025
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Klein Discusses Media Literacy

Dr. Amanda Klein recently discussed the importance of media literacy in an interview with WNCT. In the interview, Klein explained, “Understanding, not changing the images that are out there, not...

Jan 30, 2025
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Kirkland Honored for 55 Years of Service to ECU

Dr. Jim Kirkland received the Special Service Award in recognition of his 55 years of service to ECU teaching in the Department of English. “I never imagined what my career...

Jan 29, 2025
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Shields Appears on Hunting History

Tom Shields, emeritus in the English Department, along with Charlie Ewen, Anthropology, will appear on a new History Channel series, “Hunting History,” hosted by author, TV host, and outdoorsman Steve...

Jan 28, 2025
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Cory Writes Article in Comparative American Studies

Dr. Jessica Cory (M.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing 2012 graduate) published "'We are of One Ecology': How Indigenous Pacific Islander Poetics Map Anthropogenic Climate Change" in...

Jan 22, 2025
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Bradley Presents at SNSC

Anna Bradley, who is pursuing M.A. in English, has received a student travel grant from the Department of American Indian Studies at UNCP to present her paper, “Annette Clapsaddle’s Even...