Dr. Marie Farr (1940-2025)
Dr. Marie Farr, Associate Professor Emerita, served as the Founding Director of the Women's Studies Program, Acting Chair of the Department of Communication, Assistant Dean of the College of Arts...
English Department Archives
Klein’s Film Class Discusses The Substance
On March 2, Amanda Klein's film studies class students attended The Substance screening. Film student Haley Richards provided a brief recap of the event, "The Substance is a contemporary horror...
Nicholson Delivers 2025 TAG Lecture
Writer and scholar Renée K. Nicholson delivered the 2025 TAG Lecture. Her creative and academic work has appeared widely in venues such as The Gettysburg Review, The Millions, Electric Literature,...
Hallberg Wins American Writing Award
Christy Hallberg's podcast, Rock is Lit, the first podcast devoted to rock novels, has been named the 2025 American Writing Awards Podcast of the Year in Music. The podcast was...
Dighton’s Work Assists Roseboro
Dr. Desiree Dighton, Mallory Picken (BS PWID) and Zebediah Demorest (MA TPC) are part of a team — along with Tiffany Blanchflower (Department of Interior Design and Merchandising, College of...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...