Knott Featured in Graduate School News
Sophronia Knott was featured in the Graduate School News – December 2025 email. She discussed her experience as the 2016 3MT Grand Champion Winner. When advising students considering the 3MT,...
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Kitta Speaks at Harvard University
Dr. Andrea Kitta recently gave a lecture at Harvard on conspiracy theories and spoke at a FiVE event with students at Quincy House. Students discussed how conspiracy thinking and legend...
Bernard’s Work Selected as Distinguished Story of 2024
Dr. Rebecca Bernard's story "The Flirt" originally published in Oxford American in Fall 2024 was listed as a "Distinguished Story" in this year's Best American Short Stories edited by Celeste...
Squint Speaks at Thomas Howerton Professorship lecture series
Dr. Kirstin Squint spoke alongside Dr. Ryan Emanual, a hydrologist from Duke University, at the University of North Carolina – Asheville, on the topic of “Southern Indigenous Waters,” the inaugural...
Gueye Speaks at 31st Lubin Symposium
Dr. Marame Gueye was invited to participate as a discussant at the 31st Lubin Symposium organized by the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. This year's featured...
Hoppenthaler Has Two New Poems in Nine Mile
John Hoppenthaler has two new poems in Nine Mile Magazine. "Star Jasmine" and "Jack in the Pulpit" are featured in the Fall 2025 edition. Nine Mile Magazine publishes online twice...
Flora Thomas Publishes a New Essay and Poem
Amber Flora Thomas has an essay in the new anthology, Quest: A Writer's Journey, which will be published in December. Quest is a book of memoirs by "outstanding poets from...
Bernard Wins Adroit Journal’s Editor Prize
Dr. Rebecca Bernard's story “In Plato’s Cave No. 1” won The Adroit Journal’s Editor’s Prize in Fiction and was published in Issue Fifty-Five this October. The Adroit Journal is a registered...
Kitta Interviewed in Pittsburgh Papers, leads ECU Ghost Walk
Dr. Andrea Kitta was interviewed for two recent Halloween-focused articles — “Behind Pittsburgh’s ‘Most Haunted House’, a Story of Gangland Intrigue.” Pittsburgh City Paper. and “Is Pittsburgh One Big Haunted...
Bradley and Amador Win Teaching Awards
Anna Bradley and Steven Amador were selected as winners of the Bertie Fearing Award for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants for AY 2024-2025. Bradley, who graduated in Spring...