Christy Hallberg's flash fiction story about the late Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti, "In the House with Fela Kuti," was just published in Munyori Literary Journal, a Zimbabwean-American literary...
John Hoppenthaler's poem "Nocturne," from his forthcoming Night Wing over Metropolitan Area, has just been published in Plume, which is a magazine dedicated to publishing the very best of contemporary poetry. Hoppenthaler’s...
Amanda Klein appeared in Vice TV’s Dark Side of the 2000s episode devoted to the MTV video countdown show, Total Request Live. Last year she was interviewed for the episode "TRL: Last...
Gary Carter, a 1973 alum, just published his novel, Not Dark Yet. The book is now available as an e-book and a paperback from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, and...
Dr. Kirstin Squint's book Conversations with LeAnne Howe (2022) received a positive review in the latest issue of The American Indian Quarterly, an influential journal in the field of Native...
John Hoppenthaler served as a poet-in-residence for The Chautauqua Institution last week, offering a reading (with New York Times best-selling memoirist, Julie Metz), a lecture (“Indigenous Poets at the Center...
Dr. Marame Gueye was invited to contribute a text to a collateral exhibition at this year’s Venice Architectural Biennale. The project, entitled “Following the Fish," is a collaboration between the Ramon Llull...
Dr. Peter Makuck, distinguished professor emeritus, passed away on June 21, 2023. Makuck founded Tar River Poetry and taught English and creative writing at ECU from 1978 until his retirement...
Dr. Kirstin Squint's review of Anne Stewart’s 2022 monograph, Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World was published in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. In the...
Dr. Andrea Kitta recently gave two online lectures about her ongoing COVID-19 research. The first, on COVID-19 legends, at the University College Dublin, and the second, on health legends and...