Carter Publishes New Novel
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...
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Squint’s Book Receives Positive Review
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...
Hoppenthaler Serves as Poet-in-Residence
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...
Gueye Contributes to Venice Architectural Biennale
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 (1940-2023)
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...
Squint Reviews Stewart’s Monograph
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...
Kitta Gives Lectures at UCB and MNV
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...
Cameron Wins CWPA Research Award
Brent Cameron (M.A., 2022) won the 2023 Council of Writing Program Administrators Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA Studies. His submission was part of his MA thesis, which started...
Hoppenthaler Publishes Three Poems
John Hoppenthaler's three poems from his forthcoming book, Night Wing over Metropolitan Area, were published recently. "Eureka Springs," what Hoppenthaler calls a "quirky, herky-jerky" sonnet, is based on the history...
Feder and Clean Carolinas Win NSF Award
Dr. Helena Feder and the team Clean Carolinas won the first-ever NSF Engines Developmental Award focused on Sustainable Energy in the Eastern US. Feder and Dr. Tarek Abdel-Salam, from the...