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...
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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...
Gueye Reviews the Opera Omar
Dr. Marame Gueye reviewed the latest North Carolina Pulitzer-prize-winning work—Omar, an opera by Rhiannan Giddons about formerly enslaved Omar Ibn Said. "The opera Omar, which had its North Carolina premiere at Carolina...
Stanley’s Essay Wins Paul Farr Memorial Award
Carson Stanley's essay “The Politics of Attention: Indigenous Postmodernity in Heid Erdrich's Pre-Occupied” has been selected as the winner of this year’s Paul Farr Memorial Essay Award. The English Department’s...
Hallberg Interviews Risk Hallberg about City on Fire
Christy Hallberg interviewed Garth Risk Hallberg for her podcast, Rock is Lit, about Garth's novel, City on Fire, which has been made into an eight-episode TV series on Apple TV+. In...
Miles Leads 11th GAME P.L.A.Y.
Gera Miles recently completed the ELEVENTH GameP.L.A.Y. event and the first mini-event the program has put on. GAME P.L.A.Y (Police, Life, And Youth) is an award-winning 501 (c) (3) non-profit...
Kitta Gives Lecture at Cal-Berkeley
Dr. Andrea Kitta recently returned from two presentations on the west coast. She presented “Covid Legends, Three Years Later” at the Western States Folklore Society’s annual meeting, and she gave...
Bizzaros’ Poetry and Photography Collaboration Published
Redhawk Publications announced the release of Fog at the Manassas Battlefield, a poetry and photography collaboration by former ECU professors Patrick Bizzaro and Resa Crane Bizzaro. Patrick published nine books...
Sisk and Miles Nominated for Rosina Chia Teacher of Excellence Award
Gera Miles and Jenn Sisk were nominated for the Global Partners in Education Rosina Chia Teacher of Excellence Awards. Although they are not finalists this year (both have been in the...