English Department Archives

Nov 22, 2021
  • English Department

Hallberg Wins American Writing Award

Christy Hallberg's debut novel, Searching for Jimmy Page, won two 2021 American Writing Awards. Hallberg's book won in the categories of Best New Fiction and Fiction: General. The American Writing Awards...

Nov 18, 2021
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Faculty Recognized for Book Publications

The Joyner Library recently hosted the Academic Affairs Faculty Author book awards, which recognized faculty who published books in 2019-2020 and 2020-21. Many current and former English faculty were recognized....

Nov 16, 2021
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Eble and McKoy Create Heuristic

Drs. Michelle F. Eble and Temptaous McKoy (PhD RWPC, ’19) were part of a coalition of technical and professional communication scholars that worked together over the last eighteen months to...

Oct 29, 2021
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Kitta Publishes Article and Gives Virtual Talk

Dr. Andrea Kitta published a new article, “Critiquing Internet Culture” in What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies, ed. Tim Lloyd from the Indiana University Press. The book "examines a...

Oct 29, 2021
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Cope Lectures at Brown University

Dr. Lida Cope delivered an invited lecture Language and identity in the Czech diaspora as part of the panel on Identity threat and cyber security: Czech language and identity in...

Oct 28, 2021
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Kain Co-Authors Article

Dr. Donna Kain co-authored the article “The Relationship Between Perceived Confidence, Gender, and Writing in a Biomedical Engineering REU Site,” which was just published in The Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. This...

Oct 25, 2021
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Banville Wins Outstanding Research Award

The PhD program in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication in English at East Carolina University announced that Morgan Banville is the winner of its 2021 PhD Outstanding Research Award. Banville, a graduate of the...

Oct 25, 2021
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Getto Presents and Publishes Two Articles

Dr. Guiseppe Getto recently presented at two conferences — the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) and the Professional Communication (ProComm) conference. He also published the following articles...

Oct 22, 2021
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Hallberg Publishes First Novel

Christy Hallberg's debut novel, Searching for Jimmy Page, has just been published by Livingston Press. The book centers around Luna Kane and her "repressed memory of her dead mother’s obsession with Jimmy...

Oct 13, 2021
  • English Department

Albright to Receive John Tyler Caldwell Award

Alex Albright, Associate Professor Emeritus, will receive the 2021 John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities. The award program will air online on Friday, October 29, 2021 starting at 4:00...