Klein and Pastor Win 2024 Bertie Fearing Teaching Awards
Dr. Amanda Klein and Carla Pastor won the 2024 Bertie Fearing Awards for Outstanding Teaching in the ECU English Department. A student wrote about Klein: "She initiates and guides class...
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Moseley Receives Gold Scholarship from ECU Business
Ethan Moseley, currently a BTC certificate student, has been awarded the prestigious Gold Scholarship from the ECU College of Business. Ethan will begin the MA in English program concurrently with...
Hoppenthaler Interviewed in Lost in Thought
John Hoppenthaler's interview with College of Staten Island student, Avenella Claxton, and her Professor, poet Cate Marvin, appears in Lost in Thought, CSI's literary magazine. In the interview, Hoppenthaler states,...
Parille Publishes Work on Carl Barks
Dr. Ken Parille has a short piece in the latest volume of Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: The Carl Barks Library. The book has eighteen stories in all in more than...
Klein’s Class Screens Cult Classic
Dr. Amanada Klein's class FILM 4980/ENGL5330 recently screened The Room, a cult classic, where attendees received a prop bag, including items to toss at the screen (rose petals, spoons, footballs),...
Feder Publishes Essay
Dr. Helena Feder has published the essay "French Food for the 'New Woman'" in the North American Review. Founded in Boston in 1815, the North American Review is the oldest...
Faculty Recognized at Book Awards
Current ENGL faculty Dr. Will Banks, Dr. Nikki Caswell, Dr. Erin Clark, and John Hoppenthaler (along with Associate Professor Emeritus Dr. Tom Shields) were recognized at the Faculty Author Book...
Hoppenthaler Receives United Arts Council Grant
John Hoppenthaler has received a 2025 Artist Support Grant from the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County. It will help subsidize a residency fellowship this summer. Artist Support Grants...
Hoppenthaler Chairs Panel on Poetics of Gerontology
John Hoppenthaler recently chaired and was a presenter on a panel, "Elder Care: Toward a Poetics of Gerontology," at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Annual Conference in Jacksonville,...
Herron’s Work Featured on Great Castles of Europe
The 3D digital recreation of Edmund Spenser's Kilcolman Castle, built at ECU for Dr. Thomas Herron's Centering Spenser website, features prominently in the 22nd episode of Great Castles of Europe...