Dr. Kirstin Squint, Whichard Visiting Distinguished Professor, is a contributor in Appalachian Reckoning: a Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, which won an American Book Award (the Walter and Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award)....
Dr. Helena Feder just had a light piece of nonfiction published in After the Art. Currently, Feder serves as Mellon/ACLS fellow-in-residence at the North Carolina Museum of Art. In the...
Dr. Tom Herron received a $93,212 NEH grant in the Digital Humanities Advancement category for his project “Castle to Classrooms: Developing an Irish Castle in Virtual Reality.” The grant will...
English PhD alum Kimberly Harper, now an Assistant Professor at North Carolina A&T, has a new post on Teacher-Scholar-Activist entitled “Do White People Hate Us?” As the site editors write,...
Angela Raper’s short story, “The Rum Barrel,” has been published in Footnote: A Literary Journal of History, from Alternating Current Press. Alternating Current is a boutique independent press dedicated to...
Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication PhD alumna Cecilia Shelton will be joining the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English this fall....
Dr. Andrea Kitta’s book The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (Utah State UP, 2019) has been named the winner of the 2020 Brian McConnell Book Award, which is...
Dr. Helena Feder added two new journal articles to her curriculum vitae. “‘Dover Beach’ and the Uncertain Afterlife of Victorian Environments” was published in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism on September 2nd....
The Department of English mourns the passing of our colleague, Joe Campbell. Joe will be much missed in our department, at Pitt Community College, and in the community. After earning...
Dr. Michelle Eble’s chapter “Turning Toward Social Justice Approaches to Technical and Professional Communication” was just published in Talking Back: Senior Scholars and Their Colleagues Deliberate the Past, Present, and...