Christy Hallberg
About
A native of Greenville, Christy Hallberg (Teaching Professor) joined the ECU English Department faculty in 2000. She is the 2025 fixed-term faculty recipient of the Bertie Fearing Award for Outstanding Teaching in the ECU English Department. She was a finalist in the ECU Max Ray Joyner Award for Excellence in Teaching Through Distance Education in 2026.
In addition to her teaching duties, she serves as Senior Associate Editor of North Carolina Literary Review. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as North Carolina Literary Review, Main Street Rag, Fiction Southeast, Deep South Magazine, Eclectica, Litro Magazine, STORGY Magazine, Entropy, and Concho River Review. Her creative nonfiction essay “The Ballad of Evermore” was a finalist for the Sequestrum 2020 Editor’s Reprint Award. Her flash story “Aperture” was chosen Story of the Month by Fiction Southeast for October 2020 and included in the 2021 edition of Best Small Fictions.
She is the author of the award-winning novel Searching for Jimmy Page (Livingston Press, 2021) and was the host, writer, editor, and producer of the award-winning podcast Rock is Lit (2022–2025), the first podcast devoted to rock novels.
Education
- B.S. East Carolina University
- M.A. East Carolina University
- M.F.A. Goddard College
Research Interests
- Pop Culture in Literature
- Rock Novels
- Post-WWII British and American Fiction
- Creative Writing
- Distance Education Teaching
Courses Taught
- ENGL 4300: Post WW-II British and American Fiction
- ENGL 3880: Writing for Business & Industry
- ENGL 3850: Intro to Fiction Writing
- ENGL 3420: The Short Story
- ENGL 2000: Interpreting Literature
- ENGL 1100: Foundations of College Writing
- ENGL 1000: Appreciating Literature
Selected Publications and Presentations
- “In the House With Fela Kuti.” Munyori Literary Journal (15 August 2023).
- “Grievous Angel.” Still: The Journal, no 36 (Summer 2021).
- “Finding the Light: An Excerpt from Christy Alexander Hallberg’s Searching for Jimmy Page.” The Coil (Dec 13, 2021).
- “When the Music’s Over: A Review of Destroy All Monsters by Jeff Jackson.” North Carolina Literary Review Online (2020). pp. 120-122.
- “Night Music.” Eclectica (Oct/Nov 2019).
- “You Shook Me.” Litro Magazine (2019).
- “Third Party.” Eclectica, vol 20, no 4 (Oct/Nov 2016).