UNC Greensboro has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to implement a five-year paid internship and educational program for humanities students called “Humanities at Work.” This landmark grant is the largest ever received by UNCG’s College of Arts & Sciences – as well as one of the largest in the University’s history.
Please join me in congratulating Pooja Shah and Janie Raghunandan, recipients of the 2023-2024 Roskelly Award for Pedagogical Innovation. The College Writing Program Committee (Heather Brook Adams, Gia Coturri-Sorenson, Jennifer Whitaker, and Risa Applegarth) selected these two teachers for recognition from among a pool of talented nominees. Thank you to everyone who shared your innovative teaching with… Continue reading…
PhD student Kate Burt has been awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Rene Marzuk for winning UNCG’s 2023 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award! “Clashing Landscapes in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales” and “Reading Metamodern Hope: Moshin Hamid’s Exit West, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and Intertextuality after Postmodernism” Co-directed by Professor Scott Romine and Professor Christian Moraru. #UNCGEnglish
Dr. Jeanie Reynolds Banned Books April 19, 20243:30 pm- 5:30 pmMHRA 3501 The second installment in our Tea Talk series will feature Dr. Jeanie Reynolds, Director of English Education, discussing the recent resurgence in book banning around the nation and the rhetorics behind it.
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a fiction reading by Jennine Capó Crucet on Thursday, March 14th at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm Street. The reading will celebrate the release of Crucet’s latest novel, Say Hello to My Little Friend. It… Continue reading…
The Department of English, the Office of Alumni Engagement, and the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a lecture by UNCG Professor Emeritus Michael Parker on Thursday, February 29 at 4:30 PM in the MHRA Building, 1111 Spring Garden Street. A reception will follow. The event, a part… Continue reading…
Fred Chappell, one of North Carolina’s most celebrated writers, has died at age 87.
He taught at UNC Greensboro for 40 years, joining in 1964. More than anyone, he made the UNCG MFA in Creative Writing program one of the finest in the nation.
His poetry, essays, and novels have been lauded nationally and beyond.
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a conversation with Scott Gould on Saturday, January 13th at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm Street. The reading will celebrate the release of Gould’s latest short story collection, Idiot Men. It is free and… Continue reading…
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a fiction reading by Julia Ridley Smith on Saturday, February 3rd at 5:00 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm Street. The reading will celebrate the release of Smith’s short story collection, Sex Romp Gone Wrong. It… Continue reading…
