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Dr. Erin Green wins the CCCC 2026 Lavender Rhetorics Dissertation Award

Dr. Erin Green won the CCCC 2026 Lavender Rhetorics Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Writing Abolition: Dismantling Carceral Literacies of the Prison-Industrial Complex through Black Queer Activism.” The Lavender Rhetorics awards recognize excellent, original, significant, and influential scholarship that makes outstanding queer interventions into the study of composition and rhetoric.  Her dissertation also​ received… Continue reading…

Heather Adams, center, with the rest of the team leading the Mellon Foundation-funded Humanities at Work initiative at UNCG.

Dr. Heather Adams receives the Early Career Research Excellence Award 

Dr. Heather Adams, associate professor of English, receives the Early Career Research Excellence Award for her groundbreaking scholarship in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies, with interdisciplinary specializations spanning feminist theory, feminist historiography, gendered health studies, reproduction studies, and public emotion.

A Child’s Place to Play, Grow, and Thrive Led by UNCG Alumnae, Executive Director Ma’Kayla Jefcoat,

A Child’s Place to Play, Grow, and Thrive Led by UNCG Alumnae

Executive Director Ma’Kayla Jefcoat ’20, ’22 MPA, like many alumnae now working full-time at GCPA, began as an intern while she was earning her master of public affairs with a concentration in non-profit management, having moved onto graduate school immediately after getting her bachelor’s in English from UNCG.

Joey Lew

Surgeon-Poet Tells the Tale of Patient and Physician

From the chemistry labs of Yale to the operating rooms at Duke, the journey for Joey Lew ’19 M.F.A., M.D. is anything but typical. What distinguishes her path is not just a lifelong passion for medicine, but two transformative years at UNC Greensboro shaping her creative outlet. Her M.F.A. in poetry weaves together the precision of surgery with the artistry of verse.

Fred Chappell named NC Poet Laureate by Governor Jim Hunt 1997

Remembering Fred Chappell

Honoring the life of Fred Chappell, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina and UNC Greensboro Professor Emeritus.

2023-2024 Roskelly Award for Pedagogical Innovation

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…