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English Open House is a Big Success

Our first English Department Open House drew quite a crowd.  We had faculty on hand to discuss our various programs: […]

Dr. Heather Adams receives Distinguished Paper Award for “Of Epidemics and Epideictics: Blaming and Rehabilitating Pregnant Teens in the Late 1970s”

The 2019 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium recently awarded Dr. Heather Adams the Distinguished Paper Award for “Of Epidemics […]

Two New Minors In The English Department

Students are now able to minor in Creative Writing and Rhetoric and Public Advocacy.

Dr. Aaron Beveridge and MassMine Awarded $325,000 by National Endowment for the Humanities

UNC Greensboro’s Massmine team was recently awarded a substantial grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).  This is an interdisciplinary multi-university grant aimed at mining and analyzing publicly available social media Big Data. Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Beveridge, Principal Investigator, and Dr. Somya Mohanty (Computer Science), Co-Principal Investigator for Massmine, on their hard work! This grant will assist in funding a Computer Science graduate student.