Alum Spotlight: Matthew Johnson (MA) will be one of four featured readers for New York Quarterly’s upcoming reading, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. Congratulations Matthew! The zoom link to the reading can be found here: https://nyq.org/readings/ #UNCGEnglish
English Alum Dr. Alexander “Sandy” Hartwiger is this year’s recipient of the Dr. Robert A. Martin Outstanding First-Year Advocate Award! #UNCGEnglish Cover photo retrieved from: https://www.framingham.edu/academics/colleges/arts-and-humanities/english/faculty/index
Watch below as Creative Writing professor Emilia Phillips and others read selections from the 38th issue of The Adroit Journal! #UNCGEnglish
“You Are The River” is a celebration of the North Carolina Museum of Art, and features works by our own Terry Kennedy, Holly Goddard Jones, and more! See below to get tickets to a special author reading and find out more about the collection! https://ncartmuseum.org/…/you-are-the-river-author…/ More information from North Carolina… Continue reading…
Link to CAS story: https://aas.uncg.edu/uncg-english-professor-wins-major-neh-award/ UNCG is pleased to announce that Christopher Hodgkins, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Atlantic World Studies and Director of the George Herbert Society, has been awarded a $300,000 Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His fourth from the… Continue reading…
Obituary and Tribute Wall Dr. Charles Tisdale passed away on March 17, 2021. Charles was a medievalist who joined UNCG as an Assistant Professor in 1969 after receiving his PhD from Princeton. He held many important leadership positions, including Associate Department Head (2003-2005), Head of the Residential College (1972-74), Dean of… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Alyssa Cavalieri and Lady Carlin-Rojas, student researchers from English, who earned 2nd place in the Humanities division of the recent 2021 Carolyn and Norwood Thomas Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo. Humanities 1st Place Joshua Malloy (Anthropology and Religious Studies, Senior) Mentors: Donna Nash and Charles Egeland (Anthropology) The Ritual Use… Continue reading…
Department of English Class of 2021 Recognition Video
Alum Spotlight: Glenn Hutchinson (PhD 2002) has just published his book, Writing Accomplices With Student Immigrant Rights Organizers, with NCTE in the CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) Series. Dr. Hutchinson recalls of his time spent at UNCG, particularly under the guidance of Dr. Christian Moraru, “Dr. Moraru’s class… Continue reading…
The English Department, under guidance from the Chancellor and lack of adequate space, will not be hosting our departmental recognition ceremony. However, the College of Arts and Sciences will hold a combined ceremony at the Greensboro Coliseum where all 2021 undergraduate and master’s students will have their names announced as… Continue reading…
