Department of English

Department News

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

Posted on September 19, 2019

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

Posted on August 19, 2019

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

Posted on August 14, 2019

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.