First Annual Jane Austen Summer Program 26 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm

This June, the Department of English and Comparative Literature, in conjunction with the Program in Humanities and Human Values, the General Alumni Association, the Institute for the Arts and Humaniti...

Professor Tyler Curtain Awarded 2013 Robert Frost Chair of Literature at Bread Loaf School of English 20 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm

UNC English Professor Tyler Curtain was awarded the 2013 Robert Frost Chair of Literature at Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vermont. Bread Loaf bestowed the top honor on Professor C...

Professor Jeanne Moskal Wins the Carolina Women's Leadership Council's Mentoring Award 20 Jun 2013 | 11:13 pm

On May 10th, Professor Jeanne Moskal of UNC's English Department, as well as Professors Sherryl Kleinman of Sociology and Silvia Tomášková of Women's and Gender Studies and Anthropology, received ment...

Professor Jordynn Jack Wins Two Article Awards 19 Jun 2013 | 11:31 pm

Professor Jordynn Jack has recently won two awards for articles she has published. With her co-author, Jessica Encoch, Professor Jack won the 2013 Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article Award from ...

"Shakespeare, Memory, and Culture": An International Collaboration 16 May 2013 | 01:41 am

Graduate students Ani Govijan, Jennifer Park, Kevin Chovanec and Katie Walker travel to King's College London to attend the "Shakespeare, Memory, and Culture" conference. Professors Mary Floyd-Wilson...

PIT Journal "Works in Progress" Conference for Undergraduate Research 22 Mar 2013 | 08:59 pm

Professor Jane Thrailkill: "On Tripping, Delirium, and Other Mind-Expanding Experiences" 20 Mar 2013 | 06:30 pm

Professor Thrailkill's talk was delivered at TEDxUNC 2013. Jane F. Thrailkill is Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Associate Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. She teaches American literature, cri...

Professor Michael McKeon (Rutgers U.): "The Origins of the English Novel in the Parody of Family Romance" 20 Mar 2013 | 06:25 pm

Professor McKeon's talk was delivered as part of the Department of English and Comparative Literature's Critical Speakers Series. Michael McKeon's "The Origins of the English Novel in the Parody of F...

Mary Karr Delivers 2013 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Reading 25 Feb 2013 | 10:08 pm

Mary Karr will deliver the 2013 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Reading at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, February 27. Mary Karr will be visiting Carolina from February 24 to March 1 as the Distinguished Wr...

Professor Daniel Anderson Wins UM Press/Sweetland Publication Prize 25 Feb 2013 | 08:34 pm

Daniel Anderson is the inaugural winner of the UM Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric for his long-form webtext Screen Rhetoric and the Material World. The press release for the proj...