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Congratulations to Allison Hutchcraft on her forthcoming poetry collection, Swale, which will be published in the prestigious series, “New Issues Poetry and Prose.” Hutchcraft’s collection was singled out as an important new work of importance and distinction.

Elizabeth Miller, along with fellow scholars Hayriye Kayi-Aydar (University of Arizona), Xuesong (Andy) Gao (University of New South Wales, Australia), Manka Varghese (University of Washington), and Gergana Vitanova (University of Central Florida) has edited Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency (Multilingual Matters). This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts […]

From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness: Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2019), co-edited by linguistics Professor, Pilar Blitvich and Eva Ogiermann (King’s College, London) has just been published. The collection takes an up-to-date and truly global approach and encompasses a wide range of phenomena in politeness research, and discusses key developments […]

Congratulations to Nadia Clifton (BA 2015; MA 2017) who curated the exhibit “The Uses of Books” at UNC Chapel Hill’s Wilson Special Collections Library. Nadia worked on the Charlotte Augusta Sophia collection in the Atkins Library, with Professors Melnikoff and Rauch, and earned top prize in the Charlotte Research Scholars program. She is currently completing […]

The entire UNC Charlotte community is saddened, shocked, and grieved by the assault on our students and our university. The English Department, along with the entire “Niner Nation,” is committed to moving forward with sensitivity, forethought, and undiminished memory.

Sophie Yates and Mishael Lazzara, both in the English Graduate Program, were nominated as Outstanding TAs of the Year. They are not only outstanding students, but are remarkable teachers as well. Mishael will be attending NCState next year to pursue her MFA. Sophie, who will be giving a paper shortly at the British Women Writers […]

Alumna, Nicole Jones, was awarded 2nd place (and a $200 prize), in the Alumni Awards at the Annual Convention for Sigma Tau Delta. Her paper, “Satire and Pathography in Joyce Carol Oates’s Lovely, Dark, and Deep,” was drawn from an Independent Study that she pursued with Prof. Rebecca Roeder. Please extend your congratulations to Nicole, […]

MaKalea Bjoin, Kristina Duemmler, Kellyanna Atwell, Zach Margolis, Lydia Hopkins, Claire Krawczyk, Ian Keeney, and Nicole Jones all attended the 2019 Convention for Sigma Tau Delta Honor Students. The group presentede scholarly papers, read their creative work, and presented a Chapter Display at the confrence. All in all a remarkable achievement in every respect. More […]

Professor Jeffrey Leak has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2019-20 academic year. He is one of 39 individuals selected nationwide for this prestigious professional development opportunity. ACE is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice. As the […]

Congratulations to Prof. Balaka Basu on the publication of her new collection, The Harry Potter Generation: Essays on Growing Up with the Series. The book is published with McFarland Press and the co-editor of the collection is Emily Lauer, Asociate Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island. The generation of readers […]