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Please come and join the Children’s Literature Graduate Organization (CLGO) for their Annual Colloquium on Thursday, March 21st at 9:15 a.m. in Cone 111. The colloquium, which is titled Modern Authors, Historical Influences: Framing Children’s Literature in Historical Context, will include talks from 12 presenters ranging on topics from Little Women to Art Spiegelman’s Maus, […]

The Department of English is delighted to announce the 2019 Center City Literary Festival, one of Charlotte’s most important literary events, which will be held at UUNC Charlotte’s Center City Building. (UNC Charlotte Center City, 320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 –See the map below.). There will be literary readings by wonderful authors, activities […]

Once again, to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, the English Department and Park Road Books are hosting a Seuss-a-thon! We’ll be reading as many of Sr. Seuss’s books as we can and we’ll have activities and events for children of all ages. EVERYONE is welcome.

On Friday, Feb. 1, The UNC Charlotte English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) will host the 19th Annual Graduate Student Conference. The conference, which will be at the Popp Martin student Union, will run from 9:00 am – 4:00 p.m.. Professor Emek Ergun will be delivering the Keynote Lecture, titled “Translation as a Tool of Navigating […]

The CLGO hosted a Paddington Bear-a-Thon at the Myers Park Library on Saturday, Jan. 19. Pictured (L-R) are Jordan Costanza, Samantha Holt, Shannon Murphy, Danny Anderson, and Cassie Grosh. Paddington the Bear debuted in 1958 in A Bear Called Paddington written by Michael Bond (1926-2017) and drawn by Peggy Fortnum (1919-2016). So beloved is the […]

Congratulations to Pilar Blitvich who, along with two colleagues from Pablo de Olavide University (Seville), edited the collection entitled Technology Mediated Service Encounters. The book represents a wonderful intersection of disciplines including linguistics, new media, business, and human/technology encounters. Published by John Benjamins, these essays address a gap in the literature by focusing on the […]

Ralf Thiede, who is one of the cornerstones of the linguistics program in the English Department, has just published Children’s Books, Brain Development, and Language Acquisition with Routledge. This book, which complements the department’s strength in Children’s Literature and Studies, correlates English-speaking children’s brain development and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes […]

Peter Holland, the McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies at U. Notre Dame, will share his recent research into Shakespeare and memory. The talk will be at 6:00 p.m. in the Choir Room, Robinson Hall, UNC Charlotte. His first book, The Ornament of Action, was a study of Restoration comedy in performance. Subsequent work has […]

Professor Kirk Melnikoff, along with Prof. Rosalyn Knutson (U. Arkansas), have published a remarkable collection of essays about Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) with Cambridge University Press. Presenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe’s complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe’s work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful […]

Pilar Blitvich‘s new co-edited collection titled Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Besides the editing tasks, Pilar co-authored the introductory chapter and one of the regular chapters (with Becky Roeder and Liz Miller). Pilar, Becky and Liz’s chapter is titled “Pedagogy, Audience, and Attitudes: Influencing University […]