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Congratulations to Mark West for his latest book, Shapers of American Childhood: Essays on Visionaries from L. Frank Baum to Dr. Spock to J.K. Rowling (McFarland & Co, 2018),co-edited with Kathy Merlock Jackson of Virginia Wesleyan University Mark co-edited the book as well as co-wrote the Preface, and his own chapter, “LeVar Burton (1957-): Promoting […]

MaKalea Bjoin, who is currently President of the Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society (ΣΤΔ), received a $1,500.00 Summer Internship Stipend from the Sigma Tau Delta Awards Committee. MaKalea’s concentration is “Language and Digital Technology” and she is interested in pursuing linguistics for a post-graduate degree.

The Early Modern Paleography Society (EMPS) will have its irst Fall Meeting of 2018 on September 12th, 2018, from 3:30-5:15 in Fretwell 290B. You’re invited to come and learn about EMPS, transcribe some OLD recipes, and enjoy some pizza. All are welcome.

Professor Consuelo Salas received the 2018 J. Murrey Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award. An assistant professor with the University Writing Program and the Department of English, Salas will be honored during a library social and award ceremony, scheduled for 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6, in the Halton Reading Room. The Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award […]

Professors Lara Vetter (L) and Jennifer Munroe (R) were both promoted to Full Professor and received the traditional “Jefferson Cup” at Convocation engraved with their names and new positions.

Congratulations! The Children’s Literature Graduate Organization (CLGO) just received the Outstanding Graduate Student Organization Award. The competition was among university-wide graduate student organizations. The award recognizes the graduate student organization that demonstrated consistent flexibility, initiative, creativity, and perseverance. The winning organzation, according to the description, “will have made a meaningful contribution to graduate students, the […]

Valerie Bright, MA, a lecturer whose courses include “Literature for Young Children,” was awarded the ‘Outstanding Teaching Award by a Part-Time Faculty Member’ for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Congratulations for a very well deserved award.

Kevin Chauncey, an M.A., student working in the area of linguistics, received the Graduate Teaching Assistant Award from UNC Charlotte’s Center for Graduate Life. Kevin, who will be completing his M.A. this semester served as a Teaching Assistant for Professors Ralf Thiede and Alan Rauch. In addition to his remarkable work with students, Kevin and […]

Join us at the Botanical Gardens gazebo on Thursday, April 19th (11:00 am-2:00 pm) for a three-hour celebration of the relationship between gardens and language in honor of Earth Day. We will read poetry and other writings about nature. Stations will be set up for composing about Nature, and a scavenger hunt will ask participants […]

It is with the deepest sorrow that we acknowledge the death of Professor Anita Moss, Professor of English, who taught at UNC Charlotte for 46 years. Dr. Moss was admired and respected by all of her colleagues and loved by virtually every student who was fortunate enough to take a course with her. Her classes […]