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Congratulations to Jeffrey Leak who is one of the editors of the special online issue of the Journal of Higher Education Management that addressed higher education and the “twin pandemics” of COVID-19 and racial issues. Together with his editors he received the Christine Cavanaugh Award for Leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from the American […]

Congratulations to Bryn Chancellor for having been selected as the “EGSA Professor of the Year.” A well-deserved honor from a remarkable group of Graduate Students. This year’s conference, “Frontiers,” organized by Sarah Whichello, Ashley Wilson, Meenakshi Sathish, Abby Cotton, Holly Buescher, Justina Vasquez, and Anthony Mungo, was a wonderful event. Over forty outstanding papers presented […]

Congratulations to Prof. Janaka Lewis, just named a Gambrell Faculty Fellow for the project: Searching for Stability: The Pandemics Impact on Black Women and their Families in Charlotte. It has been said many times during the past 18 months that while we’re all in the same storm, we’re not in the same boat. The pandemic […]

It is with deep sadness that the English Department notes the death of our friend and colleague Susan Gardner, who was always kind-hearted, generous, and thoughtful. Susan died on Jan. 2, 2022 after an extensive illness. Before coming to UNC Charlotte in 1990, she earned her PhD from Rhodes University in South Africa and her […]

Sandra J. Hairston, who graduated from the Department of English in 1981, has just been appointed to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Middle Districts of North Carolina. Hairston and Dena King are the first Black women to serve as the top officials in each jurisdiction. Hairston, grew up in Walnut Cove, NC (just […]

Congratulations to JuliAnna Ávila and her colleagues, AG Rud (Washingtoin State), Leonard Waks (Temple University), and Emer Ring (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland) on the publication of an important new collection addressing the work or philosopher/educator John Dewey (1859-1952). The Contemporary Relevance of John Dewey’s Theories on Teaching and Learning deconstructs issues regarding accountability mechanisms, uniform […]

Congratulations to Professors Jeffrey Leak and Mark West for receiving the “Distinguished Faculty Award” from the Alumni Association for 2020 and 2021 respectively. This is an exceptional distinction for both Leak and West, and for the Department of English as well. The annual UNC Charlotte Alumni Awards Ceremony recognizes alumni, faculty, and friends whose careers […]

Elizabeth Miller is the co-editor of a new book, Extending Applied Linguistics for Social Impact, from Bloomsbury. Drawing on–but also extending–the theories and methods of applied linguistics, thecollection demonstrates how scholars of language might work together and with non-language specialists to address pressing concerns and issues of our time. Chapters explore efforts to recognize the […]

Congratulations to JuliAnna Ávila on the publication of her new book, Critical Digital Literacies: Boundary-Crossing Practices, which is Vol. 7 in Brill’s “Critical Media Literacies Series.” With a focus on social justice, ther contibutors to this collection advance the theories and praxis of Critical Digital Literacies. Aimed at literacy, teacher education, and English Education practitioners, […]

Kudos to Prof. Aaron Gwyn, the recepient of the 2021 Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction for his most recent novel All God’s Children. Praise for Gwyn’s novel includes Sam Sacks’s review in The Wall Street Journal, which observes that “Gwyn has couched his meanings within a swift and skillful western, which allows them to unfold […]