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Congratulations to Dr. West on the publication of his 25th book! It’s an edited collection titled Once Upon a Toy:  Essays on the Interplay Between Stories and Playthings. UNC Charlotte’s English Department is well represented in the book.  In addition to Dr. West’s essay on “The Winnie-the-Pooh Toys and Their Immigration to America,” the collection includes two other […]

Congratulations to Juan Meneses, editor of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, a collection of essays that investigates the erosion of meaningful political action in today’s world. The essays in this volume explore how the aesthetic imagination can play a crucial role in reenvisioning key political elements such as governance, agency, rights, and responsibility. Through analyses […]

Congratulations to Aaron on the publication of The Cannibal Owl. A novella drifting through the broken plains of 1820s Texas, Aaron Gwyn’s latest venture into the American frontier tells a riveting coming-of-age story. Read more information about the book here: https://bellepointpress.com/products/the-cannibal-owl

Congratulations to Maya on the publication of The Documented Child: Migration, Personhood, and Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Latinx Children’s Literature. More information about the book here: https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/the-documented-child

This week, the country is remembering former President Jimmy Carter, who died just over a week ago at age 100. President Biden has declared Thursday to be a national day of mourning as the state funeral for Carter is held in Washington, D.C. He also leaves behind a rich literary legacy having written more than […]

UNC Charlotte Prof. Bryn Chancellor is teaching a class on T 10/29 at Charlotte Lit (@charlottelit). There are a few seats left!  The course draws from East Asian garden design, in particular the technique of shakkei—“borrowed scenery” or “borrowed landscape,” which embraces features beyond a bordered space and makes them essential to the view; this […]

The English Department is happy to announce that Pilar’s new book Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities has just been published. Co-edited with Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College), this very timely volume of essays includes a lengthy introduction written by the editors and a chapter by Pilar focusing on Hilaria Baldwin, who was canceled amid accusations of cultural […]

Poet Amie Whittemore, author of, most recently, Nest of Matches, gave a poetry reading in the English department on October 8. Whittemore was joined by special guest readers from our English M.A. and Honors programs: Alex Beets, Keyana Daye, Sarah Engle, Rachel Harr, Ronnie Moore, Maya Osaka, MacKenzie Ridge, Anna Grace Thrailkill, and Will Washburn.   […]

Anna Graham (BA in English, MA in English with a concentration in Children’s Literature) is the new Community Engagement Coordinator at the nonprofit organization, Promising Pages. As a nonprofit organization, Promising Pages collects new and donated books and shares them with children living in the Charlotte Area Book Desert: those with few, if any, books at home. […]

A former English major, Thomas Gordon (2020), just passed the North Carolina Bar Examination. He graduated from Elon University School of Law in 2023. Congratulations, Thomas!