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Professor JuliAnna Ávila’s has just published a new book titled Fine Horses and Fair-Minded Riders: Modern Vaquero Horsemanship (Purdue University Press). This book documents what she has learned from contemporary practitioners of Vaquero horsemanship to explore a range of topics. These topics include self-directed learning journeys, the flexibility of apprentice and expert positions, the influence […]

Professor Mark West’s book Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield. The edited collection brings together fifteen original essays from various scholars that explore the role of liminal spaces in children’s and young adult literature. One contributor is Professor Paula T. Connolly, […]

Brittany Olson (B.A. 2021, with Honors) recently learned that she has been named the 2024 GoodLit Poetry Fellow. CharlotteLit announced that the fellowship “provides an emerging poet with a full year of opportunities that broaden their knowledge of craft, expand their platform within the city, further their experience with workshop facilitation, assist them in navigating […]

Dr. Pilar Blitvich, an expert in pragmatics and (im)politeness research, has just published Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture with Cambridge University Press. This book adopts in-depth, qualitative discursive analysis to explore the processes involved in creating Cancel Culture, both online and offline. Blitvich describes these processes as “degradation […]

Eddie Hicks was recently named a finalist for the 2024 Charlotte Lit/South poetry award. Eddie received his M.A. in English in 2022 with a Concentration in Creative Writing. He is now working  as a Program Coordinator for the Communication Across the Curriculum office on campus.

Published by Reaktion Books, Professor Alan Rauch’s book Sloth offers a “colorful and wide-ranging biological and cultural history” of sloths. One reviewer wrote that the book offers “a well-woven story on sloths that is as engaging and entertaining as it is educational. Wonderfully erudite and richly illustrated, this work is not just an excellent summary […]

Luther “Cole” Kissam V will graduate with a B.A. degree in English on December 15, 2023. He  has a concentration in Creative Writing and completed the English Honors program. While working to complete his degree, Cole published a book of poetry that explores his experiences with mental illness. The poems in his book Have I […]

Dr. Pilar Blitvich recently learned that she is ranked among the world’s top 2% most-cited researchers and top 400 linguists. This ranking is compiled by Stanford University professor John P.A. Ioannidis, available through the Elsevier Data Repository. Researchers included in the database are categorized in 22 scientific disciplines and 174 sub-fields. This remarkable achievement points to […]

Congratulations are due to Sarah Willey (English M.A., 2023) on being awarded the 2024 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award for the category of Social Sciences, Business, and Education. Her thesis, titled “Student Perceptions of Translanguaging in the College Classroom,” explored how UNC Charlotte students engaged with and learned from “translanguaged” or bilingual texts in a general […]

Congratulations to Prof. Paula Connolly who has been selected as one of three Bank of America Teaching Award finalists for the 56th Annual Celebration of Teaching Excellence. This is the second time that Dr. Connolly has been nominated for this prestigious award. Her teaching is held in high regard by her students and colleagues. Connolly’s […]