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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!

The Department of English is happy to announce the publication of Professor Pilar Blitvich’s new book Evaluating identities online: Case studies from the Spanish speaking world (see attachment below). Pilar co-edited this timely collection of essays with Patricia Bou-Franch (Universitat de Valencia) and co-authored one of its chapters. The volume is published by Palgrave. Congratulations Pilar!  This book […]

My name is Anastasiia Malakhova and I am from the city of Million Roses – Donetsk, Ukraine. I graduated from Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University majoring in English and German Languages and Literatures. Becoming a writer has always been my dream, and with the Fulbright Ukraine scholarship, I’m closer to achieving it. My passion lies […]

Today is the official publication date for the Broadview Edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that Dina Massachi and Prof.Mark West co-edited. This Broadview Edition provides primary source documents that help shed light on Baum’s inspirations, his contemporaries, his thoughts on writing, and reviews from the novel’s first release. The edition also includes an introduction, original annotations, […]

Melanie Diaz, current English major and Technical & Professional Writing minor shares a glimpse of her summer 2024 internship experience. “This past summer, I was honored to work as a Public Relations intern at the corporate office of Rack Room Shoes. Throughout my internship, I supported the brand communications team by implementing Rack Room Shoes’ […]

Congratulations to Prof. Mark West on being named a finalist for this year’s Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence! This is the second time that Dr. West has been selected as a finalist for this prestigious award. A nomination for this award is one of this university’s highest honors. It speaks to Mark’s excellence in […]

Lauryn Massenburg is a writer, director, producer, and recent MFA screenwriting graduate of UNC School of the Arts. Her screenplay, Puddin’, is the 2024 recipient of the Grand Jury Award for Best Screenplay at Beyond: The Cary Film Festival. Lauryn wrote her English Honors thesis, “White Anxiety Versus Minority Reality: The Films of Wes Anderson,” spring of […]

L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and many other novels set in Oz, often referred to himself as the Royal Historian of Oz.  Well, I consider myself to be the Royal Historian of CharlOz, the upcoming Oz-themed literary and arts festival that will take place in Charlotte from September 26 through September 29.  The […]

Dr. Olivia Rines has been appointed to the position of Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs at Harford Community College, in Bel Air, Maryland. Dr. Rines completed her B.A. (2012) and M.A. (2015, Concentration in Applied Linguistics) degrees in the English Department before completing a Ph.D. (2021) at Arizona State University. Prior to this most […]