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MaKalea Bjoin, Kristina Duemmler, Kellyanna Atwell, Zach Margolis, Lydia Hopkins, Claire Krawczyk, Ian Keeney, and Nicole Jones all attended the 2019 Convention for Sigma Tau Delta Honor Students. The group presentede scholarly papers, read their creative work, and presented a Chapter Display at the confrence. All in all a remarkable achievement in every respect. More […]

Professor Jeffrey Leak has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2019-20 academic year. He is one of 39 individuals selected nationwide for this prestigious professional development opportunity. ACE is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice. As the […]

Congratulations to Prof. Balaka Basu on the publication of her new collection, The Harry Potter Generation: Essays on Growing Up with the Series. The book is published with McFarland Press and the co-editor of the collection is Emily Lauer, Asociate Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island. The generation of readers […]

Please come and join the Children’s Literature Graduate Organization (CLGO) for their Annual Colloquium on Thursday, March 21st at 9:15 a.m. in Cone 111. The colloquium, which is titled Modern Authors, Historical Influences: Framing Children’s Literature in Historical Context, will include talks from 12 presenters ranging on topics from Little Women to Art Spiegelman’s Maus, […]

The Department of English is delighted to announce the 2019 Center City Literary Festival, one of Charlotte’s most important literary events, which will be held at UUNC Charlotte’s Center City Building. (UNC Charlotte Center City, 320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 –See the map below.). There will be literary readings by wonderful authors, activities […]

Once again, to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, the English Department and Park Road Books are hosting a Seuss-a-thon! We’ll be reading as many of Sr. Seuss’s books as we can and we’ll have activities and events for children of all ages. EVERYONE is welcome.

On Friday, Feb. 1, The UNC Charlotte English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) will host the 19th Annual Graduate Student Conference. The conference, which will be at the Popp Martin student Union, will run from 9:00 am – 4:00 p.m.. Professor Emek Ergun will be delivering the Keynote Lecture, titled “Translation as a Tool of Navigating […]

The CLGO hosted a Paddington Bear-a-Thon at the Myers Park Library on Saturday, Jan. 19. Pictured (L-R) are Jordan Costanza, Samantha Holt, Shannon Murphy, Danny Anderson, and Cassie Grosh. Paddington the Bear debuted in 1958 in A Bear Called Paddington written by Michael Bond (1926-2017) and drawn by Peggy Fortnum (1919-2016). So beloved is the […]

Congratulations to Pilar Blitvich who, along with two colleagues from Pablo de Olavide University (Seville), edited the collection entitled Technology Mediated Service Encounters. The book represents a wonderful intersection of disciplines including linguistics, new media, business, and human/technology encounters. Published by John Benjamins, these essays address a gap in the literature by focusing on the […]

Ralf Thiede, who is one of the cornerstones of the linguistics program in the English Department, has just published Children’s Books, Brain Development, and Language Acquisition with Routledge. This book, which complements the department’s strength in Children’s Literature and Studies, correlates English-speaking children’s brain development and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes […]