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Professor Consuelo Salas received the 2018 J. Murrey Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award. An assistant professor with the University Writing Program and the Department of English, Salas will be honored during a library social and award ceremony, scheduled for 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6, in the Halton Reading Room. The Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award […]

Professors Lara Vetter (L) and Jennifer Munroe (R) were both promoted to Full Professor and received the traditional “Jefferson Cup” at Convocation engraved with their names and new positions.

Congratulations! The Children’s Literature Graduate Organization (CLGO) just received the Outstanding Graduate Student Organization Award. The competition was among university-wide graduate student organizations. The award recognizes the graduate student organization that demonstrated consistent flexibility, initiative, creativity, and perseverance. The winning organzation, according to the description, “will have made a meaningful contribution to graduate students, the […]

Valerie Bright, MA, a lecturer whose courses include “Literature for Young Children,” was awarded the ‘Outstanding Teaching Award by a Part-Time Faculty Member’ for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Congratulations for a very well deserved award.

Kevin Chauncey, an M.A., student working in the area of linguistics, received the Graduate Teaching Assistant Award from UNC Charlotte’s Center for Graduate Life. Kevin, who will be completing his M.A. this semester served as a Teaching Assistant for Professors Ralf Thiede and Alan Rauch. In addition to his remarkable work with students, Kevin and […]

Join us at the Botanical Gardens gazebo on Thursday, April 19th (11:00 am-2:00 pm) for a three-hour celebration of the relationship between gardens and language in honor of Earth Day. We will read poetry and other writings about nature. Stations will be set up for composing about Nature, and a scavenger hunt will ask participants […]

It is with the deepest sorrow that we acknowledge the death of Professor Anita Moss, Professor of English, who taught at UNC Charlotte for 46 years. Dr. Moss was admired and respected by all of her colleagues and loved by virtually every student who was fortunate enough to take a course with her. Her classes […]

Congratulations to Kirk Melnikoff on the publication of his book, Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture, with University of Toronto Press. Kirk’s deeply researched book explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers’ Company in 1557. Through an analysis of the often […]

The Center City Literary Festival is on April 14th! Running a full day, with activities for kids beginning at 10:00 am, the Festival includes a renowned group of engaging authors for adults. UNC Charlotte’s Center City Campus is located at 320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte 28202. The Lynx Blue Line stops right near by! Check […]

Sigma Tau Delta Students Nicole Jones, Kelly Brabec, Kristina Riser, MaKalea Bjoin, Sarahan Moser, and Danny Anderson (L-R in photo) attended the Annual Meeting of the Sigma Tau Delta Annual Convention in Cincinnati. The Students coordinated two panels on critical subjects of the day, in conjunction with the theme of the conference: Seeking Freedom. One […]