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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 […]

One reviewer of Professor Lara Vetter’s new book H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), published by Reaktion Books, wrote the following: “Lara Vetter’s elegantly compact biography of modernist poet H.D. opens tantalizingly. What follows is a lively introduction to the remarkable life of a bold, brave, and visionary woman. Written for a broad audience, H.D. is the story […]

In July 2023, The Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (JLAC) celebrated its 10th anniversary at the 18th International Pragmatics Conference. JLAC, published by John Benjamins (Amsterdam), was founded in 2012 and launched in 2013. English faculty member, Professor Pilar Blitvich, was a founding editor of JLAC and has served, along with Professor Maria Sifianou […]

Professor JuliAnna Ávila’s new edited volume Leaders in English Language Arts Education Research, published by Brill, contains autobiographical essays by leading English Language Arts scholars throughout the world. In this volume, English Language Arts is presented as a complex and porous discipline—intersecting with writing, literacy studies, multicultural/multilingual education, digital and multimodal literacies, critical and social […]

Dr. Janaka Lewis, along with other members of the LGBTQ+ Health Taskforce, was awarded one of thirteen Inclusive Excellence Grants for Fall 2023. The grant, titled Wellness Task Forces Diversity Competencies Series, will support a series of trainings aimed at increasing the competency of health and well-being unit staff and campus partners on areas of […]

English Major Dezanii Lewis graduated with a concentration in Creative Writing in Spring 2023. She describes here how she was selected to serve as the student commencement speaker. “I received an email from Associate Dean Banita Brown in March stating that I had been nominated by a faculty member as the student commencement speaker for […]

Dina Schiff Massachi, Lecturer, just published an edited volume focusing on the enduringly popular characters from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (McFarland Press). Chapter authors include Professor Mark West and former student Shannon Murphy (M.A. 2020). For more information and to order your own copy, please see here.