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Allison Hutchcraft’s poem “Though from Here I Can’t Smell the Smoke” was awarded the third place prize in the highly competitive 2023 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Competition. These prizes “honor exceptional poems that help readers recognize the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment” according to the Academy of American Poets who sponsors these […]

Professor West’s Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading brings together for the first time Roosevelt’s writings about his experiences as a reader, his scholarly essays about literature and literary history, and his exuberant reviews of some of the books that he especially liked. A sister volume to Mark I. West’s Theodore Roosevelt and His Library […]

Congratulations to Dr. JuliAnna Ávila on receiving the 2023 Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research for her book Critical Digital Literacies: Boundary-Crossing Practices, which was published by Routledge in 2021. This award was established in 2018 by the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research to recognize the most outstanding […]

Creative Writing instructor Paula Martinac was recently awarded the 2023 William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for an unpublished traditional mystery novel. This grant comes with a cash prize that will fund her attendance at the Malice Domestic conference in Bethesda, MD, April 28-30. Malice Domestic is an organization that supports the writing and reading of […]

Please read this April 2023 article in Exchange on CharlOz. CharlOz’s three-day interdisciplinary festival (September 27-29, 2024) explores how L. Frank Baum’s fairy tale timelessly reflects American values with its vast array of characters. Even as the Oz theme inspires new interpretations, it remains relevant, celebrating all representations of non-traditional characters. As Oz magic continues […]

Dr. Janaka Lewis’ most recent book, Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation, is forthcoming from The University of South Carolina Press. The publisher describes the book as follows: Lewis “examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long […]

Dr. Clayton Tarr’s new book, Personation Plots, is the first full-length study of identity fraud in Victorian sensation fiction, such as in the works of Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charles Dickens. The book “demonstrates a comprehensive grounding in nineteenth-century conceptions of identity, the self, and subjectivity, to say nothing of the requisite historical […]

Dr. Pilar Blitvich launched the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict only ten years ago, in 2012. Published by John Benjamins, a premier publisher of linguistics located in the Netherlands, the journal is now ranked 77 out of 1,117 linguistics journals, with a cite score of 3.2, after attaining Q1 (First Quartile) status several years […]

English Alum Diane Philips (B.A. 2017), will be awarded a “10 Under Ten” Award at an October 20, 2022, ceremony hosted by UNC Charlotte’s Young Alumni Chapter. The “10 Under Ten” awards recognize exceptional UNC Charlotte alumni who have graduated within the past ten years. Diane Philips is now staff attorney for the Innocence Project […]

Susan Diamond Riley (2015, English M.A.) has published The Sea Witch’s Revenge: A Delta and Jax Mystery with Koehler Books. This is the third installment of her award-winning Delta & Jax Mysteries series. In this new book, Delta, Jax, Darius, and some new friends embark on an adventure involving a magical time-traveling diary, battling sea […]