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Congratulations to Janaka Bowman Lewis who has been selected as one of Charlotte’s to 40 individuals under 40. This signature awards program is sponsored by the Charlotte Business Journal and includes an impressive array of Charlotteans in virtually every walk of life. Now in its 27th year, turns a spotlight on 40 professionals — all […]

Congratulations to Prof. Paula Connolly who has been selected as one of three Bank of America Teaching Award finalists. Connolly research in Children’s and Young Adult Literature is nationally renowned. Her work as a teacher and educator has spanned many years and earned the admiration of her students and her colleagues.

Congratulations to Prof. Juan Meneses who will spend four weeks this summer in residency at the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle Park completing the third chapter of his second book, tentatively titled Denizens! On Foreigners, Visitors and Other Outsiders. Meneses will join a select group of about 40 scholars from across the nation […]

Kudos to Professor Ralf Thiede, whose book Language Mind and Power: Why We Need Linguistic Equality, co-authored with Dr. Daniel R. Boisvert (Philosphy) has just been published by Routledge. Power and vulnerability, their book argues, are associated with access to language, just as to food and water. Thiede, a linguist, and Boisvert, a philosopher, not […]

Both Professors Maya Socolovsky and Ralf Thiede received research awards from the Children’s Literature Association, a wonderful double-coup for the department of English. Maya Socolovsky has been funded for her project titled Citizenship and Migration in in U.S. Latino/a Children’s Literature, 1996-2018 and Ralf Thiede received funding to further his study of Dr. Seuss’s linguistics […]

Click on the image for a celebratory reading of Dr. Seuss, by Prof. West in honor of our graduates!

In this very difficult year, you have earned your degree in the face of challenges, daunting circumstances, and less-than-perfect technology! Congratulations on your dedication and fortitude. We hope to be able to celebrate in the near future, but in the meantime, please know how proud we are to have shared the classroom with you, whether […]

Congratulations to Professor Jeffrey Leak who has been named the new Director of American Studies in CLAS. Jeffrey brings a breadth of understanding of the university and the community, through his various past roles as President of the Faculty, Director for the Center of the Study of the New South, and Faculty Athletic Liaison. His […]

Paula Martinac’s novel Clio Rising has received a gold medal in the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Awards contest. The Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) honor the year’s best independently published titles from around the world.

Congratulations to Mark West, a colleague who has devoted his 35-year career at UNC Charlotte to advancing children’s literacy, for having been awarded the Governor James E. Holshouser Jr. Award for Excellence in Public Service. Given by the UNC System Board of Governors, this award recognizes and rewards sustained, distinguished and superb achievement in university […]