Highlights
- Trudier Harris is the recipient of The George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement. The prize recognizes achievements in the arts, humanities or qualitative social sciences. Read on for the full announcement.
- Emily Brewer received Second Place in the Social Sciences and Humanities category of the Graduate Student Poster Competition at UNC's University Research Day on March 3. Her dissertation analyzes life-writing by British seamen serving in the Napoleonic Wars.
- Fall 2009 course schedules:
graduate courses
undergraduate courses
Welcome to the Department of English and Comparative Literature!
Tyler Curtain wins J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award
Tyler Curtain, associate professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature, received the J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award, which goes to a faculty member teaching first-year students. The award was created in 1998 by the family of the late J. Carlyle Sitterson to recognize excellence in freshman teaching by a tenured or tenure-track faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Philip Gura wins Distinguished Scholar Award from the Modern Language Association
The Division on American Literature to 1800 of the Modern Language Association has designated Philip Gura, the William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, as the 2008 recipient of its Distinguished Scholar Award, given occasionally to recognize career-long distinction in the field. The award will be made at the MLA convention in San Francisco.
The Department supports the University's core values
encouraging diversity and equal educational and employment
opportunities throughout the University community. These values are
articulated in the University's non-discrimination
policy and by the office of Diversity
and Multicultural Affairs.