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The Department of English & Comparative Literature celebrates 225 years of Rhetoric, Writing, Film and Literature at Carolina!


Find out ways to support the Department of English & Comparative Literature.


 

click for video of "That’s Enough Culture for One Day": A Book Club Discussion of Everywhere You Don't Belong with author Gabriel Bump hosted by Daniel Wallace

Meet our New Fiction Writing Professor, Gabriel Bump

“That’s Enough Culture for One Day”: A Book Club Discussion of Everywhere You Don’t Belong with author Gabriel Bump hosted by Daniel Wallace 

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click for video of An Evening with Creative Writing at Carolina: Poets’ Speak Out 225 & A Salon with Creative Writing Professors

Hear UNC’s talented student poets and converse with our published authors!

An Evening with Creative Writing at Carolina: Poets’ Speak Out 225 & A Salon with Creative Writing Professors

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click for video of “The UNC Latina/o Studies Program: Past Present and Future. 22 Years of Culture and Exploration at UNC Chapel Hill with Conversation/Charla”

Learn about the first Latina/o Program in the Southeast!

“The UNC Latina/o Studies Program: Past Present and Future. 22 Years of Culture and Exploration at UNC Chapel Hill with Conversation/Charla”

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click for video of What does it mean to be an E(nglish) and C(omparative) L(iterature) major today?

Hear about the engaging work of ECL undergraduate majors!

What does it mean to be an E(nglish) and C(omparative) L(iterature) major today?

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click for video of Tom Stumpfs Back to the Classroom lecture: The Fellowship of English Majors

You can go home again! Take a virtual class with a favorite prof.

Back to the Classroom!

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click for video of Trudier Harris, "Are We Literate Yet? Adventures in Education, Politics, and Culture"

Keynote Lecture

Trudier Harris, “Are We Literate Yet? Adventures in Education, Politics, and Culture”

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click for video of Thomas Wolfe Lecture, Frank Bruni

Keynote Lecture

Thomas Wolfe Lecture, Frank Bruni

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click for video of Jill McCorkle, "Ambiguity"

Keynote Lecture

Jill McCorkle, “Ambiguity” 

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click for video of Concert with Alumni: Recording of Tift Merritt & Joseph Terrell, followed by live Q&A

Concert with Alumni

Recording of Tift Merritt & Joseph Terrell, followed by live Q&A

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Timeline of 225 Years of Rhetoric, Writing, Film and Literature at Carolina

collage of photographs and timeline