News

May 22, 2025

“It’s a Rap”

Dr. Jeff Mielke is the director of the phonetics lab at North Carolina State University; the lab is a small room tucked between two classrooms on the bottom floor of Tompkins Hall with multiple recording booths, one outfitted with equipment to perform an ultrasound on the human tongue.  Preserving endangered languages The ultrasounds are used…

Feb 12, 2025

English Professor’s Guggenheim Program Amplifies Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Poets

“Sound/Off: An Evening of Poetry,” conceived by NC State English professor and Guggenheim Museum Poet-in-Residence Meg Day, celebrated the power of poetry to transcend barriers and amplify diverse voices.

Feb 12, 2025

Powering Change

English alumna Maria Kingery launched a company that harnesses renewable energy and operates with a commitment to sustainability and social responsibility.

Aug 28, 2024

Campus Writing and Speaking Program Earns National Award

The Campus Writing and Speaking Program (CWSP) received an Exemplary Writing Across the Curriculum Program Award.

May 13, 2024

Two Faculty Members Named National Humanities Center Fellows

English professor Belle Boggs and history professor Susanna Lee have been named National Humanities Center Fellows and will spend the next academic year working on individual research projects.

May 1, 2024

Learning on the Job

Maggie Thompson, the chancellor’s communication specialist, will receive her Master of Science degree in technical communication at commencement this weekend.

Apr 3, 2024

Coping with Climate Anxiety Through Poetry, Visual Arts

The interdisciplinary Art United workshop offers a creative outlet to deal with concerns about our planet’s future.

Mar 1, 2024

English Graduate Student News, February 2024

Kacey Cooper (MA candidate in Rhetoric and Composition) organized a public event to celebrate the anniversary of poet Langston Hughes’s 1949 trip to Wilson. Her “Hughes in Wilson, NC” was both previewed and covered extensively by The Wilson Times. The event covered all the locations Hughes visited and featured poetry readings, musical performances, and historical presentations from Cooper as well as…

Mar 1, 2024

English Graduate Student News, February 2024

Kacey Cooper (MA candidate in Rhetoric and Composition) organized a public event to celebrate the anniversary of poet Langston Hughes’s 1949 trip to Wilson. Her “Hughes in Wilson, NC” was both previewed and covered extensively by The Wilson Times. The event covered all the locations Hughes visited and featured poetry readings, musical performances, and historical presentations from Cooper as well as…

Mar 1, 2024

Faculty Notes for February 2024

BELLE BOGGS Belle Boggs was interviewed on NPR’s Here and Now about the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling concerning IVF. DAUN DAEMON “At three” and “Between the Sheets”—two poems from Daun Daemon’s book, A Prayer for Forgiving My Parents—were selected for the “Family” issue of Synkroniciti Magazine (Vol. 6, No. 1, Winter 2024). ANNA GIBSON Anna Gibson’s Dickens…