News

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…

Feb 2, 2024

Faculty News for January 2024

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson’s chapter “Dimensions of Transfer and the Role of Multimodality” appeared in Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer, edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matthew Davis, Lillian W. Mina, and Ryan P. Shepherd (Utah State University Press). DAUN DAEMON & CHELSEA KRIEG Daun Daemon and Chelsea Krieg will give a reading at So & So…

Jan 12, 2024

The Day King Addressed Campus — and the Klan Marched on Raleigh

English professor Jason Miller has discovered footage of the Ku Klux Klan marching in downtown Raleigh and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech in Reynolds Coliseum — both of which happened on the same day.

Jan 1, 2024

Faculty Notes for December 2023

PAUL COLBY Paul Colby will serialize his novel When the Man Dances on his Substack in 2024. Starting January 7, he will add a new chapter each week. Subscriptions are free. CATHERINE MAINLAND Catherine Mainland’s essay “McGonagall’s Elephant” was a semifinalist in the TulipTree Review Humor Story Contest. JENNIFER NOLAN Jennifer Nolan has been awarded a Helm Fellowship from the…