Heidi Kim, professor of English and comparative literature and director of UNC’s Asian American Center, has been selected for a Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center to begin work on a book about Asian American literature.
Courtney Rivard, Koji Sode and Erinn Whitaker in the College of Arts and Sciences received Faculty Awards for Global Excellence, awarded by the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs.
Janet Hoffmann Vitolo, who left Carolina after her junior year in 1970, just completed her bachelor’s degree.
At Carolina, senior Jenna Gartland studied creative writing and communication and helped create opportunities for queer performance by founding a new student group
UNC senior and Phillips Ambassador Xenia Weakly documents her transformative semester in Japan. She learned through her study abroad experience that it is “all the more essential for us to learn about those who are different from ourselves.”
A new initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences called the Arts and Humanities Grant Studio is enhancing the support of scholarly activity among humanists and humanistic social scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Since 2014, English teaching professor Hilary Lithgow has led a book group veterans; she has been working with Carolina’s THRIVE program since the spring.
María DeGuzmán, the Eugene H. Falk Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature and the founding director of the UNC Latina/o Studies Program, has been contributing to research at UNC for 24 years.
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni, published the first week of each month. This month’s featured book is “A Long Time to Be Gone” (Carnegie Mellon University Press) by poet Michael McFee.
The Carolina English professor talks about failure, the value of walking and the origin of his life-changing “napkin doodles.”
