Joseph Bathanti to serve as macebearer for Fall 2025 CAS Commencement
Nov 18, 2025
BOONE, N.C. — Joseph Bathanti will serve as macebearer for the Fall 2025 College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Commencement Ceremony. Dr. Cat...
From Backwards Walking to Forward Thinking: Dr. DeAndra Miller’s Late Discovery of Her Superpowers
Nov 17, 2025
Prof. DeAndra Miller spent her childhood obsessed with the word “paleontologist”—not because she loved dinosaurs, but because the syllables felt...
English 4810/5710: Advanced Folklore (Dr. Cece Conway)
Nov 17, 2025
Advanced Folklore is an in-depth study, which includes fieldwork, of one or more folklore genres and their application in literature and in the contex...
Landscapes, The Paris Review, and Charlie XCX: A Quick Trip Around the World(s) of Dr. Hannah LeClaire
Nov 10, 2025
To have a sit-down conversation with Dr. Hannah LeClair is to be transported across centuries and continents. Though we never physically left her four...
ENG 4895 20th C 1945 - Pres. (Postmodernity) (Dr. James Ivory)
Nov 10, 2025
"I don't remember having met anyone yesterday. But tomorrow I won't remember having met anyone today. So don't count on me to enlighten you."-Pozzo fr...
ENG 4550: Fantasy & Worldbuilding (Prof. DeAndra Miller)
Nov 3, 2025
Link to promo video.Step into the art of world building and the fantastic! This workshop is an amazing opportunity for writers to design immersive, or...
ENG 2060 106: Great Books (Dr. James Ivory)
Nov 3, 2025
”The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenhei...
ENG 2190 101 / 102: Science Fiction and Fantasy (Dr. James Ivory)
Nov 3, 2025
"You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wo...
English 4590 Mother Tongues and Step-Daughter Translations: Topics in World Literature (Dr. Chris Meade)
Nov 3, 2025
The idea that a mother tongue is linked to a governmental state is only a few centuries old but it is the only way many of us are taught to think abou...
ENG 5760: Studies in American Literature: Women Writers and the Ecological Imagination (Dr. Sidonia Serafini)
Nov 3, 2025
This seminar will center multiethnic American women writers’ engagements with ecological thought over the long nineteenth century. Across novels, po...