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The Cormac McCarthy Society featured Greg Hlavaty's "The Huntsman and His Hounds (or, Eulogy for Cormac McCarthy)" in its February 2024 newsletter.

"The Fruit Cure" is a memoir and a critical look at fad diets and scam cures, and has been reviewed in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Alnes will read from the book in a March 13 appearance at Elon.

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the recipients of the 12th annual Diversity and Inclusion Grants for the 2023-24 academic year. Since 2011, this grant program has supported small faculty teams in developing projects focused on inclusive pedagogies, assignments, content and strategies to foster learning about human diversity.

Students in ENG 2040 (Language and Society) dove into the connections between language, identity and society with the help of guest presenters, funded by the CATL Winter Term Enhancement Grant.

Moore will serve a four-year term on the National Advisory Board of the Roger & Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University.

Santamaria is currently writing a biography of L'Engle, who penned "A Wrinkle in Time," a Newbery Medal-winning novel that was later made into an award-winning film.

The new interdisciplinary minor is a collaborative offering from the Department of English and the Department of Cinema & Television Arts.

Dozens gathered at the Elon community garden on East College Avenue for the annual festival on Friday, Oct. 27. It was coordinated by the help of students in Professor Michael Strickland’s classes. 

In this column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Senior Lecturer Greg Hlavaty writes about the lessons he has learned from his son, who has autism. The column appeared in The Greensboro News & Record, the Burlington Times-News and other news outlets.

Assistant Professor of English Dan Burns and Assistant Professor of Cinema & Television Arts Kai Swanson presented their collaborative research at this year’s Literature/Film Association conference at the University of Montana in Missoula.