Literature

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.

Assistant professors of English Erin Pearson, Dinidu Karunanayake, and Dan Burns each presented at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention in San Francisco.

The paper was presented in a session called "On Queer Time: Velocities and Temporalities in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultural Production."

Assistant professors of English Craig Morehead and Dan Burns, with Christina Stafford ’25 presented at the joint Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies conference.

"Migritude's Progress: Fatou Diome's Twenty-Five Years in Afrique(s)-sur-Rhine," an article by Rosemary Haskell, Professor of English, appeared recently in The Minnesota Review: A Journal of Creative and Critical Writing.

Haskell, professor of English, participated in the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Meeting held Nov. 16 in Atlanta.

Cecily Basquin '16 and Sabrina Campelo '18 spoke about the importance of their undergraduate research experience at a second luncheon for the Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) program.

An English major studies representations of adolescent power in young adult literature, a genre for and about adolescents but written almost exclusively by adults.

The English Department’s Literature Concentration recently hosted two screenings of the Academy Award-winning writer-director’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to "Get Out" on Tuesday, April 2 and Friday, April 5 at Southeast Cinema’s Alamance Crossing Stadium 16 theater.

Dan Burns, assistant professor of English, co-chaired a panel examining the belated legacy of Zora Neale Hurston’s "Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo'" at this year’s MELUS conference held March 21-24 in Cincinnati. Published to wide acclaim in 2018, Hurston’s long-awaited collection of interviews recounts the story of the final apparent survivor of the Clotilda (1860)—the last known U.S. ship to participate in the transatlantic slave trade.