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Student in the Spotlight: Lakota Craft

April 15, 2019
| English, Theatre, and World Languages

What made you decide to major in English?   

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Student in the Spotlight: Chester Batterton

April 10, 2019
| English, Theatre, and World Languages

What made you decide to major in English?

I’m an English major because I love reading and examining works of literature. I did not want to go through college not fully enjoying my field of study, so I actually changed my major freshman year to English!

Pictured here (from left-to-right) are Dr. Diana Lee, Dr. Chris Wooley, Dr. Melissa Buice, and undergraduate student Dominique Perez.

ETFL Professor Creates Interdepartmental Panel and Involves Student Presenter

March 26, 2019
| English, Theatre, and World Languages

“When I saw that UNC Chapel Hill and Duke were hosting the first annual North Carolina Latin American Studies conference,” says Spanish professor Diana Lee, “it made sense to organize a panel with [History professor Chris Woolley and Political Science professor Melissa Buice] because our research

Julie Kane Reads Poetry March 14

March 12, 2019
| English, Theatre, and World Languages

PEMBROKE, NC – Thanks to a partnership of the Pembroke Magazine, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Mary Livermore Library’s Friends of the Library, this Thursday at 5 p.m., poet, editor, professor emeritus, and former poet laureate of Louisiana Julie Kane will read from he

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First Annual English Student Symposium Coming on April 1—No Fooling!

February 27, 2019
| English, Theatre, and World Languages

The ETFL Student Engagement Committee and the English Program are launching a new event this year - an English Symposium - scheduled on Monday, April 1, from 2:00-5:00 p.m. in the Chavis University Center.

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University Theatre Showcases Spring 2019 Line-up

February 7, 2019
| English, Theatre, and World Languages

PEMBROKE, NC – One of University Theatre’s spring performances, Richard Sheridan’s The Rivals, holds a special place in the heart of its director, Theatre professor Holden Hansen, recipient of the 2018 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching.

ETFL Members Get Screen Time

February 7, 2019
| English, Theatre, and World Languages

On November 13, 2018, Hannah Baggott Anderson sat down for an interview with Deana Johnson and Sara Oswald of the English, Theatre, and Foreign Languages Department at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.  The interview was featured on WNCP TV’s show, Campus to Community an

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Students and Faculty Reanimate the Classics

January 28, 2019
| English, Theatre, and World Languages

Anyone passing through the student union late last October might have been a little surprised to see some unusual patrons: a gathering of over a dozen dead authors. It wasn’t an especially literate zombie attack, but rather an event organized by the ETFL Student Engagement Committee.

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UNCP Students Engage in Service following Hurricane Florence

January 28, 2019
| English, Theatre, and World Languages

UNCP students made the best of a bad situation in the fall semester of 2018, following the many disruptions of Hurricane Florence.  For Rex-Rennert Elementary in Robeson County, the donations collected by the students in Deana Johnson’s composition classes and Amy Williams’ composition and f

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UNCP hosts book talk with Pulitzer Prize finalist Tony Bartelme

January 17, 2019
| News

­Tony Bartelme will hold a book talk on February 25, 2019 at 6 p.m. at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

The event will be held in the Dial Building, Room 225. A reception and book signing will follow in Dial 123.