A Community of Scholars
The department fosters an intellectual community that extends beyond its walls. The work of faculty and graduate students regularly appear in academic journals and conference proceedings.
Some of the cornerstone contributions from faculty in this department include Erika Lindemann's A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, Joe Viscomi's Blake Archive, and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, compiled by Trudier Harris, William L. Andrews, Minrose C. Gwin, and Fred Hobson. The department is also home to several peer-reviewed journals, such as American Speech, Studies in Philology and the Keats-Shelley Journal. The Carolina Quarterly claims its title as not only status as the oldest college publication in the country, but also as a completely student-run organization.
The department hosts regular invited lectures from scholars as reknown scholars such Charles Altieri, Andrea Lunsford, and Rita Barnard. In addition, the work of graduate students is highlighted in the bimonthly AGES Chapel Hill Colloquium series.