Stories From 2021
Wolfpack Writers: Sarah Grunder Ruiz
We caught up with English alumna and lecturer Sarah Grunder Ruiz to learn more about her new book "Love, Lists and Fancy Ships."
Student Spotlight: ABM Student, Emily Waddell
Meet Emily Waddell, current M.A. in English student who is also a part of the Accelerated Bachelor’s-Master’s degree program.
MFA Student Named a Three Minute Thesis Winner
Shaping her research project as a novel, MFA in creative writing candidate Catey Christiansen explores the impact of misattributed parentage.
Faculty Notes for November
CHRIS ANSON On November 13, Chris Anson was a plenary speaker at the III ALES International Conference, held virtually at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil. He also led a pre-conference workshop at the same conference on November […]
Study of African American Language Wins Prestigious Linguistics Award
A research team led by William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor Walt Wolfram has been honored for its unprecedented research on how language changes during the first 20 years of life.
Wolfpack Writers: Mary Ruth Barnes
We caught up with English alumna Mary Ruth Barnes to learn more about her historical fiction novel "Little Bird."
Clare Jordan Named 2021 Distinguished Alumna
For 28 years, Clare Jordan has been working with nonprofits and sharing the joy of generosity, earning her special recognition for alumni of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Faculty Notes for October 2021
CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson, along with co-authors Ian Anson and Kendra Andrews, published “Peer Review in First-Year Composition and STEM Courses: A Large-Scale Corpus Analysis of Key Writing Terms” in Composition and Big Data (Eds. Amanda Licastro and Benjamin Miller), University of […]
Writing in 10-Minute Snatches of Time
Sarah Grunder Ruiz, 2018 NC State MFA fiction graduate, is a rising tide. Despite teaching full-time and anticipating the release of her debut novel, she still makes the time to pop up in zoom windows, sharing detailed slides and advice with current MFA students. Projecting organization and endless calm, she raises all ships, generously and freely sharing what she’s learned about writing and publishing, post-MFA.
Faculty Notes for September 2021
CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson’s lead chapter, “After the Big Bang: The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies,” has been published in The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research (Peter Lang). The essay is a revised version of a plenary […]