College of Humanities and Social Sciences News

Feb 25, 2021

Second-Year MFA Student, Isaac Hughes Green, Won the 2021 Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize & 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers!

Congratulations to our second-year MFA student, Isaac Hughes Green, for winning the 2021 Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize for his work, “Fifteens.” In addition, he won the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! We couldn’t be more proud […]

Feb 23, 2021

Nollenberger Presented at 31st Annual Online EGSA Mardi Gras Conference at LSU

First-year MA literature concentration student, Sarah Nollenberger, presented at the 31st Annual Online EGSA Mardi Gras Conference at LSU: “Uncertain Futures: Exploring Ambiguities, Hopes and Anxieties” which ran from February 10th to the 12th of 2021.  Nollenberger’s presentation was titled, “‘To […]

Nov 9, 2020

Student Spotlight: NDS to MSTC Graduate Student, Maggie Thompson

Meet Maggie Thompson, a full-time employee at NC State University who began her experience with us as a Non-Degree Studies (NDS) student and transitioned to a part-time graduate student of the M.S. in Technical Communication program. Despite her busy schedule […]

Apr 24, 2020

Morillo and Vause Profiled in Focus Vol. 33

Congratulations to MA literature concentration student, Katelyn Vause! She was profiled in NC State’s library magazine with English professor, Dr. John Morillo, on Focus Vol. 33. No. 3!  Read how they both dived deep into the Animal Rights Archive on page fourteen […]

Jan 28, 2020

Miller Shares Unearthed Photos From MLK’s 1966 Reynolds Coliseum Visit

Earlier this month, NC State’s English professor, Dr. Jason Miller, presented “When MLK and the KKK Met in Raleigh” and never-before-developed photographs at Witherspoon Cinema in commemoration of MLK. The event documented the 1,800 person KKK march down Fayetteville Street […]

Nov 26, 2019

Dufresne Presented at 2019 National Council of Teachers of English

Our MA literature concentration student, Kelsey Virginia Downs Dufresne, just presented her paper, “21st Century Teaching: Bringing a Publishing Curriculum to Your Classroom” at the 2019 National Council of Teachers of English in Baltimore, Maryland! Her presentation explored how teachers […]

Oct 18, 2019

Xie Presented at the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication

Our MSTC student, Chenxing Xie, presented her research “A Corpus-assisted Analysis of Recruitment Postings in Content Strategy” at the 37th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) in Portland, OR on October 4, 2019. […]

Oct 17, 2019

76th Southeastern Renaissance Conference at Aloft Raleigh (October 18th & 19th)

  This Friday and Saturday the NC State Department of English will host the 76th annual Southeastern Renaissance Conference. This regional conference has long been a collegial and welcoming forum for sharing new work in early modern studies. This year, […]

Oct 17, 2019

Wilhite Selected As A Finalist for University’s 3MT Competition

Congratulations to Angela Wilhite, an MFA in our program, who has been selected as one of the finalists for the university’s 3MT (three-minute thesis) competition!      This competition asks graduate students to deliver a short presentation that sums up their graduate […]

Oct 11, 2019

Jenkins & Vause Presented at The Popular Culture/American Culture Association in the South Conference

Austin Jenkins and Katelyn Vause, our MA literature concentration graduate students, presented their paper last month at The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South Conference in Wilmington, NC. Vause shared, “The conference was small and had a fairly […]