English

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.

Readers play a central role in the production of Elon's literary and art journal, which will publish its 70th edition this spring

The lecturers in English write about what they've learned from seven years of teaching the College Writing for High School Juniors course they created.

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.

Patch, senior lecturer in English and College Writing (ENG 110) Coordinator, has been elected vice president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. She will become president of the organization in 2021.

Galante will present "Writing for Children."

The English Department hosts the 7:30 p.m. reading in Johnston Hall. 

The first Elon University English Language Teaching Symposium was held Saturday, Feb. 16, bringing together more than 100 local educators for presentations, active learning sessions and two keynote presentations by national leaders in English language education. The ELT Symposium focused on the theme of "Bridging Divides | Creating Community."  

The first English Language Teaching Symposium at Elon will be held on Saturday, Feb. 16. Elon faculty, students, alumni and members of the community are invited to join us in sharing culturally-diverse pedagogies for working with English language learners under the symposium theme “Bridging Divides | Creating Community.”

With a staff in place, Conte is ready to get down to the business of producing the 70th volume of the journal.