MTL at ECU

The Master of Arts in English with a concentration in Multicultural and Transnational Literatures at East Carolina University

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Scholarship meets community! 💜

Dr. Marame Gueye joined 153 local seniors at Triumph Baptist Church’s Senior Ministry Series to discuss aging and elder care in African societies and share her expertise beyond the classroom.

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We’re excited to celebrate Dr. Will Banks, Professor and Director of ECU’s University Writing Program, who has been named the 2026 @NCTE LGBTQIA+ Advocacy and Leadership Award recipient! 🎉

Join us in congratulating Dr. Banks!

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🌎🍽️ The South Goes Global!

Join ECU Oct. 22–23 for a celebration of food, music, and culture connecting the American South, Caribbean, and Latin America!

Enjoy live music, dancing, food trucks & FREE BBQ samples! 💜💛

https://t.co/8vCxg1mts2

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🌎🍴 From Yucatán to Puerto Rico to the Carolinas, food connects cultures and communities.

At South Goes Global, meet chefs and food historians exploring these connections, including Wilson Alonzo Báez and Von Díaz.

📅 Oct. 22–23

Learn more: https://t.co/8vCxg1mts2

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🌍 Dr. Marame Gueye is continuing her research collaboration with colleagues in Barcelona!

At the 11th Across Borders Conference in Cádiz, Dr. Gueye shared the next research stage on women left behind in Senegal, with the project headed to the Dakar Biennale in November.

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Presenting the Fall Class of 2025

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Congratulations to the Fall Class of 2025. Well done.

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🚨This just in:

The Ghost Walk has been moved to Thursday instead of tonight because of the weather. ☔️

😅But never fear, we have a plan in place for rain or shine on Thursday!

Registration is still open and the event is free!👻

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👻 Final call, ghost hunters!

🕷️ Join us TOMORROW (Oct. 28) from 6–9 PM on the MCSC Lawn for ECU Ghost Walk — an eerie stroll through campus legends. 🕯️ 📖

🔗 https://t.co/mVIc1X6UCJ

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For our readers in Asheville, don't miss “Southern Indigenous Waters," an upcoming event with LSU Press author Kirstin Squint Thursday, 10/30 at 6pm! https://t.co/xee9rjukWr

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🎉 Wampum belt Wednesday!

Dr. Kirstin Squint’s Ethnic American Literature (ENGL4340) crew took a field trip to Joyner’s Rare Book Room today. 📚🏛️ They got hands-on with the history and meaning of the Wampum belt 🪶 — how cool is that? 🤯

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Happy Friday, Pirate Nation! 🎉

For #FlashbackFriday, we're celebrating our 2024-2025 faculty award winners: Andrea Kitta for Excellence in Research & Creative Activity, and Laureen Tedesco and Cameron Eigner for Excellence in Service. 🥳

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Congratulations to the Class of 2025!

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Anna Bradley, an M.A. English student, received a travel grant from UNCP’s American Indian Studies Dept. to present her paper on "Annette Clapsaddle’s Even As We Breathe as Tribalography,” at the 2025 Southeast Native Studies Conference. Congratulations!

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Dr. Jessica Cory (M.A. English, Creative Writing, 2012) published “‘We are of One Ecology’: How Indigenous Pacific Islander Poetics Map Anthropogenic Climate Change” in Comparative American Studies. She explores Indigenous Pacific Islander poetics and much more!

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Dr. Kirstin Squint and Dr. Christopher Rodning presented “Rhetoric and Reciprocity: ECU’s Neyuheruke Wampum” at MLA in New Orleans in the “Indigenous Literatures Now! Land and Politics” session.

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Dr. Andrea Kitta and Jesse A. Fivecoate’s "Whispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society," explores conspiracy theories as folklore, urging deeper study. Published by University of Wisconsin Press.

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Congratulations to Jessica Cory, an ECU Creative Writing graduate, on successfully defending her PhD dissertation at UNC Greensboro, specializing in Native American, African American, and environmental literatures.

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Dr. Marame Gueye won a competitive Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for the next academic year. She will teach and research at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar in Senegal.
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Dr. Marame Gueye published an article on the low representation of women in Senegal’s new government and the glamorizing of polygamy in the online site — Africa Is a Country. https://t.co/Z1T35uB9zm