Jill Ewing Flynn, professor in the Department of English, contributed to Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education: Transformative Pedagogies in English Language Arts and Beyond (Teachers ...

In fall of 2024, I led a workshop for postdocs on how to engage undergraduates in the face of so much competition for their attention. Afterward, when we met for lunch, the postdocs quickly turned the ...

"In the same way that emotions were once judged too vague for scientific study, but now have thriving fields, we hope that the study of spiritual experience follows suit" -(David Yaden & Andrew ...

Katie Kitamura has had quite the year. Her fifth novel, “Audition,” published in April of 2025, became an instant national bestseller, was one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the summer, and is ...

Dudum is a Palestinian-Syrian-American writer currently working on a memoir about living in the diaspora as a Palestinian in America. She is a graduate of Columbia University In today’s near-constant ...

Denise Troutman was teaching at Bennett College in North Carolina when she came across an article titled "Black English" in Psychology Today. It was that moment years ago when she decided it was time ...

When it comes to communication, words get it done. Words can sell, excite, inflame, prompt sacrifice, mend hearts, and that’s not even the beginning. People remember leaders for their words. The right ...

In partnership with The Repository, every Monday, Stark Community Foundation highlights positive happenings in our community. Here’s to Good News Mondays! For many young students, creative writing ...

In NC, nearly 50% of all adults over 18 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccination. 78% of those over 65 are fully vaccinated. While we are not out of the woods by any means, we are ...