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Statement on BOT's Decision Regarding Nikole Hannah-Jones's Appointment - UNC English & Comparative Literature


Statement on BOT’s Decision Regarding Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Appointment
As members of the faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, we write to express our alarm about the recent denial of tenure of Nikole Hannah-Jones for an endowed Knight professorship at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Should the UNC Board of Trustees’ decision stand, it has implications that extend far beyond the facts of this case. We address three of those issues below.
Our first concern is about shared governance and the belief in the integrity and professionalism of the process that allows us to recruit, hire, and retain world-class scholars, researchers, and writers. The denial of tenure of Nikole Hannah-Jones has already drawn world-wide scrutiny about the fairness of that process. So far that scrutiny has played itself out in the press and on social media platforms. Of course, damage to and loss of reputation devastates people but such damage also doe ....

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From the Chair - UNC English & Comparative Literature


From the Chair
Dear Friends of the Department,
When I arrived at Carolina in 1987 as an eager English M.A. student, it was impossible to imagine that one day I would have the privilege and honor of serving as Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature these many years later.
It is my goal as chair to nurture and help grow the excellence that our department has always exemplified in the classroom and on the page, and now, increasingly, in digital forms. Every facet of our program holds riches and profound talents, from our undergraduates, to our 115 graduate students, to our 85 faculty. We house Creative Writing, the William Blake Archive, the Latina/o Studies Program, and the Literature, Medicine, and Culture M.A. Program. It is by way of our unrivalled First Year Writing Program that we teach every undergraduate at Carolina. Our teachers are passionately committed to preparing North Carolina’s future leaders to think critically, communicate, and ....

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