Department of English, Theatre & World Languages
UNC Pembroke’s English, Theatre & World Languages programs foster creativity, communication and cultural understanding in a dynamic, student-centered environment. English students benefit from small, discussion-based classes, one-on-one faculty mentorship and opportunities to publish, intern and present at conferences. Theatre majors receive professional-level training and perform in the award-winning Givens Performing Arts Center, with opportunities to develop original work through the student-led SHOWCASE initiative. In World Languages — primarily Spanish — students build language fluency and cultural competency through immersive courses and study-abroad experiences in Spain and Latin America.
English
Whether you’re passionate about literature, preparing to teach English or pursuing a career in creative or professional writing, UNCP’s English programs let you shape your degree to match your ambitions.
With classes capped at 20, our undergraduate and graduate programs foster close mentorship, meaningful discussion and personalized feedback. You’ll engage in a supportive environment that encourages critical thinking, creativity and collaboration. Outside the classroom, you’ll put your learning into action by publishing in departmental journals, interning at professional sites, presenting at academic conferences and connecting with peers through student organizations.
The Composition Program
Housed within the English program, the Composition program serves all incoming students
at UNCP through two foundational writing courses: ENG 1050 and ENG 1060. These courses
build essential communication and academic writing skills that support success across
every major.
Theatre
UNC Pembroke’s Theatre program offers intensive, hands-on training for students pursuing careers in the performing arts. Our faculty bring decades of professional experience in theatre, film, television, directing and design — and are dedicated to mentoring the next generation of artists.
Students train and perform in the renowned Givens Performing Arts Center, ranked among the 25 Most Amazing Performing Arts Centers in the Nation, as well as in our Showcase Studio Theatre, a flexible black box space designed for student-led creativity. Through our innovative SHOWCASE initiative, students can pitch, produce and perform their own projects — with real budgets, mentorship and full support from the Theatre Arts program. This is in addition to our fully produced mainstage season of plays, dance concerts and musicals.
At UNCP, we are proudly student-centered. Our goal is to challenge, support and inspire students as they prepare for meaningful careers in theatre. Many of our graduates have gone on to successful work in all aspects of the industry — from stage to screen to behind the scenes.
World Languages
With faculty representing diverse countries and cultures, UNC Pembroke’s World Languages program promotes global understanding and prepares students to thrive as effective, culturally aware communicators.
Our program offers a range of academic pathways, including a Spanish major, K–12 teacher licensure in Spanish, an academic concentration in Spanish for education majors and a Spanish minor for students in other fields. We also offer a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in Spanish Education.
Students build language proficiency while exploring literature, history and cultural traditions. Along the way, they sharpen their communication, critical-thinking and cross-cultural skills — tools essential for success in today’s global society. To enrich classroom learning, we offer student-led activities and study-abroad opportunities in countries such as Spain, Ecuador and Costa Rica, providing real-world immersion and unforgettable experiences.
Real-World Experience and Academic Support
Our department connects students with valuable internships, scholarships and hands-on
experiences that build skills, open doors and prepare you for what’s next.
English 4990: Professional Internship
This independent study course, offered as part of the Bachelor of Arts in English Professional Writing emphasis, provides students the opportunity to apply their academic skills in a workplace setting and earn course credit. Working with an approved faculty advisor, students find an internship in a business, government, non-profit or university setting and use their research, writing, editing, proofreading, design or technology skills to create or refine one (or several) substantial organizational documents to be compiled into a professional portfolio.
For more information about this internship, contact
Dr. Polina Chemishanova
polina.chemishanova@uncp.edu
910.775.4256
SPN 4490: Internship for Spanish Education
This internship, offered as part of the Bachelor of Arts in Spanish degree, provides relevant intensive full-semester internship experiences in an off-campus public school setting.
For more information about the internship, contact
Dr. Ana Cecilia Lara
cecilia.lara@uncp.edu
910.521.6359
Scholarships
UNCP English, Theatre & World Languages offers a variety of scholarships to help make your college journey more affordable. These awards recognize academic achievement, leadership and passion for the field — and they’re just one way we invest in your success.
We encourage prospective students to explore these opportunities and see how UNCP can help support both your goals and your future.
Student Organizations
Be part of vibrant student-led groups with our clubs — like Acto Latino, OLÉ, La Voz del Español, Sigma Delta Pi (Hispanic honor society) and Sigma Tau Delta (English honor society) — offering immersive
opportunities to deepen cultural appreciation, build leadership skills and connect
with peers. Whether performing Spanish-language theatre, practicing conversational
Spanish, attending academic conferences or organizing service events, members enrich
their academic journey and enhance campus life.
Take Your Learning Global with Study Abroad Opportunities
Step out of the classroom and into a new culture through UNCP’s immersive study abroad experiences in France, Spain and Latin America. Whether you're exploring the art and architecture of Paris or walking the historic streets of Madrid or Quito, these unique programs let you earn 2–7 academic credits while experiencing the language, history and daily life of the regions you study.
Led by UNCP faculty, our French and Spanish study tours connect language learning with real-world experience. You’ll visit cultural landmarks, engage with local communities and gain firsthand insight into the civilizations that shape the world today — making your language skills more fluent, more meaningful and more marketable.
Interested in studying abroad?
Contact Dr. Ana Cecilia Lara at cecilia.lara@uncp.edu or 910.521.6359 to learn more and begin planning your international experience. Note: All course credits must be pre-approved by the director of the World Languages
Program.
Publish Your Work. Share Your Ideas.
The Aurochs
UNCP’s Award-Winning Student Literary Magazine
The Aurochs, UNCP's student literary magazine, publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and art by UNCP students. Publication occurs during the spring term of each academic year.
Assisting with or contributing to this publication is a good way to become involved in the department and the university. Students minoring in creative writing and professional writing who work with the magazine compose texts that build writing portfolios and resumes. Students in mass communication, art, music, theatre and English education departments are also encouraged to join the staff.
For more information, contact The Aurochs advisor Spencer Silverthorne at 910.521.6436 or spencer.silverthorne@uncp.edu.
Pembroke Magazine
Pembroke Magazine has been printed annually since its founding in 1969. It has grown from a student publication of 48 pages to a book-length publication international in scope, featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews and visual art from North Carolina, the United States and beyond.
Click here for a mail-in PDF subscription/donation form. You may also purchase single copies or subscriptions online, via Submittable.
Founder: Norman Macleod (1906-85) founded Pembroke Magazine in 1969
Editor: Peter Grimes started his position in August 2017
Book Review Editor: Aaron Cole
Faculty in Action
Reported to the Dean in 2024
Charles Tita (English, Theatre, and World Languages), “Ignatius Sancho’s Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African (1782): Race and Nation as a Rhetoric of Resistance.” Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment. Volume 3. December 2023.
Elizabeth Jones, Joshua Busman, Kelly J. Barber-Lester, Joshua Busman, Camille Locklear Goins, Scott Hicks (Teaching & Learning Center and English, Theatre & World Languages) and Jennifer Jones-Locklear, “Indigenous Cultures and Communities in Higher Education Teaching and Learning,” Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 6, no. 2, 2023, https://doi.org/10.36021/jethe.v6i2.382.
Reported to the Dean in 2022
Jane Haladay (American Indian Studies), Scott Hicks (Teaching & Learning Center, English, Theatre & World Languages), Mary Ann Jacobs (American Indian Studies) and Tamara Savage (Social Work), “Service-Learning for Sustainability: Four Approaches for Engagement, Enrichment, Equity, and Citizenship,” Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, vol. 33, No. 1, 2022, pp. 57-82. March 2022.
Scott Hicks (Teaching & Learning Center, and English, Theatre & World Languages) and Olivia Sadler ’21 (Esther G. Maynor Honors College and Psychology), "A Survey of Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge of University Undergraduate Students for the Purpose of Faculty Development in Teaching and Learning for Sustainability," Sustainability and Climate Change, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 38-49. February 2022.
Ana Cecilia Lara “La separación forzada de los niños. Un lente a través de Roza tumba quema de Claudia Hernández,” Bravery: a digital journal, vol. 6. UNCP College of Arts and Sciences. March 2022.
Reported to the Dean in 2021
Natalie Love (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Hypnotizing the hysteric: Struggled marital equality in Eduardo Zamacois’s La enferma (1896).” Bravery: A Digital Journal, 5. ISSN 2575-9795, May 2021.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Be a man: Preservice teachers turn toward inclusive literature to take on toxic masculinities.” Bravery: A Digital Journal, 5. ISSN 2575-9795, May 2021.
Mayo, Russell, Eric Camarillo, and Elise Dixon (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Navigating and Adapting Writing Centers through a Pandemic: Justifying Our Work in New Contexts.” The Peer Review Journal, October 2021.
Laura Hakala (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Tidying Up: Space, Place, and Abolitionism in Step by Step; or Tidy's Way to Freedom.” The Lion and the Unicorn, September 2021.
Scott Hicks (Teaching & Learning Center and English, Theatre & World Languages) and Miko Nino (Online Learning), “The 6A ePortfolio Model: Professionalizing Learning in Higher Education,” IJeP: International Journal of ePortfolio, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 95-107, <http://www.theijep.com/pdf/IJEP375.pdf> December 2021.
Scott Hicks (Teaching & Learning Center and English, Theatre & World Languages) "Memory in Threatened Places: Oral History and the Fiction of Lee Smith,” Studies in Oral History, <https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021-Issue43-Hicks.pdf> December 2021.
Steve Graham, Angelique Aitken, Michael Hebert, April Camping, Karen Harris, Kristi
Eustice, Joseph D. Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages) Clarence Ng, “Do Children with Reading Difficulties Experience Writing Difficulties? A Meta-Analysis.” Journal of Educational Psychology. December 2021.
Reported to the Dean in 2024
Laura Hakala (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "The Architecture of Girlhood: Building Gendered Spaces in Louisa Tuthill's Reality; or the Millionaire’s Daughter," in Mark I. West (Ed.), Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between, MD: Lexington Books. March 2024.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "Performance Perspectives in Thematic Analysis." In Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data. July 2024
Reported to the Dean in 2023
Cynthia Miecznikowski and Danielle Chilcote (English, Theatre, and World Languages), “’How One Learns to Discourse Through COVID-19 and Beyond: Reimagining Literacy Instruction Through the Writings of James Moffett.” In Toward a Re-emergence of James Moffett’s Mindful, Spiritual, and Student-Centered Pedagogy. Eds. Jonathan Marine, et al., Peter Lang Publishing. 2023. Studies in Composition and Rhetoric 21. Alice S. Horning, series editor.
Reported to the Dean in 2022
Anthony Celaya and Joseph D. Sweet (English, Theatre & World Language) "Multi-Modal Explorations of Identity." In The Music of What Happens.” In Queer Young Adult Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum. Paula Greathouse, Cody Miller, eds. Rowman & Littlefield. February 2022.
Reported to the Dean in 2021
Laura Hakala (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Southern Children’s Literature.” In A de Grummond Primer: Highlights from the Children’s Literature Collection, edited by Carolyn Brown, Ellen Ruffin and Eric Tribunella. University Press of Mississippi, May 2021.
Walter Lewallen (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Technology.” In Norman Mailer in Context, Maggie McKinley, ed. Cambridge University Press, September 2021.
Achievements Reported to the Dean in 2024
Cynthia Miecznikowski (English, Theatre, and Wrold Languages) “What’s Missing from Common Core ELA Standards.” Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL) 2024 Summer Symposium: Empathy, Spirituality, Mindfulness, and the Legacy of James Moffett. June 2024.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "Allyship and Abundance: Teaching Writing with Responsibility to and Respect of Local Native Knowledges." Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention. Spokane, WA. April 2024.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) & Saralyn Crowley-McKinnon "Against the Machine: A Punk Rock Ethnodrama about Qualitative Inquiry." International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Annual Conference, Champaign-Urbana, IL May 2024
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "Performance Perspectives in Thematic Analysis." American Education Research Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 2024
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages), Jason Griffith and Anthony Celaya. "Storying Hip Hop Processes: Considering Popular Podcasts as Tools of Cultural Brokerage in Teacher Education." American Education Research Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 2024
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages), “‘What Just Happened Here?’: Storying Techniques of Podcasts as Humanizing Research Methodologies.” Literacy Research Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. December 2023.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages), “Becoming More Humanizing: Critical Reciprocal Mentoring through Caring Collaboration.” The National Council for Teachers of English Annual Convention. Columbus, OH. November 2023.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages), “Cultivating Critical Consciousness: Connecting Preservice Teachers, Pop Culture, and Critical Media Literacy.” The National Council for Teachers of English Annual Convention. Columbus, OH. November 2023.
Charles Tita (English, Theater, and World Languages), “Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) and Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) in London: Voices of Dissent.” South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (SCSECS) Conference. Portland, OR. February 2024
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages), "The Political Assassination Film as Genre." Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM. February 2024.
Achievements Reported to the Dean in 2023
Melissa Schaub (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "Canary in the Coal Mine: Great Expectations and the Relevance of Victorian Literature." Victorians Institute. Raleigh, NC. October 2023.
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "Film and the Problem of Gender Disguise in Shakespeare's Plays." The Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVI. University of Virginia College at Wise. Wise, VA. September 2023.
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages) "The Assassination of JFK, 60 Years of Fiction and Films" Popular Culture Association in the South & American Culture Association in the South. PCAS/ACAS. New Orleans, LA. September 2023.
Achievements Reported to the Dean in 2022
Scott Hicks (Teaching & Learning Center, English, Theatre & World Languages), Miko Nino (Online Learning) "Connecting Career Learning and Career Readiness through ePortfolios,” Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA. February 2022.
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages) “Tracing the Influence of Indigenous Protest on Vonnegut’s Philosophies of Care,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD. March 2022.
Ana Cecilia Lara “Las fronteras y las transgresiones del cuerpo en la novela ‘El verbo J’ de Claudia Hernández,” presented at the XXIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2022.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre & World Languages), Panelist for the roundtable “Using Our Power: The MLA, Advocacy, and Academic Labor,” MLA Convention 2022, Washington DC. January 2022.*
Robin Snead (English, Theatre & World Languages), “When ‘You’re Accepted’ Doesn’t Seem Like a Welcome: Constellations of Writing, Race, and Belonging in a Bridge Program Composition Course at a NASNTI Institution,” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention, March 2022.
Richard Vela (English, Theatre & World Languages) “Shakespeare's Assassins” presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. April 2022.*
Achievements Reported to the Dean in 2021
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti: Where Do We Go From Here?,” Presented at the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society cosponsored by the Community of Church of Boston, August 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre & World Languages), "The (In)Visibility of Sacco and Vanzetti in the Federal Writers’ Project," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: The New Deal Era’s Federal Writers’ Project: History, Politics, and Legacy.” August 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre & World Languages), “The Sacco & Vanzetti Trial 100 Years Later: A Historic Perspective and Parallels to Today,” Dedham Historical Society, June 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre & World Languages), "Teaching Woody Guthrie and the Precarity of the Present." Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association. Youngstown State University, June 2021.
Laura Hakala (English, Theatre & World Languages), "Dismantling Confederate Literary Monuments with Ellen Hunter: A Story of the War." Presented at the Children's Literature Association Conference, June 2021.*
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Forgetting Red Power: Slaughterhouse-Five, Indigenous Protest, and Vonnegut’s Critique of Settler Colonialism,” presented for a Roundtable of the Kurt Vonnegut Society at the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, July 2021.*
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Fiction’s about what it means to be a f-cking human being’: Sincerity, Sexuality, and David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System,” presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, July 2021.*
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages) & Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre and World Languages), "Delinquent Inquiry under Repressive Apparatus." Presented at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 2021.*
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages) and Susan Cannon, "Unmastering Pedagogies." Panel Presentation at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 2021.*
Mayo, Russell, Elise Dixon (English, Theatre & World Languages) and Eric Camarillo presented “Pandemic Exigencies: Technology, Togetherness, and Tutoring.” International Writing Centers Association Conference. Online. 21 October 2021.
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages) presented “Distance and (Dys)uptopia: Slaughterhouse-Five, Settler Colonialism, and the Politics of Fate.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 2021.*
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre & World Languages) presented “Revolt and Revulsion: Repatriation and the Limits of Settler Sensation in Anna Lee Walters’s Ghost Singer.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 2021.*
Melissa Schaub (English, Theatre & World Languages) presented “The Spectacle of Englishness: Lord Fauntleroy Gazes Back," the Victorians Institute meeting, Charlotte, NC, October 2021.
Laura Hakala (English, Theatre & World Languages), “The Architecture of Girlhood: Building American Spaces in Louisa Tuthill's Children's Novels,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Baltimore, MD. November 2021.
Jason Griffith, Anthony Celaya, Joseph D. Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages), “Talking Process: A Discourse Analysis of Podcast Process Texts Reveals Community Cultural Wealth.” Literacy Research Association Annual Conference. December 2021.
Joseph D. Sweet (English, Theatre & World Languages) and Anthony Celaya, “Multimodal Exploration of Identity in The Music of What Happens.” National Council for Teachers of English Annual Convention. November 2021.*
Reported to the Dean in 2024
Youngsuk Chae (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a reviewer for the journals MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. January 2024.
Cynthia Miecznikowski (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as manuscript reviewer for theJournal of Excellence in College Teaching in July 2024
Cynthia Miecznikowski (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as proposal reviewer for the 2025 special issue of the journal Composition Forum in August 2024.
Catherine Parisian (English, Theatre, and World Languages) has been appointed member-at-large on the board for the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. December 2023.
Catherine Parisian (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as vice president for the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. April 2024.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a reviewer for WPA: Writing Program Administration. March 2024.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) Review of the book manuscript: Creating Ethnodrama: A Practical Approach. Guilford Press. January 2024.
Reported to the Dean in 2023
Elise Dixon (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a reviewer for a manuscript for the Curriculum Inquiry. October 2023.
Reported to the Dean in 2022
Scott Hicks (Teaching and Learning Center and English, Theatre and World Languages) serves as adviser to the Youth Climate Summit Team and a member of the School Improvement Team of Scotland Early College High School, Laurinburg. January 2022.
Scott Hicks (Teaching and Learning Center and English, Theatre, and World Languages) serves as a member of the Literary Changemakers Steering Committee, facilitated by NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and poet Tonya Elk Locklear. November 2021-February 2022.
Scott Hicks (Teaching and Learning Center and English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as an evaluator of Community Engagement Professional of the Year and Community Partner Award for NC Campus Compact. January 2022.
Scott Hicks (Teaching & Learning Center and English, Theatre, and World Languages) serves as adviser to the Youth Climate Summit Team and a member of the School Improvement Team of Scotland Early College High School, Laurinburg. March 2022.
Ana Cecilia Lara and Joseph D. Sweet served as a mentors for UNCP's REACH program. March 2022.
Ana Cecilia Lara served as a moderator in the session “Simbolismos, transgresiones y écfrasis en la narrativa hispanoamericana reciente” at the XXIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2022.
Cynthia Miecznikowski (English) served as a reviewer for a manuscript for Composition Forum. May 2022.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre, and World Languages) was selected to serve as a member of the Nominating Committee for the Council of Writing Program Administrators. December 2021.
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages) serves as Area Chair for Shakespeare on Film and Television for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. April 2022.
Reported to the Dean in 2021
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre, and World Languages) attended the Center for First-Generation Student Success, National Student Personnel Administrators in Higher Education Conference. June 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre, and World Languages), "Representing the Working Class: A Roundtable." Chair and Organizer at the Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association. Youngstown State University, June 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre, and World Languages), "From the Classroom to the Streets: Working-Class Activism." Chair and organizer at the Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association. Youngstown State University, June 2021.
Michele Fazio (English, Theatre, and World Languages), "Resisting Nostalgia: Revelations of the Family Archive." Andrew W. Mellon Foundation REACH Summer Exploration Program, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, July 2021.
Roger A. Ladd (English, Theatre, and World Languages), served as a peer reviewer for Speculum, July 2021.
Roger Ladd (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as treasurer for the John Gower Society and presided over one of the society’s panels at the 56thInternational Congress on Medieval Studies: “French Gower, Gower's French.” May 2021.*
Catherine Parisian (English, Theatre, and World Languages) was appointed chair of the Liaisons Subcommittee for the Bibliographical Society of America, May 2021.
Robin Snead (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a proposal reviewer for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, June 2021.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a peer reviewer for International Journal of Qualitative Methods, July 2021.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a peer reviewer for the Journal, Qualitative Studies in Education, June 2021.
Joseph Sweet (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as a peer reviewer for the Journal, Current Issues in Education, May 2021.
Elise Dixon (English, Theatre, and World Languages) was elected to serve as an At-Large Member of the International Writing Centers Association Executive Committee through 2023, September 2021.
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as session chair for the panel, “Formations and Contestations to Ideological and Systemic Whiteness,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 2021.*
Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as session chair for the panel, “Interdisciplinary Critical Refugee Studies.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 2021.*
Richard Vela (English, Theatre, and World Languages) served as chair for "Chaucer and Middle English Literature" session at the Medieval-Renaissance Conference, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, September 2021.
Reported to the Dean in 2023
Laura Hakala (English, Theatre, and World Languages) “Persistence Shining Through”: Reading Southern Children’s Literature. 30 Brave Minutes Podcast. October 2023.
Reported to the Dean in 2022
Ana Cecilia Lara Two short stories accepted to Arte Latino Now 2022 Virtual Exhibition, Performance and Readings. The Center for Latino Studies at Queens University of Charlotte in partnership with artist Edwin Gil Department of World Languages and Department of Art, Design and Music. March 2022.
Grants and Awards
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Michele Fazio (English, Theatre, and World Languages) was selected for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: The New Deal Era’s Federal Writers’ Project: History, Politics, and Legacy,” July 2021.
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Zachary Laminack (English, Theatre, and World Languages) and Catherine Parisian (English, Theatre, and World Languages) received funding from the Dean’s Research and Scholarship Fund to support their various programs of research, October 2021.
Media
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Laura Hakala (English, Theatre, and World Languages) made a featured appearance on WLNC’s “Live on Main with Gary Gallman,” April-September 2021.
Student Presentations
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Sadler, Olivia. A Survey of Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge of University Undergraduate Students for the Purpose of Faculty Development in Teaching and Learning for Sustainability.
Mentor: Scott Hicks (English, Theatre, and World Languages)
Department Chair
Wendy Miller
Chair and Associate Professor of English, Theatre and World Languages
wendy.miller@uncp.edu910.521.6886
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Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6246
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Latest News
Jul 25
UNC Pembroke Computer Science Student Earns NASA Recognition for Cybersecurity Discovery
NASA recently recognized a UNC Pembroke computer science student for his exceptional cybersecurity skills. Shirsendu Mondal received a formal letter of appreciation from the agency's Vulnerability Disclosure Program for identifying and responsibly reporting a security vulnerability in one of NASA's digital systems.
Jul 15
Exploring the World Through Art: How One Professor’s Travels Enrich Her Classroom
For many students, learning about art history means flipping through textbooks or viewing digital images. However, for students in Dr. Beata Niedzialkowska’s class at UNC Pembroke, art history comes alive through her firsthand experiences visiting some of the world’s most renowned museums.
Jul 9
Professor James Hudson Named 2025–26 Faculty Fellow with Carolina Asia Center, UNC Institute
Dr. James Hudson, associate professor of history at UNC Pembroke, has been selected as a Minority-Serving Institutions Faculty Fellow for the 2025-26 academic year. The fellowship, a joint initiative of the Carolina Asia Center and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC Chapel Hill, supports faculty at minority-serving institutions pursuing research related to Asia.