Public Humanities

The DLC Public Humanities Division consists of our social media, news, media, and podcasting teams – all of which are dedicated to identifying innovative ways to communicate the work of the Department of English and Comparative Literature community.

Our public humanities work is two-fold.

The social media, news, website, and podcast teams work to make the scholarly work of our department accessible and useful to the public. This work of communicating scholarship to a broader public audience also teaches students working in the DLC Lab valuable professional skills.

We also have a number of collaborative, community-centered research projects, engaging in research together with our local community. In collaboration with local organizations and joint humanities lab ventures, public humanities work at the DLC is dedicated to serving, learning from, and working alongside our communities. Our current projects are From the Rock Wall to Wikipedia, a wikipedia and local history project conducted alongside the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, and Forever Chemicals in North Carolina: A Story Archive, an oral history research project led by the DLC and HHIVE labs.