Digital Exhibits at UNCW Library

Ghost Maps: Visualizing Disease Narratives was a team-taught, cross-listed English course offered in the fall 2021 semester that blended ENG 313: Writing About Science, Medicine, and the Environment and ENG 390: Studies in Literature. Using the 19th-century cholera epidemic as a touchstone, the course focused on disease’s literary, rhetorical, and visual dimensions. Together, Profs. Katie Peel and Jeremy Tirrell and their students explored the role of narrative in disease—in case studies, rhetoric, ideology and literature—and vice versa, and wrestled with questions such as: How do we use narrative to understand and speak of disease? How does medical discourse shape our understandings? What does this tell us about the given culture, and how might this help us read texts historically and in the light of our current pandemic era?

HON 211: Resilience over Racism: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Inequality in Wilmington used co-taught interdisciplinarity to encourage students to consider how fields that emphasize different methods of analysis can be used in concert to understand the human impacts of violence and inequality wrought by events such as the 1898 massacre and the persecution of the Wilmington 10. Taught by Dr. Sarah Gaby (Sociology and Criminology) and Dr. Allison Harris (English), students interrogated Wilmington's history in resources such as film, fiction, political writing, quantitative census analysis, and academic research. Students engaged in archival research sponsored by a UNCW Community Engagement Grant partnership with the Latimer House archive, as well as in the Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History. Students’ projects illustrated how data and narrative together could tell a more robust story about the resilience of Black Wilmingtonians.

This exhibit highlights the history of the library from 1947-2024.

OLAS: Stories of Migration and Bilingual Identity is a podcast that gives voice to those who cross borders and build new beginnings. Through intimate and moving stories, we explore the experiences of migrants and bilingual individuals: their challenges, achievements, and dreams. Each episode is a wave that brings us closer to the richness of living between two languages, cultures, and realities.
Listen, connect with us, and discover what life sounds like when it’s lived among OLAS.

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Analysis of primary sources related to Eunice Kirton’s life and career as a musician, journalist, and civil rights leader.