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Professor Emeritus Receives Lifetime Literary Achievement Award

Tag: Gerald Barrax

Poet Gerald Barrax sits at his desk.

Dec 12, 2019

‘The Job of a Poet Is to Tell the Truth’: Remembering Gerald Barrax

Former students and colleagues share their impressions of Gerald Barrax, emeritus professor of English, who died Dec. 7. 

Nov 17, 2016

Professor Emeritus Receives Lifetime Literary Achievement Award

Poet Gerald Barrax, professor emeritus of English, received the R. Hunt Parker Award for lifetime literary achievement from the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources as part of its North Carolina Book Awards.