Congratulations to Edward M. Bury, Coordinator of Public Information at the Urban Transportation Center, for receiving the 2022 Janice Watkins Award for Distinguished Civil Service during a luncheon November 1 at the UIC Student Center…
Senior Lecturer Margena Christian was selected to be a part of the 2022-2023 cohort for the Public Voices Fellowship. The national Public Voices Fellowship is a unique opportunity led by The OpEd Project and designed for…
Professor Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera joins the English department from University of Pennsylvania’s Wolf Humanities Center where she held a Mellon fellowship. She did her graduate work at Cornell University and received her Ph.D. in…
It is with great sorrow that the English Department shares the news of the loss of Emeritus Professor of English Michael Lieb, who died on August 2, 2022. Lieb was among the most…
Christina Pugh has been named as a recipient of a 2022 UIC Award for Creative Activities for her work on a new volume of poems titled, Lexicon. UIC Awards for Creative Activity
The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive, has awarded its 2022-2023 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship to University of Illinois Chicago Senior Lecturer Margena A. Christian (English).…
Associate Professor Daniel Borzutzky and recent PhD program alumna Gina Frangello have been named to the Chicago Review of Books 2021 CHIRBy Awards shortlists for poetry and nonfiction, respectively. Borzutzky’s Written After A…
