Ivelisse Rodriguez, alumna of the English Department’s graduate Program for Writers, has been nominated for a Pen/Faulkner Award for her book Love War Stories. Rodriguez has published fiction in All about Skin: Short…
English & LAS Distinguished Professor Luis Alberto Urrea will receive the Founders Award from the Tucson Festival of Books at their Authors Dinner on March 1. The Arizona Daily Star notes, “In all,…
Minding the Gap is a documentary about skateboarding and skaters in Rockford, Illinois, directed by Bing Liu, a Rockford native who graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Literature from UIC. After…
LAS Distinguished Professor Luis Urrea‘s The House of Broken Angels is a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction. The winners will be announced on March 14, 2019, at…
Director of the Program for Writers and Professor of English Cris Mazza recently published a semi-biographical, semi-historical piece of fiction in Diagram regarding her father’s experiences in WWII. The story is titled “Ask…
The Newberry Library is hosting a Moby-Dick Read-A-Thon this weekend (January 19-20, 2019) in celebration of the author’s two-hundredth birthday. UIC English faculty John Casey, Pete Coviello, Robin Grey, and Maryanne Lyons and…
Senior Lecturer Robin Gayle has been named as one of the 14 faculty recognized as part of the 2018-2019 Teacher Recognition Program. Awarded by the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for…
Professor Pete Coviello’s Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs has been named among Artforum’s Best Books of 2018. Says Gayle Salamon: “In this memoir about love, stepparenthood, loss, grief, sex, friendship,…
Luis Alberto Urrea, LAS Distinguished Professor of English, has received the Jack D. Rittenhouse Award from PubWest, the leading trade association for small- and medium-sized book publishers. From the article on PubWest’s site:…
Recent PhD and current English Education lecturer Kate Sjostrom has won the Graduate College’s Annual Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award for 2018 for The Thread that Makes the Cloth: Narrative as the Fabric…
