UIC English faculty and poet/translator Daniel Borzutzky is on the shortlist of the 2019 Griffin International Poetry Prize, Canada’s most generous poetry and translation award, for his book Lake Michigan. Books are nominated…
Lennard Davis has already written extensively about his personal history with DNA testing to confirm a family secret in his book Go Ask Your Father: One Man’s Obsession with Finding His Origins Through…
The Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence (HOPE) Award is a student-led initiative run through the Office of Campus Housing. Every year, undergraduates nominate instructors who they feel “have made a lasting impact on the…
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…
