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…
UIC English professor Luis Alberto Urrea‘s latest book has been named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2018 by the New York Times. Professor Urrea will teach English 462: Topics in Literary…
Professor Lisa Freeman’s Antitheatricality and the Body Public has been given an Honorable Mention in the New York University English Department’s Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book on Drama or Theater, 2016-17.…
I am UIC: Open-mic night welcomes all writers by: Temitope Odedoyin todedo2@uic.edu November 1, 2018 On Oct. 26, Office of Undergraduate Studies in English hosted an open-mic night themed “haunted,” allowing student to orally…
The English Department is partnering with the Provost and the Institute for the Humanities to bring humanities research to the general education curriculum at UIC through the Engaged Humanities Initiative (EHI). Thanks to…
The University of Illinois at Chicago is ranked No. 7 on the “Best Values” list — just behind Harvard University — in this year’s Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education rankings.
Profesor Joseph Tabbi and his contributors were awarded the N. Katherine Hayles Prize for critical writing at the Montreal meeting of the Electronic Literature Association last week in honor of The Bloomsbury Handbook…
Professor and Head of the English Department Lisa Freeman's new book Antitheatricality and the Body Public has been named the Runner-Up for the 2018 Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) Outstanding Book Award.
