Projects lead by four LAS faculty members have been awarded funding for the Mellon Foundation initiative "Humanities Without Walls: The Global Midwest."
Seven faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are among the recipients of a 2014 Silver Service Award, which recognizes overall teaching excellence and are chosen by graduating seniors.
Sunil Agnani, associate professor of English and history in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, received the American Comparative Literature Associations 2014 Harry Levin Prize for "Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism."
Assistant Professor Roger Reeves of the UIC Department of English has been named among Princeton Universitys Lewis Center for the Arts Hodder Fellows for 2014-2015.
The Chicago Tribunes Trib Local interviewed Rachel Havrelock, UIC associate professor of English and Jewish studies, in advance of a southwest suburban interfaith forum exploring the role women play in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Tyler Mills, PhD student in Poetry at UIC, is among the speakers at Gallery 400s upcoming Ghost Nature Reading Series exhibit, supported, in part, by the LAS Department of English.