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…
Professor Rachel Havrelock’s Freshwater Lab’s The Backward River Festival: Reclaiming the Chicago River, which takes place this Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 7 pm at the Eleanor Street Boathouse in Bridgeport, has…
LAS Distinguished Professor of English Luis Alberto Urrea will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s prestigious Fuller award for his lifetime contribution to literature in a live ceremony at 6 p.m. on…
Vainis Aleksa, Director of the Writing Center at UIC, is a recipient of the 2021 Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award. The CAPE Award “recognizes the demonstrated excellence” of Academic Professional employees and…
