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…
Lauren Elizabeth Reine Johnson, PhD, joins the faculty of the English Department as a Bridge to the Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate this semester, Fall 2021. Johnson’s research considers the intersections of race, gender,…
Lisa Freeman, Professor and Head of the English Department, has been named one of a handful of the 2021 Fellows of the President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP). PELP is a University of Illinois…
The Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) has named the 2021 recipients of their Artist Fellowship Awards, and two UIC English faculty are among them. Associate Professor Daniel Borzutzky and Clinical Associate Professor Mary…
Professors Mark Canuel and Rachel Havrelock are each part of teams that have been selected for the Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of Arts and Humanities awards. Prof. Canuel’s project with Rhea Ballad-Thrower…
Anna Kornbluh, Associate Professor of English and incoming Director of Graduate Studies for Fall 2021 has won the UIC Graduate College’s Graduate Mentoring Award for Arts and Humanities. The award honors “excellence and…
English major and graduating senior C.J. Garrett will read from his poem “Noiseless Andromeda,” directed by Professor Christina Pugh, on Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 1:00 pm.
Senior Lecturers Kate Boulay and Jeffrey Kessler are among the awardees for UIC’s initiative to reduce textbook costs for students, the Open Textbook Faculty Incentive for Kessler’s ENGL 200 – English Grammar and…
Assistant Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies Daniel Borzutzky‘s latest book of poetry, Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, was reviewed in The New Yorker by Hannah Aizenman…
Unsettling Education: Searching for Ethical Footing in a Time of Reform, the work of co-editors and UIC English alumni Kate Sjostrom (PhD ’18) and Brian Charest (PhD ’13), has won the 2021 Society…
