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…
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.
