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…
Margena A. Christian, Ed.D. and Senior Lecturer in English, has been chosen by the UIC Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Blacks (CCSB) as a Black History Maker for 2021. Dr. Christian was…
Brianna Noll’s The Era of Discontent was chosen for the 2020 Elixir Press Poetry Award and is available now. Professor Christina Pugh says that The Era of Discontent “invites us into a wondrous…
Professor Peter Coviello’s latest book, Vineland Reread, was named a New York Times New & Noteworthy title for the week of January 12, 2021. A meditation on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, Coviello’s book argues…
It’ll come as no surprise to her students that Senior Lecturer Jennifer Rupert is one of the 2020-21 winners of the Teaching Recognition Program (TRP) award. A campus-wide initiative, TRP recognizes teaching excellence…
Rachel Havrelock, Director of the Freshwater Lab and Professor of English at UIC, has launched a new digital storytelling site called “The Backward River,” its name a reference to the famous reversal of…
On Thursday, November 19, Mohanraj was featured on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Larry Meiller Show,” and on Monday, November 23, she joined the hosts on “A Public Affair” on WORT – Madison to…
Cynthia Barounis, lecturer in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is the winner of the 2020 National Women’s Studies Association Early Career Scholar Piepmeier Book Prize. Barounis received…
Senior Lecturer Margena Christian is one of the winners of UIC’s Teaching Recognition Program for the 2019-2020 academic year. The TRP is an annual award administered by faculty through the Offices of the…
