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…
The English Department at UIC has recently received a remarkably generous gift of $1 million to support its PhD students working on their dissertations: the W. Ann and Rachel Reynolds Dissertation Fellowship Fund.…
Professor Cris Mazza‘s new novel Yet To Come is out today, October 5, 2020, from BlazeVOX Books. From the publisher’s synopsis: “Decades before #metoo, Cal chose his punishment for going too far with…
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of English Peter Coviello’s latest book, Vineland Reread (Columbia University Press) considers Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, the long-awaited follow-up to Gravity’s Rainbow. Although not as popular as Gravity’s…
