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…
Clinical Associate Professor Mary Anne Mohanraj appeared on Sunday’s WGN Morning News to discuss her recipe for kale sambol, one of the recipes featured in her latest book, A Feast of Serendib.
Deziree A. Brown, a student pursuing a PhD in creative writing with a concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies, has been named one of 465 Honorable Mentions for 2020 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship.…
Professor of English Alfred Thomas’s latest book is The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture: Literature and Art in the Age of Chaucer and the Gawain Poet. The book is the “[f]irst…
Professor Emerita of English and Theatre Natalie Crohn Schmitt has been awarded a 2020 Premio Ennio Flaiano in the category Italianistics – Italian in the World for her book Performing Commedia dell’ Arte:…
Professor Ralph Cintron was named to the Rhetoric Society of America’s 2020 class of fellows, one of its highest awards. The RSA nomination committee called Prof. Cintron’s work “extraordinary” and referred to the…
Rachel Havrelock, professor of English and Jewish studies and Director of the Freshwater Lab, has published an op-ed in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, “Militarizing the Bible: A Warning from Israel’s Settlements to Trump’s…
UIC English Professor Rachel Havrelock’s Freshwater Lab is doing something new this summer–sending students out to Chicagoland water organizations to serve as interns. In spite of the restrictions imposed by COVID-19, the interns…
Dear English Majors, Minors, and Graduate Students, I write to you today on behalf of the English Department, and along with our other departmental leaders, to affirm unequivocally: Black Lives Matter. Yesterday, I…
