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…
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…
