UIC English Associate Professor and Associate Head Anna Kornbluh has been announced as a Faculty Fellow for 2020-2021 at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities, pending approval from the Board of Trustees. Faculty Fellows…
Winner of the 2019 Juniper Prize for Poetry, Professor Christina Pugh’s new collection of poetry, Stardust Media, is now available through the University of Massachusetts Press, Amazon, and independent booksellers. “Pugh wants to…
Anna Kornbluh’s new book The Order of Forms was reviewed in Times Higher Education this week. Charlotte Jones writes: “In virtuoso close readings of Wuthering Heights, Bleak House and Jude the Obscure, as…
Dr. Christian is the author of Empire: The House That John H. Johnson Built and teaches in the English Department, including in the new Professional Writing Minor.
UIC Lecturer Margena Christian, Ed.D., wrote the cover story for Ebony‘s March 2020 issue, “Tyler Perry: Master of His Message.” The article discusses Tyler Perry’s life, work, and legacy. Perry called the issue…
The winners of the 2019 UIC Awards for Creative Activity have been announced, and UIC English professor and Director of the Freshwater Lab Rachel Havrelock and professor and Head of the Department Lisa…
Democracy As Fetish (Penn State University Press, 2020) is Professor Ralph Cintrón‘s latest monograph. Sara McKinnon, coeditor of Text Field: Innovations In Rhetorical Method, says of the book: ““Democracy as Fetish is necessary…
Associate Professor and Associate Head Anna Kornbluh was featured recently in The Chronicle‘s “Hanging Out–and Hanging On–At The MLA,” in which a group of literary scholars at the recent MLA conference in Seattle…
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) is seeking applicants for the 2020 HACU National Internship Program (HNIP). This program offers students the opportunity to receive valuable work experience through paid internships…
Internships at “Chicago Tonight” on WTTW are still available for the Spring 2020 semester. Several UIC English faculty have been interviewed on Chicago Tonight, including Luis Alberto Urrea and Margena Christian. Interns will…
