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…
Seminary Co-op Bookstore will host Professor Peter Coviello on February 15 at 7:30 p.m. for a reading from Make Yourselves Gods: Mormonism and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism and Professor Anna Kornbluh…
Professor of English Luis Alberto Urrea was on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” this week to discuss the new anthology of climate fiction 2040 A.D. (published by McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern in collaboration with the National…
The $3 million endowment will be the final gift from The Davee Foundation, which closes at the end of the year. The gift supports scholarships that align with the interests and careers of…
The University of Illinois Press in conjunction with the Graduate College is now accepting applications for paid graduate student interns during Summer 2020. The internship offers graduate students a chance to gain valuable…
Professor and poet Christina Pugh will be a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome this winter. The American Academy in Rome Visiting Artists and Writers Program “provides artists and scholars of…
Professor Nasser Mufti has been awarded the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities for 2019 for his book, Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Northwestern UP, 2017). The…
