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…
The University of Illinois is sponsoring a “Year of Creative Writers,” supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and Humanities. Our very own Creative Writing Faculty are Featured…
Clinical Associate Professor Mary Anne Mohanraj‘s latest project, a Sri Lankan-inspired cookbook, was reviewed favorably in Publisher’s Weekly‘s Lifestyle Book Review section, who called it “a terrific survey of an overlooked cuisine.”
Assistant Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies Daniel Borzutzky was in the opinion pages of Saturday’s New York Times to discuss the protests currently taking place across Chile. In the…
Natalie Crohn Schmitt (Professor Emerita of English and Theatre) has just published Performing Commedia dell’ Arte, 1570-1630 (Routledge 2020). According to the publisher, the book discusses actor improvisation; voice, dialect, and style; and…
