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…
The UIC English professor, Director of Graduate Studies, and author of Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism recently published an opinion piece reflecting on the echoes of 19th-Century…
Leigha Sommer, a senior undergraduate at UIC, has been selected among the entire student body to receive the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award. Kim Germain, the Director of UIC’s Office of External Fellowships,…
Anna Kornbluh‘s latest book was reviewed by Imogen West-Knights in the Times Literary Supplement on Tuesday, October 1, 2019. “Both Fight Club and Marxism have become oversimplified in the public consciousness, and Kornbluh’s…
UIC English will be well-represented at the 2019 Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner on October 10, 2019. Faculty Luis Alberto Urrea and Margena Christian as well as current PhD student Gina Frangello will…
Professor Alfred Thomas contributed an essay titled, “Reading the Other: Teaching Chaucer’s The Prioress’s Tale in Its Late Medieval Context” to the anthology, which was edited by Mariamne Ara Krummel (University of Dayton)…
As of Fall 2019, Master’s and PhD students at UIC can now get a concentration in Black Studies at UIC through the Department of African American Studies (AAST). To concentrate in Black Studies,…
Professor Lisa Freeman, Head of the English Department, participated in a scholar-artist collaboration for the Folger Theatre’s production of Davenant’s Macbeth, which ran in September, 2018. Watch the video below to see Professor…
Jon Hansen of Chicago’s WGN Radio interviewed Helen Jun on Tuesday, August 6, about the life and legacy of Pulitzer-prize winning author Toni Morrison, who died on Monday, August 5. You can listen…
UIC English Distinguished Professor Luis Urrea‘s book The House of Broken Angels has been selected as the featured book for July for “Now Read This,” a collaboration between PBS NewsHour and the New…
