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Dr. Christian talks with Sylvia Perez on set

Margena Christian on Chicago's Fox 32

Lecturer Margena A. Christian, Ed.D., was on television station Fox 32 Chicago on Monday, July 22, to discuss her new book, Empire: The House That John H. Johnson Built. This marks the fourth…

Sarah Buchmeier Wins Newcombe Award

PhD candidate Sarah Buchmeier has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow in 2019 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The largest and most prestigious such award, the Newcombe recognizes…

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Luis Alberto Urrea Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

UIC English Professor Luis Alberto Urrea has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year. The award committee considered over 3,000 applicants, and ultimately selected 168 winners. Urrea was one of…

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Daniel Borzutzky on Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist

UIC English faculty and poet/translator Daniel Borzutzky is on the shortlist of the 2019 Griffin International Poetry Prize, Canada’s most generous poetry and translation award, for his book Lake Michigan. Books are nominated…

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Professor Lennard Davis Covered On BBC

Lennard Davis has already written extensively about his personal history with DNA testing to confirm a family secret in his book Go Ask Your Father: One Man’s Obsession with Finding His Origins Through…

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English Instructors Selected for HOPE Teaching Awards

The Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence (HOPE) Award is a student-led initiative run through the Office of Campus Housing. Every year, undergraduates nominate instructors who they feel “have made a lasting impact on the…