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…
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…
Tyler Mills, Assistant Professor at New Mexico Highlands University and Editor-in-Chief of The Account as well as an alumna of the PhD Program for Writers at UIC, has won the 2019 Tupelo Press…
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…
UIC English Professor and poet Christina Pugh has been awarded the 2019 Juniper Prize in Poetry for her collection Stardust Media. The Juniper Poetry Prize began in 1975 as one of only a…
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…
