Sometimes during the course of an English major’s studies, he or she encounters literature that lingers for a lifetime. That has been the case for Albert Ascoli (BA, ’75, English), who first read Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” while an undergraduate at the University of Illinois.
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- The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's 2018-2019 Peer Essay Prize.
- The American Comparative Literature Association is now accepting seminar proposals for its March 2020 annual meeting in Chicago.
- Elizabeth Majerus, English teacher at Urbana's Uni High and recipient of a 2001 Illinois English PhD, has just been named Uni High's Interim Director.
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