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    UIUC Creative Writing Professor Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

    Creative Writing Professor Janice N. Harrington has been awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.
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  • Keguro Macharia (PhD, 2008) wins Alan Bray Memorial Prize
    Graduate alumnus Keguro Macharia (PhD, 2008) has won the Alan Bray Memorial Prize given by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA for Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (NYU Press, 2019). Frottage presents new...
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  • In Memoriam
    The English department commemorates the loss and celebrates the lives and work of two of our beloved colleagues, Tony Kaufman and Jack Stillinger.
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  • Grad Program Announces Peer Essay Prize Winners for 2019-2020
    The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's 2019-2020 Peer Essay Prizes. First prize went to Meg Cole for her essay “The Trauma of Compulsory Heterosexuality: Pregnancy and Reproduction in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure....
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