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  • Albert Ascoli

    Bringing Dante to the 21st Century

    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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  • Grad Student Wins International Writing Center Association Future Leader Award

    English Department PhD candidate Mariá Carvajal Regidor has won one of the International Writing Center Association's four 2019 President's Future Leader Awards.

  • Grad Alum Wins Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award

    Grad alum Patrick Berry has just received one of the Coalition for Community Writing's 2018-19 Outstanding Book Awards for his 2018 book Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison.

  • Grad Program Announces Peer Essay Prize Winners

    The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's 2018-2019 Peer Essay Prize.
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Department of English

608 South Wright Street
MC-718
Urbana, IL 61801 
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Phone: (217) 333-2391
Fax: (217) 333-4321
Email: english@illinois.edu

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