Alex Shakar is professor in the Department of English. He’s an invaluable member of the Creative Writing Program and has appeared on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent a total of 10 different semesters during his time at Illinois, with four of those appearances being for two different courses in a single semester. Shakar...
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Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood has been awarded a 2021 Carnegie Fellowship to support his project, “Oceans 1876.” Wood’s project examines and digitizes the massive amount of scientific research on oceans from the Victorian Era, producing an accessible database to help...
Professor Christopher Freeburg has been appointed as the John A. and Grace W. Nicholson Professor in recognition of his outstanding literary achievements and invaluable dedication to the Department of English, the...
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- Genaro Rincon Cruz Jr. is the the 2021-2022 recipient of the Kevin T. Early Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is made possible from an endowment by William and Donna Early in memory of their son, a poet, Kevin T. Early. It awards $2000 to a student with freshman standing at UIUC for the 2021...
- In March, the local Alpha Upsilon Pi chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society presented at the virtual Sigma Tau Delta International Convention. The theme for the convention was “Metamorphosis,” and while the Covid-19 pandemic caused it to be hosted entirely online, members Elizabeth...
- Joanne Lee Molinaro, better known as the Korean Vegan has recently been featured in The Washington Post. An alumna of the English Department, Molinaro has earned more than 2.7 million TikTok...
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