From Anustup Basu, Hindutva as Political Monotheism (Duke, 2020)
Basu offers a genealogical study of right-wing Hindu nationalism, demonstrating how a modernization project subsumed a vast array of polytheistic, pantheistic, and henotheistic...
Susan Koshy (Asian American Studies/English), has been named Faculty Fellow (Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields) in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (OVCRI) and the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI). The Fellows Program supports faculty members interested in developing innovative research initiatives of humanists, artists, and interpretive social...
Each year LAS selects up to seven recipients across the entire college. Mrs. Helen Corley Petit, a deceased alumna of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, provided an endowment for the development of the scholarship and teaching of early career faculty members in the College. ...- 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.” Cole was lauded for her combination of convincing readings and historical contextualization,...
- The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's 2018-2019 Peer Essay Prize. First Prize went to Coral Lumbley for her essay, “The ‘Dark Welsh’: Color, Race, and Alterity in Medieval Britain.” Coral's essay, as one committee member described it, takes up the important and vexed question of “how race is key to alterity in...
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.
The American Comparative Literature Association is now accepting seminar proposals for its March 2020 annual meeting in Chicago.
Incoming English graduate student Anna Flood will hit the ground running when she begins her first semester of graduate work at the University of Illinois.
Professor Lindsay Rose Russell was quoted several times in an article in today's edition of The Guardian.
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. To say the 14th century poem resonated in the College...
The student who chooses English as a major should be prepared. Prepared for the questions, concerns and even mocking about the value of their degree. English major Mylissa Zelechowski said she gets it all the time. People she meets are “very quick to judge,” she said. But then the Wilmette, Illinois, sophomore tells them how she’s already using her skills, in jobs and an internship. “It usually...
Ana Fleming interviews Hannah Downing about her participation in the Spring Grant-a-Thon—an event to bring together local organizations and students—to explore options and creating opportunities in writing grants (for funding). What made you want to be a part of the Grant-a-Thon? Why were you interested in the event? How did you learn about it...
A project to examine the circulation of newspaper reports about anti-Black violence in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. newspapers could provide context to the spread of white supremacist ideologies in social media today. "The Virality of Racial Terror in US Newspapers, 1863-1921" (VRT) is a partnership between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northeastern University, and...- The English department commemorates the loss and celebrates the lives and work of two of our beloved colleagues, Tony Kaufman and Jack Stillinger.
Creative Writing Professor Janice N. Harrington has been awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.