2024-07-03
- Dusty Bacon, an English graduate student with a concentration in writing studies, has earned a Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Public Engagement.
Bacon was one of six faculty and staff members, students, or community members to receive Campus Awards for Excellence in Public Engagement, which recognize those who engage...
2024-06-25 - English professor José B. Capino spent the summer of 2017 researching in European archives and interviewing people for his book on the late Lino Brocka, an influential Filipino filmmaker. He did not expect that his work would get two of Brocka’s most accomplished films—“Jaguar” and “Bona”—restored. Both films achieved one of the greatest honors that a film can receive:...
2024-06-17 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has honored English professors Ángel García, Irvin Hunt, and Justine Murison with named scholar positions in recognition of their contributions to research and education at the University of Illinois. Ángel García was named a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (...
2024-06-12 - English student Victoria Martinez has been named a Humanities in Action scholar by We CU and the Humanities Research Institute, who recently announced the 2024–2025 cohort. The Humanities in Action program ...
2024-06-11 - Janice Harrington and Curtis Perry, professors in the Department of English, have been appointed as Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professors by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois. The 5-year appointments provide $15,000 in annual discretionary funding. Harrington, who teaches in the Creative Writing Program, is an accomplished poet and children’s book...
2024-05-30 - English professor Corey Van Landingham’s new book of poems, “Reader, I,” looks at marriage, the tension between being an individual and part of a couple, and how to operate within the constraints of marriage for the better.
2024-03-15 - English professor Andrea Stevens will be a Visiting Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, for the 2024 Michaelmas term from Oct. 13 to Dec. 7. As a fellow, she will be working on her monograph “After Othello: Race, Disguise, and the Limits of the Stageable 1600-1800,” which explores the topics of race, representation,...
2024-03-12 - Deborah Lynch (BA, ’70, English) has always considered her time at the University of Illinois to be the foundation of her career. That’s why she has sponsored the Greenfield Lynch Endowed Lecture series to highlight Jewish American literature and literary studies....
2024-03-01 - The Undergraduate Rhetoric Program was presented with the Student Success Champion team award at this year's Student Success Symposium held in February. The Office of the Provost's Student Success @ Illinois initiative presents this award each year to individuals and teams who have exhibited exemplary dedication to undergraduate student success at the university. As one of the largest general...
2024-02-12 - English professors John Levi Barnard and John Gallagher have been named 2024 Conrad Humanities Scholars by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The two were honored with the appointment alongside Maryam Kashani (gender and women’s studies, ...
2024-02-07 - Perusing a used bookstore was nothing out of the ordinary for David Obuchowski (BA, ’01, English) and his wife, Sarah Pedry, but the excursion was anything but typical the day that they found “Birds Asleep,” a 1989 scientific and comprehensive survey of bird sleeping habits written by naturalist Alexander Skutch. The discovery began a creative...
2024-02-02 - Annah Freudenburg, Julie Price, and Hina Nazar have earned undergraduate teaching awards from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The three were among just 14 instructors and advisors selected by the College as recipients of the extremely competitive awards. “We are proud to have such an impressive group of people advancing our vital teaching and advising goals,” said Venetria K. Patton...
2024-01-15 - Professor Christopher Freeburg was selected as one of the inaugural Presidential Humanities and Social Science Chairs, along with D. Fairchild Ruggles (landscape architecture). The endowment, with funds invested by the University of Illinois System president, is intended to support humanities and social sciences...
2023-12-14 - A new book by Phillip B. Williams has its roots in his days at Illinois. The book, his first novel, stems from a story that Williams wrote for a short story writing contest while he was a student.
2023-12-11 - Professor Kimberly Mack has been awarded a prestigious Public Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.