The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's 2018 Peer Dissertation Prizes.
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 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.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Nina Baym, an internationally recognized scholar of American literature and women’s writings, and a University of Illinois professor emerita of English, died June 15 in Urbana at age 82.Baym helped establish the field of study of American women writers with her 1978 book “Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about...