Financial support for prospective students
The Department of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign provides several forms of financial support for graduate students.
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Corey Van Landingham wins Guggenheim fellowship
Corey Van Landingham, professor of English in the Creative Writing Program, has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. Van Landingham is one of two U of I fellowship recipients, along with history professor Kristin Hoganson.The two are among 198...
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Poetry book looks at how people create a sense of place for themselves
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor Janice Harrington examines the natural world, the histories of Black residents in the Midwest and how people create a sense of place for themselves in...
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Janice Harrington inducted into the Alabama Writers HOF
Janice Harrington, professor of English in the Creative Writing Program, has been inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame, a partnership between the Alabama Writers’ Forum and the Alabama Center for the Book at the University of Alabama,...
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Waïl Hassan elected second vice president of MLA
Waïl S. Hassan, professor and head of the Department of Comparative & World Literature and professor of English, has been...
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"Blob" and a coming of age
An LAS alumna has published her first novel that explores the idea of being able to literally shape your ideal partner from scratch.
Maggie Su (BA, ’13, creative writing/English) is the assistant director for the University Writing Center at the University of Notre Dame. Her book was recently...
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New book shows how literature of extreme poverty provides stirring view of the Great Depression
The literature of extreme poverty during the Great Depression offered an aesthetic that matched the hopelessness and isolation of the unemployed and those living on the street. Robert Dale Parker, a professor emeritus of...
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Write what you know: The unusual journey that led to a haunting novel
John Milas’ journey as a writer has been far from typical, but those unique experiences helped shape his gripping gothic horror novel about a mysterious abandoned building in Afghanistan and the soldiers who would never be the same after entering it.
A Champaign-Urbana native, Milas (BA, ’16,...
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Is the English major obsolete in the age of AI?
The English major is dead. Or at least that seems an increasingly common perception since the advent of artificial intelligence and the release of OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT.
Much of this pessimism could be attributed to the sensationalism surrounding AI. Some AI advocates exalt it as a...
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Jamie Jones and Mary Rose Cottingham earn LAS teaching awards
The College of LAS has selected 16 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and advisors as the recipients of the 2025 teaching and advising rewards.
"We are honored and fortunate to have so many amazing teachers and advisors in the College of LAS,” said Venetria K. Patton, the Harry E. Preble...