Three members of the Department of English have earned faculty and graduate student fellowships from the Humanities Research Institute for 2026–27. This year’s research theme is “Up Against Erasure.” ...

Citizens and writers remain hopeful in the face of environmental harms in “Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental Harm in the Global South,” the new book by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...

 English alumna Connie Frank has been named the 2026 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Humanitarian Award winner. The College of LAS will recognize Frank and the other six award recipients during this year's alumni awards celebration in April. This year's honorees are researchers,...

 A multi-disciplinary team of faculty researchers from the University of Illinois has been awarded a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study the challenges to democracy and academic freedom confronting US universities now. This is the first time in the 30-year...

Illinois English professor and author David Wright Faladé was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. The honor society, whose members include MacArthur Fellows and Pulitzer Prize winners, was founded in 1936 to...

Four members of the Department of English have been selected by the College of LAS as the recipients of this year’s teaching and advising awards. Instructors Barry Hudek, Cassidy Short, and Corey Van Landingham, and academic advisor Anna Ivy were among 19 professors, graduate students,...