At a calm trot, a horse’s hooves leave divots in the pale, rocky dirt. Under a brilliantly blue Arizona sky, one may wonder where the “tornado” from this artwork's title comes in. Then, the horse picks up speed, kicking up dust and pebbles in a chaotic storm. Some photos are entirely a blur. When...
English professor Christopher Kempf has been awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship.Kempf was one of two Illinois professors to earn the fellowship, and among 223 individuals working...
A new project led by a team of researchers from four universities aims to create and evaluate language models that represent past historical periods. The project, "...
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.” ...
Illinois English professor and department head Justine Murison appeared on the Norton Library Podcast's two-episode series on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" to discuss Hawthorne's life...
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...
