Three English professors were recently honored at the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick and Robert Schaefer investiture ceremony at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. A crowd of almost 80 people showed up to celebrate the professors’ accomplishments and presence on campus.Janice H. Harrington and...

 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...

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...

 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,...

Waïl S. Hassan, professor and head of the Department of Comparative & World Literature and professor of English, has been...

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...

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...

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,...