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 English professors Corey Van Landingham and Tess McNulty earned named scholar awards in recognition of their contributions to education and learning at the University of Illinois.The College of...

 English professor Christopher Kempf has been awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship....

 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 “...

Citizens and writers remain hopeful in the face of environmental harms in “Reading Better States: Utopian Method and...

Illinois English professor and author David Wright Faladé was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. The honor society...

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...

Poet Ángel García examines his disrupted family lineage in his new collection of poetry, seeking answers about where he came from...

This week marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth — she was born Dec. 16, 1775 — and fans of her novels have been celebrating with tea parties, brunches, and balls. Her novels — including...

The voyage of the HMS Challenger in the 1870s was a sprawling 3-1/2-year expedition to explore the world’s oceans. The scientists aboard the vessel collected 100,000 specimens of sea creatures,...

David Wright Faladé examines race, class, and gender through the eyes of a young college woman spending time in her small Texas...

  Illinois English professor Shawn Gilmore was recently featured on Slate's Decoder Ring podcast. The podcast episode...

David Wright Faladé, professor of creative writing in the Department of English, was recently published in The New Yorker. ...

English and African American studies professor Irvin Hunt thought twice before he answered a phone call from an...

 Professor Tim Dean has been named the Frank Hodgins Chair in American Literature. With the named position, Dean is being...

Mary Rose Cottingham, a senior instructor in English, has earned a Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. According to the Office of the Provost, which sponsors the awards,...

Janice Harrington, professor of creative writing in the Department of English, has won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her poetry collection, “Yard Show.”The award, which is presented by the...

Two graduate students and one professor in the Department of English have been awarded Humanities Research Institute fellowships. The three were among fourteen selected for this year’s fellowship...

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...

 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...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor Janice Harrington examines the natural world, the...

 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...

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

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. ...

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...

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...

A new novel by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English professor David Wright Faladé tells the story...

Creative writing professor Janice Harrington’s poetry collection, Yard Show, has earned a spot on the National Book Critics...

"Friend, you stand on sacred ground. This is a printing office." These words from Beatrice Ward are displayed in Skeuomorph Press & BookLab...

Susan Koshy, a professor of English and ...

English professor Jamie L. Jones was among 15 professors honored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences with a named...

English professor José B. Capino spent the summer of 2017 researching in European archives and interviewing people for his book on the late Lino Brocka, an influential Filipino filmmaker....

 English professor Corey Van Landingham’s new book of poems, “Reader, I,” looks at marriage, the tension between being an individual and part of a couple, and how to operate within the...

English professor Andrea Stevens will be a Visiting Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, for the 2024 Michaelmas term from...

The Undergraduate Rhetoric Program was presented with the Student Success Champion team award at this year's Student Success Symposium held in February. The Office of the Provost's Student Success @...

English professors John Levi Barnard and John Gallagher have been named 2024 Conrad Humanities Scholars by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The two were honored with the...

Annah Freudenburg, Julie Price, and Hina Nazar have earned undergraduate teaching awards from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The three were among just 14 instructors and advisors...

Professor Janice Harrington hopes that book on pioneering Black botanist inspires young readers to overcome obstacles and pay attention to the world around them.

The Office of the Provost announced that professor Janice Harrington and senior lecturer Michael Hurley were among those honored for excellence and innovation in teaching undergraduate students.

Creative Writing Professor Janice N. Harrington has been awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.