The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences awarded Corey van Landingham, Andrea Stevens, and Justine Murison of the Department of English with named scholar positions.
The College of LAS announced 26 appointments recognizing professors for their contributions to education and research at the University of Illinois.
Van Landingham was named a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP...
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Jonathan Phalen, who graduated in May with degrees in English and secondary education, has accepted a Fulbright/America for Bulgaria Foundation English teaching assistant award. The program aims to improve the quality of English education in Bulgaria by placing U.S. students in public high schools across 25 Bulgarian cities. The 10-month grant will support Phalen and other recipients while they...
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.
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- English professor Justine Murison researches and teaches 19th century American literature. She’s fascinated by what she calls "the meeting place of the material and the immaterial: the boundaries between, for instance, psychological emotion and physiological response, spiritual striving and bodily...
- A project to examine the circulation of newspaper reports about anti-Black violence in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. newspapers could provide context to the spread of white supremacist ideologies in social media today. "The Virality of Racial Terror in US Newspapers, 1863-1921" (VRT...
- Susan Koshy is the guest editor with Christopher Cannon of the latest issue of PMLA (137.5) on “Monolingualism and Its Discontents.” The introduction offers an incisive recontextualization of monolingualism as a "a category assumed more than it is named and named more than it is examined."...
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