Department News | English at Illinois

Michael VanCalbergh's poem, "My Father As Ulysses", published in autofocus

09/13/2021 - Michael VanCalbergh's poem,"My Father As Ulysses", was published in autofocus literary magazine on August 27, 2021. To read "My Father As Ulysses", see...

Graduate Students Hollis Druhet and Helen Makhdoumian win Peer Essay Prize

05/25/2021 - The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's Peer Essay Prizes for 2021...

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Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood wins 2021 Carnegie Fellowship

04/29/2021 - Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood has been awarded a 2021 Carnegie Fellowship...

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PhD Student Laura Coby wins HRI Prize for Research in the Humanities

04/01/2021 - English PhD Student Laura Coby wins the HRI...

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Dr. Kristi McDuffie wins Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence Award

03/22/2021 - Dr. Kristi McDuffie, the Interim Director of Rhetoric, has won the ...

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Professor Christopher Freeburg named John A. and Grace. W. Nicholson Professor

03/11/2021 - Professor Christopher Freeburg has been appointed as...

English Faculty and Graduate Students Receive HRI Fellowship Awards

03/05/2021 - The department celebrates the achievements of six English faculty members and graduate students who have received fellowship awards from the...

The front page of the digital scholarly edition of Gentlemen Prefers Blondes. The page features a collage of greyscale drawings of women with short hair and hats.

Daniel Tracy (PhD, 2008) produces Digital Scholarly Edition of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

03/04/2021 - Graduate alumnus Daniel Tracy (PhD, 2008) has produced a digital scholarly edition of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which is...

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Keguro Macharia (PhD, 2008) wins Alan Bray Memorial Prize

01/22/2021 - Graduate alumnus Keguro Macharia (PhD, 2008) has won the Alan Bray Memorial Prize given by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA for Frottage:...

In Memoriam

06/16/2020 - The English department commemorates the loss and celebrates the lives and work of two of our beloved colleagues, Tony Kaufman and Jack Stillinger.

Grad Program Announces Peer Essay Prize Winners for 2019-2020

05/28/2020 - The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's 2019-2020 Peer Essay Prizes. First prize went to Meg Cole for her essay “The Trauma of Compulsory Heterosexuality:...

UIUC Creative Writing Professor Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

04/08/2020 - Creative Writing Professor Janice N. Harrington has been awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.

Grad Program Announces Winners of 2018 Peer Dissertation Prizes

03/10/2020 - The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's 2018 Peer Dissertation Prizes.

Grad Student Wins International Writing Center Association Future Leader Award

10/23/2019 - English Department PhD candidate Mariá Carvajal Regidor has won one of the International Writing Center Association's four 2019 President's Future Leader Awards.

Grad Alum Wins Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award

10/21/2019 - Grad alum Patrick Berry has just received one of the Coalition for Community Writing's 2018-19 Outstanding Book Awards for his 2018 book Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher...