08/27/2019 - The Graduate Awards Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the program's 2018-2019 Peer Essay Prize. First Prize went to Coral Lumbley for her essay, “The ‘Dark Welsh’:...
Department News
08/19/2019 - Elizabeth Majerus, English teacher at Urbana's Uni High and recipient of a 2001 Illinois English PhD, has just been named Uni High's Interim Director.
08/19/2019 - The American Comparative Literature Association is now accepting seminar proposals for its March 2020 annual meeting in Chicago.
08/15/2019 - Incoming English graduate student Anna Flood will hit the ground running when she begins her first semester of graduate work at the University of Illinois.
07/03/2019 - Professor Lindsay Rose Russell was quoted several times in an article in today's edition of The Guardian.
06/26/2018 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Nina Baym, an internationally recognized scholar of American literature and women’s writings, and a University of...
10/27/2017 - Sometimes during the course of an English major’s studies, he or she encounters literature that lingers for a lifetime. That has been the case for Albert Ascoli (BA, ’75, ...
10/22/2017 - The student who chooses English as a major should be prepared. Prepared for the questions, concerns and even mocking about the value of their degree. English major Mylissa Zelechowski said she gets...
05/10/2017 - Ana Fleming interviews Hannah Downing about her participation in the Spring Grant-a-Thon—an event to bring together local organizations and students—to explore options and creating...
