English Department News at UIUC
LeAnne Howe's novel Miko Kings explores role of baseball in American Indian life
The World Series may be over, but the echo of baseball's deep past is very much in the air in LeAnne Howe's new novel, "Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story" (Aunt Lute Books).
Published Date: November 8, 2007
Nina Baym, has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship
Published Date: November 5, 2007
Professor Lauren Goodlad on Goth Culture
Illinois professor Lauren Goodlad and Michael Bibby, a professor of English at Shippensburg University, are co-editors and contributors to "Goth: Undead Subculture," the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to goth. "If anything is clear about goth," they write, "it is the undeadness of its appeal even as the social and cultural formations of the modern world become ever more globalized."
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Published Date: September 19, 2007
Pete Craft Named Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellow
Published Date: September 4, 2007
Carr Visiting Author Series
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The Carr Reading Series is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Published Date: September 1, 2007