English Department News at UIUC

Janice Harrington wins Jaffe Foundation Award

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:00:00 CDT

Janice N. Harrington has just been named one of six recipients of the 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Awards, which support "women writers of exceptional talent." Jaffe established her foundation in 1995; since then it has given out more than $1 million to support the careers of women writers.

Catherine Prendergast Named University Scholar

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CST

Catherine Prendergast, professor of English, is one of six faculty members who have been recognized as University Scholars.

The University Scholars program recognizes excellence while helping to identify and retain the university's most talented teachers, scholars and researchers. The program provides $10,000 to each scholar for each of three years to use to enhance his or her academic career. The money may be used for travel, equipment, research assistants, books or other purposes.

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Mary Hays Wins 2007 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:00:00 CST

Congratulations to Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award winner:

1st place - Mary Lucille Hays of White Heath for her poem Tippet Hill

The Illinois Center for the Book announced the winners of the third annual Illinois Emerging Writers Competition. Thanks to the financial generosity and support of the James Jones Literary Society, the 2007 Illinois Emerging Writers Competition had two divisions again this year - The James Jones Short Story Award and the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award.

Undergraduate Ian Clausen Wins Marshall Scholarship

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 CST

Ian Clausen, a senior majoring in English and religious studies, is the first University of Illinois student in more than 10 years to be awarded the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for graduate study in the United Kingdom.

Clausen, a Wheaton, Ill., native, will begin studying in fall 2008 at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland to earn advanced degrees in theology and ethics and heresiology and ethics. He is one of roughly 40 American college students chosen for the highly selective, all-expenses-paid scholarship.

The Marshall Scholarship Program started in 1953 as a way for the British government to show appreciation for American efforts--the Marshall Plan in particular--to rebuild the UK and Europe after World War II.

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Six English Department Members Honored with Undergraduate Teaching Awards

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:00:00 CST

The Undergraduate Teaching Awards Committee announced the recipients of the 2007 English Department teaching awards on Wednesday, November 7. Award winners from English are: David Roark, Tara Lyons, John Rubins, Andrew Moss, and Tony Pollock. Dennis Dullea received special commendation for teaching 100 courses.

Please join us and the committee in congratulating our winners and in thanking all those finalists who submitted portfolios for this competition. We greatly appreciate the excellent work they are all doing on the English Department's behalf.

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LeAnne Howe's novel "Miko Kings" explores role of baseball in American Indian life

LeAnne Howe — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:00:00 CST

Baseball Novel Explores Role of the Game 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).

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Nina Baym, has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:00:00 CST

Nina Baym, emeritus professor of English, has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship, an award designed to support faculty who have officially retired but continue to be active and productive in their fields.

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Professor Lauren Goodlad on Goth Culture

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT

OH, MY GOTH -- DARK CULTURAL PHENOMENON THRIVING, SCHOLARS SAY
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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Pete Craft Named Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellow

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:00:00 CDT

Congratulations to Ph.D. Pete Craft on winning the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship for 2007-08. The Liebmann Fellowship is a highly competitive national award intended to support students "with outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement and distinction in theirchosen fields of study." The award is open to graduate students in all disciplines, is subject to two elimination processes, and only the top three candidates from each university go on to the national competition.The fellowship will support Pete's full-time research this year on his dissertation, which is entitled Warfare, Trade, and "Indians" in English Literature, 1652-1719.

Carr Visiting Author Series

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT

CHAMPAIGN, IL. Five award-winning authors will read from their works this semester as part of the Robert J. and Katherin Carr Visiting Author Series.

SCHEDULE

9/13 Emily Raboteau
9/27 Natasha Trethewey
10/15 Susan Power
11/ 5 Roy Kesey
11/7 Katherine Min

All readings take place at the Illini Union Bookstore Authors Corner, 2nd floor, 4:30 pm.

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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