UIC Department of English

05/13/2025

🎉📚🤩Announcing the winners of the UIC Library English 161 Student Research Awards for theFall 2024 Semester! Please join us in congratulating them!

Third Prize: Areesha Altaf - Tiny Teeth, Big Traditions: The Psychology of Children’s Tooth Traditions and Their Role

Second Prize: Layla Wang - Animal Dentistry: Are You Caring for Your Pet’s Teeth?

First Prize: Ayah Kabbani - Casual Crime: YouTube True Crime as Escapist Entertainment

The UIC Library English 161 Awards recognize excellence in student research that demonstrates best practices in finding, evaluating and synthesizing sources to develop creative and impactful work. The award also calls upon students to describe their research trajectory, reflecting on their process, discoveries and learning experience.

Each semester, instructors from English 161 classes nominate outstanding student papers. To be eligible for the award, students must also write a short essay, reflecting on their research and writing process. Applications are judged by a panel of UIC librarians.

Read the full announcement: go.library.uic.edu/Eng161Fa24

06/06/2024

🎉Congratulations to UIC Department of English students, Alicia Ribeiro and Kendal McGinnis for winning prestigious awards to study language abroad 🌏

Alicia Ribeiro, will live in Busan, South Korea, this summer thanks to the U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program she earned to study the Korean language.

Kendal McGinnis won the same award last summer and studied Russian. Now she’s earned a National Security Education Program Boren Awards for International Study to continue studying Russian in Latvia for six months.

Read more about the recipients: go.uic.edu/ribeiro-mcginnis-uic-today

04/11/2024

Are you a word nerd? Does using "affect" and "effect" in a sentence give you hives? 📚🤓

Then stop by grammar expert Ellen Jovin's internationally acclaimed "Grammar Table" to get your questions answered.

Learn more about syntax expert Ellen and her traveling table: https://www.grammartable.com/

This event is hosted by UIC Department of English.

04/11/2024

Join our Program for Writers students for Literary Reading Night!

04/09/2024

Political discourse in America has been warped by ideology and rhetorical exploitation. Ancient Athens may have useful lessons for us.

02/20/2024

Come celebrate Dez!😀🥳

02/07/2024

Join The Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas next Friday!

02/05/2024

Come join UIC's Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas for the semester's first installment of their Radical Poetry & Performance Reading Series featuring two of our English PhD students!

11/28/2023

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Professor Robin Reames from UIC Department of English for her recent kudos from Kirkus Reviews for her publication, “The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times”!

This book makes the case that reviving the teaching of rhetoric and language can help bridge the destructive political and social divide. 🤝 Does this sound interesting to you? Find out more details and read the review here: go.uic.edu/robin-reames-kirkus-reviews

10/30/2023

Calling all English Majors!!

10/26/2023

10/19/2023

Join us for a conversation with Nikki Patín, Chicago artist, founder, and Executive Producer of Surviving the Mic, as we launch the Campus Advocacy Network’s new affinity space for survivors. Nikki will perform pieces from her forthcoming memoir, Working On Me, and invite us to envision what a survivor-led community can look like at UIC.