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José Ángel Navejas's "Illegal" covered on NPR

José Ángel Navejas’s book Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant was covered on the February 23rd installment of NPR’s All Things Considered as part of a discussion of books censored in prison. The book was cited…

Underhill and Markowski contribute to award-winning volume

Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918. Edited by Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, and Przemysław Czapliński, with the assistance of Agnieszka Polakowska (University of Toronto Press, 2018), was recognized by The…

Gajic's Paradoxes of Stasis nominated for award

Tatjana Gajic, Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, has had her book Paradoxes of Stasis (U Nebraska Press, 2019) nominated for this year’s South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Book Award. This…

Kara Morgan-Short and Kim Potowski to give plenaries at ITBE 2020

Kara Morgan-Short and Kim Potowski, both Professors of Hispanic Linguistics, will be plenary speakers at the upcoming annual convention of the Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages – Bilingual Education…

Sara Hall receives Award for Creative Activity

Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Director of the Moving Image Arts Program, has been selected to receive funding through the UIC Awards for Creative Activity Program for her project “Police Projections:…