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Welcome to the website of the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We are a dynamic and diverse community committed to the study and teaching of British, American and anglophone literature and film, Creative Writing, and Writing Studies. Our tradition of first-rate, cutting-edge research, together with the exceptional productivity of our faculty, has meant that we are consistently ranked among the top twenty English departments in the nation.
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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.
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Upcoming Events
At the Threshold of Incarceration and Militarism: The Making of the U.S. Navys War Crimes Tribunals Program, 1945-1949
Dec 1, 2009
| 12:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building -- NEW LOCATION
IPRH Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowship application deadline, 5:00 p.m.
Dec 2, 2009
| 5:00 pm
Colloquium with Dara Goldman
Dec 7, 2009
| 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Levis, 3rd floor
CAS/MillerComm2010 - Music and Politics: A Lyndon B. Johnson Oratorio on Race and Vietnam
Dec 8, 2009
| 8:30 am
Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lecture: Andrew Light (Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Director of the Center for Global Ethics, George Mason University). "Ethics and Climate Change"
Feb 10, 2010
| 7:30 pm
Levis Faculty Center
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