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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
Food Safety and Biosecurity
Nov 9, 2009
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
162 Noyes Lab, 505 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana
Lecture: Julie Cruikshank (Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver). "Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in America's Far Northwest"
Nov 10, 2009
| 7:30 pm
Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
IPRH Film Series - Brazil, followed by gallery conversation in conjunction with the Krannert Art Museum Exhibit "Under Control"
Nov 12, 2009
| 5:30 pm
Krannert Art Museum, Room 62
CAS Initiative - Interpreting Technoscience - Telematics: An Expanded Venue for Performance and Education
Nov 16, 2009
| 4:00 pm
Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Food Safety - The Case for Food Irradiation - Science Meets Law
Nov 16, 2009
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
162 Noyes Lab, 505 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana
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