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2020 UIC Red Line Project SPJ Mark of Excellence Award Winners

Online News Reporting   Winner: Nicole Sroka, “Chicago homicide rates surging during pandemic,” The Red Line Project, University of Illinois at Chicago   Finalist: Laaibia Mahmood and Hajra Qaiser, “Complaints against Chicago police rise as…

Daniel Borzutzky’s Poetry Reviewed in “The New Yorker”

Assistant Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies Daniel Borzutzky‘s latest book of poetry, Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, was reviewed in The New Yorker by Hannah Aizenman on March 31, 2021.…

UIC English Alumni Win Outstanding Book Award

Unsettling Education: Searching for Ethical Footing in a Time of Reform, the work of co-editors and UIC English alumni Kate Sjostrom (PhD ’18) and Brian Charest (PhD ’13), has won the 2021 Society of…