Faculty News

The Department of English is pleased to announce two additions to its faculty for the 2009-10 academic year. First, Joshua Corey is joining the UIC faculty in the fall semester as a Visiting Writer. He is assistant professor of English at Lake Forest College and his new book, Severance Songs, won the 2008 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press and will be published in late 2010.

Also, Oren Izenberg is joining the UIC faculty in the spring semester as a Visiting Scholar. He works in the history and theory of poetry and poetics, in the forms and functions that an ancient and apparently universal art acquires in America from 1860 to the present. He is particularly interested in questions about the nature and meaning of the category of "the person" as they arise in literature, in philosophy and in cognitive theory, and in the consequences of this inquiry for social thought.

Cintron Named Great Cities Scholar
Professor Ralph Cintron has been named a Great Cities Scholar for 2009-2010.  While at the Great Cities Institute, he will be working on a book manuscript entitled “Democracy as Fetish: Rhetoric, Ethnography, and the Expansion of Life.”  By examining democratic theory and democratic practice (in diverse contexts ranging from Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods to Kosovo), Cintron aims to show how democracy is limited in its ideals by a pervasive “structural oligarchy.” 

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