Donika Kelly's poem "What I Might Sing" appeared in The New Yorker.
Teresa Mangum was the recipient of the prestigious Francis March Award. Previous winners include former English Department chairs John Gerber and Richard Lloyd Jones.
Loren Glass’s essay on Bob Dylan’s “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35” appears in Mike Chasar’s edited collection The Poetry of Bob Dylan: Thirty Essays on Thirty Songs (Bloomsbury 2025). Chaser received his PhD in English from UI in 2007.
Adam Hooks and Jon Wilcox (Co-Editors) are delighted to announce that the most recent issue of Philological Quarterly (103.3) is now available. This issue — “Philology and Pedagogy: Polemics on the Profession” — showcases the strengths of the journal, and of the department, by reflecting on the current state of literary studies. It features several UI English Faculty: Matt Brown (on the craft, as opposed to the creative writing, workshop); Garrett Stewart (a cumulative, career-spanning essay on the demise of the literary-critical essay); and Florence Boos (a feminist response to an essay about the eighteenth-century discriminating reader). The issue also features Susan Wolfson on the misogyny of Milton studies. Philology is flourishing, in the pages of PQ!
At the 72nd Annual Midwest Conference on British Studies, PJ Zaborowski presented "Messengers Gone Rogue: Authority, Deception, and Messenger Misconduct in The Man of Law's Tale"
Kathy Lavezzo's book, Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem, was published.
So was Donika Kelly's book, The Natural Order of Things.
Matt Brown co-authored an essay with Katharine DeLamater (UICB MFA, 2021) and andy king (Writers Workshop MFA and UICB Certificate, 2021) titled “Pace, Scale, Touch: On Artists’ Books as Learning Experiences”; it was published this summer in the Routledge volume Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study. His essay “Craft, Critical Making, and the Workshop Turn: Literary Pedagogy in the Contemporary English Department” has just appeared in Philological Quarterly.
Jon Wilcox is working to revive the art of scholarly reviewing with reviews of scholarship on early medieval studies recently published or forthcoming in The Medieval Review, Review of English Studies, Medium Ævum, and Medieval Perspectives.
Harry Stecopoulos published "Realism Scrapes Through" in a recent issue of LARB.
Professor Emerita Florence Boos published much in 2025:
“Rewriting Trauma: Elizabeth Campbell’s Unedited and Edited Poems,” Chapter 7, British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700, ed. John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen, University of London Press, 2025, 113-130.
“British Working-Class Women Writers, 1830-1900,” Routledge Companion to Working Class Writing, ed. Ben Clarke, New York: Routledge, 2025, 169-86.
“Labour, Gender, and Resistance: Working-Class and ‘People’s’ Literature of the 1850’s.” Cambridge Companion to the 1850s, ed. Gail Marshall. Cambridge University Press, 2024, 294-316. Published 2025.
“Morris the Skald: Icelandic Translation as Social Liberation,” Victorian Poetry 62.1-2 (2024), 109-40. Published 2025.
“From Grief to Wisdom: The Poetry of Morris’s Middle Period,” The Cambridge Companion to William Morris, ed. Marcus Waithe. Cambridge University Press, 2024, 85-97. Published 2025.
“`The Old Order Changeth, Yielding Place to New,’” Philological Quarterly 103.3(2024), 195-201. [part of a special feature on changing curricula]
Introduction, The Brown Owl by Ford Madox Ford, trans. Eleanora Sasso. Biblion Press, Italy, 2025, pp. 7-21.
Introduction, William Morris’s Politics and Socialism: Claiming a Decent Life, ed. John Blewitt. Exeter University Press, 2025.
