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Dolores Albarracín, Catherine Best, Cabral Aziza Bigman-Galimore, Christopher Byron Brooke, Ian S Brooks, Robert Anthony Bruno, William Cope, Elizabeth Carla Forsythe, Craig Gundersen, Rana Hogarth, Scott H Irwin, Sheldon Howard Jacobson, Mary Kalantzis, Justine Kaplan, Richard L Kaplan, Karen Kramer, Robert M Lawless, Michael H Leroy, James F Lowe, Michael J Miller, Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee, Robert B Olshansky, Melissa G Ocepek, Eva Marie Pomerantz, Tara Leytham Powell, Leslie Jean Reagan, William E Sander, Eunice E Santos, Jodi Schneider, Shardé Smith, Kelly Michelle Tu Frantz, Brenda Anne Wilson, Gillen D'Arcy Wood & Donald J Wuebbles
6/2/20
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Richard Powers wins Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for 'The Overstory'
4/15/19
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English professor's first book tells stories of contemporary lives of black Americans
Nafissa D Thompson Spires
12/4/18
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BACKSTORY Podcast: Thar She Blows Again, The History of Whales and America (Part 2)
10/12/18
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Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Disarming Humor in ‘Heads of the Colored People’
Nafissa D Thompson Spires
4/15/18
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BBC World News Service: Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
3/13/18
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Illinois professor uses big data to research history of gender in fiction
2/27/18
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Poet Janice Harrington’s new work reflects on life and art of painter Horace Pippin
10/12/16
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Project will help researchers explore big data in HathiTrust digitized library
Ted Underwood & J Stephen Downie
2/23/16
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What the true story of the Essex - the inspiration for 'Moby-Dick' - teaches us today
12/9/15
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Exhaustive computer research project shows shift in English language
5/15/13
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Rewriting the History of American Literature: An Interview with Gordon Hutner
1/1/13
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Novelist's 'Luminarium' lighting up the literary atmosphere
8/22/11
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Richard Powers elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
4/13/10
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U. of I. English professor wins $25,000 writing award
9/9/09
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Some aspects of birding not always environmentally friendly, professor says
Spencer Wood Schaffner
8/18/09
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U. of I.'s Richard Powers wins National Book Award for 'The Echo Maker'
11/16/06
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