Summer Reading

Looking for a good book? Various English faculty, staff, and students describe what's on their bedside tables this summer. Recent MFA graduate Swati Avasthi, profiled in Metro Magazine about her new young adult novel Split, offers a couple YA suggestions. Professor Emeritus Michael Dennis Browne is looking forward to reading MFA alumna Francine Tolf's new memoir, Joliet Girl. Grow the list by sending your picks!

Rabinowitz Wins China Fulbright

Congratulations to Professor Paula Rabinowitz, who will hold the Distinguished Fulbright Lectureship in American Literature in the People's Republic of China for Spring 2011 at East China Normal University in Shanghai.