Illini Room C, Illini Union On 20 September, the Trowbridge Initiative will host Sunny Xiang in conversation with Joe Ponce, and Lucy Alford in conversation with Rachel Galvin to discuss their recent studies in American literary history in the Illini…

The Trowbridge Initiative is also dedicated to forwarding major events on campus and supporting other initiatives. Recently Trowbridge, in connection with IPRH and more than a dozen other sponsors, developed the campus-wide program on big data and the humanities. A…

Consistently, the Trowbridge has invited nationally-known professors of American literary studies to UIUC to lecture and to visit classes.  In the past, Trowbridge has sponsored visits from Brent Edwards (then of Rutgers), Steven Mailloux (then of UC-Irvine), Juana Maria Rodriguez…

Key to the relation between ALH and the Trowbridge has been the funding of symposia on campus that have also become special issues of the journal. These have included: Transnational Citizenship and the Humanities (2005); Print Culture and American Literary…

The Trowbridge Initiative was instituted in AY 2004-5, when Professor Gordon Hutner first arrived at UIUC, as part of the recruitment offer that Dean Jesse Delia tendered.  It was conceived as a “platform” to support the continuing growth of the…

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