The Macomb Feminist Network and the University Professionals of Illinois (UPI) Chapter at Western Illinois University invite campus and community members to a reception to “Remember and Honor Maurine Magliocco” from 5-7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 14 in the University Union Sandburg Lounge.
Magliocco, who passed away July 30, was a member of the WIU Department of English and served as Western’s UPI chapter president. UPI President Merrill Cole shared that Magliocco was a “tireless advocate for women, for the union and for the university.”
She joined the WIU faculty in 1967, and was the first director of Western’s Women’s Center. Magliocco joined the faculty in 1967, teaching in the Department of English for 37 years. She was instrumental in establishing Western’s Women’s Center in 1986, and served as the center’s first director.
After her retirement from WIU, she and her husband established the Maurine Magliocco Lecture Series in the English Department, which continues to bring speakers in literature, film, theory, and the state of the discipline to campus each year. The 2026 lecture was held Oct. 9.
The Oct. 14 reception will provide an opportunity for informal discussion of Magliocco's accomplishments and her lasting contributions to WIU, to the labor movement and to feminist advocacy in the region, Cole added.
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