Ahh!! Congrats to the UIUC acceptance! That's not my subfield, but I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that everyone who applied there will hear something back soon! =)
I'm reading Roger Griffin's Modernism and Fascism and Robert Paxton's The Anatomy of Fascism for a seminar on...well...fascism. Other than that, I'm about to start a reader on feminism and post-modernism. I feel like I hardly ever get time to read just for pleasure (and not for class), but one of my New Year's resolutions was to try to make time for just that during the day...right now, I'm kinda failing myself!