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  • Save the Date for “Fill the Hill”

    Coming “Flocktober” 5–6 Fill the Hill is coming back — and this year, the flamingos are celebrating the university’s 175th anniversary! Starting at 5 p.m. on October 5, Badgers and friends around the world will …

  • Annual Creative Writing Contest Winners Announced

    Every year the Program in Creative Writing awards up to $15,000 to undergraduates and graduate students at various stages in their studies. Here are the 2023 award winners! Charles M. Hart Writers of Promise Awards …

  • The English Department condemns the anti-Black slurs and threats made on social media by a UW student this week

    The English Department condemns the anti-Black slurs and threats made on social media by a UW student this week. As members of a department dedicated to learning about and engaging with the power of language, …

  • Elizabeth B. Bearden chosen as 2023 Guggenheim Fellow

    Professor Elizabeth B. Bearden has been selected as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Early Modern Studies. She joins 171 other scholars, scientists, writers, and artists from around the country, all chosen by a rigorous application …

  • Susan Stanford Friedman, 1943-2023

    Susan Stanford Friedman, Virginia Woolf Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died February 26th at her home in Madison at age 79. Professor Friedman was a trailblazing scholar in …

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