Welcome to the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison! This department draws together outstanding faculty, staff, and students who are committed to learning about and engaging the incredible power of language. We are a community of readers and writers, speakers and listeners, teachers and learners, and we invite you to join us …
Professor Sunny Yudkoff is the recipient of the 2022 Phillip R. Certain-Gary D. Sandefur Letters & Science Distinguished Faculty Award. This annual award honors and recognizes outstanding teaching by a member of the College of Letters & Science faculty. The honorees are nominated by the academic associate deans in the college and selected by the dean. Congratulations Professor Yudkoff!
Professor Ainehi Edoro’s article “Unruly Archives: Literary Form and the Social Media Imaginary” came out this summer in English Literary History. In this article, Professor Edoro, working specifically with Facebook and “Dear Ijeawele,” Chimamanda Adichie’s feminist manifesto posted on Facebook in 2016, challenges the notion that the impact of social media has not been significant enough to …
Elaine Cannell, a PhD candidate in literary studies, has been awarded a campus-wide teaching assistant award for innovation in teaching. This award recognizes TAs who bring extraordinary creativity to their work and have developed or adapted teaching methods or techniques in new and innovative ways. To Elaine, innovative teaching means “not only deploying creative methods …
Congratulations to to Kristina Huang and Yanie Fécu, who have both been selected to receive Exceptional Service Support Program awards, which will provide them with one course release during the 2022-2023 academic year. This program acknowledges and supports assistant and associate professors, especially women and those from historically underrepresented groups, who are tasked with service activities beyond what is usually …
Professor Sarah Ensor has been accepted into the Center for Humanities’ First Book Program. This program provides both scholarly and collegial support for junior faculty members revising their first academic book with the goal of turning solid and promising manuscripts into first-rate, field-shaping books. Professor Ensor’s project is tentatively titled “Terminal Regions: Queer Environmental Ethics …
The superb work of Nancy Linh Karls has improved the quality of writing of students, faculty and staff at all levels of the university. Far beyond campus, she’s made a profound impact through community outreach. Karls has been part of the core leadership team of The Writing Center and its Writing Across the Curriculum program …
Professor Mario Ortiz-Robles has been awarded with Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award recognizes Professor Ortiz-Robles’ distinguished scholarship as well as his standout efforts in teaching and service. The professorship provides five years of flexible funding — two-thirds of which is provided by the Office of the Provost through the generosity of the Vilas trustees …
Professor Laila Amine is the recipient of a Vilas Early Career Investigator Award for excellence in teaching and research. Professor Amine, who specializes in 20th-century African American and African Diaspora Literatures, will receive research funding for her current project.
Congratulations to Professor Mark Vareschi, who has been selected as one of 26 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible. Professor Vareschi’s first book, Everywhere and Nowhere, …