What are our UW-English alumni up to? This one—Jon Etter, who graduated UW with an MA in English Literature—is writing and teaching. We caught up with Jon for an interview last semester when he was visiting town to share his new book, A Dreadful Fairy Book. Tell us about your experience in the UW–Madison English …
Join the UW–Madison English Department for its annual conference for graduate students: MadLit. The event opens up on Friday the 22nd at 4:00pm with a Keynote Address (Queer Affect in Crip Landscapes: Disability, Desire, Devastation) from Professor Robert McRuer of George Washington University, and continues the following day from 8:30am, with panels centred around the work of advanced dissertators in …
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The Madison Undergraduate Society for English (MUSE) has put out the Call for Papers and submission information for our annual Literati Undergraduate Writing Conference. Conference Date: April 7th, 2019 Submission Deadline: March 3rd, 2019 Contemplation. Reverie. Introspection. Meditation. Observation. Ponderance. This year, the conference theme is Contemplations. A theme of Contemplations invites readers and writers …
The Helen C. White Award is presented to women majoring in the Humanities who exemplify the sterling character of its namesake. Students across the UW campus recognize the name “Helen C. White”—it adorns the building where many of them study at some point in their undergraduate careers, and it houses the English Department. Helen C. …
In the spring of 2018, a group of twelve undergrads extended their usual commute by about 90 miles. They were on a field trip to the Kickapoo Valley Reserve in LaFarge, Wisconsin for their class, “Writing Rivers.” “Writing Rivers” is an undergraduate course designed and taught by Professor Caroline Gottschalk Druschke. The course is rhetoric-focused …
UW’s English Department is excited to welcome four new professors for the 2018-19 school year. Professor Laila Amine is coming to us from the University of North Texas. She completed her Ph.D. at Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Amine specializes in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century African American and African Diaspora Studies with a focus on race, migration, …
Here are this year’s award winning TAs in the English Department: Thatcher Spero: English as a Second Language TA Teaching Award Neil Simpkins: L&S Teaching Fellow Award AND Professor Joyce Steward Writing Center TA Teaching Award Tori Thompson Peters: Professor Paula Gillespie Writing Center TA Teaching Award Scott Harmon: English 100 Outstanding Teacher Award Leah Pope Parker: L&S Teaching Fellow Award …
On May 11th, senior English majors, their friends, and families gathered in Elvehjem Hall to celebrate this year’s graduating class. In order to accommodate all of our majors, this year’s ceremony was split into two sessions. The first ceremony featured speeches by graduating seniors Marian Coker, Erika Gallagher, and Nenad Jakovljevic. In a speech that …
On April 29th, family, friends, faculty, and other members of the English department community celebrated the achievements of our wonderful undergraduate students. Highlights included numerous awards for student writing on topics ranging from the Modernist poet, H. D., to Hamlet. Students were also awarded for excellent writing in the department’s composition classes and ESL classes. …