What We Talk About When We Talk About the Devil
What do writers talk About when they talk about their debut book? Find out in UW Undergrad Alex Gershman’s Interview with recent UW Creative Writing Fellow Rickey Fayne.
What do writers talk About when they talk about their debut book? Find out in UW Undergrad Alex Gershman’s Interview with recent UW Creative Writing Fellow Rickey Fayne.
Three English Alumni recently received our 2025 Early Career Award—find out more about their exceptional achievements.
UW-English Alumni Sarah Dimick (Assistant Professor at Northwestern) publishes her first book, Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures. Her writing invites us to cultivate a new habit of reading and caring for the season.
How can poetry influence medical research? Caroline Hensley’s “Literature and Medicine” course invites future medical professionals to think more deeply about the poetics of medicine.
English graduate students launched a major undergraduate conference on the Humanities (MUCH) at UW-Madison, achieving a great success with 127 attendees.
A snapshot of this week’s academic accomplishments, publications, and accolades from our faculty, students, and staff—here’s who made our community proud.
We celebrated our scholarship and writing prize recipients on April 27, 2025. Watch the full list of winners here. Click here for the full program. Here are the lists of 2025 recipients: **WRITING PRIZES** The John McMynn Williams Senior Thesis Award Presented by: Jacee Cho This award is given to one student for a senior …
This week, the English Department wishes to highlight and congratulate its following members: Jenny Conrad’s newest poetry chapbook, This Natal House, described by one reviewer as “a knocking interrogation of early motherhood and bodily agency,” appeared from Harbor Editions on April 24. Ramzi Fawaz recently published two research articles: “Tripping on Mushrooms with Edward Said: The Case …
Ron Kuka (Creative Writing Program Coordinator) was chosen as one of the recipients of the 2024-25 Judith S. Craig Distinguished Service Award, recognizing individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the College or University throughout their career. Ron was also selected as the recipient of the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Leadership at the …
Emily Hall and Abby Letak will offer an online workshop, “Exploring AI in Teaching: Critical AI Literacy” on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from 12–1 p.m. Participants will engage with the ethical use of AI tools, potential biases in AI systems, implications for academic integrity, and strategies for integrating AI into writing assignments and activities in thoughtful, …