How to Sing the Elegies for the Season: Sarah Dimick’s Unseasonable

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.

Literature as Medicine: What Pre-Med Students Learn from Poetry

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.

How MUCH Showcases the Vitality of Humanities Scholarship at UW-Madison

English graduate students launched a major undergraduate conference on the Humanities (MUCH) at UW-Madison, achieving a great success with 127 attendees.

Kudos/Congratulations (Week of April 28, 2025)

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 …

Kudos/Congratulations (Week of April 14, 2025)

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 …