Our department is honored to be the home of two professors who are recipients of the College of Letters & Science 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award. Creative Writing Professor Amaud Johnson has been awarded the Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award. Composition & Rhetoric Professor Caroline Gottschalk Drushke is the recipient of the Excellence in Community Based Learning Teaching Award. Additionally, …
Many of our Faculty and graduate students in the Literary Studies program have been published recently. Consider adding some of these essays and articles to your reading list this week! Adam Schuster‘s article “Boundaries Bind Unbinding: Jazz and Cold War Cosmopolitanism in the Margins of Langston Hughes’ Ask Your Mama” was published by the journal …
Many of our alums have recently won awards that we want to celebrate! Sharon Yam, who received a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric in 2016, has won the prestigious 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award for Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship. Creative Writing alums Leslie Sainz, Oliver Baez …
We would like to celebrate Professor Dantiel Moniz’s recent book reviews as well as Creative Writing instructor Leila Chatti’s recent good news: Professor Dantiel Moniz’s collection of short stories Milk, Blood, Heat has gotten great reviews recently. You can read them in The Washington Post and the New York Times. In addition, Leila Chatti has had …
Creative Writing instructor Dantiel Moniz’s collection of short stories Milk, Blood, Heat has gotten great reviews recently. You can read them in The Washington Post and the New York Times.
ll be part of the series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise edited by Mel Y. Chen and Jasbir K. Puar.
In Memoriam Howard D. Weinbrot It is with sorrow that the English department announces the death of Howard D. Weinbrot, Ricardo Quintana Professor English, Emeritus and Vilas Research Professor of English, Emeritus. Professor Weinbrot, who after retiring from the University of Wisconsin moved to California, died from Covid on January 19, 2021. He is survived …
M Ty has received a Volkswagen Foundation Research Fellowship which will allow them to continue their research in Europe. Josh Calhoun has won a Vilas Associate Award. Amanda Shubert, Jen Plants, and Ralph Grunewald all won instructional continuity grants that will enhance student-to-student learning this semester.
We are lucky to begin the year with several new members of the department. Please join us in welcoming the following people:
Several faculty and alumni from our department are receiving book awards and publishing new work. We congratulate their efforts! Amaud Johnson’s book Imperial Liquor is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle poetry award! Additionally, Danez Smith, who was Amaud’s student, is also a finalist for their book Homie. Sarah Ensor’s project has been chosen for …