Literati 2019: Contemplations
MUSE, the Madison Undergraduate Society for English, held its annual conference on Sunday, April 7th this year. Take a look at the program here, and look below for some pictures from the event.
MUSE, the Madison Undergraduate Society for English, held its annual conference on Sunday, April 7th this year. Take a look at the program here, and look below for some pictures from the event.
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. …
Monographs Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light Laila Amine University of Wisconsin Press, 2018 “In the global imagination, Paris is the city’s glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisis such as terrorist attacks or riots. But colonial immigrants and their French offspring have …
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 …
Our own Professor Cherene Sherrard-Johnson received a 2018 Outstanding Women of Color Award. The award recognizes the extraordinary work done by women of color from across campus and in the larger Madison community. Prof. Sherrard-Johnson “drew a collective ‘wow’” from the award committee with “her tireless recruitment and mentorship of women of color, faculty and students …
This year, we sadly said goodbye to Professor Jeffrey Steele, who died on May 5 at the age of 71. A beloved member of the English Department faculty since 1981, Prof. Steele will be remembered as a generous teacher, colleague, and scholar. Prof. Steele was a dedicated teacher who inspired countless students. In 1992, …