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English Majors Awards Ceremony
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 …
Alicia Ostriker Wins UW-English 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award
Poet. Scholar. Teacher. Alicia Ostriker has hit all these marks and more since earning her PhD in English from UW–Madison in 1964. Alicia’s first collection of poems, Songs, was published in 1969. Over the intervening …
Your Guide to English Celebration of Graduates 2018
Please join us for the Department of English Celebration of Graduates Friday, May 11, 2018 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Elvehjem Museum 800 University Avenue (in the Chazen Museum on UW campus) The venue …
Writing Rivers, Stuart Deets, and “How to Create a More Beautiful Earth”
Last fall, English Department senior, Stuart Deets, completed a final project for Professor Caroline Gottschalk Druschke‘s “Writing Rivers” course (a section of English 245). Stuart’s project involved taking photos of Madison lakes, developing them in …
English and Business: The BEST of Both Worlds
How can English majors help solve problems in the real world? When alumni Chris Houben (then a senior) signed up for the BEST Challenge, he wasn’t quite sure. “I jumped into the cold water not knowing …
Announcing the Global Black Studies Fundraising Initiative
UW English is kicking off a fundraising initiative to fortify future excellence in teaching and research. The College of Letters and Science has authorized three new faculty positions to form a center of research and …
Discussion Section 101: Why We Talk about Books
The Board of Visitor’s discussion group takes us back to the seminar room. “What is it like to read a book written by a dying person?” Talk about an icebreaker. This question initiated this autumn’s …
Mentors Light the Way for English Majors
Emily Klode is an English major who dreams about becoming a lawyer. Pat Brady is a lawyer who majored in English. We asked Pat and Emily to talk about their mentoring relationship, and to reflect …
A Conversation with Angela Ramos, 2017 Winner of the Urish Prize
A passion for literature and writing as well as a desire to share this passion through teaching—this is what is looked for in the recipient of the Dorothy Classen Urish Scholarship. This scholarship was created …