Every year the Program in Creative Writing awards up to $15,000 to undergraduates and graduate students at various stages in their studies. Here are the 2023 award winners! Charles M. Hart Writers of Promise Awards Judged by Jackie Chalghin, Nitya Gupta, RE Hawley, Phoebe Kranefuss, Aeron Parks and Robert Bynum 1st place: Hannah DeGuzman 2nd …
The English Department condemns the anti-Black slurs and threats made on social media by a UW student this week. As members of a department dedicated to learning about and engaging with the power of language, we recognize the immense harm that hateful speech inflicts and the more subtle but likewise harmful effects of tepid statements …
Professor Elizabeth B. Bearden has been selected as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Early Modern Studies. She joins 171 other scholars, scientists, writers, and artists from around the country, all chosen by a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2,500 applicants. Successful applicants are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and …
Susan Stanford Friedman, Virginia Woolf Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died February 26th at her home in Madison at age 79. Professor Friedman was a trailblazing scholar in the fields of literary studies, gender studies, modernism, world literatures, and postcolonial studies, and authored four books over the span …
Congratulations to Professor Russ Castronovo and Professor Caroline Gottschalk Druschke on their funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities! Professor Castronovo received a fellowship for his project “American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability.” Professor Gottschalk Druschke and four colleagues will be project directors for a project titles “Whose Land Was ‘Granted’ to the …
Professor Mark Vareschi has been awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award. The William H. Kiekhofer Teaching Award honors an assistant or associate professor in the College of Letters & Science. Congratulations Professor Vareschi!
Professor Theresa Delgadillo has been awarded a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award provides generous research funding and is among the most prestigious awards granted by the university. Congratulations Professor Delgadillo!
Department manager Spring Sherrod is the recipient of an Outstanding Women of Color award. The annual Outstanding Women of Color Awards acknowledge and honor women of color among UW–Madison’s faculty, staff, students, and those in the greater Madison community who have made outstanding contributions in areas such as social justice, activism and advocacy, community building, …
Professor Jacee Cho and Professor Sunny Yudkoff were awarded tenure last year and were honored at the College of Letters and Science’s 2022 tenure program this November. Click their names to read brief testaments to their amazing work. Congratulations Professor Cho and Professor Yudkoff!
Professor Amadi Ozier has won a $20,000 project grant called the NYC Narrative Power Network for Health Equity and Racial Justice Project Grant to support hosting three peer-education community events centered on health and racial equity for her organization in Brooklyn, NY, the Crown Heights CARE Collective. The grant was funded by The Fund for Public Health in New …