Composition and Rhetoric graduate student Kassia Shaw’s work for the HEX program was featured in the Center for the Humanities’ newsletter. For her HEX project, Shaw is sharing the stories that inspired a Ho-Chunk ceramic mural installation—Maa Wakąčąk, “Sacred Earth”—recently unveiled on the Great Sauk State Trail. Several other English graduate students are also working …
Professor Dharwadker, a professor of English and interdisciplinary theatre studies, has won a National Endowment Fellowship to support her latest book project, “Contested Modernities and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India.” The book traces the processes of modernization that began under Anglo-European influences in the mid-19th century, when Victorian-style theaters were first constructed in colonial …
Please join us on September 22 from 10:00am – 11:30 for a webinar on alt-ac careers. Lesley Curtis of Sagely* will be sharing her experience finding enriching work outside traditional academic paths. It promises to be informative, be there! *Sagely is a consulting firm focused on creating communications that promote diversity and inclusion.
Professor Aparna Dharwadker has won the Callaway Prize for A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theater Theory, 1850 to the Present. The Callaway Prize is awarded every two years by NYU’s Department of English, for the best book on drama or theater published during the previous two years by an American author. The prize committee found that …
Amy Quan Barry has been awarded a WARF professorship! This is one of the highest research honors the university has to offer. The range of Amy’s scholarship is simply astounding. After four award-winning poetry collections and two novels, Amy is now embarking on a career as a playwright. Congrats, Amy! Amaud Johnson has been awarded a Kellett Mid-Career …
Our excellent graduate students have been on a roll winning fellowships this past semester! Jarrett Chapin has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Predoctoral Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library & Museum. Alison Thumel and Ajibola Tolase have both been awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford. These are considered the most …
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 …