Sage Wisdom from Veteran Teaching Assistants: Leah Pope Parker and Neil Simpkins
Pretty much every student has an anecdote about running into their English TA outside of the classroom. It’s like spotting a snow leopard. The elusive Teaching Assistant may appear at the gym, the grocery store, …
May 23, 2018New English Professors and Global Black Literatures at UW
UW’s English Department is excited to welcome four new professors for the 2018-19 school year. Professor Laila Amine is coming to us from the University of North Texas. She completed her Ph.D. at Indiana University, …
May 23, 2018English Department TA Awards 2018
Here are this year’s award winning TAs in the English Department: Thatcher Spero: English as a Second Language TA Teaching Award Neil Simpkins: L&S Teaching Fellow Award AND Professor Joyce Steward Writing Center TA Teaching Award Tori Thompson Peters: Professor …
May 16, 2018English Department Graduation Spring 2018
On May 11th, senior English majors, their friends, and families gathered in Elvehjem Hall to celebrate this year’s graduating class. In order to accommodate all of our majors, this year’s ceremony was split into two …
May 15, 2018The liberal arts form the foundation for the future
“It’s through language that we can begin to share our brokenness and articulate our feelings in a way that will make others feel less alone.” Winner of the 2018 UW-Madison Letters and Science essay contest, …
May 14, 2018Dr. Katie Schaag and Students Wrap Up American Plastic
On a misty day in May Dr. Katie Schaag, the 2017-18 Mendota Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, and the students of English 245 hike up Bascom Hill to reflect on a semester that challenged them to read …
May 10, 2018Fighting Discriminatory Financial Policy: Scott Astrada ’06
If undergrad memories are sorted by genre, one that stands out for Scott Astrada (BA ’06) might be a comedy—at least everyone survived. Professor Jacques Lezra summoned Scott to his office about his paper on …
May 1, 2018Melanin Speaking: Community in the Flesh
Making Space for Students of Color on Campus Melanin Speaking is no ordinary student publication or campus organization. It’s a phenomenon. Taking campus conversation about race and identity to a new level, Melanin Speaking makes …
May 1, 2018English 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 …
April 30, 2018Alicia 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 …
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