Professor Aparna Dharwadker wins Callaway Prize
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 …
July 12, 2021Creative Writing Faculty Win Prestigious Awards
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 …
July 12, 2021Fellowships and Teaching Awards
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Hall for being recognized as a UW-Madison Teaching Academy Fellow! Teaching Academy Fellows have demonstrated sustained teaching excellence and a commitment to advancing the mission of the Academy. Dr. Hall has …
June 13, 2021Recent Fellowships Won by Graduate Students
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 & …
June 12, 20212021 Distinguished Teaching Awards
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 …
April 5, 2021New Articles Published by Graduate Students and Faculty
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 …
March 9, 2021Congratulating UW English Alums
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 …
February 15, 2021Good News for Creative Writing Instructors
We would like to celebrate Professor Dantiel Moniz’s recent book reviews as well as Creative Writing instructor Leila Chatti’s recent good news: Professor Dantiel Moniz’s collection of short stories Milk, Blood, Heat has gotten great reviews …
February 12, 2021Announcing Professor Leslie Bow’s New Book!
Professor Leslie Bow has a new book in production with Duke University Press. Titled Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy, it will be part of the series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise edited …
February 10, 2021Remembering Professor Howard D. Weinbrot
In Memoriam Howard D. Weinbrot It is with sorrow that the English department announces the death of Howard D. Weinbrot, Ricardo Quintana Professor English, Emeritus and Vilas Research Professor of English, Emeritus. Professor Weinbrot, who …
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