Creative Writing Professor Beth Nguyen’s essay “Apparent,” first published in The Paris Review, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2021, edited by Kathryn Schulz, out this week. The National Book Foundation has recognized Assistant Professor Dantiel Moniz and …
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Graduate students engaging in public humanities
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 …
Professor Dharwadker wins NEH fellowship
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 …
Alt-Ac Webinar
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 …
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 …
Creative 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 …
Fellowships 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 …
Recent 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 & …
2021 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 …
New 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 …