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 …
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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 …
Congratulating 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 …
Good 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 …
Positive Reviews for Dantiel Moniz
Creative Writing instructor Dantiel Moniz’s collection of short stories Milk, Blood, Heat has gotten great reviews recently. You can read them in The Washington Post and the New York Times.
Announcing 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 …