Past Event Category: Upcoming Events
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Oct 14🥗 Academic Staff Community Lunch
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
Academic Staff Community Lunch is a warm, collegial gathering designed to help academic staff in the Department of English connect with one another, brainstorm ways to deepen community ties, and discuss approaches to strengthening department climate. All academic staff in English are invited to join us for conversation, collaboration, and a delicious lunch. For questions …
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Oct 13📚 Secondary Education Masters in English Info Session
Zoom
Are you interested in becoming an English teacher? Come learn about the Secondary Education Masters in English with School of Education Teaching Faculty, Danny Miller, on Tuesday, October 13 from 12:00–1:00 PM! Learn about the application process, the teaching pledge, and what teaching will look like for you. Q&A to follow. To receive the Zoom …
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Oct 8🌏 Indian Modernisms in a Global Frame
Aparna Dharwadker
Ingraham Hall, Room 206 / Zoom
Until the 1990s, modernism was considered mainly a Euro-American movement with distinctive literary features that was at its peak during the 1910–1940 period, and was displaced by postmodernism after the end of WWII. However, the recent “global turn” in modernist studies has led to a fundamental reconfiguration of the spatiotemporal boundaries, chronologies, and hierarchical relations …
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Oct 7🍎 Pedagogy Brown Bag
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
Pedagogy Brown Bags are loosely facilitated discussions about teaching, led by Amanda Shubert. These sessions offer space to talk about your classroom experiences, troubleshoot challenges, share strategies, and build relationships with fellow instructors. Teachers at all ranks and across all areas—including TAs, E100 instructors, and Writing Center instructors—are warmly welcome. In addition, faculty and staff …
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Oct 1Fill the Hill🦩
Bascom Hill
Join the UW–Madison community for Fill the Hill, the university’s annual 24-hour fundraising event. This year, the Department of English is joining the celebration, and we’d love for you to help us fill Bascom Hill with flamingos and support opportunities for English students. Gifts to the Department of English help provide students with opportunities beyond …
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Sep 29📜 Papermaking on Library Mall with Holding History
Experience the art of papermaking with master papermaker Robert Possehl and Holding History students. This free, drop-in event invites all faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduates. Drop by anytime during event hours to experience the joy of crafting a sheet of handmade paper using recycled rags and locally sourced wheat straw. For questions or accessibility …
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Sep 25🔍 The Virtual Image: A Media Archaeology Workshop with Amanda Shubert
Nancy M. Bruce Center, Room 2194 (Design Thinking Lab)
What methods of archival research are required to understand virtual images? How can playing with visual and material culture become a research method, and what forms of knowledge can such play reveal? Virtual images are images that come into being when optical technology meets human perception. Their origin can be found in the optical playthings …
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Sep 24🎵 Lea Bertucci: The Oracle — Live Performance
Hamel Music Center, Collins Recital Hall
Experimental musician Lea Bertucci will perform music from her 2025 solo recording The Oracle. This body of work features processed voice, tape, folk flutes, and electronics. Brad Rose (Foxy Digitalis) describes The Oracle as “dizzying and textural, a gilded aural mirror reflecting anxieties and mythologies back at strange angles. Sure to be a heady trip.” …
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Sep 23🎵 Artist Talk by Musician Lea Bertucci: A Primeval Future
Hosted by Professor Frederic Neyrat, experimental musician Lea Bertucci will present a lecture on her recent work exploring electronic and spatial extensions of instrument and voice. She will discuss her project The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a composition for archaic flutes in 8‑channel sound, and offer a brief stereo demonstration …
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Sep 18Graduate Welcome Social Picnic🌳
Brittingham Park Picnic Shelter
Join us for a relaxed outdoor gathering to welcome new and returning graduate students in English. Come enjoy the early fall weather, meet fellow grads, and build community at Brittingham Park. All English graduate students are invited. If you have questions or need help with transportation, please contact the Graduate Welcome Committee co‑chairs: Matt Louie …