Past Event Category: Upcoming Events
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Oct 22🧠 English Alumni in PhD Programs, a Panel
Zoom
Curious about pursuing a PhD in English Literature? Hear from four alumni of our undergraduate major who are currently enrolled in doctoral programs at institutions across the country. Panelists will share their experiences, offer advice on applying to graduate school, and reflect on how their time in the UW–Madison English Department shaped their academic paths. …
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Oct 17Rachel Carson’s Kitsch Ecologies🏞️
University Club, Room 313
Twenty-first-century ecological thought tends to coalesce around a certain critical framework. Decenter the human and resist anthropomorphism. Highlight “weedy” or “feral,” interstitial landscapes rather than pretty or picturesque ones. Refuse the reduction of the more-than-human world to commodity logic or road trip aesthetics. Sever ecological thought from its etymological origin in home, or oikos. What, …
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Oct 17🍎 Secondary Education Masters in English Information Session
Helen C. White, Room 7191
Interested in becoming a teacher? Join Danny Miller and Addy Hagen for an overview of the Secondary Education Masters in English program. Learn about the application process, the teacher pledge, and what life in the classroom might look like. A Q&A will follow the presentation. This free, in-person event is open to undergraduate students. No …
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Oct 16“Claude Cahun’s Curiosity” with Hannah Freed-Thall🗣️
Elvehjem, Room L150
Join us and the Center for Visual Cultures and Performance (CVCPS) for a talk by Hannah Freed-Thall, Professor at New York University. This talk explores the anti-fascistic potential of curiosity, taking avant-garde artist Claude Cahun as a case study. In 1930, Cahun and their partner Marcel Moore published Cancelled Confessions — a genre-exploding anti-memoir, alt-Surrealist …
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Oct 15Pedagogy Brown Bag Lunch🥪
Helen C. White, Room 6191
Join your colleagues to build community around our teaching experiences, troubleshoot pedagogical challenges, and learn and grow together as teachers in our Pedagogy Brown Bag Lunch workshops. Anyone who teaches in the English Department, including TAs, instructional staff, and faculty, is warmly welcome. BYO lunch. This free, in-person event is open to graduate students, faculty, …
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Oct 14Quan Barry book launch for her new novel, The Unveiling📖
Madison Public Library, 201 W Mifflin St / Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined
Our very own, Amy Quan Barry will read from her new novel, The Unveiling, at the downtown Madison Public Library on the Wisconsin Book Festival. The Unveiling chronicles the struggles of Striker, a Black film scout, who, along with a group of wealthy white tourists, becomes stranded on a remote island in the Antarctic Peninsula …
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Oct 7🚨Panel 1: Race, Immigration and Mass Removals
Memorial Library, Room 126 / Zoom
Join us, along with the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Program and other sponsors, for the first panel in the 2025–2026 speaker series, Building Communities of Care and Resilience in Times of Crisis. This panel that explores the history of diverse immigrant communities in the United States, including Asian and Latinx/e experiences. The panelists provide a …
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Oct 7Academic Staff Community Lunch🐦🔥
Helen C. White, Room 7191
All members of the Academic Staff are warmly invited to come eat FREE LUNCH and share their experiences teaching and working in the English Department. This is a community-building event designed to forge new relationships, foster dialogue and collaboration, and share our ideas for how to create the most supportive working climate for academic staff. …
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Oct 3🗣️English Alumni Speaker Series: Christine Wenc
Helen C. White, Room 7191
Join us for a special lecture with English alumna Christine Wenc as she reflects on her time as a student working with The Onion and its roots in the UW–Madison English department. Christine will discuss her book, Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire, and share insights from her current …
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Sep 25Introduction to the Reflection Space🪞
Helen C. White, Room 7191
Join the CTRW for an introduction to the Reflection Space, a new offering from the Center for Teaching, Learning and Mentoring (CTLM). Dan Pell (Senior Teaching, Learning and Technology Consultant), Rich Freese (Instructional Designer), and Yuyen Chang (Instructional Designer) will present this unique website and online learning community with a range of resources to support …