Careers in TESOL🌍

Helen C. White, Room 6191
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Undergraduate and Graduate students can learn about career opportunities in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Hear from three panelists about how they navigated their TESOL careers, starting as undergraduates. The panelists have …

Chemistry, Autarky, and Empire: Manufacturing Film in Fascist Germany📽️

Memorial Library, Room 126
@ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

We often think of cinema’s politics as matters of subject and style, distribution and reception. This talk, however, locates them in film’s raw materials—in substances like silver, gelatin, and cotton, on which cinema’s play of …

🎤When the Wild Things Are: Variations on the Eternal Return

Helen C. White, Room 6191
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

the Modernism/Contemporary Graduate Student Colloquium is hosting guest speaker CalArts Professor and boundary 2 co-editor Arne De Boever for his talk, “When the Wild Things Are: Variations on the Eternal Return (of the Same).” Professor …

🗣️English Alumni Speaker Series: Michael Braun

Lecture: Helen C. White, Room 6191 (11:30-12:15pm) / Lunch: Helen C. White, Room 7191 (12:30-1:30pm)
@ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Join us in a conversation with alumnus Michael Braun, Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Orange Hat Publishing. Braun will talk about Orange Hat, share his journey into editing and publishing, and offer insights into the path …

🧠 English Alumni in PhD Programs, a Panel

Zoom
@ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

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 …

Rachel Carson’s Kitsch Ecologies🏞️

University Club, Room 313
@ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

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 …

🍎 Secondary Education Masters in English Information Session

Helen C. White, Room 7191
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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 …

“Claude Cahun’s Curiosity” with Hannah Freed-Thall🗣️

Elvehjem, Room L150
@ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm

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 …

Pedagogy Brown Bag Lunch🥪

Helen C. White, Room 6191
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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 …

Quan Barry book launch for her new novel, The Unveiling📖

Madison Public Library, 201 W Mifflin St / Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined
@ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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 …