Amadi Ozier has been awarded a 2024-25 Schomburg Fellowship through the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library to conduct archival research for Ozier’s book project on humor and the development of the black middle class in the 1890s and 1900s. Congratulations, Amadi!
Please join us for the University of Wisconsin–Madison English Department Spring Graduation on May 11 in the Alumni Room of the Pyle Center from 8:30-9:30AM Click here for the full graduation program Click here for the full list of graduates List of Graduates Tolulope Akinwole Matthew Armbruster Grace Elizabeth Armitage Aaron Baertlein Jackson Robert Baldus …
Please join us on Sunday, April 21st in the Alumni Room of the Pyle Center from 4:00-5:30PM to celebrate this year’s scholarship and writing prize recipients as well as the recipients of the Early Career Alumni Awards. Watch the full list of winners here Click here for the full program The prizewinners are as follows… …
Plan Now for a Party to Pay It Forward April 16, 2024 @ 10:12 am – April 17, 2024 @ 5:00 pm Learn more! Save the date to celebrate what makes the UW great (try saying that three times fast!). From campus achievements and alumni accomplishments to Badger spirit and beloved traditions — this day of giving shindig …
Coming “Flocktober” 5–6 Fill the Hill is coming back — and this year, the flamingos are celebrating the university’s 175th anniversary! Starting at 5 p.m. on October 5, Badgers and friends around the world will fill Bascom Hill with pink lawn flamingos in honor of one of UW–Madison’s most beloved student pranks. As one of …
Every year the Program in Creative Writing awards up to $15,000 to undergraduates and graduate students at various stages in their studies. Here are the 2023 award winners! Charles M. Hart Writers of Promise Awards Judged by Jackie Chalghin, Nitya Gupta, RE Hawley, Phoebe Kranefuss, Aeron Parks and Robert Bynum 1st place: Hannah DeGuzman 2nd …
The English Department condemns the anti-Black slurs and threats made on social media by a UW student this week. As members of a department dedicated to learning about and engaging with the power of language, we recognize the immense harm that hateful speech inflicts and the more subtle but likewise harmful effects of tepid statements …
Professor Elizabeth B. Bearden has been selected as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Early Modern Studies. She joins 171 other scholars, scientists, writers, and artists from around the country, all chosen by a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2,500 applicants. Successful applicants are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and …
Susan Stanford Friedman, Virginia Woolf Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died February 26th at her home in Madison at age 79. Professor Friedman was a trailblazing scholar in the fields of literary studies, gender studies, modernism, world literatures, and postcolonial studies, and authored four books over the span …
Congratulations to Professor Russ Castronovo and Professor Caroline Gottschalk Druschke on their funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities! Professor Castronovo received a fellowship for his project “American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability.” Professor Gottschalk Druschke and four colleagues will be project directors for a project titles “Whose Land Was ‘Granted’ to the …