Professor Elizabeth Bearden has been awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2022-23 academic year. The position allows for uninterrupted research among a community of scholars at one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry. Each year, IAS welcomes more than 200 of the world’s most promising post-doctoral researchers …
Professor Aparna Dharwadker has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her project “Alternative Modernities” and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India, a book about urban theater and modernity in colonial and postcolonial India from 1850 to the present. The National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, education, preservation, and public …
Professor Aparna Dharwadker has been honored with the Kellett Mid-Career Award. This award recognizes Professor Dharwadker’s distinguished scholarship in English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies. A divisional committee appointed by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education chooses winners from professors nominated by departments, Ph.D. major programs and interdepartmental groups. The Kellett …
Professor Mario Ortiz-Robles has been awarded with Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award recognizes Professor Ortiz-Robles’ distinguished scholarship as well as his standout efforts in teaching and service. The professorship provides five years of flexible funding — two-thirds of which is provided by the Office of the Provost through the generosity of the Vilas trustees …
Professor Laila Amine is the recipient of a Vilas Early Career Investigator Award for excellence in teaching and research. Professor Amine, who specializes in 20th-century African American and African Diaspora Literatures, will receive research funding for her current project.
Congratulations to Professor Mark Vareschi, who has been selected as one of 26 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible. Professor Vareschi’s first book, Everywhere and Nowhere, …
Congratulations to Professor Joshua Calhoun, who has received the William H. Kiekhofer Teaching Award, one of twelve university-wide distinguished teaching awards. This honor recognizes Professor Calhoun’s innovative approach to teaching Shakespeare, the valuable mentorship that he provides both undergraduate and graduate students, and his dedication to public humanities, among other achievements. To Professor Calhoun, the …
Creative Writing Professor Beth Nguyen’s essay “Apparent,” first published in The Paris Review, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2021, edited by Kathryn Schulz, out this week. The National Book Foundation has recognized Assistant Professor Dantiel Moniz and current Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow Claire Luchette as 2 of their “5 under 35” honorees. Five young fiction writers are …
Composition and Rhetoric graduate student Kassia Shaw’s work for the HEX program was featured in the Center for the Humanities’ newsletter. For her HEX project, Shaw is sharing the stories that inspired a Ho-Chunk ceramic mural installation—Maa Wakąčąk, “Sacred Earth”—recently unveiled on the Great Sauk State Trail. Several other English graduate students are also working …
Professor Dharwadker, a professor of English and interdisciplinary theatre studies, has won a National Endowment Fellowship to support her latest book project, “Contested Modernities and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India.” The book traces the processes of modernization that began under Anglo-European influences in the mid-19th century, when Victorian-style theaters were first constructed in colonial …