Biography The English Department mourns the loss of former ESL director Sandra (‘Sandy’) Marion Arfa, who passed away on May 5, 2022. Sandy earned her undergraduate degree at University of Wisconsin in Madison and pursued graduate studies at UCLA and Harvard University. She was a full-time staff member of the English as a Second Program …
Biography Marian C. Bean, Associate Professor Emerita of English, passed away from cancer on May 3, 2023, at Bluegrass Hospice in Lexington, Kentucky. She was 74 years old. Professor Bean received her Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA in 1976 with a dissertation on the development of word order in Old English. She joined UW–Madison in …
Biography Kelly Cherry, the Eudora Welty Professor Emerita in English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities, died on March 18, 2022. Ms. Cherry made her home in Halifax County. Ms. Cherry was a novelist, poet and essayist. She was named the state’s Poet Laureate by Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2010. She is survived by …
Biography 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, a leader recognized worldwide for her groundbreaking research, and a dedicated teacher and adviser to generations of UW undergraduate and …
Biography The English Department is saddened by the death of Professor Emeritus and former department chair Phillip Harth on April 28, 2020. Professor Harth received his Ph.D. in British literature from the University of Chicago in 1958 and was appointed Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1966, …
Biography Born in 1932 to the Rev. Donald and Mary Henning in South Dakota, Standish Henning was educated at Shattuck School, Kenyon College, The University of the South (Sewanee), and Harvard University. In 1956 he married Jane McCorkle Nelson. He joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison English Department in 1960, specializing in Shakespeare, early English literature …
Biography A professor of Shakespeare at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Robert Kimbrough died on June 3, 2019. He was the author of Shakespeare and the Art of Humankindness (1990). He had joined the Marine Corps to “prove myself a man by fighting for my country and for the United Nations,” he told the Wisconsin State Journal …
Biography The English Department is mourning the sudden loss 0f Chris Logterman, who joined us last year as our undergraduate advisor. She was a wonderful person to work with and an admirable advocate for students. She will be greatly missed. We encourage you to read Aaron Conklin’s article detailing Chris’s advising career in the College of …
Biography https://news.wisc.edu/campus-mourns-teju-olaniyan-renowned-scholar-of-the-african-diaspora/ Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Research Interests African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; postcolonial cultural studies; genre studies—history, theory, and sociology of drama; popular culture studies—art, music, and architecture. Personal Statement My deep interest is transdisciplinary teaching and research; my goal is the cultivation of critical self-reflexivity about our expressions and their many …
Biography The English Department is mourning the loss of Professor Teju Olaniyan, a visionary thinker, dedicated mentor, and most beloved colleague and friend. A world-renowned expert in the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora, Teju was instrumental in creating the Black Global Literatures cluster in our department. His voice …