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UW-Madison English Department
A Year of Words and Wonders (2024-2025): Notes from the Chair
From the Chair’s desk: celebrating resilience, creativity, and growth in UW English Department 2024–25.
How to Sing the Elegies for the Season: Sarah Dimick’s Unseasonable
UW-English Alumni Sarah Dimick (Assistant Professor at Northwestern) publishes her first book, Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures. Her writing invites us to cultivate a new habit of reading and caring for the season.
Literature as Medicine: What Pre-Med Students Learn from Poetry
How can poetry influence medical research? Caroline Hensley’s “Literature and Medicine” course invites future medical professionals to think more deeply about the poetics of medicine.
Faculty Picks: What to Read, Watch, and Listen to This Summer
Looking for ways to make the most of your summer time? Our faculty have gathered recommendations, from books and films to music and podcasts, that spark curiosity and creativity.
How MUCH Showcases the Vitality of Humanities Scholarship at UW-Madison
English graduate students launched a major undergraduate conference on the Humanities (MUCH) at UW-Madison, achieving a great success with 127 attendees.
Honoring Our Award-Winning Educators Who Shape the Future of Learning
How Do Great Educators Transform Classrooms and Mentor Future Leaders? Meet this Year’s Award Winners. by Fabiola M. Martinez Del Valle This year, as UW–Madison navigates new challenges and opportunities in higher education, our English …
English Department Excels at AAAL 2025 Conference
The 2025 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference took place from March 22–25 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown in Denver, Colorado. With the theme Relational Accountability, the conference focused on how researchers can consider …
Celebrating UW-Madison English Department Student Contributions at WiGL 19
Get ready to rethink how language is studied! Our students wowed the crowd at WiGL 19, redefining how language research is done and where it’s headed next.
Introducing ELLPL: Advancing Psycholinguistic Research at UW-Madison
Explore how our Psycholinguistics Lab advances research on bilingual language processing using experimental methods. Led by Professor Juliet Huynh, it’s pioneering inclusive, cutting-edge research.