Kudos: Summer 2025 Edition
Celebrate the milestones and moments that made our English community shine this summer before we dive into a new semester.
Celebrate the milestones and moments that made our English community shine this summer before we dive into a new semester.
What do writers talk About when they talk about their debut book? Find out in UW Undergrad Alex Gershman’s Interview with recent UW Creative Writing Fellow Rickey Fayne.
Three English Alumni recently received our 2025 Early Career Award—find out more about their exceptional achievements.
From the Chair’s desk: celebrating resilience, creativity, and growth in UW English Department 2024–25.
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.
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.
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.
English graduate students launched a major undergraduate conference on the Humanities (MUCH) at UW-Madison, achieving a great success with 127 attendees.
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 Department is proud to highlight three outstanding academic staff members whose work is transforming our community. Their awards underscore not …
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 and honor their relationships with participants—human and non-human—throughout their work. It brought together scholars from around the globe for insightful …