Su Cho and Canese Jarboe Named 2025 NEA Fellows in Poetry

Su Cho (PhD, 2021) and Canese Jarboe (PhD, 2024), have both been named 2025 NEA Fellows in Poetry and will receive grants of $25,000 each. Cho will join Vanderbilt University’s MFA program as an assistant professor in fall 2025; Jarboe… Read More

The UWM Dept. of English Presents The 2024 Gerald J. Alred Professional Writing Challenge Award Winners

Friday, February 28 2025 10:30am

Curtin Hall 175

February 28, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Curtin Hall 175

Speakers

Prof. Stuart Moulthrop
Department of English Chair

Mariann Maris
Emerita Senior Lecturer, Department of English

Jessica Jacobs
National Account Executive, Visit-Milwaukee

Sandy Wysocki
Executive Director for the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts

Student Winners

Spring 2024

  • First Place: Nicholas Beazer
  • Second Place: Lilly Keillor
  • Third Place: Annika Billhartz
  • Honorable Mention: Kristina Harms
  • Honorable Mention: Abigail Danczyk

Fall 2024

  • First Place: Nadia Oniskevich
  • Second Place: Neil Keats
  • Third Place: Jude Aldahshan

Special Thanks

  • Dean Deanna Alba, Acting Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communication, and the College of Letters & Science
  • Laura Davidson, Executive Manager, Macmillan Learning
  • Professor Derek Handley, English Department
  • Richard Hay
  • Leslie Horn, Director of Advancement, UWM Advancement
  • Meredith Hubble, English Department Associate
  • Brian Keilen, Content Marketing Manager, Schell Games
  • Heather Ladage, Marketing President & Publisher, Milwaukee Business Journal
  • Greg Maliszewski and Macmillan Learning
  • Mariann Maris, Emerita Senior Lecturer
  • Nita McDaniel, English Department Administrator
  • Milo Miller, Senior Graphic Designer, L&S College Relations
  • Stuart Moulthrop and John Lane Hall, English Dept. Chairs
  • John Jay Peine III, Video Technology Specialist, Classroom Services
  • Sandy Wysocki, Executive Director, Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield
  • Anonymous Donors

UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program’s Student-Faculty Reading Series

Friday, March 7 2025 6:30 pm

Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Ave.)

The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program’s Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read is holding an event at 6:30 pm on Friday, March 7 at Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Ave.) with Nancy Nguyen, Carly Davis, Ali Nowac, and Professor Rebecca Dunham.

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Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy shorts program and Q&A

Tuesday, April 15 2025 6:00 pm

2230 N Farwell Ave

Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind film program featuring Karen Pearlman’s raucous new documentary Breaking Plates, followed by eleven archival shorts from Cinema’s First Nasty Women compilation, curated by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi for Kino-Lorber.

Tuesday, Apri 15
6:00pm
Milwaukee’s historic Oriental Theatre (2230 N Farwell Ave)

Sponsored by Plan H-Media, Cinema and Digital Studies; and Women’s and Gender Studies with support from the Mellon Foundation.

Milwaukee Film Historic Cinemas

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