Media, cinema, and digital studies PhD student David Kocik was a 2024 Research Fellow at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. His research is highlighted on the Museum’s website. 

Media, cinema, and digital studies PhD student Jessica Hoover is the recipient of a James and Sylvia Thayer Research Fellowship from the UCLA Library Special Collections. Jess talks about her research into women TV comedy-variety performers like Carol Burnett and… Read More

Creative Writing program alum Dr. Ching-In Chen (PhD, 2015) recently won a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets . The award is part of a program that, in the words of the Academy, honors “laureates’ literary excellence while… Read More

Furrow, the undergraduate literary magazine sponsored by the Department of English at UWM, won the National Program Directors’ Prize for Content from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the foremost organization of academic and creative writing programs in the United States…. Read More

Congratulations to those English Department Faculty who will receive awards at today’s UWM Fall Awards Ceremony. This ceremony is at 2:00 in the Union’s Wisconsin Room Margaret Noodin, UWM Faculty Distinguished University Service Awar Kimberly Blaeser, UWM Faculty  Distinguished Public… Read More

Congratulations to Margie Mika, Director of the UWM Writing Center and Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, who received the 2018 Robert Marrs Award from the Midwest Writing Centers Association (MWCA). This tremendous honor is testimony to the superb leadership Margie… Read More