News

MCDS Graduate Students Help with Strnad Digital Exhibit

English faculty and students participate in the Digital Humanities Lab’s first exhibit.

Louise Zamparutti Presents at UCLA

Congratulations to Louise Zamparutti for who presenting her paper “Re-creating national identity through narratives of victimhood” at the UCLA Graduate Student Conference January 23-24!

Gilberto Blasini Receives a Research-Travel Grant

Congratulations to Gilberto Blasini for being one of the faculty members to receive the research-travel grant by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies!

Kimberly Blaeser Selected as the Wisconsin Poet Laureate

Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission for 2015-2016

Poetry Reading: Of Spirit, Witness, and Social Justice

Tuesday, December 17 | 7:00 p.m. | Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 East Locust Street

Maya Angelou Writing Workshop and Open Mic

Wednesday, December 10 | 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. | Union 198

Susan Firer & Brittany Cavallaro Recieve NEA Fellowships

Congrats to Susan Firer and Brittany Cavallaro who received National Endowment for the Arts, creative writing fellowships in poetry enabling recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/Fall_2014_Literature_Fellowships.pdf

Michael Larson Gets Published

Congratulations to Michael Larson, whose story, “Harvest” was published in the fall issue of Colorado Review. http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Fall-2014-TOC.pdf  

Katharine Monger Presents in Tampa

A Rhetoric and Composition graduate student presents at CCCC

The Power of No or History, Larraín Style

Tuesday, December 2 | 3:30 p.m. | American Geographical Society Library (UWM Libraries, Third floor)