The 53rd Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture The Comforts of Heritage: Race, Tourism, and Memory in the American South October 27, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. The 2022 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture will be presented by Shevaun Watson (Associate Professor, UWM...
Please join the Department of English for our annual Awards Ceremony to honor our undergraduate and graduate award recipients! The event will be taking place on Friday, October 21, 2022, from 12:00pm-2:00pm in Curtin Hall 175.
Hosted by Furrow. Free & Open to the Public Please register in advance at this link. Submit questions in advance here. Have you ever wondered what it takes for a book to get published? Join UWM’s undergraduate literary journal, Furrow, on Wednesday,...
On March 15, please join essayist and editor Dan Kois, co-author of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America, for a discussion (and partial reading) of his oral history of Tony Kushner’s pioneering, Pulitzer-prizewinning play.
On Thursday, February 22, 2018, please join us in welcoming essayist, professor, and current Poet Laureate of Utah, Paisley Rekdal, for a reading of her work!
November 30, 2017 at 7:00pm
The UWM English Department presents United We Read Student/Faculty Reading Series. Come see our Creative Writing students read at Woodland Pattern!
Thursday, October 12 at 7-9 PM
Please join us for the UWM Visiting Writer Series with UWM alumni Beau Boudreaux for an evening of readings and reflections. Hefter Center, 3271 N. Lake Dr.
The new season of the Milwaukee chapter of the Cinema Club starts on Sunday, September 24, 2017. For 10 and a half years, the Cinema Club has brought sneak previews and engaging discussions to the Milwaukee area. We meet at the Oriental Theater for stimulating films and discussions moderated by Professor Gilberto Blasini and Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece.
Just because summer is here doesn’t mean that poetry stops! If you’re in town, please join members of the UWM English Department for our summer events. First event will be May 25 and the last September 12, 2017. See the schedule.
The English Department’s Fall Welcome Reception will be held on Thursday, September 7 from 2:00-3:00 in Curtin 368. Food and light refreshments will be served. In the meantime, best wishes for the summer!