News
- Outstanding Achievement! - UWM English Professor Liam Callanan’s novel, Paris by the Book, was selected an outstanding book by an author with a Wisconsin connection by the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards Committee. Paris by the Book will be included on Outstanding Achievement lists that will be... Read More
- 2019 AWP National Program Director’s Prize: Furrow - 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
- UWM English Dept hosted the Midwest Summer Seminar of the Association of Departments of English - The Department of English hosted the Midwest Summer Seminar of the Association of Departments of English on June 19-22. The seminar, organized by English Department Chair Gregory Jay and English Director of Graduate Studies Jane Gallop, brought together more than... Read More
- “Red Zone” by Plan C student Beatrice Szymkowiak - Congratulations to Beatrice Szymkowiak on the publication of her chapbook Red Zone Finishing Line Press released “Red Zone,” a chapbook of poems by first-year Plan C student Beatrice Szymkowiak. Called “a complex meditation on the destructiveness of war and the persistence of... Read More
- Spotlight on Work of Film Studies Students and Alumni - October’s L&S newsletter features Senior Hugo Ljungback and Christian Balistreri who graduated from English and Film Studies in 2018. Both are founding members of the Moving Image Society, the student organization dedicated to preserving and circulating the UWM Film Studies... Read More
- Field Trip Aboard the Denis Sullivan Schooner - October 13th, 2018 English 326, “The Development of the Novel: The Novel and the Sea.” Professor Kincaid On Saturday, October 13th, students boarded Milwaukee’s stunning nineteenth-century three-masted schooner, the Denis Sullivan, in order to experience firsthand life aboard a tall... Read More
- Congratulations to Fall Award Winners - Congratulations to those English Department Faculty who will receive awards at today’s UWM Fall Awards Ceremony (https://uwm.edu/secu/wp-content/uploads/sites/122/2018/09/18-Fall-Awards-Program.pdf). 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... Read More
- José Lanters presents The Theatre of Thomas Kilroy: No Absolutes - On October 20, English department professor José Lanters will be presenting her new work, The Theatre of Thomas Kilroy: No Absolutes at County Clare Irish Inn at 3pm.Members of Milwaukee Irish Arts will read a scene from The Death and Resurrection... Read More
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Events
- *Canceled* 04/23/2020 – Earth is Faster Now: Arctic Indigeneity - “The Earth is Faster Now” Arctic Indigeneity and the Timescales of Climate Change with Hester Blum (Penn State) This talk discusses the timescales of ice and of Indigenous knowledge in the Arctic. Human time on Earth is often measured by... Read More
- *Canceled* 03/27/2020 – Subject/Abject Relations by Celine Parreñas Shimizu - March 27th, 2020 at 3:30 PM – 5 PM UWM Campus, Curtin Hall 368 “The World in South Asia” lecture series welcomes Celine Parreñas Shimizu (School of Cinema, San Francisco State University). Different proximities to social life—viability (regard and recognition)... Read More
- *Canceled* 03/26/2020 – Fiction Reading: Chris Fink - Fiction Reading and Author Q & A: Chris Fink Thursday, March 26 Reading 7:30 pm Hefter Center, 3271 N. Lake Dr. Author Q & A 5:00-6:30 Mitchel Hall 361 Chris Fink is a professor of English and environmental studies at Beloit... Read More
- 02/06/2020 – United We Read: Cho, Correale, Maddox, Callanan - Thursday, February 6 at 7:30 PM Boswell Books 2559 N Downer Ave United We Read is the Graduate Creative Writing Program’s student-faculty reading series that takes place in venues throughout the community. This edition takes place at Boswell Books and... Read More
- 11/07/2019 – United We Read: Denny, Henry, Roy, and Dunham - Thursday 11/07/2019 @7:30pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 E. Locust Street Milwaukee, WI 53212 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC United We Read is the Graduate Creative Writing Program’s student-faculty reading series that takes place in venues throughout the community.... Read More
- 10/17/2019 – Poetry Reading: Derrick Harriell - Thursday, October 17, 2019 @7:30pm – 10:30pm Hefter Center 3271 North Lake Drive Please join us in celebrating 50 years of Creative Writing at UWM with a reading by poet and essayist Derrick Harriell. Derrick Harriell resides in Oxford MS... Read More
- 10/16/2019 – 10 x 5: Celebration and Alumni Reading - Wednesday, October 16, 2019 @7:30 pm Greene Hall 148 UWM Creative Writing Program’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Featuring recollections from 50 years of our graduate Creative Writing Program and a showcase of 10 alumni reading for 5 minutes each, mixed with... Read More
- 10/15/2019 – René Steinke: “A Certain Quality of Attention”: Writing, the Environment, and Now - 2:00 pm: Craft Talk Mitchell Hall 361 7:30 pm: Reading Hefter Center 3271 N. Lake Dr. Please join us in celebrating 50 years of Creative Writing at UWM with a reading by René Steinke’s most recent novel, Friendswood. The book... Read More
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