A Message from the Incoming Chair-Professor John “Lane” Hall will become Department Chair at the end of August 2020. By way of introduction, we’d like to share the statement Lane made at the UWM Campus Dialogue on Racial Justice, Friday, June 12. In the Overpass... Read More
English Department Statement of Solidarity with Racial Justice Protests-Dear English Majors, Minors, and Graduate Students, The events across the country and here in our city have spurred us, your teachers, to take a stand with you. We, the undersigned members of the Department of English, unequivocally, fully, and... Read More
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
“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
05/13/2020 – Furrow 2020 Virtual Release Party-It’s begun! Countdown to our #FurrowReleaseParty! We’re hosting a celebration of our 2020 edition on May 13th from 6-7 pm on Zoom! 🥳 The party will include a live host and featured readings from some of the authors. We hope you’ll... Read More
*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