Su Cho and Canese Jarboe Named 2025 NEA Fellows in Poetry-Su Cho (PhD, 2021) and Canese Jarboe (PhD, 2024), have both been named 2025 NEA Fellows in Poetry and will receive grants of $25,000 each. Cho will join Vanderbilt University’s MFA program as an assistant professor in fall 2025; Jarboe... Read More
Susan Kerns, PhD, named executive director of Milwaukee Film-Susan Kerns, Ph.D. in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies at UWM, accomplished filmmaker, and scholar, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Feminist Film Festival, and recent Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Research and Development at Columbia University, has been... Read More
Brenda Cárdenas Named Wisconsin Poet Laureate-Poetry faculty emerita and alumna Brenda Cárdenas was named Wisconsin Poet Laureate in December, 2024. Her two-year term starts January 15, 2025. Her books include Trace (Red Hen Press) and Boomerang (Bilingual Press). In addition, she is the author or... Read More
Dr. Ching-In Chen Wins Fellowship from Academy of America Poets-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
Congrats to retiring faculty members-A special visitor made an appearance at the last department meeting of the semester: congratulations to Professor Lane Hall, current English Department Chair, who retires from UWM in August 2024, and our other retiring faculty members.
Undergrad writers take part in Intercollegiate Reading-Writers from UWM’s undergraduate creative writing program recently took part in a crosstown reading with Marquette undergraduates. The event, part of an annual series, was hosted by Boswell Books. UWM participants included John Dewey, Noelle Gomez, Annaliese Kunst, and Abby Shroder.
United We Read Event-The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program’s Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read is holding an event at 7:00 pm on Friday, April 11 at Zocalo Food Truck Park (636 S. 6th Street) with Rebecca Baumann, Cass Bruner, Charli Spier, and... Read More
2025 Midwest Graduate Film and Media Studies Symposium-2025 Midwest Graduate Film and Media Studies Symposium April 18–19, 2025 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University are excited to host the second annual Midwest Graduate Film and Media Studies Symposium, which brings together graduate scholars... Read More
UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program’s Student-Faculty Reading Series-The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program’s Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read is holding an event at 6:30 pm on Friday, March 7 at Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Ave.) with Nancy Nguyen, Carly Davis, Ali Nowac, and Professor... Read More
Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy shorts program and Q&A-Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind film program featuring Karen Pearlman’s raucous new documentary Breaking Plates, followed by eleven archival shorts from Cinema’s First Nasty Women compilation, curated by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi for Kino-Lorber. Tuesday, Apri 15 6:00pm Milwaukee’s historic Oriental... Read More
UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program’s Student-Faculty Reading Series-The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program's Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read is holding an event at 7 pm on Friday, February 7 at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust Street) with Timothy Knapp, JT Lachausse, Sophie Nunberg, and Professor Valerie Laken.
Fall Visiting Writer in Prose: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan-UWM’s creative writing program welcomes Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for a very special visit this fall. She will deliver a craft talk on Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 3:00pm and a reading at 7:00pm in Curtin Hall 175 (3242 N. Downer... Read More