News and Events

News

  • PhD student David Kocik 2024 Research Fellow at Strong National Museum of Play - Media, cinema, and digital studies PhD student David Kocik was a 2024 Research Fellow at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. His research is highlighted on the Museum’s website. 
  • PhD student Jessica Hoover recipient of James and Sylvia Thayer Research Fellowship - Media, cinema, and digital studies PhD student Jessica Hoover is the recipient of a James and Sylvia Thayer Research Fellowship from the UCLA Library Special Collections. Jess talks about her research into women TV comedy-variety performers like Carol Burnett and... 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.
  • Associate Professor Kate Beutner wins Edna Ferber Prize - Associate Professor Kate Beutner’s recent novel Killingly won the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award. The award is part of the Wisconsin Writers Awards series, which was “established in 1964 and is Wisconsin’s longest-running literary award for published work.” It’s currently curated by the Arts... Read More
  • Congrats to Professor Brenda Cárdenas - Prof. Brenda Cárdenas’s book Trace (Red Hen Press, 2023) won the Society of Midland Authors 2023 Poetry Book Award honoring the Society’s choices for the best books by Midwest authors published in 2023. Trace is also a finalist for Foreword Review‘s Indie Poetry Prize for books that present work... Read More
  • Poem by Professor Cárdenas to be featured in a performance by the National Concert Chorus - Choral composer Dr. Daniel Afonso (California State University, Stanislaus) wrote a choral score to Professor Brenda Cárdenas’s poem “Para los tin-tun-teros.” The collaboration (score with poem) was published in 2023 by Hal Leonard Music and will be performed at Carnegie... Read More

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Events

  • United We Read - The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program's Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read is holding an event at 7 pm on Friday, October 11 at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust Street) with Jessica Drake-Thomas, LG Sebayan, Katie Witt, and Professor Derrick Harriell.
  • Creative Writing Workshop - Lyrical Sanctuary & First-Year Writing Program present Creative Writing Workshop with Poet & Filmmaker Jamai Fisher 

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