English

The 2023 Gerald J. Alred Professional Writing Awards Ceremony
2024-03-01 10:30 (America/Chicago) | Curtin 175
The UWM Department of English presents:
The 2023 Gerald J. Alred Professional Writing Awards Ceremony
Speakers

Prof. Lane Hall, Department of English Chair
Marian Maris (Emerita Senior Lecturer), Department of English
Prof. Derek Handley, Department of English
Sandy Wysocki, Executive Director for the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts
Laura Davidson, Regional Manager for Macmillan Learning
Student Winners

Presentation of Awards
The 2023 Gerald J. Alred Professional Writing Challenge Award Winners
Spring 2023

First Place: Andrew Skyberg
Second Place: Nora Neubert
Third Place: Gwendolyn Hardy
Honorable Mention: Olivia Gresser
Honorable Mention: Michael Jacobi

Fall 2023

First Place: Violet Harrison
Second Place: Aaron Schiebel
Third Place: Farzana Hekmat

Special Thanks

Assistant Dean Deanna Alba and the College of Letters & Science
Laura Davidson, Regional Manager, Macmillan Learning
Gina Dragutinovich, WUWM
Professor Lane Hall and the Department of English
Professor Derek Handley, English Department
Richard Hay
Merdith Hubble, English Department Associate
Marketing President & Publisher Heather Ladage and the Milwaukee Business Journal
Greg Maliszewski Macmillan Learning
Mariann Maris, Emerita Senior Lecturer
Emmy Murphy, Managing Director, CBRE, Inc.
Nita McDaniel, English Department Administrator
John Jay Peine III, Video Technology Specialist, Classroom Services
University Advancement and the UWM Foundation
Sandy Wysocki, Executive Director, Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield
Anonymous Donors

United We Read – Friday, February 16
2024-02-16 19:00 | Sugar Maple, 441 E. Lincoln Avenue
The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program Student-Faculty Series: United We Read will hold its first event at 7 p.m. on Friday, February 16 at Sugar Maple (441 E. Lincoln Avenue) with Nora Boxer, Danielle Harms, Nancy Nguyen, and Prof. Rebecca Dunham.

Professor Puskar, author of The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans – an in-person Boswell event
2024-02-15 18:30 | Boswell Book Company
Jason Puskar, UWM Professor of English and Associate Dean for Humanities, is presenting his new book, The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans, on Thursday, February 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Boswell Book Company.
Puskar’s latest book traces a technology that has transformed life for billions of people: the binary switch. Puskar contends that there is no human activity as common as pushing a button or flipping a switch – a deceptively simple act. Far more than a technical history, The Switch offers a cultural analysis of how reducing so much human action to binary alternatives (off or on, one or zero, this or that) has profoundly reshaped modern society.
Mark Goble, author of Beautiful Circuits, says: “Deeply ambitious and sophisticate… Puskar invites us to think more seriously about what happens almost every time we touch one of our devices and turn it on or swipe or click. From the technologies at our fingertips to the vastly larger networks of politics and language that they operate and represent, The Switch provides a fascinating cultural history of how we have made the modern world, and been remade in turn, by the simplest of human actions and the connections they enable.”
Jason Puskar is author of Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance. Puskar earned a PhD in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University as well as a MPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford.
Professor Jason Puskar, author of The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans
Thursday, February 15, 6:30 pm at Boswell Book Company
