English students! Drop into our Advising Open House TODAY + chat with faculty about Spring 24 courses and major/minor progress (or just say hi!). TH 11/2, 11am - 1pm, Curtin 439 (next to elevators)

Apply by TOMORROW (Tues. 11/7) 11:59 P.M. to join the UW-Milwaukee English Department! F/T $20 - 24/hr + full benefits package Graduate Studies Program Associate jobs.uwm.edu/postings/38094 Department Services Associate jobs.uwm.edu/postings/38095

UWM researchers Anne Bonds, prof. of geography, and Derek Handley, asst. prof. of English, were awarded a federal grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities of nearly $150,000 to continue research into restrictive racial covenants & resistance to them in MKE Cty.

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.

Thursday, Feb. 15 at 6:30 pm, 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, at Boswell Book Company.

The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program Student-Faculty Series: United We Read is holding an event at 7 p.m. on Fri., March 8 at Sugar Maple (441 E. Lincoln Avenue).

English students! Drop in to our Advising Open House next Thursday 4/11 to chat with faculty about Spring 2024 courses and major/minor progress (or just to say hi!). 4/11, 11am-1pm, Curtin 439 (lounge next to elevators)

Today! English students, remember to drop in to our Advising Open House today (Thursday, 4/11) to chat with faculty about Spring 2024 courses and major/minor progress (or just to say hi!). 11am - 1pm in Curtin 439 (lounge next to elevators)

Today! Visiting artist and “multi-sensory storyteller” Kristine Diekman is giving a presentation about her fascinating work that incorporates narrative and interactive tabletop installations. Tuesday, April 16, Curtin Hall 368, 1:00-2:30pm

Tonight! The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read is holding an event at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 19 at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust Street) with Beck Behnke, Sean Enfield, Ty Newcomb, and Prof. Brenda Cárdenas.

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.

Media, cinema, and digital studies PhD student Jessica Hoover received a James and Sylvia Thayer Research Fellowship from the UCLA Library Special Collections. Jess discusses her research into women TV comedy-variety performers like Carol Burnett: library.ucla.edu/about/news/the….

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: museumofplay.org/blog/contact-m…

Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, 12:00-1:30 PM Curtin Hall 175 Writing Without Actually Writing – Large Language Models, AI Literacy and Institutional Responsibility Talk by Elizabeth Losh Reception to follow (1:30-2:00 PM)

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’ll deliver a craft talk at 3 pm and a reading at 7 pm in Curtin 175 (3242 N. Downer Ave.). Free and open to the public.

UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program’s Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read is holding a free event from 7:00pm–8:00pm on Friday, November 15 at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust Street) with Ty Newcomb, Saundra Norton, Kurt Olsson, and Professor Kate Beutner

Tuesday, November 19th at 6:30 p.m.: Dr. Derek G. Handley, UWM faculty member and author of Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement in conversation with Joy Powers at Boswell Book Company.