English /english/ UW-Milwaukee Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:06:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Professor’s book debuts on New York Times bestseller list /english/professors-book-debuts-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:26:11 +0000 /english/?p=14674 The Voice in My Head is God (Black Privilege/Penguin Random House), a debut memoir from Grammy-winning artist 2 Chainz cowritten with 51ÁÔÆæ professor and poet Derrick Harriell, debuted at number 10 on the Times’ Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction Bestseller list in March 2026.

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]]> The  (Black Privilege/Penguin Random House), a debut memoir from Grammy-winning artist 2 Chainz cowritten with 51ÁÔÆæ professor and poet Derrick Harriell, debuted at number 10 on the Times’ Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction Bestseller list in March 2026.

Book cover with description: The Grammy Award-winning artist describes defining moments from his life and career.

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]]> Creative Writing Student Wins Award /english/creative-writing-student-wins-award/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:35:37 +0000 /english/?p=14316 Kim Rouse, who is pursuing an MA in English with a creative writing focus, recently won a Lillian Boese Award for Writing Excellence from the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books. Congratuations, Kim!

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]]> Kim Rouse, who is pursuing an MA in English with a creative writing focus, recently won a  from the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books. Congratuations, Kim!

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]]> Su Cho and Canese Jarboe Named 2025 NEA Fellows in Poetry /english/su-cho-and-canese-jarboe-named-2025-nea-fellows-in-poetry/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:36:45 +0000 /english/?p=14130 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 …

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]]> 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 published their collection Sissy (Garden-Door Press) in 2024 and was also a 2024 Tallgrass Artist-in-Residence.

The National Endowment for the Arts website explains that “[t]hese fellowships represent the agency’s most direct investment in American creativity. The goal of the fellowships program is to encourage the production of new work and allow writers the time and means to write.”

Congratulations Su and Canese!

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]]> Susan Kerns, PhD, named executive director of Milwaukee Film /english/susan-kerns-phd-named-executive-director-of-milwaukee-film/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:17:51 +0000 /english/?p=14107 Susan Kerns, Ph.D. in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies at 51ÁÔÆæ, 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 …

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]]> Susan Kerns, Ph.D. in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies at 51ÁÔÆæ, 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 named executive director of Milwaukee Film.

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]]> Brenda Cárdenas Named Wisconsin Poet Laureate /english/brenda-cardenas-named-wisconsin-poet-laureate/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:59:20 +0000 /english/?p=14104 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 co-author of three chapbooks: Bread of the Earth/The Last …

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]]> Poetry faculty emerita and alumna Brenda Cárdenas was named  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 co-author of three chapbooks: Bread of the Earth/The Last Colors, Achiote Seeds/Semillas de Achiote, and From the Tongues of Brick and Stone. Congratulations, Brenda!

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]]> Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece interviewed /english/professor-jocelyn-szczepaniak-gillece-interviewed/ Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:30:16 +0000 /film-studies/?p=1669 Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece was interviewed in Film Quarterly to discuss her latest book, Movies Under the Influence. Read the full interview at Film Quarterly.

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]]> Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece was interviewed in Film Quarterly to discuss her latest book, Movies Under the Influence.

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]]> PhD student David Kocik 2024 Research Fellow at Strong National Museum of Play /english/phd-student-david-kocik-2024-research-fellow-at-strong-national-museum-of-play/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:22:18 +0000 /english/?p=13868 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. 

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]]> 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. 

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]]> PhD student Jessica Hoover recipient of James and Sylvia Thayer Research Fellowship /english/phd-student-jessica-hoover-recipient-of-james-and-sylvia-thayer-research-fellowship/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:18:32 +0000 /english/?p=13866 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 shares …

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]]> 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 .

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]]> Dr. Ching-In Chen Wins Fellowship from Academy of America Poets /english/dr-ching-in-chen-wins-fellowship-from-academy-of-america-poets/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:58:17 +0000 /english/?p=13859 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 enabling them …

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]]> Creative Writing program alum Dr. Ching-In Chen (PhD, 2015) recently won a $50,000 fellowship from the . The award is part of a program that, in the words of the Academy, honors “laureates’ literary excellence while enabling them to undertake meaningful and innovative projects that enrich the lives of community members, including youth, through responsive and interactive poetry activities.” Dr. Chen was named poet laureate of Redmond, Washington in 2024 and teaches at the University of Washington-Bothell. Supported by the fellowship, Dr. Chen plans to “work with organizations that are part of the local food ecosystem to sponsor a community youth poetry gathering, with a focus on transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-expansive poets. Dr. Chen will also solicit work from global poets through other UNESCO Cities of Literature and Gastronomy to share at these gatherings, and will print and distribute poetry postcards featuring these poems alongside the poems by local poets.

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]]> Congrats to retiring faculty members /english/congrats-to-retiring-faculty-members/ Wed, 15 May 2024 18:40:26 +0000 /english/?p=13816 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 51ÁÔÆæ in August 2024, and our other retiring faculty members.

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]]> 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 51ÁÔÆæ in August 2024, and our other retiring faculty members.

Pounce and retired faculty

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