{"id":8466,"date":"2019-11-25T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/?page_id=8466"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:24:52","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/about\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"uwm-p-posts uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-c-list--border has-dates\"><li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/professors-book-debuts-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list\/\">Professor&#8217;s book debuts on\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestseller list<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-03-13T08:26:11-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">March 13, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">The&nbsp;Voice in My Head is God&nbsp;(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&nbsp;Times&#039;&nbsp;Combined Print &amp; E-Book Nonfiction Bestseller list in March 2026.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/creative-writing-student-wins-award\/\">Creative Writing Student Wins Award<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-10-27T11:35:37-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">October 27, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Kim Rouse, who is pursuing an MA in English with a creative writing focus, recently won a\u00a0Lillian Boese Award for Writing Excellence from the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books. Congratuations, Kim!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/su-cho-and-canese-jarboe-named-2025-nea-fellows-in-poetry\/\">Su Cho and Canese Jarboe Named 2025 NEA Fellows in Poetry<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-02-27T16:36:45-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">February 27, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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&#039;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. &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/susan-kerns-phd-named-executive-director-of-milwaukee-film\/\">Susan Kerns, PhD, named executive director of Milwaukee Film<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-01-27T15:17:51-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">January 27, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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. Read more on the Milwaukee film website.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/brenda-cardenas-named-wisconsin-poet-laureate\/\">Brenda C\u00e1rdenas\u00a0Named Wisconsin Poet Laureate<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-01-16T09:59:20-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">January 16, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Poetry faculty emerita and alumna\u00a0Brenda C\u00e1rdenas\u00a0was named\u00a0Wisconsin Poet Laureate\u00a0in December, 2024. Her two-year term starts January 15, 2025.\u00a0 Her books include\u00a0Trace\u00a0(Red Hen Press) and\u00a0Boomerang\u00a0(Bilingual Press). In addition, she is the author or co-author of three chapbooks:\u00a0Bread of the Earth\/The Last Colors, Achiote Seeds\/Semillas de Achiote, and\u00a0From the Tongues of Brick and Stone.\u00a0Congratulations, Brenda!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"uwm-c-link--arrow size-p-md\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/category\/news\">View All News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View All News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9915,"featured_media":0,"parent":11460,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-8466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/about\/news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"View All News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/about\/news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-22T21:24:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/english\\\/about\\\/news\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/english\\\/about\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"News - 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