English department groups and programs
American Literature and Culture Studies
Contact: David A. Zimmerman
Beowulf Club
Contact: Nick Doane
Contemporary Literature Colloquium
The Contemporary Literature Colloquium is a forum based in the UW-Madison Department of English for faculty and graduate students who work in areas of study related to post-1945 literature and culture.
Contact: Rebecca Walkowitz
Dictionary of Regional English
The Dictionary of American Regional English or (DARE) is a multi-volume reference tool that records the thousands of words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one part of our country to another. Four volumes have been published by Harvard University Press, with a fifth expected in 2008.
DARE is used by teachers, writers, librarians, physicians, forensic linguists, journalists, and historians, as well as by readers who simply delight in the variety, wit, and wisdom found in the quotations that illustrate each entry in the Dictionary.
Medieval Studies Program
Contact: Nick Doane
Middle Modernity
Middle Modernity provides a forum for intellectual inquiry and debate across the disciplines, with particular but not exclusive focus on literary studies (British and Continental), visual culture, history, philosophy, feminism, cultural theory and colonial studies. Open to graduate students and faculty, both at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and nearby universities, this group meets monthly to discuss work by an invited speaker or speakers and respond to presentations.
Contact: Susan Bernstein
Minority Studies Reading Group
Contact: Sean Teuton
The Renaissance Colloquium
The Renaissance Colloquium offers a forum for faculty and graduate students who work in the early modern period of literature and culture to engage in inquiry and debate about the period as well as exchange their current work in the field.
Contact: Heather Dubrow
The Graduate Teaching Forum
The Graduate Teaching Forum continues the work begun in TA training, offering support and mentoring to graduate teachers. It sponsors the Teacher's Lounge, a fortnightly brownbag on topics of interest to graduate teachers, and a mutual mentoring program. It seeks to encourage the professional development of TAs in the English department in both the composition/rhetoric and literature tracks.
Contact: Taryn Okuma
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