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Anticipating "The Great Gatsby"
With Baz Luhrman's new adaptation of The Great Gatsby out this week, Prof. David Zimmerman shares insights (and even a song) about one of his favorite novels in a Q & A with the College of Letters & Sciences.
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Announcing the Mendota Seminar
The English Department is excited to announce the inaugural Mendota Seminar, a new series of discussions for alumni and friends. This year, our four-day program in June will focus on intersections of science with literature, writing, and linguistics. Read more here.
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Quarto, Octavo, Duodecimo
Prof. Joshua Calhoun teaches an upper-level undergraduate class about early modern book sizes during a trip to Special Collections. Want to know more about classes like this one? Check out our new "Undergraduate" section.
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Reading "Mad Men"
The Wire and Charles Dickens? The Sopranos and Anthony Trollope? A new brand of contemporary television drama, Prof. Caroline Levine argues, has brought about a "kind of golden age," and Mad Men is at the forefront.
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Odyssey Project Celebrates Tenth Year
Directed by UW English and Continuing Studies Professor Emily Auerbach, the Odyssey Project aims to assist adults who are seeking a way out of poverty by giving them access to a free two-semester intensive course in the humanities.
Events
- SunJun23
Mendota Seminar
Helen C. White Hall and adjacent venues at UW-Madison
- MonOct21
The Americanist Lecture Series hosts Meredith McGill
4:00 PM
7191 Helen C. White Hall - ThuDec12
Francesca Abbate Reading: Troy, Unincorporated
4:00 PM
7191 Helen C. White Hall
Faculty Bookshelf
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Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf
Edinburgh University Press
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My Life as a Silent Movie
Indiana University Press
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Ariel’s Ecology: Personhood and Colonialism in the American Tropics, 1760-1820
University of Minnesota Press
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The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Oxford University Press
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Dorothy West's Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color
Rutgers University Press
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Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture
The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England
Cambridge University Press
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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Harvard University Press
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Syntactic Variation and Genre
Mouton de Gruyter
