Journals & Publications
Departmental Publications
Contemporary Literature
Contemporary Literature publishes scholarly essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field. The journal welcomes articles on multiple genres, including poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, new media and digital literature, and graphic narrative.
Website: contemporaryliterature.org
Dictionary of American Regional English
Like other dictionaries, the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is arranged alphabetically by headword, from A to Z. What is different about DARE is that it shows where people use the words that are included. We all know, for example, that Americans have many names for the kind of sandwich that includes meats, cheeses, lettuce, tomatoes, etc., served in a long bun. What DARE can tell you is where the words hero, hoagie, grinder, sub, torpedo, Cuban, etc. are the local terms for this sandwich.
Website: dare.wisc.edu
The Madison Review
The Madison Review is an independent literary journal published through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in the early 1970s by the university's creative writing students, The Madison Review remains a student run journal to this day. The staff is composed entirely of university undergraduates. Each issue showcases the distinct aesthetics of the year's reviewing panel. Professor Ron Kuka has acted as the faculty advisor since 1990
Blogs, wikis and websites
Political Cartooning and Cartoonists in Africa: An Online Encyclopedia
Teju Olaniyan
This site is conceived as an educational encyclopedia of African political cartooning and cartoonists. As such, when finished, it will have entries on cartoonists from all African countries and show copious samples of their works. As appropriate, there will be links to news, interviews, reviews, journalistic articles and scholarly books and essays on cartooning in Africa generally, and individual cartoonists. This encyclopedia is inspired by a book in progress on political cartooning in Africa
Serial Readers Blog
Susan Bernstein
Serial Readers mimics the initial publication and reading experience of Victorian novels by posting comments on each monthly or weekly installment. Since "Serial Readers" began in June 2008, we have read two Charles Dickens novels, Dombey and Son and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington, and, currently, George Eliot's Romola. Each week we discuss the individual installment of three or four chapters; all the novels are available digitially. While a number of graduate students and faculty have participated in "Serial Readers," other readers include a practicing lawyer and a distinguished playwright. By reading the novels in this fashion, as they were initially published, we're able to attend to the serial format, with its particular rhythms, more closely.
Serial Readers Blog
Susan Bernstein
Serial Readers mimics the initial publication and reading experience of Victorian novels by posting comments on each monthly or weekly installment. Since "Serial Readers" began in June 2008, we have read two Charles Dickens novels, Dombey and Son and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington, and, currently, George Eliot's Romola. Each week we discuss the individual installment of three or four chapters; all the novels are available digitially. While a number of graduate students and faculty have participated in "Serial Readers," other readers include a practicing lawyer and a distinguished playwright. By reading the novels in this fashion, as they were initially published, we're able to attend to the serial format, with its particular rhythms, more closely.
Podcasts
Linguistic Voices on Campus
Anja Wanner
Linguistic Voices on Campus was first designed as instructional material for the course "The Structure of English", taught by Anja Wanner at UW-Madison. In this podcast series, she invites scholars and students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to discuss common beliefs about language through the lens of their own research.
Website: mendota.english.wisc.edu/~awanner/podcasts/podcasts.htm
Edited by Faculty
Applied Linguistics
Jane Zuengler, North American Editor
Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real world problems. It promotes principled and multidisciplinary approaches to research on language-related concerns in the various fields encompassed by applied linguistics.
Website: applij.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl
Contemporary North American Poetry Series
Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, & Adalaide Morris, series editors
This series documents, analyzes, and seeks to sustain the many exciting and diverse developments in North American poetry since the 1950s by publishing critical studies of recent poetry, collections of essays on poetics, and biographies of individual poets or groups of poets as well as correspondence and memoirs. Its aim is to represent a variety of contemporary aesthetics and to illuminate ongoing debates about the material forms and contexts of recent poetry.
Website: www.uiowapress.org/search/browse-series/browse-CNAP.htm
Contemporary Women's Writing
Susan Friedman
Contemporary Women’s Writing critically assesses writing by women authors who have published approximately from 1970 to the present. The journal aims to reflect retrospectively on developments throughout the period, to survey the variety of contemporary work, and to anticipate the new and provocative in women’s writing.
Website: cww.oxfordjournals.org