Stories indexed under: English

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  • Award helps turn first manuscripts into first-rate books Nov. 30, 2012 A scholar of "medieval media studies" and a historian of modern Europe have each won a 2012-13 First Book Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Humanities.
  • DARE celebrates completion at ‘shindy’ May 8, 2012 It was a whoopensocker of a night at the Madison Club last Friday, where the people behind the Dictionary of American Regional English, as well as friends of the project, came together to celebrate its completion.
  • DARE to host conference on language April 25, 2012 The Dictionary of American Regional English, a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will hold a mini-conference to celebrate the publication of its fifth volume.
  • UW English professor urges environmental writers to “tell stories no one else can tell” Jan. 31, 2012 In his new book, "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor," UW-Madison English professor Rob Nixon asks: how can environmental writers craft emotionally involving stories from disasters that are slow-moving and attritional, rather than explosive and spectacular?
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant helps sustain DARE to completion Nov. 1, 2011 Whenever she appears on a popular statewide Wisconsin Public Radio offering, Joan Houston Hall can sense the hunger people have for regional sayings and their meanings.
  • Photo: Leslie Bow Q&A: Professor examines those ‘outside the color lines’ in new book Oct. 20, 2010 In her new book, “Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South,” Bow examines what segregation demanded of people who did not fall into the category of black or white — including Asians, American Indians and people of mixed race.
  • Life/stories session Project helps seniors put lives on paper Dec. 8, 2009 A UW-Madison graduate student leads a workshop that will ultimately help participants at the Madison Senior Center write their own life stories.
  • UW-Madison alumnus nominated to chair National Endowment for the Arts May 14, 2009 Rocco Landesman, a well-known Broadway producer and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus, has been nominated to be the next chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
  • Graduate student wins national leadership award Feb. 18, 2009 A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student has received a prestigious national award recognizing future leaders in higher education.
  • Photo of campus meeting Researcher finds that women are speaking up July 31, 2008 There's a whole industry of books and seminars that hinge on the premise that women somehow need to be "fixed" when it comes to communication and must change the way they talk and behave to advance their career.
  • Portion of cover from the book Beowulf’s world comes to life in new book Nov. 14, 2007 A new Hollywood film opening in theaters Friday, Nov. 16, employs special effects wizardry to tell the story of Beowulf, but a just-released illustrated edition of the epic tale from a UW-Madison English professor comes much closer to showing us the world where the action takes place.
  • Beowulf expert says Hollywood makeover may do justice to epic poem Nov. 12, 2007 The epic poem "Beowulf" has all the elements for a Hollywood film: action, monsters and classic battles of good vs. evil. But it also features a "monastic" hero with little sex appeal whose story is told in Old English, a combination that wouldn't exactly fill seats with movie fans.