Sophie Boes was a finalist this year for the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most prestigious and selective undergraduate academic honors in the world. The Rhodes Trust announced the 32 winners on Nov. 16. An …
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Sophie Boes, Undergraduate Writing Fellow, publishes in Xchanges
Sophie Boes, an Undergraduate Writing Fellow and member of the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Lab at UW-Madison, recently published an article for Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum! …
Humanities NOW: Public Universities, Legislatures, and Academic Freedom
Dr. Michael Bernard-Donals, the Executive Director of the CTRW, will be speaking at the upcoming “Humanities NOW” event through the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison to discuss public universities, legislatures, and academic freedom. The …
CTRW @ 2024 CCCC Annual Convention
Join us for the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s (CCCC/NCTE) 2023 Annual Convention: The “Navigating Writing, Navigating History” panel examines the historical, material, and ideological forces that buffet the creation of centers for research …
A Public Affair Interview: Michael Bernard-Donals on the Vulnerability of Higher Education
Dr. Michael Bernard-Donals, the Executive Director of the CTRW, was recently interviewed by Diego Alegría, a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies at UW-Madison and Mellon-Public Humanities Fellow, about Bernard-Donals’ recent book The Vulnerability of Higher Education (2023). …
CTRW Outreach Surveys
Calling all instructors and administrators: At the Center for Teaching and Research on Writing (CTRW), we support writing research and instruction across the curricula and disciplines, and as part of our outreach efforts this summer, …
Christa Olson Wins RSA Book Award
Congratulations to Chair Christa Olson, who has won the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Book Award for her work American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States (Ohio State UP 2021). The selection …
Kate Vieira Wins ‘Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction’
Congratulations to Kate Vieira, GMWP Director of Faculty, for her essay “Someone Else’s Language” (Guernica Magazine), which received the 2022 Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction. A reading and celebration will be held at …