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A Public Affair Interview: Michael Bernard-Donals on the Vulnerability of Higher Education

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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). Bernard-Donals and Alegría discuss the ongoing precarity in higher education that has become more common in recent years. “We’re talking …

CTRW Outreach Surveys

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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, the CTRW wants to hear from instructors and administrators at UW about your writing needs: Take the Instructor’s General Survey …

Christa Olson Wins RSA Book Award

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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 committee writes: Dr. Olson’s American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States is a breathtaking work of scholarship. Here, Olson …

Kate Vieira Wins ‘Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction’

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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 Arts & Literature Laboratory (ALL) on Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 6 PM. The event is free and open to …