Community Impact

Headshots of recently promoted faculty Megan Callow and Josephine Walwema
Faculty Awards and Achievements, Autumn 2025
December 10, 2025
Poet Derek Sheffield, arms crossed, stands next to a tree with a river in the background.
UW Magazine profiles Washington's newest Poet Laureate and UW English grad Derek Sheffield
October 1, 2025
Attendees at the Praxis Conference
English Department Praxis Conference 2025
February 13, 2025
An image of four professors who received promotions in 2024.
Faculty Awards and Achievements - Winter 2024
December 12, 2024
An image of a woman reading Aiiieeeee!
UW Press celebrates Shawn Wong's Aiiieeeee! and a 50-year legacy of Asian American Literature
May 13, 2024
Photo of Storytelling Group
Cristina Sánchez-Martín and Taiko Aoki-Marcial Lead Learning Through Storytelling Project
May 3, 2024
Stephanie Kerschbaum head shot
Faculty Awards and Achievements
November 16, 2023
Megan Butler Publishes NY Times Article About Teaching
November 16, 2023
Photo of Public Humanities Fellows
Taiko Aoki-Marcial and Cristina Sánchez-Martín Named 2023-2024 Public Humanities Fellows
October 10, 2023
Book cover of We Had Our Reasons
English Alumni Ricardo Ruiz Wins Washington State Book Award for Poetry
October 8, 2023
First edition cover art. Painting of train tressle crossing a large lake, with mountains in the background.
Marilynne Robinson ('77) Receives the UW’s Highest Alumni Honor
June 5, 2023
Photo of Anis Bawarshi
A Note From Our Chair / Anis Bawarshi
May 26, 2023
Professor Michelle Liu Interviews new Washington State Poet Laureate Arianne True
May 22, 2023
Photos of Javier Zamora and Ricardo Ruiz
Sixth Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry & Poetics
March 28, 2023
Image of Jesse Oak Taylor and the Going Public Series
Professor Jesse Oak Taylor Records Podcast for the Simpson Center's Going Public: Reimagining the PhD Series
December 6, 2022
Image of Sarah Faulkner
Frankenstein Book Chat with Sarah Faulkner
October 20, 2022
C.R. Grimmer Going Public
New Simpson Center podcast, Going Public: Reimagining the PhD
October 4, 2022
Professor Suhanthie Motha
Faculty News and Notes Fall 2022
September 27, 2022
Professor Jesse Oak Taylor Elected to Leadership Role in the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
December 8, 2021
Teacher Talk Event - 10/27
October 19, 2021
Photograph of Stephanie Kerschbaum
Professor Stephanie Kerschbaum Honored with National Mentoring Award
August 23, 2021
Teacher Talk: Syllabus Signals: Understanding How Disabled Students Interpret Syllabi
May 17, 2021
Accepting Applications for 2020-2021 Graduate Student Teaching Awards in the Writing Programs
April 19, 2021
Teacher Talk: Students Are Not Data Commodities - Canvas, Zoom & the Digitization of Higher Education
April 19, 2021
Teacher Talk: Contract Grading
February 26, 2021
Teacher Talk & Workshop - Multimodal Revision & The EWP Portfolio
February 10, 2021
Teacher Talk - Fighting Falsehoods and Misinformation in the Writing Classroom
January 25, 2021
Teacher Talk - Accessibility in the Remote Classroom: Building Universal Course Materials
November 25, 2020
Expository Writing Program's Critical Classrooms – Endorsement in Critical Praxis
October 16, 2020
Announcing EWP's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collaboration Grant for Equity-Oriented Praxis - Call for Proposals
October 16, 2020
2020-2021 EWP Teacher Talk - CFP
October 16, 2020
Professor Shawn Wong on his New UW Press Book Series in Asian American Literature and Culture
October 6, 2020
Online Education
Transitioning to Teaching Online in a Time of Crisis
September 2, 2020
Michelle Liu
Episode 2 in the English Department Literature, Language, and Culture Dialogue Series Now Available
July 8, 2020
Jesse Oak Taylor dialogue series episode 1
Announcing new English department "Literature, Language, Culture" Dialogue Series
May 28, 2020
Teacher Talk - The Creative Teacher
April 22, 2020
Teacher Talk - Counterstorytelling as an Antiracist Writing Pedagogy
February 11, 2020
Teacher Talk - More than a Buzzword: Equitable Teaching in Practice
January 21, 2020
Expository Writing Program Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collaboration Grant Winners 2019-20
January 16, 2020
Expository Writing Program Awarded Certificate of Excellence
January 6, 2020
Ayash Callow Taranath
Faculty and Staff Notes
January 6, 2020
Humanities Research at the Leading Edge of Change
January 5, 2020
Teacher Talk - Call for Proposals
December 17, 2019
Teacher Talk - "Translation of Translation"
November 15, 2019
Teacher Talk Series: Teaching Racial Capitalism in the Composition Classroom
November 5, 2019
Announcing EWP's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collaboration Grant CFP
October 30, 2019
Teacher Talk - "Experiences in the Classroom"
October 18, 2019
Frances McCue's documentary, Where the House Was opens September 21
September 3, 2019
2018-2019 Winners of Richard J. Dunn First Year Teaching Award and Webber Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Writing Programs by a Graduate Student
May 30, 2019
Teacher Talk: What Might a Translingual Pedagogy Look Like?
May 29, 2019