A Note From our Acting Chair: Anis Bawarshi
Greetings from the English Department, where the past six months have been a time of transition, reflection, and planning ahead.
After serving as chair of the English department for four years, Brian Reed accepted the position of UW Divisional Dean of the Humanities last July. We are grateful to Brian for taking on this larger role as advocate for the humanities at such a critical time, and we are indebted to him for his wisdom, patience, and vision... Read more
Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics
The Inaugural Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics took place on Thursday, February 15, 2018 at the UW Intellectual House. This notable new lecture series was created courtesy of an endowment from Lee Scheingold, widow of Professor Emeritus Stuart Scheingold of the Political Science department. After receiving an undergraduate... Read more
Graduate Student Awards and Achievements
Sumayyah Daud has just published her first Young Adult novel, Mirage, and gave a reading at Elliott Bay Books on Aug. 28. In the few short months since its release, Mirage has been critically... Read more
Faculty and Staff Notes
Newest things first. On September 19th baby June Mary Callow joined Interdisciplinary Writing Program incoming Director Megan Callow, her partner Adam, and young son Coleman. The Callow family’s Husky roots run deep: June Mary Callow is a direct descendant of Russell "Rusty" Callow ('15), head coach of some of the legendary Husky Crew teams featured in the New York Times #1... Read more
Book Recommendations
This past spring English Matters wiggled its way through the contorted halls of Padelford, over and down to the Creative Writing offices to tap MFA students for book recommendations. They duly pointed out some great reads that we hope have been picked up and enjoyed. Upon pondering upon whom to lean for your winter reading pleasure, it occurred to English Matters that our PhD program students do read on occasion. That occasion being the times when they’... Read more
Alumni Updates
Here's lovely news from one of our former grad students: Matthew Levay's (PhD ’09) first book, Violent Minds: Modernism and the Criminal is due out from Cambridge University Press in December of 2018. The... Read more
In Memoriam / Professor Robert David Stevick (17 January 1928 – 27 September 2018)
[Our need in the English Department to write obituaries for faculty passings has recently been unfortunately regular. We thank Professor Emeritus Míċeál Vaughan for this remembrance of his elder colleague and friend Professor Emeritus Robert Stevick. Please also read Dr. Stevick’s Seattle Times... Read more
[Professor Robert Abrams' memorial article about Professor Emeritus Robert Stanton (1925-2017) recounts the rich life of a gifted intellectual and dedicated educator. Please also read the obituary Dr. Stanton’s family published online, where you can offer memories and condolences – Ed.]
Bob Stanton retired from the English Department in... Read more
NOBODY HATES TRUMP MORE THAN TRUMP: AN INTERVENTION
In his new book, New York Times bestselling author David Shields deconstructs the idiot-savant-autocrat at 1600 Pennsylvania, his fan-fiction base, and the emotional needs/moral failures of the city, country... Read more
The UW College of Arts and Sciences Perspectives newsletter profiles English minor and Rome study abroad student Osman Salahuddin. For more on Osman's many talents and insights gained from English, read here.
The UW College of Arts and Sciences Perspectives newsletter profiles Professor Maya Sonenberg's team-taught book arts course offered by the Department of English and the School of Art + Art History + Design. For more on this exciting collaboration, in which art and creative writing students collaborated on artist books, read here.