Lectures and Events

Feb 19: PhD Candidate Rasheena Fountain performs Speculative Land Blues at Henry Art Museum
February 13, 2026
Headshots of recently promoted faculty Megan Callow and Josephine Walwema
Faculty Awards and Achievements, Autumn 2025
December 10, 2025
A poster advertising Padraig O Tuama's lecture.
English Department hosts Pádraig Ó Tuama for the 8th Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics 
April 22, 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
Man in suit jacket with dark hair and beard standing in cornfield
7th Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics
April 4, 2024
Removal Acts book cover
Erin Marie Lynch Poetry Reading
October 27, 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
Bettina Judd and Kiese Laymon portraits overlay watercolor of African American face in profile beneath a horizontal collage of romboid cliips of their book covers: Patient and Heavy: An American Memoir
4th Annual Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics
April 27, 2022
Anis Bawarshi
A Note From Our Chair / Anis Bawarshi
December 21, 2021
Teacher Talk: Syllabus Signals: Understanding How Disabled Students Interpret Syllabi
May 17, 2021
Scheingold Lecture Flyer
3rd Annual Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics
April 27, 2021
Teacher Talk: Students Are Not Data Commodities - Canvas, Zoom & the Digitization of Higher Education
April 19, 2021
Scheingold Lecture Flyer
Announcing 3rd Annual Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics
April 1, 2021
Teacher Talk & Workshop - Multimodal Revision & The EWP Portfolio
February 10, 2021
Photo of Douglas S. Ishii
Episode 7 in the Literature, Language, Culture Dialogue Series is Now Available
February 4, 2021
Teacher Talk - Fighting Falsehoods and Misinformation in the Writing Classroom
January 25, 2021
Kate Norako video image
Episode 6 in the Literature, Language, Culture Dialogue Series is Now Available
January 8, 2021
Teacher Talk - Autoethnograhy in the Writing Classroom
November 30, 2020
Teacher Talk - Accessibility in the Remote Classroom: Building Universal Course Materials
November 25, 2020
Lydia Heberling photo
Episode 5 in the Literature, Language, Culture Dialogue Series is Now Available
November 11, 2020
Professor Shawn Wong Featured in "2020: The Course"
November 3, 2020
Expository Writing Program's Critical Classrooms – Endorsement in Critical Praxis
October 16, 2020
2020-2021 EWP Teacher Talk - CFP
October 16, 2020
Image of Stephanie Clare
Episode 3 in the English Department Literature, Language, Culture Dialogue Series is Now Available
August 26, 2020
Jesse Oak Taylor dialogue series episode 1
Announcing new English department "Literature, Language, Culture" Dialogue Series
May 28, 2020
Teacher Talk - More than a Buzzword: Equitable Teaching in Practice
January 21, 2020
Staged Reading: Savage Conversations
January 10, 2020
Shawn Wong to Deliver Friends of the Libraries Annual Lecture
January 9, 2020
david shields lynch history
Review of David Shields’ Documentary Marshawn Lynch: A History
January 8, 2020
Merce Cunningham Summerspace
Professor Maya Sonenberg on the Centennial of Influential Local Choreographer Merce Cunningham
January 7, 2020
Teacher Talk - Call for Proposals
December 17, 2019
Teacher Talk - Teaching Writing in an Era of Mass Incarceration
December 2, 2019
Frances McCue's documentary, Where the House Was opens September 21
September 3, 2019
Teacher Talk: What Might a Translingual Pedagogy Look Like?
May 29, 2019
Frankenreads
 “Frankenreads” at UW Celebrates Mary Shelley’s Gothic Classic
May 16, 2019
Teacher Talk: Working with Multimodal Sources
May 16, 2019
Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur India
Faculty Notes
May 15, 2019
Working with Multimodal Sources
May 8, 2019
Teacher Talk: To Teach or Not To Teach Indigenous Lit
May 1, 2019
CIC Workshop Event - Playtesting the Curriculum
April 24, 2019
Teacher Talk - Institutions and Intimacy: Gender and Labor in the Classroom
April 22, 2019
DEIC Participants - Increasing Access to Digital Storytelling Workshop
April 17, 2019
Workshop: Expanding Access and Engagement in the Undergraduate Classroom with Poll Everywhere
April 17, 2019
Teacher Talk: "Pedagogy is a part of Production: Who are we Producing?"
April 9, 2019
Multimodality with Codenames game
Multimodality Roundtable: Teaching w/ Games
April 5, 2019
DEIC Workshop: "Foregrounding Equity in EWP Teaching Across Institutional Settings"
February 8, 2019