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The 91福利导航-Platteville鈥檚 annual literary magazine, , will be hosting a launch party celebrating the release of its 2025 issue on Wednesday, May 7, from 5:15-7:30 p.m.
The Helios Program for Integrated Liberal Arts celebrated student excellence in writing with its inaugural Helios Awards, recognizing outstanding work across first-year and upper-level courses.
Winch will be serving in the Peace Corps as an English teacher in Quer茅taro, Mexico later this year and is the first UW-Platteville student in more than a decade to be accepted before graduation.
UW-Platteville is now offering a Professional Writing Certificate, which is designed to complement a broad range of majors and provide students with professional writing, editing and communication skills needed to excel in many careers.
Dr. Amanda Tucker, professor of English, was honored with the 2024 Outstanding Faculty Advising Award from UW-Platteville and the 2024 Faculty Advisor Excellence Award from the Wisconsin Academic Advising Association.
Designed to create shared intellectual experiences for first year students, the Helios Program has succeeded in generating impressive community and academic enrichment in only two years.
In response to what STEM industry leaders highlight as a critical need, a UW-Platteville cross-campus collaboration resulted in a new opportunity for students to enroll in a Chinese language class.
The College of Liberal Arts and Education Faculty Forum Series will continue on Thursday, Dec. 7 with 鈥淭he Breach that Closes a College.鈥 Dr. Dale Murray, professor of philosophy, will present a case study that explores ethical considerations for how to handle ransomware attacks on a college campus.
UW-Platteville recently hosted New York Times bestselling memoirist Ashley C. Ford as the 2023 Helios Program for Integrated Liberal Arts first-year speaker. More than 500 students attended the event to listen to Ford鈥檚 personal story of overcoming challenges growing up and attending college.
Carrie Van Hallgren, assistant dean of UW-Platteville鈥檚 College of Liberal Arts and Education, was recently appointed by Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers to the board of Wisconsin Humanities.
UW-Platteville will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the literary magazine Spirit Lake Review, with a launch party on Wednesday, May 3. The event is open to the public and will feature contributor readings, live music and visual art displays.
Dr. David Gillota, associate professor of English, explores the overlap of horror and humor in American film in his forthcoming book, 鈥淒ead Funny: The Humor of American Horror.鈥 Published by Rutgers University Press, the book is scheduled for release in July.
The College of Liberal Arts and Education Faculty Forum Series will conclude with a presentation on Thursday, April 13, by Dr. Michael Sharkey titled 鈥淲hat does knowledge have to do with Nazism?鈥
The College of Liberal Arts and Education 2022-2023 Faculty Forum Series will continue on Thursday, March 2 with a presentation by Dr. Chris Schulenburg and Dr. Alyssa Holan, titled 鈥淏usiness as Usual? Black Bodies Empowered in Nuestra Se帽ora De La Noche.鈥
Dr. Phillip Gordon, associate professor of English, has helped facilitate the release of a new edition of a 1948 novel, 鈥淭he Welcome,鈥 by Hubert Creekmore. The novel, which has been out of print for more than 50 years, is being re-issued by the University Press of Mississippi this week and includes an introduction by Gordon.
Dr. David Gillota, associate professor of English at the 91福利导航-Platteville, has been named editor of the 鈥淪tudies in American Humor鈥 (StAH), a peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
The 91福利导航-Platteville College of Liberal Arts and Education opens the 2022-23 season of the LAE Faculty Forum Series on Thursday, Oct. 6 with Dr. Adam Stanley鈥檚 presentation of 鈥淗ow the Undead Came Alive: The Vampire in European Culture鈥 with Dr.
Dr. Chris Schulenburg, professor of Spanish at UW-Platteville, is one of four recipients across the UW System receiving the 2022 Alliant Energy James R. Underkofler Teaching Excellence award.
UW-Platteville will host a symposium, 鈥淐aregiving, Race, and Gender: COVID-19 Impacts on Women in Wisconsin,鈥 on Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23. The symposium, open to the public, is funded in part by a grant from Wisconsin Humanities, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Dr. Amanda Tucker and Dr. Katie Kalish were awarded a planning grant from the Teagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities to develop an integrated liberal arts certificate.
Assistant Professor of art Dr. Tyler Ostergaard is grateful for the opportunity to participate in the 2021-22 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program which supports outstanding educators from across the UW System in pursuing teaching and learning questions emerging from the classroom.
One local company is partnering with UW-Platteville to help bridge the communication gap between their English and non-English speaking employees. Allisa Cardella is the training and development generalist at Lactalis American Group, Inc. and completed her Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certificate in May from UW-Platteville.
The work of Dr. Chris Schulenburg, professor of Spanish, will be published in the forthcoming issue of the journal, Studies in the 20th & 21st Century Literature. His article, "In茅s del alma m铆a or How to Retrain the Chronicle," uses Chilean novelist Isabel Allende's book "In茅s del alma m铆a" to create a new model for the Latin American chronicle.
Dr. Alyssa Holan, assistant professor of Spanish at the 91福利导航-Platteville, has taught Spanish language courses and Peninsular literature and culture courses at the university since fall 2018.
On Thursday, March 5, the College of Liberal Arts and Education will host a faculty forum, 鈥淭alking Bones: The Writing of Assassination in Colombia,鈥 in Room 136 Doudna Hall from 5-6:30 p.m.
Dr. Chris Schulenburg, professor of Spanish at the 91福利导航-Platteville, co-authored 鈥淚t Hurts So Good: Resuscitating Female Slave Narratives in Fe en disfraz,鈥 a scholarly article recently published in Arizona State University鈥檚 鈥淐hasqui,鈥 an academic journal devoted to Latin American literature.