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Get to know Dr. Matthew Brown

Posted on March 29, 2016

Get to know alum Matthew Brown, now an assistant professor in our department. “Reading Different Kinds of Things: An Interview with Matthew H. Brown,” by doctoral student Kathryn Mara, has been added to her interview …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged alumni, faculty, get to know us, interviews, matthew brown

Get to know Dr. Matthew Brown

Posted on March 29, 2016

Get to know us better! “Reading Different Kinds of Things: An Interview with Matthew H. Brown,” by doctoral student Kathryn Mara, has been added to her interview series.

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged faculty, get to know us, interviews, matthew brown

Get to know Dr. Katrina Daly Thompson

Posted on March 18, 2016

Get to know us better! “A Broad Focus on Language: An Interview with Katrina Daly Thompson,” by doctoral student Kathryn Mara, has been added to her interview series.

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged faculty, get to know us, interviews, Katrina Daly Thompson

Get to know Dr. Samuel England

Posted on March 17, 2016

Get to know us better! “The Strength of Plurality: An Interview with Samuel England,” by doctoral student Kathryn Mara, has been added to her interview series.

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged faculty, get to know us better, interviews

Humeidan accepts lectureship at UVA

Posted on March 17, 2016

Congratulations to doctoral student Bilal Humeidan! He has accepted a position as Lecturer/Program Coordinator in Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia for next …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged arabic, job placement, students

Department launches “Get to Know us Better” project

Posted on March 10, 2016

Get to know us better! Graduate student Kathryn Mara has launched a new project to share her interviews with faculty. The first one is with our Department Chair, Teju Olaniyan, and more are coming soon. …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged African Cultural Studies, department, faculty, graduate students

Fall courses listings are up

Posted on March 1, 2016

Looking for an African Cultural Studies class for the fall? A list of what we plan to offer is now online. We’ve got literature, theory, film, philosophy, music, languages, and more. Check back soon for …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged African Cultural Studies, classes, courses

Becoming the Department of African Cultural Studies

Posted on February 5, 2016

It’s official! As of 1 July 2016, we will be the Department of African Cultural Studies. We have taught African languages, literature, linguistics, and oral traditions for 50 years. As we celebrated a half-century of …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged African Cultural Studies, name change

Three graduate students honored for being excellent classroom instructors

Posted on January 17, 2016

Congrats to graduate students and Arabic teaching assistants Bilal Humeidan, Said Hannouchi, and Sami Lamine! All three of them were selected as Honored Instructors by University Housing residents for Fall 2015.

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged arabic, graduate students, honors, teaching assistants

News from Kazeem Sanuth

Posted on December 15, 2015

Kazeem Sanuth, an alumnus of our MA program, is now a doctoral student in Second Language Acquisition, still here at UW-Madison, and recently sent news to SLA’s newsletter, Second Language Acquisition News Gazetee (SLANG). Read …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged alumni, kazeem sanuth, Nigeria
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