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 …
News
Department launches “Get to Know us Better” project
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. …
Fall courses listings are up
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 …
Becoming the Department of African Cultural Studies
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 …
Three graduate students honored for being excellent classroom instructors
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.
News from Kazeem Sanuth
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 …
Professor Emeritus Daniel Kunene in the news
Marci Kunene, wife of Professor Emeritus Daniel Kunene, wrote to the department to share news of their recent travels. She says, “My husband, at age 92, continues to amaze me. After several years of not …
Alum Lowell Brower profiled
“Swahili was a gateway to a lifelong engagement with people, communities, languages, cultures, and ideas that have enriched my life myriad ways. My knowledge of African languages has allowed me to engage in conversations, to …
Carly B., UW-Madison alum and Swahili learner, profiled
“Swahili inspired me to study abroad in Kenya for five months which continues to be one of the most amazing and influential experiences I’ve had to date. Not only was living in Kenya life-changing, but …
“Skin Feeling,” by Sofia Samatar
Alumna Sofia Samatar has a powerful new piece called “Skin Feeling” in The New Inquiry. “As a black academic, part of a tiny minority, I often feel hypervisible, exposed. Crossing a courtyard among the white …