University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Literary Studies

Allewaert, Monique

Interests 18th- and 19th-Century American literatures, Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Ecocriticism, Political Theory Biography Degrees and Institutions Select Publications Scholarship and Current Projects Professor Allewaert’s research integrates literary analysis with political and environmental theory to contribute to an American studies that attends to the flows and structures of colonialism that shape the Western hemisphere. This …

Amine, Laila

Interest 20th-century African American and African Diaspora Literatures, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, Migration, Decoloniality Biography Degrees and Institutions Select Publications BOOK: SPECIAL ISSUE: ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS: Op-ed Recent Books Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light Amine, Laila.“Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light.” 2018: n. pag. …

Auerbach, Emily

Biography Recent Books

Bearden, Elizabeth B.

Interests Early modern prose and poetry, Reception of Antiquity, Comparative Literature, formal and philosophical approaches to literary study, Disability Studies Biography Degrees and Institutions Publications Elizabeth Bearden CV “Bearden’s first book, The Emblematics of the Self: Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Greek Romance, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2012. Her second …

Bow, Leslie

Biography Research Interests Asian American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American literature, literature by women of color, feminist theory, critical race studies, Speculative Orientalism, popular culture, race and sexuality. Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Books Selected Articles and Book Chapters Selected Essays Courses Taught Asian American Studies 152: Asian American Literary and Popular Culture: Race, …

Calhoun, Joshua

Early Modern Lyric Poetry, Early Modern Drama, Poetics, Shakespeare, Donne, Gascoigne, Book History/History of Media, Ecobibliography, Papermaking, Historical Formalism, Miscellanies and Anthologies, Paleography, the Atlantic World, Public Humanities, Ecopoetics, Environmental Humanities Biography BOOK The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, & Ecology in Renaissance England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). SELECTED PUBLICATIONS “Book Microbiomes,” in …

Castronovo, Russ

Interests American literature, African American literature, American Studies, cultural theory and popular culture Biography Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Research I’ve published widely on American literature, paying special attention to critical flashpoints wrapped up with democracy, propaganda, citizenship, aesthetics, and surveillance. These interests have led me to write about topics ranging from Freedom’s Journal (the …

Cooper, Lisa H.

Interests Late medieval literature, material culture, literary theory Biography Degrees and Institutions Research and Teaching Interests My research and teaching interests span the 12th-15th centuries in western Europe, but especially in England and, in some cases, France and Italy. I have a particular investment in the intertwined histories of labor, technology, science, material culture, and …

Delgadillo, Theresa

Biography Eduation: Ph.D. in English, University of California at Los Angeles, 2000 M.F.A. in Creative Writing – Fiction, Arizona State University, 1995 B.A. in English, Spanish Minor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1992 Digital Humanities: Founder of Mujeres Talk (2010-2017) and Co-Founder and current board member of Latinx Talk (2017 to present), an interdisciplinary academic open access publication specializing in short-form …

Dharwadker, Aparna

Biography Research Interests Postcolonial studies, modern and contemporary Indian theatre, contemporary world theatre, comparative theatre theory, South Asian studies, diaspora studies Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Cosmo-Modernism and Theatre in India: Writing and Staging Multilingual Modernisms. Columbia University Press, 2025. “For Dutt, Theatre is Not a Rehearsal for Revolution.” In Utpal Dutt: The Parallel and …