Biography I have been teaching English at UW–Madison since 2012. I grew up in Wisconsin and completed my undergraduate degree at UW-La Crosse. Though my degree was in Fine Arts, I began teaching English as a Foreign Language in 1999 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Moldova. When I returned to the States, I taught …
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 …
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. …
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Interests ESL Biography Degrees and Institutions Courses Taught ESL 115; ESL 116; ESL 117; ESL 118, ESL 370, English 616; English 617
Biography Research Interests Latin/e American Literature and Theater; U.S. Latine Cultural Studies; Caribbean Literature and Cultural Studies; Transnationalism and (Im)migration; Labor and Neoliberalism Degrees and Institutions MBA, University of Montana-Missoula MA, University of Wisconsin–Madison PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison Recent Publications “Josefina Báez.” Fifty Key Latin American and Latinx Artists, edited by Paola Hernández and Analola …
Interests Creative Writing (poetry, fiction, playwriting) Biography Born in Saigon and raised on Boston’s northshore, Amy Quan Barry is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where, in addition to receiving the Vilas, Romnes, Kellett, and WARF research awards, she has also directed both the MFA Program in Creative Writing and …
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 …
Interests Rhetorical history and theory, memory and memorial culture, contemporary public higher education Research Areas Contemporary Jewish history and rhetoric, rhetorical history and theory, 20th and 21st century literature and culture Biography My teaching and research focus on the relation of history, memory, and representation — how do we write about and depict historical events, …