People Type: Teaching Faculty

Best, Karen

Biography I am twice a UW–Madison grad, receiving both a BA in English Literature and an MA in Applied English Linguistics from the English department. I have taught English to nearly all age groups, in many different contexts including non-profits, ESL language institutes, and universities. I started my career in South Korea, first in a …

Bishop, Sean

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, …

Bowling, Joseph

Biography Interests Early modern literary studies, Marxist theory, film studies Degrees and Institutions PhD in English, CUNY Graduate Center Publications “Reinventing Trojan Origins, Translating Race and Nation in John Higgins’s First parte of the mirour for magistrates (1574).” In Engaging with Troy: Early Modern and Contemporary Scenes, edited by Francesca Rayner and Janice Valls-Russell. Oxford: …

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 …

Cecil-Lemkin, Ellen

Biography Interests disability, accessibility, writing centers, collaborative writing, collaboration Degrees and Institutions Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition — Florida State University M.A., Rhetoric and Composition — Miami University B.A., English Literature — University of Central Florida Publications Cecil-Lemkin, Ellen. “Inviting Disability into the TPC Classroom through Service Learning.” Designing for Social Justice: Community-engaged Approaches in Technical …

Cho, Jacee

Interests Generative linguistic theory and language acquisition, syntax-semantics interface, language processing, experimental linguistics Biography SLA Lab Director, Second Language Acquisition Lab 4285 & 4287 H.C. White Hall http://english.wisc.edu/slalab Education Ph.D. Second Language Acquisition, University of Iowa, 2012 M.A. Russian, Middlebury College, 2006 Ph.D. Russian Linguistics, Moscow State University, 2005 M.A. Journalism, Moscow State University, 2000 …

Conrad, Jennifer L.

Biography Research Interests Composition pedagogy, writing center studies, 20th-century and contemporary literature and visual art, animal studies, medical humanities, translation and translation theory, creative writing Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Books A World in Which (Terrapin Books, 2024) A Cartography of Birds (Louisiana State University Press, 2002) Chapbooks Recovery (Texas Review Press), winner of 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 …