People Type: Teaching Faculty

Tarver Chase, Becky

Biography English language education has been my focus since 1993, and I have worked in the classroom, in administrative roles, and as a textbook author for National Geographic Learning. I have also been a language learner, studying Spanish and Portuguese, and I have traveled to several countries including Thailand, Mexico, and Brazil. At UW–Madison, my …

Tran, Paul

Biography Research History of prosody in English, mapping vexed interiority, Asian American poetry and poetics since 1890, the American novel since 1945, queer and nonbinary literature and literary forms, comparative race and ethnic studies, the pursuit of happiness, migration, mothers and mothering, beauty and monstrosity, Asian American bitches since 1565, the love poem, forms of …

Umbaugh, Seth

Biography Year Admitted: 2016 Bio Seth is Teaching Faculty in the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a PhD candidate in Literary Studies. His dissertation explores strategies for representing interracial solidarity in US proletarian novels of the 1930s. Interests American Proletarian Literature, Race, Adult Education and Community Development Degree and Institution BA, Indiana …

Vareschi, Mark

Interests Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama, Aesthetics, Digital Studies, Surveillance Studies, Media Theory, Philosophy and Literature, Literary Theory Biography Degrees and Institutions PhD, English, Rutgers University, 2011 MA, English, Rutgers University, 2007 BA, English, Ithaca College, 2003 Selected Publications Books Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities, coedited with Heather …

Waggoner, Jess

Biography Research Interests feminist disability studies, queer and trans studies, Black studies Degrees and Institutions Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington Recent Publications Black Crip Modern: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness (Forthcoming from New York University Press) “Problem Girls”: Gender Nonconformity as Resistance in Early Disabled Feminist Life Writing. A/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 1–31. (2025) …

Wanner, Anja

Biography Research Interests Discourse syntax, the passive construction and linguistic prescriptivism, Syntactic variation in context, Syntax and semantics of verbs Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Discourse Syntax: English Grammar Beyond the Sentence. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Syntactic Variation and Genre. Edited by Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner. DeGrutyer Mouton, 2011. Deconstructing the English Passive. DeGrutyer …

Wells, Sarah Ann

Director Center for Visual Culture and Performance Studies Interests Modernism, the avant-gardes, and theories of modernity; film and media studies; comparison and transnationalism; labor resistance and collective movements; Latin American studies; science fiction and technology; translation. Biography Degrees and Institutions Teaching: Recent and Future Courses Select Publications Books and Book Projects Media Laboratories: Late Modernist …

Wood, Sarah

Biography Research Interests Ernest Hemingway, H.D., Modernism, Contemporary Poetry, Climate Crisis Literature, Protest Literature Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. August 2012. “Trauma Studies: Neurological and Corporeal Injuries.” The New Hemingway Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2020. “’In Another Country’ and Across the River and …

Young, Morris

Biography Research Interests Writing and identity, the intersections of literacy and rhetorical studies, and Asian American literature and culture. Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Books: Stephen Parks, Brian Bailie, Heather Christiansen, Elisabeth Miller, and Morris Young, Eds. The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2013. Clemson, South Carolina: Parlor Press, 2015. Mao, LuMing …

Yu, Timothy

Interests Asian American and Asian diasporic literature, modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, 20th- and 21st-century American literature, science fiction Biography Photo credit: Carolyn Fath/Isthmus Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Books Editor Recent Articles Courses Taught English 150: Literature and Culture of Asian America English 373: Contemporary American Poetry English 462: Asian American Graphic Novels …