Caroline Gottschalk
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Pronouns: she/her
Email: cdruschke@wisc.edu
Website: Headwaters Lab
Address:
Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 6187

Research Interests
Degrees and Institutions
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
- M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago
- B.S.W., University of Iowa
- B.A., University of Iowa
Recent Publications
Gottschalk, Caroline, and J. Marty Holtgren. “The Island That Isn’t an Island,” in Rivers on the Move, ed. Bathsheba Demuth, Mark Healey, Giacomo Parrinello, and Laurence C. Smith (Durham: Duke University Press, In Press).
Gottschalk Druschke, Caroline, Eric G. Booth, Bathsheba Demuth, J. Marty Holtgren, Rebecca Lave, Emma R. Lundberg, Natasha Myhal, Ben Sellers, Sydney Widell, and Cleo Aster Woelfle-Hazard. “Re-centering relations: The trouble with quick fix approaches to beaver-based restoration.” Geoforum 156 (2024).
Gottschalk Druschke, Caroline, Eric G. Booth, Rebecca Lave, Sydney Widell, Emma Lundberg, Ben Sellers, and Paige Stork. “Grass versus trees: A proxy debate for deeper anxieties about competing stream worlds.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7, no. 2 (2024).
Gottschalk Druschke, Caroline. “From Access to Refusal: Remaking University-Community Collaboration.” Community Literacy Journal, 17 (2022).
Gottschalk Druschke, Caroline, Margot Higgins, Tamara Dean, Eric G. Booth, and Rebecca Lave. “Storying the floods: Experiments in feminist flood futures.” Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community (2022).
Gries, Laurie, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Nathaniel Rivers, Jodie Nicotra, John M. Ackerman, David M. Grant et al. “Rhetorical new materialisms (RNM).” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 52, no. 2 (2022).
Courses Taught
ENGL 173, Ethnic and Multicultural Literature: Strai(gh)t Country
ENGL 236, Bascom Course: Writing Rivers (community-based learning designation)
ENGL 245, Seminar in the Major: Writing Rivers (community-based learning designation)
ENGL/ENVST 305: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
ENGL 703: Methodologies in Rhetoric & Composition
ENGL 706: Community Engaged Scholarship & Praxis