English
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Department Chair
- 433A Wimberly Hall
- kparker@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8304
Specialty areas:
Associate Department Chair
- 426G Wimberly Hall
- bkopp@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6936
Specialty areas:
Cultural Studies/Critical Theory; Rhetorical Genre Studies; Professional Writing; Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Academic Department Associate
First-Year Writing Program Coordinator
- Professor
- 425L Wimberly Hall
- dthoune@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6921
Specialty areas:
Writing Program Administration, First-Year Writing, Composition Pedagogy, Feedback, Assessment, and Fat Studies.
Faculty
- Lecturer
- 426H Wimberly Hall
- jbecker@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6945
Specialty areas:
Composition, education, and TESOL.
MS Education; MS TESOL
- Professor
- 431E Wimberly Hall
- bbutterfield@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8308
Specialty areas:
Western Literature from Enlightenment to Postmodern; Critical Theory; The Novel; The Art of Memoir
- Professor
- 425X Wimberly Hall
- mcashion@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8297
Specialty areas:
Creative Writing
- Associate Professor
- 425T Wimberly Hall
- scrutchfield@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6943
Specialty areas:
Film Studies and Film Theory; Literature by Women; African American Literature; Drama; Disability Studies; The Woman's Film and Feminist Film Theory
- Associate Professor
- 426B Wimberly Hall
- kdefazio@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6939
Specialty areas:
Romanticism, 19th Century British Literature, Materialism, Posthumanism, Critical and Cultural Theory, and the City
- Associate Professor
- 431C Wimberly Hall
- rfowler@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8300
Specialty areas:
Medieval Literature, Arthurian Literature and Lore, Medievalisms, History of the English Language, Early Modern Literature, Ethics and Emotions; Contemplative Practices and Compassion in Higher Education
- Teaching Professor
- 425W Wimberly Hall
- rfriesen@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8307
Specialty areas:
College composition, Early Modern literature, comic books as social commentary, supernatural themes in literature, dreams as literary and cultural themes.
- Associate Professor
- 425K Wimberly Hall
- mgarcia@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6927
Specialty areas:
Digital Literacies, Fan Studies, English Teaching Methods, Young Adult Literature, Qualitative Research, Rhetoric & Composition
- Professor
- 425V Wimberly Hall
- dhart@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8302
Specialty areas:
Ethnic American literature, immigration, postcolonial studies, Caribbean literature, world literatures, cultural studies, folklore, cultural memory, globalization, and critical theory.
- Teaching Professor
- 425N Wimberly Hall
- khart@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6926
Specialty areas:
Fairy Tales, College Writing, Storytelling, Trickster Literature, Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Cultural Literature, German Literature, Improvisation in the College Classroom, Theory of Abjection and Eco-Criticism, Literary History of Psychological Discourses, Online Teaching
- Teaching Professor
- 425U Wimberly Hall
- sheaser@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8298
Specialty areas:
first-year writing; basic writing; first-year experience; co-requisite course design and curriculum; rhetoric and composition pedagogy; writing placement (multiple measures and direct self-placement); research methodology in composition studies
- Associate Professor
- 425M Wimberly Hall
- tjesse@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6934
Specialty areas:
20 & 21c American Literature, Secondary English Education, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetorical Approaches to Literature
- Associate Professor
- 426G Wimberly Hall
- bkopp@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6936
Specialty areas:
Cultural Studies/Critical Theory; Rhetorical Genre Studies; Professional Writing; Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
- Professor
- Wimberly Hall
- hlan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6935
Specialty areas:
Rhetoric and Composition
Comparative Rhetoric
- Lecturer
- 425Q Wimberly Hall
- mmadigan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6944
Specialty areas:
College Writing 110
- Associate Professor
- 233 Lowe Center For The Arts
- smann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6923
Specialty areas:
sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; American English dialects; language, gender, & sexuality; language attitudes & ideologies; folk dialectology
- Assistant Professor
- 425Y Wimberly Hall
- cmccracken@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6940
Specialty areas:
Rhetoric of Science; Writing in the Disciplines; Genre Studies; Professional & Technical Writing
- Teaching Professor
- 425J Wimberly Hall
- jmohlenhoff-baggett@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6931
Specialty areas:
Composition, dystopian literature, women writers, comparative literature, literature from Latin America and Argentina's Dirty War (1976-1983), creative/satiric writing
- Professor
- 433A Wimberly Hall
- kparker@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8304
Specialty areas:
- Lecturer
- 431D Wimberly Hall
- spetherbridge@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6937
- Associate Teaching Professor
- 431I Wimberly Hall
- lschaaf@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6948
Specialty areas:
Rhetoric & Composition, American Literature, Mythology
- Associate Professor
- 431G Wimberly Hall
- lsteiner@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6929
Specialty areas:
Professional & Technical Writing, Content Strategy/Writing, UX Writing, Usability & User Experience, Social Media Writing, Visual Rhetoric & Document Design, AI & Writing, Writing Technologies, Organizational & Nonprofit Writing, Grant Writing, Qualitative Research, Course-Embedded Community Engagement Projects, Internships, Career Readiness, and Collaborative Learning.
- Professor
- 426E Wimberly Hall
- wstobb@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6924
Specialty areas:
Creative Writing
- Associate Teaching Professor
- 425I Wimberly Hall
- ostoltman@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6941
Specialty areas:
First Year Writing, Cultural Studies, Multicultural Literature, Women's Literature, Trauma Literature
- Professor
- 426F Wimberly Hall
- ksultzbach@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6930
Specialty areas:
20th Century British & American Literature, Environmental Literature, Environmental Justice, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Climate Literature, Questions of Place and Identity, Law and Literature
- Professor
- 425L Wimberly Hall
- dthoune@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6921
Specialty areas:
Writing Program Administration, First-Year Writing, Composition Pedagogy, Feedback, Assessment, and Fat Studies.
- Associate Professor
- Wimberly Hall
- rwilkie@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6920
Specialty areas:
Digital and Visual Cultural Theory; Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology; Contemporary Literature and Film.
- Associate Professor
- 426 Wimberly Hall
- lzamparutti@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6922
Specialty areas:
Memory studies, public memory, rhetorical history, grant writing, professional writing, technical writing
- Associate Professor
- 425S Wimberly Hall
- lzhang@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6938
Specialty areas:
Rhetorical and Discourse Analysis, Comparative Rhetoric, Journalism, New Media Studies,