English
Our people
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.
Department people
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
Professor
431B Wimberly Hall
vcrank@uwlax.edu
608.785.6933
Specialty areas:
Rhetoric and Writing Studies; Writing Pedagogy; First-year Writing; Writing Center
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, Posthumanism, Materialism, 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
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
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
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:
Rhetoric of memorials, 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,