Our people
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Department Chair
Professor
433A Wimberly Hall
kparker@uwlax.edu
608.785.8304
Specialty areas:
Restoration and Eighteenth-century European literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies
Kate Parker's office hours
Associate Chair
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
Bryan Kopp's office hours
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.
Darci Thoune's office hours
Academic Department Associate
Academic Department Associate
433B Wimberly Hall
karnost@uwlax.edu
608.785.8295
Department people
Lecturer
426H Wimberly Hall
jbecker@uwlax.edu
608.785.5296
Specialty areas:
Composition, education, and TESOL.
MS Education; MS TESOL
Judith Becker's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Mondays and Wednesdays from 11 -12 noon (in person) and by appointment (on Zoom).
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
Bradley Butterfield's office hours
Professor
425X Wimberly Hall
mcashion@uwlax.edu
608.785.8297
Specialty areas:
Creative Writing
Matthew Cashion's office hours
Professor
431B Wimberly Hall
vcrank@uwlax.edu
608.785.6933
Specialty areas:
Rhetoric and Writing Studies; Writing Pedagogy; First-year Writing; Writing Center
Virginia Crank's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Virtual meetings are an option during all office hours. Email me at vcrank@uwlax.edu for details.
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
Susan Crutchfield's office hours
Remote office hours offered: All office hours are f2f (425T Wimberly) and via Zoom--https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/2521173565
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
Kimberly DeFazio's office hours
Remote office hours offered: In the Spring 2023 semester my office hours are all virtual (through Zoom): https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/3366910034?pwd=ZUZXbTVFYXIwTURXZm1JVEs5S2s3UT09
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 in Higher Education
Rebekah Fowler's office hours
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.
Ryan Friesen's office hours
Associate Professor
425K Wimberly Hall
mgarcia@uwlax.edu
608.785.6927
Specialty areas:
Digital Literacies, Fan Studies, Rhetoric & Composition, English Teaching Methods, Young Adult Literature, Qualitative Research
Merideth Garcia's office hours
Professor
425V Wimberly Hall
dhart@uwlax.edu
608.785.8302
Specialty areas:
Various ethnic American literature, immigration literature, postcolonial studies, Caribbean literature and culture, world literatures, cultural studies, folklore, cultural memory, globalization and literature, 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
Karen Hart's office hours
Teaching Associate 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
Sara Heaser's office hours
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
Thomas Jesse's office hours
Remote office hours offered: When necessary
Professor
Wimberly Hall
hlan@uwlax.edu
608.785.6935
Specialty areas:
Rhetoric and Composition
Comparative Rhetoric
Haixia Lan's office hours
Lecturer
425Q Wimberly Hall
mmadigan@uwlax.edu
608.785.6944
Specialty areas:
College Writing 110
Meagan Madigan's office hours
Remote office hours offered: My office hours for Fall 2022 are all virtual. My personal Zoom Room address is: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/3210315541
Associate Professor
425P Wimberly Hall
smann@uwlax.edu
608.785.6923
Specialty areas:
sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; American English dialects; language, gender, & sexuality; language attitudes & ideologies; folk dialectology
Stephen Mann's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Virtual office hours are by appointment only. Please email me at smann@uwlax.edu to set up a virtual appointment.
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
Christopher McCracken's office hours
Teaching Associate 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
Jennifer Mohlenhoff-Baggett's office hours
Lecturer
431D Wimberly Hall
spetherbridge@uwlax.edu
608.785.6937
Teaching Associate Professor
431I Wimberly Hall
lschaaf@uwlax.edu
608.785.6948
Specialty areas:
Rhetoric & Composition, American Literature, Mythology
Luke Schaaf's office hours
Remote office hours offered: All office hours will be in-person (or via Zoom if requested by email in advance).
Associate Professor
431G Wimberly Hall
lsteiner@uwlax.edu
608.785.6929
Specialty areas:
Professional & Technical Writing, Content Strategy/Writing, Usability & User Experience, Social Media Writing, Visual Rhetoric & Document Design, Writing Technologies, Organizational & Nonprofit Writing, Grant Writing, Qualitative Research, Course-Embedded Community Engagement Projects, Internships, Career Readiness, and Collaborative Learning.
Lindsay Steiner's office hours
Professor
426E Wimberly Hall
wstobb@uwlax.edu
608.785.6924
Specialty areas:
Creative Writing
William Stobb's office hours
Teaching Assistant Professor
425I Wimberly Hall
ostoltman@uwlax.edu
608.785.6941
Specialty areas:
First Year Composition, Composition Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, Multicultural Literature, Women's Literature, Trauma Literature
Olivia Stoltman's office hours
Remote office hours offered: M/W are face-to-face, and Tuesday and Friday are online office hours, through Zoom.
Professor
4108 Centennial Hall
ksultzbach@uwlax.edu
608.785.6930
Specialty areas:
20th Century British & American Literature, Environmental Literature, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Questions of Place, and Law and Literature
Kelly Sultzbach's office hours
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
Robert Wilkie's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Please email for office hours link
Assistant Professor
426 Wimberly Hall
lzamparutti@uwlax.edu
608.785.6922
Specialty areas:
Writing and rhetoric, professional writing, technical writing, grant writing, public memory, political discourse, visual rhetoric, new materialism, tactical technical communication
Louise Zamparutti's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Please email me at lzamparutti@uwlax.edu to set up a virtual meeting.
Associate Professor
425S Wimberly Hall
lzhang@uwlax.edu
608.785.6938
Specialty areas:
Rhetorical and Discourse Analysis, Comparative Rhetoric, Journalism, New Media Studies,
Lei Zhang's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Online at https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/my/prof.lei