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David Hart

Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

David Hart

Professor

English

Specialty area(s)

Ethnic American literature, immigration, postcolonial studies, Caribbean literature, world literatures, cultural studies, folklore, cultural memory, globalization, and critical theory.

Current courses at UWL

ENG 110 College Writing

ENG 200 Literature and Human Experience: "Immigration Nation"

ENG 311 Critical Theory

Education

Ph.D. in English, Cultural Studies, University of Florida
M.A. in English, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University
M.A. in English, Angelo State University
Secondary Teacher Certification in English, University of Texas - Austin
B.B.A. in Management, University of North Texas

Career

Teaching history

ENG 110 College Writing

ENG 200 Literature and Human Experience: "Caribbean Literature"

ENG 200 Literature and Human Experience: "Globalization and Literature"

ENG 200 Literature and Human Experience: "Immigration Nation"

ENG 204 British Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries

ENG 207 Multicultural Literature of the United States

ENG 220 Women and Popular Culture

ENG 301 Foundations for Literary Studies

ENG 302 Intermediate Topics in Literature: "Your Story Here"

ENG 302 Intermediate Topics in Literature: "Story and Discourse: Global Literature and Cultural Studies"

ENG 311 Critical Theory

ENG 357 World Literature

ENG 368 British Literature after 1900

ENG 403 Individual Project

ENG 469 Postcolonial Literature

ENG 470 Seminar in American Literature

ENG 481 Seminar in Literature and Culture

ENG 484 Literature Capstone

Research and publishing

"Writing Cultural Memory and Immigration." CASSH Sabbatical, Spring 2023.

"Mother Who Remains." (poem) Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review. 25 (Spring 2022): 107.

"Still Not Quite There." (poem) Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review. 22 (Spring 2019): 51.

"The Globalectics of Nationalism in CLR James' and Michelle Cliff's Writing." Postcolonial Text. 12.2 (Dec 2017): 1-18.

"What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature by Pheng Cheah" Book Review. Postcolonial Text. 11.3 (Oct 2016): 1-4.

"Hummingbirds in a Box: The Human Nature of Etzler's Ecotopia." Dialog: A Bi-Annual Interdisciplinary Journal. 27 (Spring 2015): 35-50. [Published Spring 2016]

Making a Mockery of Mimicry: Salman Rushdie’s Shame.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol 382. Edited by Lawrence J Trudeau. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Publishing, 2015. [Rpt from Postcolonial Text 4.4.]

"The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller." Book Review. Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 37.5 (Fall 2014): 1263-65. [Jan 2015]

Making a Mockery of Mimicry: Salman Rushdie’s Shame.” Postcolonial Text 4.4 (2008): 1-22. [Fall 2009]

"Anonymous" and  "Stutter Step." (poems) Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless.  Patrick T. Randolph, ed. Popcorn Press, 2009.

"Reflection on Deflection." (poem) The Catalyst. 29.4 (Summer 2008): 8.

Louise Bennett,” “Linton Kwesi Johnson,” “Mervyn Morris,” “Mutabaruka,” “Mikey Smith,” and “West Indies Federation” in Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, History. ABC-CLIO (2008).

On Behalf of Harry/Harriet: Teaching Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven.Radical Teacher 80 (2008).

Caribbean Chronotopes: From Exile to AgencyAnthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 2.2 (2004).

"Erosion, Noise and Hurricanes: A Review of Kamau Brathwaite's A History of the Voice: The Development of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" Revista Mexicana del Caribe 6.12 (2001).

Kudos

presented

David Hart, English, presented "It Lives: Writing Cultural Memory and Discovering Where it Resides" at English Department William J. and Yvonne M. Hyde Colloquium Series on Friday, Nov. 10 in La Crosse, WI.

Submitted on: Nov. 10, 2023

published

David Hart, English, authored the article "The Globalectics of Nationalism in CLR James' and Michelle Cliff's Writing" in Postcolonial Text 12.2 (pp1-18) published on Dec. 4, 2017 by The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.

Submitted on: Dec. 5, 2017

published

David Hart, CL-17, authored the article "What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature by Pheng Cheah" in "Postcolonial Text 11.3" published on Oct. 30, 2016 by The Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.

Submitted on: Oct. 31, 2016

presented

David Hart, CL-17, presented "The Digital Archive and Uninhibited Access: Following Marlon James and Staceyann Chin Online" at the 35nd Annual West Indian Literature Conference, "Archiving Caribbean Literature and Popular Culture," hosted by The University of the West Indies on Oct. 20, 2016 in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Submitted on: Oct. 20, 2016