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Karen Hart
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Teaching Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Karen Hart Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Teaching Professor
English
Specialty area(s)
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
Current courses at UWL
ENG200 Communal Ownership of Fairy Tales, ENG110 College Writing, ENG/ERS207 Multicultural US Literature
Education
PhD Literature, UC San Diego, June 2007
MA German Literature, UC San Diego, June 2003
Fulbright Grant Study Innsbruck Austria, October 1998-June 1999
BA Literature and Writing, UC San Diego, June 1995
Career
Teaching history
ENG112 College Writing AP, ENG200 Modern Monsters, ENG200 Global US Literatures
Professional history
I have taught at UW-L since 2007.
Research and publishing
"The Belonging Project," Facing Forward Symposium, June 2021
"Show It: Assessment in Retention and Promotion" Panelist, Assessment Commons, January 2020
"Assessing Writing Using Portfolios," Panelist, Assessment Commons, January 2019
"The Icy White Queen in a Green World: Investigating Ecocritical Consciousness in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" and Disney's Frozen," Presentation, The William J. Hyde English Department Colloquium, April 2016
"Roundtable on Grading in First-Year Writing," Panelist, May 2015
"Exclamatory Interrogatives: Asking Meaningful Questions in the Humanities," Presentation, The William J. Hyde English Department Colloquium, November 2014
"The Ethos of Monstrous Love in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities," Presentation, The William J. Hyde English Department Colloquium, May 2013
"But I Already Read That in Another Class!"--Toni Morrison's Tar Baby in Multiple Contexts, Presentation, Women's Studies Teatime/Soapbox, March 2010
"From Naive Victim to Improvising Trickster: Red Riding Hood as a Paradigm for Female Empowerment," Presentation, Women's Studies Teatime/Soapbox, March 2009
"Robert Musil's Essayism: Ethics and the Politics of Writing," Presentation, The William J. Hyde English Department Colloquium, April 2008