Poetry and Literature – Badger Talks – UW–Madison

Claus E Andersen

fpuleo — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:24:02 +0000

Dr. Claus Elholm Andersen is the Birgit Baldwin Chair and Paul and Renate Madsen Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also the Head of Nordic and Associate Chair of the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic. Recent publications include the monographs Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel and A Dissonans in This World. Readings in Hans Christian Andersen’s Early Fairytales. He has previously held positions at the University of Helsinki and the University of California, Los Angeles. He writes regularly for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Doug Bradley

fpuleo — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 21:36:58 +0000

Doug Bradley worked for the UW for three decades, is a veteran of the Vietnam war, and is the author of four books:

DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (co-authored with UW Professor Emeritus Craig Werner) which was named “Best Music Book of 2015” by Rolling Stone magazine.

Who’ll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America

The Tracks of My Years: A Music-Based Memoir

Joshua Calhoun

fpuleo — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:08:38 +0000

Joshua Calhoun is an Associate Professor of English at the UW-Madison who specializes in Shakespeare, 16th- and 17th-century poetry, and the history of media. As a Faculty Affiliate at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, he also teaches courses in the environmental humanities. In his teaching and research, he gets to explore three things he loves (and thinks everyone else should love, too): Shakespeare, old books, and nature. His work has appeared in Adirondack Life, Environmental Philosophy, Outside Magazine, PMLA, and Shakespeare Studies, and he recently published The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and Ecology in Renaissance England (UPenn Press, 2020).

Russ Castronovo

jnweaver — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:55:23 +0000

Russ Castronovo is an internationally-recognized scholar with expertise in American literature, propaganda, and democracy. He has published 8 books and numerous articles on topics such as the American Revolution, citizenship, surveillance and security.

Dan Cavanagh

mreinfeldt — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:58:34 +0000

Dan Cavanagh is a composer and pianist with numerous awards in both areas. He has performed extensively in North America and Europe, and his music continues to be performed across the globe by classical and jazz artists alike. His music can be heard on a wide variety of recordings, and he has released five recordings as a leader. In addition to composing and performing, he is interested in the way music and the arts serve to shed light on what it means to be human.

Lisa H. Cooper

mreinfeldt — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:14:53 +0000

Lisa H. Cooper is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specializes in the literature and culture of late medieval England; her scholarly investments lie particularly in the intertwined histories of labor, technology, science, material culture, and the practices of daily life from the twelfth through fifteenth centuries. She is the author of Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England (Cambridge UP, 2011; paperback, 2014), and with Professor Andrea Denny-Brown (UC-Riverside) she is co-editor of Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (Palgrave, 2008) and The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (Ashgate, 2014). She is finishing her second monograph, provisionally entitled The Poetics of Practicality in Late Medieval England.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg47x0UP7Wc

Tony DelaRosa

mreinfeldt — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:00:59 +0000

Tony DelaRosa (he/they/siya) is a Filipino American anti-bias/anti-racist educator, racial equity strategist, poet, and researcher. His work has been featured in Harvard Ed Magazine, CNN, NPR, the Smithsonian, Hulu, and elsewhere. He won the 2021 Inspire Award given by United Airlines & the National Association of Asian American Professionals, and the 2023 Community Trailblazer Award given by the Asian American Foundation. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Education Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an Education Graduate Research Scholar. His debut book “Teaching the Invisible Race: Embodying a Pro-Asian American Lens in Schools” through Jossey-Bass / Wiley Publishing is out for pre-order!

A speaker fee of $5,000 applies for Mr. DelaRosa’s talks.

Ramzi Fawaz

mreinfeldt — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:36:09 +0000

Ramzi Fawaz is an award-winning queer cultural critic, public speaker, and educator. He is the author of two books including The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2016), and Queer Forms (2022). His popular writing on feminist and queer media, American cultural politics, and superhero comics regularly appears in Film Quarterly and the LA Review of Books’s online channels Avidly and The Philosophical Salon. His research and teaching explore the relationship between radical social movements and popular culture, including the imaginative uses of film and visual culture for gender and sexual freedom.

A speaker fee applies.

Adam L. Kern

jbedermann — Wed, 11 May 2022 20:19:23 +0000

Adam L. Kern became fascinated with Asian cultures when he found himself outside of Tokyo as a high school exchange. He went on to study East Asia at the University of Minnesota (B.A. summa) then Harvard University (M.A. and Ph.D.) before joining the faculty for nearly a decade as a professor of Japanese literature. Kern’s experiences in Japan (apart from research affiliations with the University of Kyoto, the University of Tokyo, and the National Institute of Japanese Literature), include brief stints as an editorial intern with Kōdansha (the largest Japanese publisher of comics, or manga) and as a staff reporter for a major regional newspaper (Kyoto Shimbun). Among Kern’s books on Japanese literary and visual arts are “Manga from the Floating World” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006 and 2019), “The Penguin Book of Haiku” (Penguin Classics, 2018), and the co-edited “A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750” (Hawai‘i, 2020). Kern is Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Janice Rice

fpuleo — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:31:14 +0000

Currently not accepting talk requests.

Janice Rice is a member of Ho-Chunk Nation & is a retired librarian with a focus on American Indian resources, literature, culture, history, language preservation & revitalization. She received her bachelors degree in Education, with an Area of Concentration in American Indian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her MLS & MLS Advanced degree in American Indian Librarianship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received the Women of Color in Education Awards from UW-Madison & the UW-System in 2009.

Speaker fee may apply.