An award-winning professor, keynote speaker, trainer, and consultant, Dr. Moses Altsech has over 30 years’ teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate level. As a consultant and researcher he has worked with dozens of clients …
Literature and Authors
Claus E Andersen
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, …
Jeffrey Beneker
Jeff Beneker earned his BS in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science from UW-Madison, and his PhD in Classics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research is on biographical and historical literature written …
Susan Brantly
Susan Brantly is a professor of Scandinavian Studies at UW-Madison. She specializes in 19th-century Scandinavian literature and culture and the author, Isak Dinesen. She has worked as a consultant for the Broadway sequel to Ibsen’s …
Joshua Calhoun
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, …
Russ Castronovo
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.
Lisa H. Cooper
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, …
Ainehi Edoro
Prof. Ainehi Edoro-Glines is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches and researches African literature and digital culture, in addition to holding a joint appointment in the African Cultural …
Adam L. Kern
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 …
Jan Miernowski
Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1959. High school in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. M.A. in Warsaw, Poland. PhD in Paris, France. At UW-Madison since 1989. For publications and awards, see: https://frit.wisc.edu/staff/jan-miernowski/ Areas of Expertise, …
Nete Schmidt
Nete teaches Danish language classes as well as various classes on Scandinavian Literature and Area Studies. For several years, Nete lived in Bjerringbro, Denmark, where she worked as a Professor of English and Danish at …
Mark Vareschi
Mark Vareschi is an associate professor of English. His first book, Everywhere and Nowhere, explored anonymous publication in eighteenth-century Britain. His current book project explores the intellectual and rhetorical histories of surveillance technologies. A speaker …