Current Students

Lee M. Abbott

email: abbott@uwm.edu
Degree: PhD
Interests: disasters, development, social change, memory, the production of space, writing, critical theory
Publications: "Coming to a Post-Colonial Poetics of Being Post-Cajun" in The Antigonish Review 146 (2006)

Derek Barnett

email: dbarnett@uwm.edu
Degree: MA
Interests: protest literature and resistance theory, biopolitics, poststructural anarchism, Nietzsche

Meridith Kruse

email: mmkruse@wm.edu
Degree: PhD
Interests: modernist literature, queer and feminist literary criticism, contemporary ethics of reading
Conference Presentations:
  • "Feminist Criticism and the Ethics of Response: Reading Willa Cather." Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Milwaukee, February 2010.
  • "Hauntingly Queer: Looking Across Spivak and Sedgwick." Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Milwaukee, February 2008.
  • "How 'Personal' is 'the Political'?" Cross Generational Transpositions of Feminist Rhetoric(s)." Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, October 2007.
  • "The Voices of Women Transitioning Off Welfare." 5th Annual Women's and Gender Studies Symposium, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, April 2000.

Anna Kuroczycka Schultes

email: kuroczy2@wm.edu
Degree: PhD
Interests: immigration, multiculturalism, women in the global labor force (au pairs, domestic workers), race relations
Conference presentations:
  • "I'm Not a Maid," Economics of Mothering Conference (Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement), Toronto, Ontario, October 2010
  • "Becoming Modern: Fashioning the American Immigrant Woman," MMLA, 2009
  • "Forgetting Your Identity: Ethnic Options in the Chicagoland Area," Southern American Studies Conference at George Mason University and MIGC, 2009
Publications:

Shawna Lipton

email: selipton@uwm.edu
Degree: PhD
Interests: 20th century British literature, modernist studies, queer theory

Hyong-jun Moon

email: hmoon@uwm.edu
Degree: PhD
Interests: utopia/dystopia, neoliberalism as a utopian narrative, communism in the future, formation of modernity, modernity and altermodernity, city/space
Publications: Unholy Trinity of Enlgish, Americanization, and Globalization (in Korea, 2008); translated Howard Zinn's A Power Government Cannot Suppress into Korean (in Korea, 2008)

Angelee K. Singh

email: aksingh@uwm.edu
Degree: PhD
Interests: arranged marriage, migration, diaspora and women's studies
Conference presentations:
  • Paper on female agency as repesented in South Asian diasporic film at National Women's Studies Association, June 2007
  • Paper on diasporic film and negotiation of tradition and cultural transmission at South Asian Literary Association, December 2006

Andrew C. Urban

email: acurban@uwm.edu
Degree: MA
Interests: postmodern literature, film, critical theory, political philosophy

Katherine Wilson

email: kw21@uwm.edu
Degree: PhD
Interests: literature of mass atrocity, contemporary world literature, Holocaust literature, genocide studies, migration
Conference presentations:
  • "The Genre of Human Rights." International Conference on Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences. Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI. November 10-13, 2011.
  • "The Literature of Atrocity as World Literature," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Vancouver, March 31-April 3, 2011.
  • "Production and Contestation: A Multigenerational Critique of Traumatic Memory in Cambodia's Post-Genocide Literary Traditions," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New Orleans, 1-4 April 2010
  • "A Space for Salsa: Theory and Implications of a Global Dance Phenomenon," Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging Conference, Oxford University, Oxford, 25-28 September 2009
  • "A Place to Call Homeland: Desiring Recognition in Exile Narrative," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard University, 26-29 March 2009
  • "A Place to Call Homeland: Desiring Recognition in Exile Narrative," Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 20-22 February 2009
  • "Intercultural Communication: Chinese Diaspora at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh," Wisconsin Communication Association Conference, Wisconsin Dells, WI, 3-5 March 2000
Publications:
  • "A Space for Salsa: Theory and Implications of a Global Dance Phenomenon." In From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward. Ed. Michael Kearney. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, In Press.
  • Looking at Ourselves: Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging. Ed. by Katherine Wilson. Interdisciplinary Press eBook, Oxford, England. 2010.