Graduate Students
Lee M. Abbott
E-mail: abbott@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Modern Studies (Plan E)
Interests: disasters, development, social change, memory, the production of space, writing, and critical theory
Michael Blahy
E-mail: mdblahy@uwm.eduPlan: MA - Modern Studies (Plan E)
Interests: public places and spaces, life-cycles, and their representation in literature and media
Andy Buchenot
E-mail: buchenot@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Rhetoric and Composition (Plan B)
Interests: composition, literacy studies, science and technology studies, visual rhetorics
Conference Presentations: "Challenging Material Assumptions in Digital Writing Classrooms" poster presentation at CCCC, 2010; "Blogging for Reflection" workshop at UWM, 2010; "Redefining Remediation as a Site for Activist Work" workshop at CCCC, 2009; "Articulating Technological and Social Change in Online Writing Courses " panel presentation at CCCC, 2009; "Recomposing the Design Paradigm: Understanding the Critical Effects of 'New Media'" panel presentation at Thomas R. Watson Conference, 2008
Chris Drew
E-mail: cmdrew@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Creative Writing (Plan C)
Interests: American regional & rural literature, Native American literature, creative nonfiction
Publications: work in The Bellevue Literary Review, The Sycamore Review, Big Muddy: A Journal of The Mississippi River Valley
Douglas Duhaime
E-mail: dduhaime@uwm.eduPlan: MA - Modern Studies (Plan E)
Interests: experimental Literature, transnational cultural politics, the Black Mountain College, post-war American poetry, modernism, postmodernism, theory
Conference Presentations: "Charles Olson and the Ethics of Parataxis" at "Re-viewing Black Mountain College" International Conference
Publications: archival work on the Black Mountain College contributed to Drunken Boat magazine, poetry published in Helix magazine
Sarah A. Etlinger
E-mail: etlinger@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Rhetoric and Composition (Plan B)
Interests: rhetorical invention, new media/experimental writing, composition pedagogy, 19th-century British domestic culture; Jewish literature; the Victorian novel
Conference Presentations: "iTunes, Therefore I Write" at CCCC, 2010
Anna Kuroczycka Schultes
E-mail: kuroczy2@wm.eduPlan: PhD - Modern Studies (Plan E)
Interests: immigration, multiculturalism, women in the global labor force (au pairs, domestic workers), race relations
Conference Presentations: "Forgetting Your Identity: Ethnic Options in the Chicagoland Area" at Southern American Studies Conference at George Mason University and MIGC, 2009; "Becoming Modern: Fashioning the American Immigrant Woman" at MMLA, 2009
Shawna Lipton
E-mail: selipton@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Modern Studies (Plan E)
Interests: feminist theory, queer theory, modernist literature, women's literature, philosophy and literature, Marcel Proust
Jill Logan
E-mail: loganj@uwm.eduPlan: Creative Writing (Plan C)
Interests: creative writing, fiction
Molly Magestro
E-mail: magestro@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Creative Writing (Plan C)
Interests: 20th century American fiction, fairy tales, love stories
Katie Malcolm
E-mail: kmalcolm@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Rhetoric and Composition (Plan B)
Interests: critical literacy, cultural materialism, composition studies, basic writing theory and pedagogy
Conference Presentations: invited presenter at Summer Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition, 2009; WCTE Conference, October 2009; CCCC, 2010
Hyong-jun Moon
E-mail: hmoon@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Modern Studies (Plan E)
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)
Jessica Nastal
E-mail: jlnastal@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Rhetoric and Composition (Plan B)
Interests: composition pedagogy, ELL, the intersection of politics and popular media, post-colonial/globalization theories, New Rhetoric
Elisa Neckar
E-mail: erneckar@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Creative Writing (Plan C)
Interests: creative nonfiction, fanfiction and online fan communities, young adult and children's literature
Kristi Prins
E-mail: kkprins@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Rhetoric and Composition (Plan B)
Interests: composition pedagogy, digital composition, production
Conference Presentations: "Digitality and New Feminist Rhetorics (Or, Rather, Crafting New Ways of Writing)" at Thomas R. Watson Conference, 2008
Joseph M. Rein
E-mail: jmrein@uwm.eduAssistant Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program
Plan: PhD - Creative Writing (Plan C)
Interests: contemporary, cross-cultural and historical fiction; creative writing pedagogy
Current Writing: focuses on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Mesoamerica
Tammy Rice-Bailey
E-mail: ricebai2@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Professional Writing (Plan G)
Interests: needs assessment, audience analysis, business communincation, business writing and rhetoric, composition studies
Trevor Schara
E-mail: tjschara@uwm.eduPlan: MA - Professional Writing (Plan G)
Master's Project: Community technology programs (Link)
Interests: writing for technology & web publishing
Angelee K. Singh
E-mail: aksingh@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Modern Studies (Plan E)
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
Sheryl Slocum
E-mail: ssslocum@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Linguistics (Plan D)
Interests: composition in a second language, second language acquisition, second language teacher education and professional development
Conference Presentations: "English Language Learners: Perceptions and Realities" co-presentation at DPI/WITESOL Conference, October 2009
David Yost
E-mail: djyost@uwm.eduPlan: PhD - Creative Writing (Plan C)
Interests: 20th century American fiction, creative writing pedagogy, world literatures
Publications: fiction in Witness, Pleiades, and Mid-American Review; critical articles in MELUS, The Southern Literary Review, and War, Literature, and the Arts