Netzloff, Mark. Associate Professor

Publications: Book: England's Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Articles: "The English Colleges and the English Nation: Allen, Person, Verstegan, and Diasporic Nationalism," in Catholic Culture in Early Modern England, ed. Ronald Corthell, Frances Dolan, Christopher Highley, and Arthur Marotti (forthcoming); "Sir Francis Drake's Ghost: Piracy, Cultural Memory, and Spectral Nationhood," in Pirates: The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650, ed. Claire Jowitt (forthcoming); "The Ulster Plantation and the Colonial Archive," in New Ways III: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1997-2001 (2004), 191-205; "The Lead Casket: Capital, Mercantilism, and The Merchant of Venice," in Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism, ed. Linda Woodbridge (2003), 159-76; "Writing Britain from the Margins: Scottish, Irish, and Welsh Projects for American Colonization," Prose Studies 25 (2002): 1-24; "'Counterfeit Egyptians' and Imagined Borders: Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphosed," ELH 68 (2001): 763-92; "Forgetting the Ulster Plantation: John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611) and the Colonial Archive," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31 (2001): 313-48. Work in Progress: critical edition of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue (1607), under contract for "Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity" series (Ashgate); "Before the Grand Tour: English Travelers, Exiles and State Agents in Early Modern Europe, 1570-1640" (book manuscript).

Research and Teaching Areas: Renaissance/early modern literature and culture (especially English colonialism, travel, and nationhood; early modern class relations and capitalism); Shakespeare; literary and cultural theory.

Noonan, Michael. Professor

Recent Publications, books: Chantyal Dictionary & Texts, 1998, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Functionalism & Formalism, 1999, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, ed. with Michael Darnell, Edith Moravcsik, Frederick Newmeyer, Kathleen Wheatley. Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, 2002, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, ed. with Joan Bybee. Recent Publications, articles: "Non-structuralist syntax," in Michael Darnell et al, eds. Functionalism/Formalism. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1999. "Converbal constructions in Chantyal", in Topics in Nepalese Linguistics, Yogendra P. Yadava and Warren W. Glover, eds. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy, 1999. "The 'double demonstratives' of Chantyal," in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 2001. "Posture verbs in two languages of Nepal." In John Newman, ed. The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing, and Lying. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Karen Grunow-Harsta. 2001. "Chantyal", in The Sino-Tibetan Languages, Randy LaPolla and Graham Thurgood, eds. London: Routledge. 2003. "Nar-Phu", in The Sino-Tibetan Languages, Randy LaPolla and Graham Thurgood, eds. London: Routledge. 2003. "Recent language contact in the Nepal Himalaya," in David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky & Graham Thurgood, eds. Language Variation: Papers on Variation and Change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in Honour of James A. Matisoff. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 2003. "Motion events in Chantyal", in Erin Shay and Uwe Siebert, eds. Motion, Direction, and Location in Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2003. "Complementation", in T. Shopen, ed., Language Typology and Syntactic Description, 2nd edition, Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 2004. "Subjectless clauses in Irish", in KV Subbarao and Peri Bhaskararao, eds. Non-nominative Subjects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2004. "Recent Adaptions of the Devanagari Script for the Tibeto-Burman Languages of Nepal", in Peri Bhaskararao, ed. Indic Scripts: Past and Future. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 2005. Editorships: Editor, with Bernard Comrie, of the journal Studies in Language. Editor, with Carol Genetti and Tej Ratna Kansakar, of the webjournal Himalayan Linguistics. Editor of the book series Typological Studies in Language, published by John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia. Editor, with Werner Abraham, of the book series Studies in Language Companion Series, published by John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

Teaching and Research Areas: Syntactic typology & universals, pragmatics & dis-course, English grammar, Tamangic languages, Nilotic languages, Celtic languages, Salish languages.

Oren, Tasha G. Associate Professor

Selected Publications: Books: Demon in the Box: Jews, Arabs, Politics and Culture in the Making of Israeli Television (Rutgers University Press, 2004), Coeditor of Asian American Popular Culture (New York University Press, Forthcoming) and Transmissions: Media, Technology, Globalization (Rutgers University Press, Forthcoming). Articles and chapters: "The Belly Dancer Strategy: Israeli Educational Television and its Alternatives." Media, Culture & Society (Volume 25 -2, 2003), "Secret Asian Man: Angry Asians and the Politics of Cultural Visibility" in Asian American Popular Culture, Oren, Dave and Nishime, eds, New York University Press (Forthcoming), "Gobbled Up and Gone: Cultural Preservation and the Global City Marketplace," in Global Cities: Cultures, Urbanism, Globalization. L. Krause and P. Petro eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2003), "Domesticated Dads and Double-shift Moms: Real and Ideal Life in the American post-War sitcom." Cerles, University of Rouen (Spring, 2003), "Living Room Levantine: Immigration, Ethnicity and the Border in Early Israeli Television," The Velvet Light Trap, (Texas University Press, #43, Fall 1999), "Shuli's Fiance, Kalinka Maya, and Chester Jones and Me: Three Israeli Shorts," Writers on Film: The Boston Jewish Film Festival, 1998,, "Israeli Nationalism: Menachem Begin; David Ben-Gurion; Moshe Dayan; Theodor Herzl; Golda Meir; Benjamin Netanyahu; and Yitzhak Shamir." the Encyclopedia of Nationalism, The Academic Press-Harcourt Brace & Company, California, 2000. Work in Progress: An edited collection on Middle Eastern Film and a book manuscript (in progress) on cultural rage and media protests.

Teaching and Research Areas: Film and Media studies, media history, popular culture, globalization and media, Middle Eastern media history and film, Asian American studies.

Petro, Patrice. Professor

Selected Publications: Books: Hollywood Berlin: New Women, Urban Culture, and International Cinema (in progress), Global Currents: Media and Technology Now (co-edited with Tasha Oren, Rutgers University Press, 2004), Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age (co-edited with Linda Krause, Rutgers University Press, 2003), Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights (co-edited with Mark Bradley, Rutgers University Press, 2002), Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History (Rutgers University Press, 2001), Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video (editor, Indiana University Press, 1995), Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany (Princeton University Press, 1989). Series Editorship: "New Directions in International Studies," sponsored by Rutgers University Press; Co-editor of a special issue of Camera Obscura on "Feminism and Film History" 22 (January 1990); Co-editor of a special issue of Discourse on "Television Studies/Cultural Studies" 10.2 (Spring-Summer 1988). Articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as Screen, New German Critique, Cinema Journal, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, College Art Association, Art in America, and Sight and Sound.

Teaching Interests: Film history, criticism, and theory; Theories of modernism and modernity; feminist and critical theory; internationalism and globalization.

Other Information: Director, Center for International Education, August 1999-present (serves as UWM's Senior International Officer overseeing all major international academic, research, outreach, and service offices; responsible for academic programs and research initiatives, overseas study and inter-institutional agreements, international student admissions, international student and scholar immigration services, K-16 and public outreach programs, Milwaukee's World Affairs Council and the UW System Institute for Global Studies). Former Director of Graduate Studies in English, September 1994-1999; Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1993; served as Coordinator of Film Studies and Modern Studies.

Puskar, Jason. Assistant Professor

Selected Publications: "William Dean Howells and the Insurance of the Real," American Literary History (Spring, 2006).

Current Project: Underwriting the Accident: Narratives of American Chance, 1871-1935, a study of the relationship between American literature and the popularization of new thinking about probability, accident, and chance.

Teaching and Research Areas: Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, American studies, history of science, philosophical pragmatism, literary modernism.