UW-Milwaukee - College of Letters and Science

Peter Sands, Associate Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 578
Phone: 414-229-4416
e-mail: sands@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~sands

Degree(s):

Ph.D., Binghamton University, SUNY
M.A., University at Albany, SUNY
B.A., University at Albany, SUNY

Research Interests:

Intellectual Property law and its relation to academic work and publishing
Digital writing and art
Nineteenth-century American literature and culture
Online teaching and writing
Utopianism and Science Fiction
Law and literature
Law and Rhetoric

Teaching Interests:

American literary and cultural studies, including law and rhetoric
Utopianism
Digital Media
Writing-Composition, Professional, and Research-Oriented

Recent Publications:

"Towers of Ivory, Corridors of Linoleum: Utopia in Academic Novels," forthcoming in Stumbling Through the Groves: Fiction on Academia, ed. Kimberly Rae Connor and Mark Bosco, S.J., Edwin Mellen, 2007.

"Distant, Present, and Hybrid," in Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of English, ed. Jonathan Alexander and Marcia Dixon. Hampton Press, 2006.

Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options. Ed. James Inman, Cheryl Reed, and Peter Sands. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.

"Octavia Butler's Chiastic Cannibalistics: Utopia, Consumption, Consumption, Utopia." Utopian Studies 14.1 (2003): 1-14. Winner of the Eugenio Batisti Award for Best Article in Utopian Studies.

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