UW-Milwaukee - College of Letters and Science

Modern Studies Alumni

Amirault, Chris. PhD

"The Patient: Discourses of Medicine, Narratives of Illness" (1996)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Education; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Modern Culture and Media; Director, Early Childhood Education Center. Brown University

Baum, Rachel. PhD

"Ethics in the Face of Auschwitz: The Emotional and Pedagogical Responsibility of Holocaust Remembrance" (1997)
Coordinator of Hebrew Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Balides, Constance. PhD

"Making Dust in the Archives: Feminism, History, and Early American Cinema" (1993)
Associate Professor of Communications, Tulane University

Castonguay, James. PhD

"Operation Media Storm: War, Cinema, and Television" (1998)
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Film and Media Studies, Sacred Heart University

Crane, David. PhD

"The Paranoid Text: Thought, Narration, and Technologies of Communication" (1999)
Assistant Professor, Film Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz

Daniel, Jamie. PhD

"Strategies of Detachment: Modernist Memory and Bodily Loss between the Wars" (1995)
Director of Organizing and Development & Assistant to the President, UPI Local 4100, IFT, AFT, AFL-CIO

Erickson, Jon. PhD

"Objectified and Dematerialized: Artistic Signifying in the Material World" (1990)
Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University.

Evans, Gareth. PhD

"Sentiments of Change: American Literary History and The Politics of Popular Writing, 1789-1930" (1996)
Lecturer, English, Indiana University.

Fey, Julie. PhD

"Female to Male (FTM) in Film Narrative: Gender Passing and the Re-Creation of Brandon Teena" (2006)

Grajeda, Anthony. PhD

"Machines of the Audible: Aesthetics and Politics of Music and Technology" (2001)
Assistant Professor, Film and Communication Studies, University of Central Florida.

Green, Kathleen. PhD

"Breakdowns: From Nervousness to Stress in American Culture" (1997)
Associate Professor, English, Pasadena City College.

Hastie, Amelie. PhD

"Recollecting Histories: Women, Writing, and Film" (1999)
Assistant Professor, Film Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz.

Hayot, Eric. PhD

"Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel" (1999)
Associate Professor, English, University of Arizona

Henry, Astrid. PhD

"Matrophobia and Generations of Feminism" (2000)
Assistant Professor, English, and Coordinator, Women's Studies, Saint Mary's College.

Keever, Brent. PhD

"Ambient Culture: Sight-reading the Sound Effects of Modern Technology and Literature" (2000)
Director, Critical Theory Program, Paris, France.

Kramer, Kate. PhD

"Questionable Characters: Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Fictions, Feminism and the Fallen Woman" (1995)
Deputy Director, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Kubiak, Anthony. PhD

"Phobos and Performance : The Stages of Terror" (1988)
Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine

Lambert, Raphael. PhD

"African American Fiction: From Novel to Film" (2001)
Fellowship, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Launius, Christie. PhD

"Stories of School, Stories of Class: The Working-class Encounter with the Academy in 20th century U.S. Writing" (2003)
Assistant Professor, English, Augusta State College.

Leonard, Jerry. PhD

"Reducing Spivak: Marxism, Deconstruction and the Post-Theoretical Mystique" (1996)
Assistant Professor, Sichuan International Studies University, China.

Lewis, Amy. PhD

"Writing Rural America" (1998)

Lowry, Susan. PhD

"The Frontier War of Words: Transcultural Conversations between Native Americans and Euramericans" (2000)
Associate Professor, English, Antelope Valley College.

Lunberry, Clark. PhD

"Situating Silence, Articulating Absence: Sites of Time and the Object (Lessons) of Art" (2002)
Assistant Professor, English. University of North Florida.

Lundergan, Robert. PhD

"Rewriting the Nation: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Pedagogic Apparatus" (2000)
Assistant Professor, English, Foothill Community College.

Maher, Jennifer. PhD

"Appetite and Intellect: Eating Disorders and Women's Literature" (2000)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, Indiana University.

McCallum, Ellen. PhD

"Object Lessons: Fetishism, Subjective Knowledge, and Objective Desire" (1996)
Associate Professor, English, Michigan State University.

McPherson, Tara. PhD

"Reconstructing Dixie: Place, Race, and Femininity in the Deep South" (1996)
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Critical Studies/Film Studies, University of Southern California.

O'Brien, Áine. PhD

"Gender, Space, and the Imagined Community: Negotiating Nation and Location" (1996)
Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Edinburgh.

Piontek, Thomas. PhD

"The Way We Were (Not): Gay Self-Representations Between Stonewall and AIDS" (1994)
Lecturer, Department of English, Otterbein College.

Pizzato, Mark. PhD

"The Loss of Theatre: Modern Drama and Postmodern Theory" (1992)
Associate Professor of Theatre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Poster, Jamie. PhD

"Film, Television, and the Internet" (2004)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Redding, Arthur. PhD

"Raids on Human Consciousness: Writing, Anarchy, and Violence" (1994)
Assistant Professor of English, York University, Toronto.

Samardzija, Zoran. PhD

"Recent Cinema from the Balkans" (2005)
Lecturer, Film Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Schneider, Benjamin. PhD

"Hollywood and Independent Filmmaking" (2002)
Assistant Director, Film Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Scott, Garrett. MA

"My House, My Rules: Citizenship, Homeownership and Anxiety in California, 1954-1994" (1996)
Documentary filmmaker. Occupation: Dreamland (2005): Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards; winner of the Working Films content + intent = change award at the 2005 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; short-listed for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story (2002): Best Director, 2002 CinemaTexas International Film Festival.

Seigal, Kristi. PhD

"Mother/Body/Text and Women's Autobiography" (1991)
Associate Professor, English. Mount Mary College.

Wall, Angela. PhD

"Managing Motherhood: Episodes in Culture, Science, and Technology" (1998)
Web designer/consultant; Oakland, California.

Weissman, Gary. PhD

"Fantasies of Witnessing: Experiencing the Holocaust in American Intellectual Culture" (1999)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, East Carolina University.

Wesp, Edward. PhD

"Locating the Present: Narrative Form and Historical Time in Nineteenth-Century American Literature" (2003)
Assistant Professor, Department of English. Western New England College.

E-mail Andrew Kincaid if you would like more information about the program.

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