UW-Milwaukee - College of Letters and Science

Modern Studies Faculty

Jasmine Alinder

Assistant Professor of History
Teaching and Research Areas: History of Photography, Race and Citizenship, Japanese American Incarceration, Representation of Slavery, Public History and Visual Culture, History and Politics of Museums, Race and Representation

Banerjee, Sukanya

Assistant Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Postcolonial Theory and Literature; Victorian Studies; Transnationalism and Diaspora; Women's Studies; South Asian Literature and Culture

Blasini, Gilberto M.

Assistant Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Third Cinema, Latin American and Caribbean Cinema, Television Theory and Criticism, Post-1967 U.S. Cinema (especially Road Movies), Queer Latino Popular Culture

Bolduc, Michelle

Assistant Professor of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature
Teaching and Research Interests: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Manuscript Contexts, Medieval Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Theory, Modern Rhetoric and Philosophy, Medieval Literature and Culture, Classical and Medieval Theories of Gender and Sexuality, Literary and Critical Theory: Classical through Postmodern Subjectivity, Autobiography, Testimony, Ethics and Literature

Braman, Sandra

Professor of Communication
Teaching and Research Interests: macro-level effects of digital meta-technologies and their policy implications; digital art and culture; the evolution of facticity

Callahan, Vicki

Associate Professor of Film
Teaching and Research Areas: French Cinema and Feminism

Gallop, Jane

Distinguished Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Feminist Theory, Literary and Cultural Theory

Grayson, Sandra M.

Associate Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: African American Studies, African Studies

Hamilton, Kristie

Associate Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: American Literature(s) (Colonial, Early National and Antebellum Literature), Theories of U.S. Literature, Gender and Literature, Cultural/Historical Theories of Literature, Feminist Theories, Fictional and Non-fictional Prose, Regional Literature

Jay, Gregory

Professor of English, and Director of Cultures and Communities
Teaching and Research Areas: American Literature, Multiculturalism, Critical Race Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies

Jordan, John

Assistant Professor Communication
Teaching and Research Areas: Rhetorical Theory and Criticism (esp. PostModernism & Poststructuralism), Internet & Cyberspace, New Media Technology, US Space Program, Temporary Employment Issues, Reflections on Technology and Communication

Kalter, Barrett

Assistant Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Eighteenth-century British literature, Cultural materialism and material culture studies, Historiography and theories of time

Kincaid, Andrew

Associate Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Theory (Frankfurt School), Theories of Space, Urban History, Theories of Nationalism, British, Irish and American Literature. Irish Studies: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature, Culture and History, Architecture and Town Planning, the North of Ireland

Levine, Elana

Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
Teaching and Research Areas: U.S. Television History and Criticism, Gender and Feminist Theory, Cultural Theory, Media Audience Studies, Media Production Studies

Ley, Barbara

Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and Sociology
Teaching and Research Areas: social and cultural studies of science and medicine; cultural and feminist theory; social activism; Internet cultures; and alternative media

Malaby, Thomas

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Teaching and Research Areas: Risk, Modernity, Technology, Digital Society, History and Futurity, Globalization Projects, Europe, Greece, Social Theory, Ritual and Performance

Martin, Andrew

Associate Professor and Chair of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Undergraduate: Film Courses: Introduction to Film Studies, Science Fiction, War and Cinema, Vietnam, British Cinema, Classical and Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism, American Literature-late 19th Century and 20th Century. Graduate Courses: Film Studies, American Literature from late 19th Century to 1930s. Realism, Naturalism, and American Modernism, Theories of Mass Culture, Cultural Studies

McGuinness, Aims

Associate Professor of History
Teaching and Research Areas: Global/World History, Latin America History, United States History, Histories of Empire, Race, and Labor (Slavery, Emancipation, and Post-emancipation Societies)

Netzloff, Mark

Associate Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Shakespeare, Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture, Literary and Cultural Theory, Marxist Theory/Cultural Materialism, Postcolonial Studies

Oren, Tasha

Associate Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Media Studies, Globalization Theory, Cultural Studies, Film, Media History, International Media

Paik, Peter

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Teaching and Research Areas: World Cinema, German Modernism, American Literature, Philosophy, History of Religion, War and Film, Utopias and Dystopias, Chaos Theory, Time Travel, Multiple Realities, Spiritual Cinema

Petro, Patrice

Professor of English and Director of the Center for International Education
Teaching and Research Areas: Film Studies (History, Criticism, and Theory), Feminist Theory, History and Historiography, Modernism and Modernity, Photography and Visual Culture, Globalization/International Media

Pickering-Lazzi, Robin

Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
Teaching and Research Areas: 19th- and 20th-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Cultural and Feminist Theory

Puskar, Jason

Assistant Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Late 19th- and 20th-century American literature, History of Statistics and Probabilism, Risk Theory, Business History, Philosophical Pragmatism, Cultural Studies

Rodger, Gillian

Assistant Professor of Music
Teaching and Research Areas: Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Birmingham School Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sex History

Sangari, Kumkum

Vilas Professor of English
Teaching Areas: Cultural and Literary Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory

Sherman, Daniel

Professor of History, and Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies
Teaching and Research Areas: Modern French History, European Cultural History and Theory, Critical Museum Studies, Memory and Commemoration

Stabile, Carol

Associate Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication
Teaching and Research Areas: Gender, race, class, and media, feminist theory, women's studies, cultural studies, political economy of the media, crime news

Supriya, K. E.

Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
Teaching and Research Areas: Cultural Identity and Communication; Cultural Memory in Postcolonial India; Culture and Non-Violence; Intersections of Nationhood, Ethnicity, and Gender

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

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