{"id":14,"date":"2012-02-07T20:06:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.wisc.edu\/middlemodernity\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:02:00","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/middlemodernity\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"Our Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monique Allewaert, English<\/a>
\nKristina Huang, English<\/a>
\n<\/em>Theresa Kelley, English<\/a>
\n<\/a>Nancy Rose Marshall, Art History<\/a>
\n<\/a>Mario Ortiz-Robles, English<\/a>
\nMichelle<\/span> Schwarze, Political Science<\/a><\/em>
\nMark Vareschi, English<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Graduate Students<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diego Alegria<\/a>
\nResearch Interests: <\/strong>modern poetry, global poetics, British Romanticism, Spanish American Modernismo, nineteenth-century literature, literary theory (formalisms & historicisms)<\/p>\n

Andie Barrow<\/a>
\nResearch Interests:\u00a0<\/strong>The intersection between taste culture and waste in eighteenth-century literature, eighteenth-century rhetoric relating to population growth and decline.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kiawna Brewster<\/em><\/a>
\nResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/em> Victorian literature (gothic\/sensation fiction); eighteenth-century women writers; Anglo-Italian relations; English reception of Italian literature\/culture; translation studies; feminist translation theory<\/em><\/p>\n

Elinor Hayden<\/em><\/a>
\nResearch Interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Victorian culture and the novel; fin de si\u00e8cle and the Aesthetic Movement; gender and sexuality studies; disability studies and writing the body<\/em><\/p>\n

Erica Kanesaka<\/em><\/a>
\nResearch Interests:<\/strong> Transnational children\u2019s literature and culture, Asian diaspora studies, Victorian and Neo-Victorian studies, affect theory, aesthetic theory, critical race theory, visual and material culture<\/em><\/p>\n

Ruth Kellar<\/em><\/a>
\nResearch Interests:<\/strong>\u00a0British texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries;\u00a0critical theory and philosophy;\u00a0German Romanticism<\/em><\/p>\n

Dissertation:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Romantic Character: Tracking a Rhetoric of Singularity<\/p>\n

Shuta Kiba<\/a>
\nResearch Interests:<\/strong>\u00a0British Romanticism, especially Wordsworth and Coleridge and their concepts of “habit” and “imagination”<\/p>\n

Benjamin Klug<\/a>
\nResearch Interests:\u00a0<\/strong> The appearance of science fiction as a genre, its rapid development into a popular literature, and what that tells us about the cultural moment of the early 1800s<\/p>\n

Annemarie Lisko<\/a>
\nResearch Interests:\u00a0<\/strong>British Romantic poetry, Italian literary and cultural influences on British Romanticism, translation and translation theory, and memory studies<\/p>\n

Sabrina Manero<\/a>
\nResearch Interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Victorian literature (both fiction and poetry), the gothic genre, eighteenth-century consciousness theory, affect theory, trauma studies, and gender and sexuality studies<\/p>\n

Brian Milthorpe<\/a>
\nResearch Interests: <\/strong>Romanticism, laboring class poetry, landscape, visual culture, media studies, philosophy of technology, animation studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Dissertation:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Inorganic Organicism: Peasant Poetry and Media Technology<\/p>\n

Richard Ness<\/a>
\nResearch Interests:\u00a0<\/strong>British Romantic poetry, rhetoric, environmental humanities, the history and philosophy of science, critical theory, digital rhetoric
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Dissertation:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Vibrant Meter: The Rhetorical Ecology of Romanticism<\/p>\n

Liz Scheer<\/a>
\nResearch Interests:\u00a0<\/strong>British Romantic poetry, affect theory, political theory, visual culture<\/p>\n

Nora Schultz<\/a>
\nResearch interests:\u00a0<\/strong>19th-century British and American media and culture, embodiment, time\/space, medicine\/technology, the sea<\/p>\n

Sarah Licht<\/a>
\nResearch Interests: <\/strong>Victorian literature (popular fiction), gender and sexuality studies, development of the novel, embodiment, history of science and medicine, empire studies, social and legal histories of marriage\/divorce and their novelistic representations<\/p>\n

Jared Seymour<\/em><\/a>
\nResearch interests:<\/strong> 19th-century British literature; the novel; critical animal studies, critical theory<\/em><\/p>\n

Dissertation:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The Idea of Species in the Victorian Novel<\/p>\n

Pinar Tasdemir<\/a>
\nResearch Interests: <\/strong>Romanticism, confessional narratives, literature and evil, the inhuman, political theory, materialisms, the aesthetics of excess<\/p>\n

Andrew Thibaudeau<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> 19th-Century American Literature, American Gothic Literature, history of science, visual culture, figuration<\/p>\n

Thomas Van Camp<\/em><\/a>
\nResearch Interests:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>19th century British literature, romanticism, poetry, and critical theory<\/em><\/p>\n

Aaron Vieth<\/em><\/a>
\nResearch Interests:\u00a0<\/strong>19th-century British literature, novel theory, print culture and book history, thing theory, digital humanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Dissertation:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The Evidence of Things in the Victorian Novel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Faculty Monique Allewaert, English Kristina Huang, English Theresa Kelley, English Nancy Rose Marshall, Art History Mario Ortiz-Robles, English Michelle Schwarze, Political Science Mark Vareschi, English Graduate Students Diego Alegria Research Interests: modern poetry, global poetics, British Romanticism, Spanish American Modernismo, nineteenth-century literature, literary theory (formalisms & historicisms) Andie Barrow Research Interests:\u00a0The intersection between taste culture … <\/p>\n

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