Who teaches 201?
All sections of English 201 are taught by experienced Teaching Assistants or faculty members.
Fall 2009
Scot Barnett
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Scot Barnett is a Ph.D. candidate in Composition and Rhetoric, interested in the ongoing transformation of rhetoric and writing in network media culture. He received a B.A. in English from Penn State University and a M.A. in rhetoric and composition from North Carolina State University.
Rush Daniel
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Rush Daniel is a Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric, interested in geopolitical rhetoric, globalization, rhetoric and economics, and rhetorical and critical theory. He earned an M.A. in Rhetoric (2007) from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.A. in Dramatic Literature, French, and Linguistics (2005) from New York University.
Todd Goddard
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Todd Goddard is a Ph.D. candidate in Literary Studies in the English Department. His research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature and environmental history. Todd's class was recently the focus of a Wisconsin Week article about environmental education. Click here to see the story!
Andy Karr
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Andy Karr is a third-year Ph.D. student in Literary Studies. His areas of interest are the late nineteenth and early twentieth century American novel, the African American novel, and literature and the social sciences. Research topics he is currently exploring include late nineteenth and early twentieth century American print culture, American literary representations of the newspaper, the relationship of newspapers to novels, and the transition from republicanism to liberalism in American political history. Andy has taught composition, Native American and American literature, and worked in the Writing Center, and appreciates the variety afforded him by the program. He holds degrees from Missouri State University (M.A., 2004) and Swarthmore College (B.A., 2002).
Tim Laquintano
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Tim Laquintano is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric. His interests are literacy studies, digital writing, rhetorical theory, humor and rhetoric, and digital ethnography. He is working on a dissertation that investigates the role of writing in economic and affective value creation on the internets.
Rebecca Lorimer
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Rebecca Lorimer is a second-year Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric. She received a BA in Creative Writing from University of Southern California and an M.A. in English Composition from San Francisco State University. She has taught writing and ESL in San Francisco, Mexico, and Ecuador, and now teaches English 201 and ESL in Madison. Her research interests include contrastive rhetoric, second language writing, service learning, and issues of access in higher education. Rebecca's class was recently featured in Wisconsin Week's profile of Humanities Exposed (HEX) projects.
Annie Massa-Macleod
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Annie Massa-Macleod is a third-year Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric, with an M.A. in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin and a B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College. This is her second year teaching English 201; her classes focus on creative non-fiction, memoir, ethnography, and multimedia approaches to textual analysis. She is also an instructor in the Writing Center and a member of the Teaching Academy. Her research interests include rhetorical analysis, literacy studies, critical race theory, border studies, and discourse of/about the American West. drama
Kim Moreland
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Kim Moreland is a second-year Ph.D student in Composition and Rhetoric. Her interests include the history of rhetoric, historical literacy, rhetorical theory, feminist theory, dialogic approaches to pedagogy, and sociolinguistics. Kim has an MA in Applied English Linguistics and a BA in English with an emphasis in linguistics and in creative writing, both from UW-Madison.
Kevin Mullen
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Kevin Mullen is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department, focusing on 20th Century American Literature with a minor in Composition and Rhetoric. He has an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa, and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. In addition to teaching writing at Wisconsin and literature at Iowa, he has taught English language and literature in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Japan.
Kevin Piper
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Kevin Piper is a dissertator in Literary Studies. He is currently working on the topic of curiosity in the Modernist Novel. He received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from Mary Washington College and his M.A. in literary studies from UW Madison. onial studies, and Drama
Christine Stephenson
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A doctoral candidate in Composition and Rhetoric, Christine began teaching at the university level in 1999, shortly after earning her B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from Waynesburg College in Southwestern Pennsylvania. In 2001 she earned a dual-track M.A. in both Literature and Writing and in 2002 completed work toward the MFA in poetry at Northern Michigan University. At the UW-Madison, Christine completed her minor coursework in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) and Discourse Analysis to compliment her interest in rhetoric, leadership, and public affairs and commitment to learning and service. Currently, Christine teaches Engaging the Polis: Rhetoric and Forms of Public Argument as part of the English 201: Intermediate Composition program.
David Stock
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Dave Stock is a third-year Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric whose interests include histories of rhetoric and composition, writing studies, and rhetorical education.
Christopher Syrnyk
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Christopher Syrnyk is a Ph.D. candidate in Composition and Rhetoric interested in the intersection of rhetoric, literature, and ethics; rhetoric and the public sphere; the animal question; classical and contemporary rhetorical theory; history of ideas; rhetoric and the problem of voice; disability studies and rhetoric; and rights-based thought and argument. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Oregon, an M.A. in English Literature from Virginia Tech, and was ABD in the UW-Madison Slavic Department before transferring to the UW-Madison English Department. He also currently co-directs the English 100 Tutorial Program at UW-Madison.