Former Staff 1959-2022

Miranda is a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department at UW–Madison. She studies the intersection of early modern English drama, early modern reproductive biology, and genre theory. She earned her B.A. from the University of…

Katie Apsey is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a master’s degree in Art History from Concordia University in Montreal. Her research focuses on Contemporary…

Marina is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Her research focuses on bucolic poetry and its reception in Antiquity and idealized descriptions of the countryside. She earned an…

Loretta Freiling, the remarkable staff person who helped Marshall Clagett establish the Institute in 1959, continued to work for the Institute until her second retirement in 2010. In many ways, she was the “human face”…

Hadis Ghaedi is a Ph.D. Candidate in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests involve applied linguistics, discourse analysis, academic writing and second language acquisition. She has been teaching Academic Writing…

Ann Wysor Harris joined the Institute for Research in the Humanities in July 2009. Before this she held positions in the Deans’ office at UW-Extension, at the Small Business Development Center, and at the School…

Daniel (Danny) Kim is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation focusing on the history of modern Korea, especially the period of Japanese colonization, and the history…