Biography 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 Toronto.
Biography 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 Native/First Nations dance and art and the frames used to discuss indigenous performance happening within museum and gallery spaces. …
Biography 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 M.A. and a B.A. from the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil).
Biography 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” of the Institute—typing their manuscripts, helping them find and furnish their apartments and houses, providing sweets and coffee. Generations …
Biography 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 in the ESL Program at UW–Madison since 2014 and has experience teaching English and Farsi to language learners from …
Biography 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 for Workers. In May 2013 she was awarded the College of Letters & Science 2012-2013 Classified Staff Excellence Award …
Biography 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 of colonial education. He received a Fulbright Fellowship in 2013 to support this project: Japanese Colonial Education and the …
Biography Elizabeth is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UW–Madison. She specializes in cultural exchanges between Christians and Muslims on the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th and 17th centuries. Her dissertation is titled Significant Others Mixed Marriage in Early Modern Spanish Literature. She earned an M.A. from Middlebury College and a B.A. …
