Faculty

Nancy Chick earned her B.A. in English from the University of New Mexico in 1990 and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English (specializations of American literature and women writers of color) from the University of Georgia in 1992 and 1998, respectively. Nancy's teaching interests are everything literary—with a particular focus on critical multiculturalism and gender—and her research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), the discipline of literary studies, feminist pedagogy, and the intersections of the three. She's enjoyed getting involved locally (volunteering at the Rice Lake Public Library, driving to a nearby town every week to get the Rice Lake shares for The Good Luck Farm CSA so there's a local pickup point) and internationally (serving as the Communications Coordinator, member of the Board of Directors, and editor of The International Commons of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning [ISSOTL]). In recent years, she's worked on balancing work and life, so she enjoys summer gardening and winter knitting, reading nonfiction by day and mysteries by night (Nevada Barr and Harlan Coben are favorites), watching movies with her husband Peter as Netflix's best customers, playing with their cats (Jack, Grendel, Hobbes, and Hazel), and finding excuses to be outdoors.

Teaching Faculty	Biography
Diana Budde, Associate Professor of Art, UW-Marathon County. diana.budde@uwc.edu	Diana Budde is an Associate Professor of Art at UW-Marathon County. She received her Bachelor of Art Education from Ball State University. She taught art at a public high school for four years where she worked with a ballet dancer and choreographer to design an interdisciplinary unit in Art Appreciation through the Indiana Arts Commission. She received an MFA from the University of Cincinnati Having taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati as an adjunct for two years, Professor Budde now teaches at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County. Professor Budde helped to design Women in the Arts course 290/295 for the Wisconsin Colleges. She is the mother of twins.
Nancy Chick, Associate Professor of English, UW-Barron County. nancy.chick@uwc.edu	Nancy Chick earned her B.A. in English from the University of New Mexico in 1990 and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English (specializations of American literature and women writers of color) from the University of Georgia in 1992 and 1998, respectively. Nancy's teaching interests are everything literary—with a particular focus on critical multiculturalism and gender—and her research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), the discipline of literary studies, feminist pedagogy, and the intersections of the three. She's enjoyed getting involved locally (volunteering at the Rice Lake Public Library, driving to a nearby town every week to get the Rice Lake shares for The Good Luck Farm CSA so there's a local pickup point) and internationally (serving as the Communications Coordinator, member of the Board of Directors, and editor of The International Commons of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning [ISSOTL]). In recent years, she's worked on balancing work and life, so she enjoys summer gardening and winter knitting, reading nonfiction by day and mysteries by night (Nevada Barr and Harlan Coben are favorites), watching movies with her husband Peter as Netflix's best customers, playing with their cats (Jack, Grendel, Hobbes, and Hazel), and finding excuses to be outdoors.
Jennifer Flatt, Associate Professor of English and Spanish, UW-Marinette, jennifer.flatt@uwc.edu	I teach ENG 279/WOM 279 once every two years. My research background is in Victorian literature, particularly British women novelists of the time period. Much of my research in that field has taken a feminist critical approach, particularly a Christian feminist approach. In the course, I definitely include some of the most commonly talked about texts of the nineteenth century which deal with women's rights, among other periods, of course. My other teaching (and research) interests include composition, Spanish, religion and literature, and detective fiction.
Paisley Harris, Associate Professor of History, UW-Fond du Lac. paisley.harris@uwc.edu.
Holly Hassel: Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, UW-Marathon; Chair of UW-Colleges Women's Studies Program. holly.hassel@uwc.edu.	Holly Hassel, Associate Professor: 715/261/6265 holly.hassel@uwc.edu Holly Hassel received a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing with a philosophy minor and an M.A. in English from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN. She earned her Ph.D. in August of 2002 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln after completing her dissertation entitled "Wine, Women, and Song: Gender and Alcohol in Twentieth-Century American Fiction." At UW-Marathon, she teaches courses in literature, composition, poetry, film studies, and women's studies and also teaches Introduction to Women's Studies for the UWC Online Program. She is also Chair of the UW Colleges Women's Studies Program. Off-campus, Dr. Hassel lives in Wausau with her husband, Jason, and daughter, Beatrix Turtle Octavia Homsel.
Dorothy Kowalski, Professor Physical Education and Athletics, UW-Marinette, dorothy.kowalski@uwc.edu	Dorothy Kowalski received her B.S. in Physical Education: Special Populations from Ithaca College in 1982 and an M.S. in Physical Education and Health from UW-Lacrosse in 1983. She is currently teaching Accelerated Hybrid courses. PED 218 will be taught as an AHY course this Spring. She typically teaches Social Aspects of Sport, Women and Sport, Nutrition and Weight Management, Fitness for Life; Personal Health and Wellness, First Aid and Emergency Medical Care, CPR as well as activity courses - volleyball, soccer, basketball, weight training, badminton, etc. Her research interests include sociology of sport in North America; sociology of sport in other cultures; sport and gender; race/ethnicity and sport.
Annette Kuhlmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology/Sociology, UW-Baraboo. annette.kuhlman@uwc.edu.	In 1980 I completed the equivalent of an M.A. degree in Education at the Universität Hannover, Germany. I then attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, and received an M.A. (1984) and a Ph.D. (1989) in American Studies and an M.A. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1998) in Sociology. I have published articles in criminology, Native American studies, gender issues, and sociological theory. In the past, I taught classes in a variety of settings beside the UW Colleges --in German schools, for an American Indian Tribe (the Mexican Kickapoo in Oklahoma), as an Instructor at the University of Kansas. In addition to my current campus instruction, I continue to teach in a nearby federal correctional institution. I particularly like teaching in a team with an instructor from another discipline. When I am not working I love to travel inthe US and abroad. I enjoy camping and outdoor activities with family and friends. I also like to make music, read, and play with my cats when I am at home.
Janet Labrie, Senior Lecturer, UW-Waukesha, janet.labrie@uwc.edu.	Janet LaBrie received her B.A in English from UW-Whitewater, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from UW-Madison, specializing in Women’s Literature. Besides an undergraduate minor in History, she also earned undergraduate and Ph.D. minors in Women’s Studies. She taught for ten years at UW-Rock County, followed by a one year position teaching Women’s Studies full-time at UW-Whitewater, and has since been at UW-Waukesha. Janet’s academic interests include women and the rural landscape, African American women writers, and Native Americans in literature, film and detective fiction. She is and has been co-chair of the MMLA Women’s Caucus for a number of years, and chairs the MMLA Native American Literature section as well. Besides raising her now ten year old grandson beginning three years ago, she is Board President for Spotlight on Kids, a local children’s theater organization (which just finished a very successful production of Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat). She is also Board President of The Red Road House which provides long term house and treatment for hard-core addicts and alcoholics. She is working with local colleagues (she lives in Janesville) on a series of interview videos on little known women who made history, the first one being History’s Ms. Stories: Lavinia Goodell, Wisconsin’s First Female Attorney. Janet lives in a jungle (seems like) no matter how much time she spends in the yard and reads or listens to mystery fiction or WPR/NPR to get through the housework, gardening and treadmill.
Ellyn Lem, Assistant Professor of English, UW-Waukesha, ellyn.lem@uwc.edu	Ellyn Lem received her Ph.D. in American literature from NYU in 1997 and has taught literature, composition and cultural studies courses at universities and colleges from Texas to Boston and many in between. Currently, at UW-Waukesha as an assistant professor of English, she has begun teaching WOM 203--Women in Popular Culture--in addition to WOM 279/ENG 279 Women in Literature. On campus, Ellyn advises Phi Theta Kappa, the International Honor Society for two-year colleges and engages her students in service-oriented projects and independent study projects on a range of different subjects. Some samples include: African-influences of Southern cooking, Native Americans' Relationship to Animals and the Current State of Reservation Veterinary Care, juvenile literacy in the digital age. At home, Ellyn can be found surrounded by Pokemon and splashing around at one of the neighborhood pools or water parks with her two children Ethan and Cole and husband Trevor.
Amy Reddinger, Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies, UW-Marinette, amy.reddinger@uwc.edu	My name is Amy Reddinger, and I teach Women’s Studies and English at UW-Marinette. I have a BA in English and Africana studies from Bryn Mawr College. While I was a student at Bryn Mawr I was selected to represent the college at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China – an experience that deeply impacted my view of globalization, feminism, and economic development. After college I wanted to put my feminist education to work and chose to spend a year volunteering a shelter for women in Seattle. I later returned to school to receive an MA and PhD (2007) in English from the University of Washington (with a focus on the construction of race and gender in 20^th century American writing). I am now oh-so-happily situated on a small farmette in Peshtigo Township where my partner and I grow many vegetables, chase the dog, and spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
Connie Sexauer, Associate Professor, UW-Marathon. connie.sexauer@uwc.edu.	715 261-6304, connie.sexauer@uwc.edu Connie received a Bachelor of Arts in history with secondary certification in Social Studies and an M. A. in History from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. She earned her Ph.D. in April 2003 from the University of Cincinnati after defending her dissertation entitled Catholic Capitalism: Charles Vatterott, Civil Rights and Suburbanization in St. Louis and the Nation, 1919-1971. She also holds a Women’s Studies Certification and an Historical Preservation Certification from the University of Cincinnati and a Masters of Library Science from the University of Missouri – Columbia. At the University of Wisconsin – Marathon County, she teaches United States history survey courses, Women’s History, U. S. and the Vietnam War, The History of Ethnic Minorities, U. S. History Through Social Film, as well as Introduction to Women’s Studies. She is the campus representative for the history department and serves as the coordinator of the First Year Experience Program for UWMC. She is part of the UWMC – UWSP Collaborative Degree Program where she has taught U. S. Women’s History and the History of Women’s Rights. She will be teaching the History of Women’s Rights for Fall 2008. Her current project is the completion of a manuscript entitled From a Park to a Stadium to a Little Piece of Heaven, a material culture study of the history of the St. Louis Cardinals’ baseball stadiums over the last century. Off-campus, Dr. Sexauer enjoys walking, reading, watching films, attending the theater, following the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, traveling, and visiting with her family and friends. She lives in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Nancy Soma, Assistant Professor, Spanish, UW-Baraboo County. nancy.soma@uwc.edu	Nancy Soma is an Assistant Professor of World Languages (Spanish) at UW-Baraboo. She earned her B.S. in English/Spanish at the University of Wisconsin and an MA in Spanish at the University of Northern Iowa. Professor Soma teaches first and second year Spanish as well as Latina American Women and Latina Literature. Nancy has been interested in the Spanish language for a number of years; in addition to teaching, she has worked as a Bilingual receptionist/secretary at Centro Hispano of Dane County, provided social services through the United Migrant Opportunity Services, taught as an ESL teacher in Mexico, and as an International Sales Coordinator at Accelerated Genetics, in Baraboo.
Julie Tharp, Professor of English and Associate Dean, UW-Marshfield. julie.tharp@uwc.edu.	My research and teaching interests have focused for many years on writing by women of color, in particular Native American women writers, like Louise Erdrich. I have also developed a secondary interest in film studies—particularly highly gendered issues like violence in cinema and film reception. One of my hobbies is quilt history.
Catherine Williams, Instructor of Women's Studies, catherine.williams@uwc.edu	Catherine Williams has spent her professional life bringing the humanities to bear on issues of social justice, gender equality, and cross-cultural understanding—in her writing and teaching, her service with the National Endowment for the Humanities, and her publication of Texas Journal of Ideas, History and Culture. Williams’s Ph.D. from Rice University catalyzed her scholarship in culture studies and women’s studies, including feminist theology, Chicana literature, and nineteenth-century literature by and about women. Her teaching venues have included George Mason University and the University of Texas. She continues to be an ardent advocate for the disfranchised, the silenced, and the oppressed throughout history and around the world—from Shakespeare’s unacknowledged “Sisters” to brave desaparecidos and their families to her beloved small hero, Piglet. Above all, she loves to travel. But she also enjoys too many other things to mention, including painting, writing poetry, tackling ancient languages, and trying out any stringed instrument. One fair-weather favorite is exploring Wisconsin waters in her kayak—watching whirligig beetles to figure out why they, unlike her own species, can walk on water.
Kelly Wilz, Assistant Professor: 715-389-6550 kelly.wilz@uwc.edu	Kelly Wilz received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies with minor in English from Gustavus Adolphus College. She earned her Master of Arts Degree in Communication Studies from Northern Illinois University in 2003 and her Ph.D. in Communication and Culture with a doctoral minor in Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, in February of 2009. Her dissertation was entitled: “From Caricatures to Characters: Processes of Rehumanization in Iraq War Films.” The focus of her research is on rhetorical constructions of gender, violence and dissent within the context of U.S. war culture. Specifically, she is guided by issues of how dissent and a re-articulation of dominant narratives function as a response to pro-war rhetoric. Related topics of interest include how dehumanizing and demonizing rhetoric extend beyond war to issues of social violence based on discourses of race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and other identity markers. At UW--Marshfield/Wood County, she teaches courses in public speaking, interpersonal communication, mass communication, and women's studies. Wilz currently lives in Stevens Point with her husband, Mike.

Affiliated Faculty	Biography

Linda Tollefsrud Department of Psychology, UW-Barron County ltollefs@uwc.edu	I received grant funding to do Women’s Studies Speakers’ Forum on our campus in 1986; it was a highly controversial venture at the time. I have taught a Psychology of Gender course (off and on) since 1988. I organized a CHOICES career conference (nontraditional career choices for junior-high girls) from 1989 to 1994. Featured speakers included Jeana Yeager (of Voyager fame), an Olympic athlete, a space station engineer, etc. I was on the Board of Directors of the local abuse shelter from 1983 until 1991. I am currently an advisor to the campus GLBTQ group.