Tag arts/humanities
Robin Valenza
Associate professor, English
Expert on 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture, history of academic disciplines, digital humanities, graphic novel, 20th/21st-century comic books
Adam L. Kern
Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture, Department of Asian Languages & Culture
Specializing in Japanese literature, visual culture, and popular culture, particularly manga (Japanese-styled comics) and haiku.
Susan Cook
Director, School of Music; professor, musicology
Expert on American music of all kinds and eras, gender and music, Wisconsin and campus musics
Jeff Smith
Professor, communication arts
Expert on postwar American cinema, music in film and the Hollywood blacklist
William Aylward
Professor, Classical & Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Expert on classical archaeology, ancient Greek and Roman civilization, and Troy and the Trojan War
Anja Wanner
Professor, English
Expert on the English language (grammar, standards, genres, academic writing, spelling, language change, language use on the Internet, "Grammar Badgers" website)
William Sethares
Professor, electrical and computer engineering
Expert on signal processing of sound, images and video
Marc Silberman
Professor and chair, German
Expert on 20th and 21st century German culture, literature, theater, cinema (1920s, Third Reich, postwar East/West Germany and post-unification)
Ellen Sapega
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Expert on contemporary Portuguese literature and culture
William Reese
Professor, educational policy studies and history
Expert in history of American education: history of high schools, reform movements, progressive education and testing
Frank Salomon
Professor emeritus, anthropology
Expert on Andean peoples, especially religion and writing systems
Mark Nelson
Associate professor, design studies
Expert in interior design, architecture and architectural illustration/digital visualization
Robert Skloot
Professor emeritus, theatre and drama, and Jewish studies
Expert on the theater and the Holocaust and the arts and genocide; teacher; theater director and playwright
Mario Ortiz-Robles
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, English
Literary Studies; Cultural History of Animals;
Judith Mitchell
Associate professor, English; program in creative writing
Expert in fiction: novels and short stories
Tomislav (Toma) Longinović
Professor emeritus, Slavic and comparative literature
Expert on the Balkans, its languages, literature and cultures; East European folklore, especially vampire legends
Mary Layoun
Emerita Professor, Comparative Literature
Comparative study of modern cultures, literature and politics of Greece, Cyprus, the Middle East, Japan, U.S.
David Danaher
Associate professor, Slavic languages & literatures
Expert in Czech and Russian languages, cognitive linguistics, and Václav Havel.