Popular culture :: UW–Madison Experts

Heather Kirkorian

Professor, Human Development and Family Studies

Expert on infant/child development and the impact of screen media on infants, young children, and families

Laura Buyan Dent

Associate Professor of Neurology

Treats movement disorders, works with artists affected by neurological conditions that affect performance

Patrick Rumble

Professor, Department of French and Italian

Expert on modern Italian cinema, culture and society in European context.

Ramzi Fawaz

Romnes Professor of English

I study the relationship between popular culture and radical social movements.

Alex Wiedenhoeft

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Botany

Specialist in the anatomy and function of wood, forensic wood science, and forensic botany

DeVon worked in the areas of strategic organizational change planning, enrollment management, high-impact educational practices, strategic fundraising to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities.

Craig Werner

Professor emeritus of Afro-American Studies

Expert on African American and American popular music from the 1950s to the present.

Sami Schalk

Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Women's Studies

Expert on disability, blackness, and gender in contemporary American literature, media and culture

Cody Wenthur

Assistant Professor, Divisions of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Expert on addiction, abused drugs, opioids, naloxone, psychoactive substances, psilocybin, psychedelics, stress and reward learning, vaccine design, drug development, glutamate

James McMaster

Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies

Expert on LGBTQ and Asian American politics and cultural production.

Claus Andersen

Paul and Renate Madsen Professor of Scandinavian Studies

Hygge, Scandinavian Culture and Politics, literature, autofiction, Hans Christian Andersen, Karl Ove Knausgaard

Mary Huelsbeck

Assistant Director, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

Expert on the worlds of film, television and theater archives.

Theresa Delgadillo

Professor of English and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies

I study Latinx literatures and visual cultures.

Marissa Moorman

Professor, African Cultural Studies

Expert on politics and culture in Southern Africa, Angola especially, and on African media studies.

Moses Altsech

Teaching professor of marketing

Expertise in marketing and business topics; experience as a professor, consultant, trainer and public speaker over 30 years with clients in dozens of industries.