Birgit Brander Rasmussen

Assistant Professor
608-263-3818
bbranderrasm@wisc.edu

Degrees and Institutions

PhD, University of California, Berkeley
MA, University of California, Berkeley
BA, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests

Comparative Ethnic Literatures; Colonial and Early American Literature; Race and American Literature; Critical Whiteness Studies; Colonialism and American Literature; Chicano/a Literatures; Cultural Studies.

Selected Publications

“Negotiating Treaties, Negotiating Literacies: A French-Iroquois Encounter and the Making of Early American Literature” (American Literature); Co-editor, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001); Book Review of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America by David Kazanjian in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 7 (Spring 2005), No. 2; "Critical Negotiations: Body and Space in Colonialist Discourse" in Mississippi Quarterly (Oct/Nov 2001); "The Body as Text: The American Novel and Cultural Hybridity" in Looking Outwards, Gaining Insight (Journal of the Danish Research Academy, 1999).

Other Media

“Multiracial Battlestar Galactica” on MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/blog/2007/07/09/in-media-res-july-9-13-2007/)

Monograph in Progress

Queequeg’s Coffin: Alternative Literacies and the Making of Early American Literature.

Courses Taught

English:
The Literature of Colonial America: New Directions in Early American Literary Studies
Colonial Encounters in America: Literary Visions and Revisions
Race, Writing and Colonialism in 19th Century American Literature
Survey of American Literature – Beginnings to Present

Chican@ Latin@ Studies Program:
Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies
Topics in Chican@ Latin@ Studies: Comparative Ethnic Studies
Integrative Seminar in Comparative and Transnational Ethnic Studies
Introduction to Chicano/a Literature (cross-listed with English)