Tanya Kam, Associate Professor

Office location: Laurentide 3229
Phone: (262) 472-4976
Email: kamt@uww.edu

 Education

PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

BA, University of California, Berkeley.  Double major: English &

     Interdisciplinary Field Studies (focus: sociolinguistics)

     Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Publications

 “Velvet Coats and Manicured Nails:  the Body Speaks Resistance in Zora

     Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on the Road.”  The Southern Literary

     Journal 42.1 (Fall 2009): 73-87.  

“Traveling Identities:  Between Worlds in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Circle K

     Cycles.” ellipsis:  Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association

     6  (December 2008): 9-32. 

Reviews

“G. Thomas Couser’s Vulnerable Subjects,” Auto/Biography Studies,

     Summer 2006

“Paul John Eakin’s The Ethics of Life Writing,” Auto/Biography Studies,

     Summer 2004

Research Interests

auto/biography, multicultural literature, gender studies, bodies as borders, the social construction of madness

a/b:  Auto/Biography Studies Book Editor