Emeriti

I was born and raised in Madison, a Wisconsin Badger all my life. I worked for the Department of Slavic Languages & Literature for 13 years, retiring in 2014. I live in Lodi, WI with my husband Carl. Our two children are grown and gone. I love the freedom retirement allows and have the time to enjoy Badger Basketball, swimming, traveling, and baseball.

I was born and raised in Missouri, and educated in Missouri, Indiana, Bavaria, and Minnesota. I taught in Indiana, Minnesota, Bavaria, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Although I am proud to have been born a Missouri Mule, I am equally proud to be a Wisconsin Badger. My hobbies include collecting and listening to German popular music, going on long bicycle rides, and photographing everything in sight!

Nancy Kaiser’s research and teaching connected the two parts of her faculty position: German Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. A main research focus was on 18th- and 19th-century German literature, particularly narrative prose and historically based gender analysis.

Cora Lee Kluge received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and taught German language and literature as well as Business German at the UW. Her research interests include the eighteenth century, German-American studies, particularly the period from 1848 to World War I, and the history of German studies in America.

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt came to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature in 1987. Over her almost thirty years at UW-Madison, she served as chair of the Slavic Department 3 times, and spent 10 years serving in the Graduate School as Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities and as Senior Associate of Graduate Education.

Jim Leary is a folklorist whose ethnographic and historical research concerns the cultural traditions of diverse peoples in America’s Upper Midwest, with a particular emphasis on Germanic, Nordic, and Slavic folklore in the region and in relation to respective Old Country cultural hearths.

Tomislav Z. Longinović is an emeritus professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include South Slavic literatures and cultures; literary theory; Central and East European literary history; comparative Slavic studies; translation studies; cultural studies.

Carla Love received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 and a year later joined the Department of German, where she taught courses in German language, literature, and culture.  She co-edited the collection Other Germanies, published articles on academic governance, and served as president of the Madison-Freiburg sister city committee.

 Ewa Miernowska received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1996 and joined the Department of Slavic Languages, where she taught Polish language and culture. She initiated the Polish major at UW–Madison and developed advanced Polish courses that incorporated literary texts and various forms of media. In 1993, she founded the Annual Polish Film Festival, one of the first film festivals held on the UW–Madison campus.