CONTACT:
Scott Emmert
Department of English; University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley
1478 Midway Road Menasha, WI 54952
920-832-2640
scott.emmert at uwc.edu
Scott Emmert will negotiate costs with you. Contact him directly to make arrangements. REGION:
Calumet, Winnebago and Waupaca Counties, Eastern WisconsinHUMANITIES EXPERTISE:
Literature
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SCOTT EMMERT
Scott Emmert teaches composition and American literature at the University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley. His degrees include a PhD in American literature and an MA in American Studies from Purdue University. Much of his recent research has focused on American literary naturalism and regionalism and on sports literature. He is the author of Loaded Fictions: Social Critique in the Twentieth-Century Western (1996) and the co-editor (with Michael Cocchiarale) of Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature (2004). Outside of the classroom he has spoken on nineteenth-century baseball in the Fox Valley and on the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Public Presentations:
Sports in Literature
In our culture, sports tend to be mostly a matter of entertainment and escapism. However, writers often find deeper significance in athletics, something that can be recognized by the athlete and the non-athlete alike through literature. Reading excerpts from poems, stories, plays and essays, Scott Emmert presents some of the ways American writers have expressed the wonder and the anguish of sports.
Other Public Program Ideas: Scott Emmert is interested in advising for and being involved in projects about Wisconsin and Midwestern writers, the fiction and film of the American West, the American Civil War and World War I explored through literature.
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