{"id":9724,"date":"2023-10-13T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/?page_id=9724"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:07:53","slug":"gretchen-michlitsch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/english-department\/faculty-staff\/gretchen-michlitsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Michlitsch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Michlitsch teaches multicultural American literature at Winona State University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gretchen Michlitsch grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota and did her undergraduate work at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN and at Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic. After selling books for 2 years in Asheville, NC, she returned to the central U.S. for graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin. She earned her PhD at the&nbsp;University of Wisconsin-Madison.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her current research explores representations of autonomous independence and of positive liberties in:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>19th century slave narratives and abolitionist literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20th century neo-slave narratives\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>literature of African American movement into the western United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More broadly, Dr. Michlitsch studies African American literature, Native American literature, European American literature and literature of Latin America and the Caribbean.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Michlitsch\u2019s critical essays on the writings of Sherley Anne Williams appear in &#8220;Australian Feminist Studies&#8221; and in &#8220;Black Women Writers from A \u2013 Z&#8221;.\u00a0 Her work on Nalo Hopkinson has been published in &#8220;Femspec&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to her academic passions, Dr. Michlitsch enjoys:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>cooking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>hiking and backpacking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>swimming, biking, and running<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>gardening, traveling, and reading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>She often spends summers in Boston with her husband, Allen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                            <div class=\"h3\">Contact<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n            \n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Dr. Gretchen Michlitsch\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Professor\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>Minne 319<\/p>\n<p>507.457.5857<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\" href=\"mailto:gmichlitsch@winona.edu\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Email Dr. Gretchen Michlitsch <\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about the academic background of Dr. Gretchen Michlitsch, a faculty member of WSU&#8217;s English Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":9688,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[330,352],"class_list":["post-9724","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-english","tag-contact-profile","tag-legacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14215,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9724\/revisions\/14215"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}