Associate Teaching Professor
Biography
B.A., Rockford College, 1973
M.A., University of Washington, 1977
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1986
Areas of Specialization
Central European Literatures in Translation, Political Economy, Writing across the Curriculum and the Natural Sciences in particular.
Research
Selected Research
- Norman Wacker. “More New Writing from Serbia: Post Modern Excavations of the Common Life.” Transconflict November 2012.
- Norman Wacker. “Kiš, Selenić, Ugrešić and after – Archivists of Yugoslavia Disappeared.” Transconflict October 2011.
- Norman Wacker. “Home and Away: Decentering and the City.” Arcade Art/Design in the Northwest: Image and Identity Vol. 21, Number One; Autumn 2002, p. 17-18.
- Norman Wacker. “The Subject Re-Positioned/the Subject Re-possessed: the Performative Ethos of Pound’s Pisan Cantos.” Paideuma 21:1&2 (1992), pp. 81-100.
- Norman Wacker. “Ezra Pound and the Visual: Notations for New Subjects in The Cantos.” Image and Ideology. David Downing and Susan Bazargan Editors. SUNY at Albany Press. 1991, pp. 85-103.
- Norman Wacker. “Mass Society/Mass Novel: the Politics of Representation in Don DeLillo’s Libra.” Works and Days 8.1 (1990), pp. 67-88.
Courses Taught
Winter 2026
Autumn 2025
Summer 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Summer 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Summer 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Summer 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Affiliations
Home Department