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Department of English

Mark Wisniewski

Senior Lecturer

Mark Wisniewski holds a doctorate in British literature from Marquette University and an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.  His research interests include seventeenth-century British colonialism and cosmic voyage narratives.  In addition to teaching and research, Wisniewski has worked as an archives’ assistant at Marquette, where he worked on projects relating to the J.R.R. Tolkien and Catholic Worker collections.

Representative publications

  • Wisniewski, Mark. “Tolkien Fanzines, Fandom, and the Literary Tradition in the 1960s.”  Journal of Fandom Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 3-18, https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00086_1.
  • Wisniewski, Mark.  “Orbis Non Sufficit: The Spaniard as Extraterrestrial Conquistador in Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone.”  Renescence.  Forthcoming.