Peter Sands

  • Associate Professor, English
  • Director, UWM Honors College

Education

  • JD, University of Wisconsin
  • PhD, Binghamton University, SUNY
  • MA, University at Albany, SUNY
  • BA, University at Albany, SUNY

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
HONORS 380-004 Honors Seminar in the Arts: Slow Writing: Slow Looking TR 11:30am-12:45pm
HONORS 684-006 Honors Experiential Learning Wisconsin Empathy Project F 1pm-2:15pm

Research Interests

  • Intellectual Property law and its relation to academic work and publishing
  • Digital Writing and Art
  • Nineteenth-century American literature and culture
  • Online teaching and writing
  • Utopianism and Science Fiction
  • Law and literature
  • Law and Rhetoric
  • American literary and cultural studies, including law and rhetoric
  • Utopianism and Science Fiction
  • Digital media Writing - composition, professional, and research-oriented

Selected Publications

Sands, Peter V. “Cyberstates” Law and Disciplinarity; Thinking Beyond Borders Ed. Beck, Robert J. NY: Palgrave Macmillan. (2013): 207-25.
Sands, Peter V. “Blended Classrooms: Hybridity, Social Capital, and Online Learning” Teaching the Humanities Online: A Practical Guide to the Virtual Classroom Ed. Hoffman, Stephen J., and Robison, J. K. M.E. Sharpe. (2010).
Sands, Peter V. “Towers of Ivory, Corridors of Linoleum: Utopia in Academic Novels” Stumbling Through the Groves: Fiction on Academia Ed. Bosco, Mark, and Connor, Kimberly R. Edwin Mellen. (2007).
Sands, Peter V. “Distant, Present, and Hybrid” Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of English Ed. Alexander, Jonathan, and Dixon, Marcia. Hampton Press. (2006).
Inman, James. Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options Ed. Inman, James, Reed, Cheryl, and Sands, Peter V. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 2003.
Sands, Peter V. “Octavia Butler's Chiastic Cannibalistics: Utopia, Consumption, Consumption, Utopia” Utopian Studies 14.1 (2003): 1-14.

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