John Tiedemann

John Tiedemann is completing his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a dissertation titled “American Dreamwork: the Literary and Political Innovation of the Public Sphere, 1960-1974.” He received his MA in English Literature at Wisconsin and his BA in English at Hofstra. At Wisconsin, Tiedemann worked as the Assistant Director of the Freshman Writing Fellows Program and as the Assistant Director of the Freshman English Program, for which he co-authored the textbook An Introduction to Writing Arguments. He was named a UW Teaching Fellow and received the Distinguished Service Award and the Graduate Student Mentor Award. Tiedemann's research interests include American literature and politics and rhetoric.