Scott Fish, Ph.D.


My Background

I hail from Milton, a small town of approximately 5,200 inhabitants in south central Wisconsin. First called Prairie du Lac, the area attracted Pioneer Joseph Goodrich who settled there in 1838. One of Milton's foremost claims to fame is the octagon-shaped Milton House, a stagecoach inn built by Goo
drich in 1844. Residents are also proud of the fact that the Milton House was a stop on the freedom trail; runaway slaves were hid in a small underground tunnel and helped to escape to Canada.



My Education

I completed a double B.A. in French and Art (painting and ceramics emphases) at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. While a student at UW-W, I spent a semester studying abroad at the Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes II, located in Brittany, France. I then completed a M.A. in French at the University of Minnesota. During my studies at the U of MN, I had the opportunity to serve as Assistant to the U of MN's study abroad program in Montpellier, France for three months. After the Master's degree, I transferred to the University of Wisconsin at Madison where I completed my Ph.D. At Wisconsin, I also served as Editorial Assistant for the Modern Language Journal.


My Hobbies

In my free time I enjoy tennis, racquetball, rollerblading, reading, traveling, photography, web-page design, gardening, home improvement, weight-training, film, and old-time radio drama.

 

About Me

Some of my favorite podcasts


  1. •NPR's Cartalk

  2. •NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

  3. •CBC's C''est la vie:  word of the week

  4. •Collège de France: Littérature

  5. •TF1 journal du 20h

  6. •This American Life

  7. •Bonjour Minnesota

  8. •Canal Académie


Books I'm (re)reading


  1. •Thompson, Ian. The Sun King's Garden: Louis XIV, André Le Nôtre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles. New York: Bloomsbury, 2006,

  2. •Prévost, Abbé. Manon Lescaut. Ed. E. Joe Johnson Newark: Molière & Co., 2006.