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About Katherine Wikoff

I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.

Unhappy Birthday

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Taken near the NE corner of Jefferson and Wisconsin in downtown Milwaukee on a Saturday morning in early August. There’s a story here. I’m guessing it’s a sad one.

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Waiting Room

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Not that there would be any doubt in your mind that this is what you’re looking at. All that’s missing is a plant in the corner 😀    

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Fiserv Forum Skywalk

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Taken with my iPhone while sitting on Juneau, facing west, at the 6th Street stoplight. I really enjoy seeing this building from different perspectives, at different times of day, and in different seasons. Always something new.

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Weeds on a Milwaukee sidewalk

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Gray morning in Milwaukee, but these weeds in the 1900 block of West Vliet caught my eye as I was driving past, so I had to stop and get out in the drizzling rain to take a picture. Maybe I … Continue reading →

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A tour of public sculpture along Milwaukee’s Riverwalk and Wisconsin Avenue

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

A photo of my colleague, Margaret Dwyer, and me with “The Bronze Fonz,” taken during last Saturday’s walking tour of public sculptures along the Milwaukee Riverwalk and Wisconsin Avenue. We led a group of MSOE students on the two-hour walk … Continue reading →

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TIX3

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

😂 Looked up from my desk this morning and noticed the “EXIT” sign outside my door.

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Eleanor Roosevelt on “What’s My Line” and other famous things

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

I stumbled across a reference to this while doing something else online and couldn’t resist watching. In October 1953 Eleanor Roosevelt appeared as a “mystery guest” on the stump-the-panel quiz show “What’s My Line?” This episode, posted in its entirety … Continue reading →

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Fiserv Forum roofline, south side, late afternoon

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

So many photos of this building are just waiting to be taken. There’s one image I’d like to capture along the north side looking west, but I don’t think my equipment is good enough to get it 😦

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Arrangement in Black and White No. 1

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Photo taken in my parking garage this morning. Lots of cutesy titles suggested themselves, among them: “Rule of Thirds” – because there are three white pillar bases and three white lights. Plus the “Rule of Thirds” concept. “Figures 3 and … Continue reading →

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The individual vs. society – Joseph Campbell, Gandhi, and JFK weigh in

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

I’m cleaning out my office today, throwing out old student papers and old lecture notes from courses I no longer teach. One of the files I came across was from a one-off course on mythology that I taught in the … Continue reading →

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