PUBLIC NOTICE | FORMAL CEASE AND DESIST
holly burgess issues FORMAL CEASE & DESIST to Marquette university
Sun 04/05/26 10:03 PM
NOTICE OF RESCISSION
Monday, April 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM
ALL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND EXPRESSIONS OF GRATITUDE REGARDING MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, ITS ADMINISTRATION, AND ITS DONOR NETWORKS ARE HEREBY FORMALLY RESCINDED.
This action is taken pending the outcome of a Federal Civil Rights and Whistleblower Audit.
This site and its associated research on "Transcribing Brutality" now serve as a record of administrative and fiduciary negligence. Any further unauthorized use of my likeness or intellectual property by the institution is subject to immediate legal action.
Holly E. Burgess
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Campus Email: holly.burgess@marquette.edu
Professional Email: holly-burgess@outlook.com
Professional Website: hollyeburgess.com
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
20th and 21st Century American literature; African American literature; Black studies; Hip Hop studies; Film studies; LGBTQ+ and gender studies; Popular culture
EDUCATION:
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Ph.D., ABD English
Expected Spring 2027
British and American Literature
M.A. English
May 2018
British and American Literature
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
December 2015
B.A., English
Film Studies Certification
DISSERTATION
Title: “Transcribing Brutality: Violence, Martyrdom, and Legacy in Black Literature and Social Movements”
Co-Directors: Cedric Burrows and Robert S. Smith
Committee: Josef Benson and Jason Farr
Marquette University
Doctoral Fellowships
Arthur J. Schmitt Leadership Program Fellowship
Cyril E. Smith Trust Smith Family Fellowship
Diversity Doctoral Fellowship
2025-2026
2023–2025
2018–2022
Dissertation Research Grants & Funding
The Center for Peacemaking
Marquette University
Research Travel fund to conduct dissertation archival research in New York City
Student Peacemaking Fellowship
2026
The Diane Hoeveler Fellowship Fund
2026
Hoeveler Fund, English Department, Marquette University
Research Travel fund to conduct dissertation archival research in New York City
Graduate Student Research Support Fund, Marquette University
Career Center Professional Development Fund Award
2025
Graduate Student Research Support Fund Award
2025
Career Center and Marquette University Graduate School, Marquette University
Fund made possible by: Baird, U.S. Bank, Vierbicher, and Enterprise Mobility
The Smart Family Gift, Shaka and Maya Smart, Marquette University
The Bo and Candy Ellis Student Success Fund Award
2023
Travel & Conference Grants
Graduate Student Research Travel Award
2025
Marquette University and Macmillan Publishers
Graduate Student Research Support Fund, Marquette University
Writing Innovation Symposium Bedford/St. Martin’s Fellow
2025, 2023
Graduate Student Research Travel Award
2022
Hoeveler Fund, English Department, Marquette University
Graduate Student Research Travel Award
2022
Women’s Club Scholarship Fund, Marquette University
Midwest Modern Language Association
Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Graduate Student Research Travel Scholarship
2022
Graduate Student Research Travel Award
2021
Marquette University
Teaching & Pedagogical Awards
John D. McCabe Award for Excellence in Teaching
2017–2018
Marquette University, English Department
Marquette University, English Department
John D. McCabe Award for Excellence in Teaching, Nomination
Student-Nominated: Professor Pizzazz Recognition
2023
2023
Eleventh Anniversary, Urban Scholars Program
Marquette University
Student-nominated honor recognizing faculty and mentors for exceptional dedication, energy, and advocacy within the Urban Scholars community.
Honors & Awards
Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, The University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Taking Care of Business Banquet Honoree
2013–2016
Wisconsin Covenant Scholar
2008–2015
State of Wisconsin and The University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Professional leadership
Chair, Postcolonial and decolonial studies permanent section
2026
Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference
Chicago, IL
Appointed by the MMLA Executive Committee following a competitive review of scholarly leadership and research trajectory.
Public Scholarship & media
Marquette Today [Marquette University], with Holly Burgess, 26. https://today.marquette.edu/2023/10/stories-of-graduate-student-success-holly-burgess-doctoral-student-in-the-department-of-english/.
“Stories of Graduate Student Success: Holly Burgess”
2023
“Ph.D. Candidate Speaks on the History of Hip-Hop”
2023
Black History Month, Fox6 News Milwaukee.
10 p.m. live broadcast.
Project Community: Black History Month WISN-TV Milwaukee, Channel 12,https://www.wisn.com/article/hip-hop-new-way-to-express-an-older-message/42788817
6 p.m. live broadcast and online.
“Hip-Hop: New Way to Express and Older Message”
2023
2023
Marquette Today [Marquette University],https://today.marquette.edu/2023/01/ph-d-candidate-speaks-on-the-history-of-hip-hop-at-graham-public-library-feb-6/.
“Ph.D. Candidate Speaks on the History of Hip-Hop at Graham Public Library”
“Soup with Substance Is Feb. 16.” Marquette Today [Marquette University],
2022
Published poetry
“With Bated Breath (In Memory of Greg).”
2024
Marquette Literary Review, no XVI, 29. April 2024.
“We’ll Never Have Paris.”
2019
Marquette Literary Review, no. XII.
“The Beckoning of the Sacred Willows.”
2019
Marquette Literary Review, no XII. May 2019.
“Lost Soul.”
2019
Marquette Literary Review, no. XII.
“From Selma to Ferguson.”
2019
Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, vol. 13, no. 1, 32.
“On My Ancestors’ Backs.”
Straylight Literary Arts Magazine.
2019
Works under progress/review
“Embodied Digital Rhetoric and Racialized Labor: A Black Woman Graduate Student’s Activism amid White Performativity.”
2026
Abstract Accepted In Black Women’s Digital Rhetoric: Healing, Resistance, and the Rhetoric of #JUSTus. Ed. Jessica Ridgeway
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: Black Women’s Revolutionary Freedom and the Black Power Movement in Coffy (1973) and Alice (2022).”
2026
Abstract Submitted to Arts (Special Issue: Contemporary Development of American Film). Eds. Catherine L. Benamou and Philana Payton
Conference Presentations
“‘Our Black Shining Prince: Black Resilience and Hope in
The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Spike Lee’s Malcolm X”
2025
Permanent Section: Antiracism
Resistance and Renewal: Reimagining Narratives of Black History and Culture Panel
Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference
Marquette University
“‘Only Black Blood Drippin’’: African American Communal Identity, Police Brutality, and Violence in Rapsody’s and Tupac Shakur’s Music”
2022
Permanent Section: African American Literature
Black Resistance through Aesthetics Panel
Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference
Studies in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Cinema Panel
Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference
Minneapolis, MN
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen’: Black Women Empowerment and Revolutionary Freedom in Krystin Ver Linden’s Alice (2022)”
2022
“‘All I Have to Give the World is Me’”: Queer Identity Development, Homophobia, and Escapism in Sara and Tegan Quin’s memoir, High School”
2021
Invited Lecturer, Soup with Substance: A Lunchtime Speaker Series on Topics of Justice and Peace
Campus Ministry and Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach (CURTO), Marquette University.
poster Presentations
Courageous Collaborations Conference
Institute for Women’s Leadership, Marquette University
“‘Love Me for Who I Am’”: Intersectional Feminism, Queer Love, and Rebellion in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer and The Memory Librarian”
2023
“‘The People Are Rising’: Revolution and Violence in African American Social Movements and Literature”
2023
Graduate School Research Poster Competition
The Office of Research and Innovation and Marquette Graduate School
Marquette University
“‘The People Are Rising’: Revolution and Violence in African American Social Movements and Literature”
2023
Writing Innovation Symposium, Annual Conference
Marquette University
2016
“‘Git Woke’: Incorporating African American Vernacular English into the Composition Classroom
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University Poster Conference
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
Oral Presentations
“Freezing Time: The Role of the Timebox in Janelle Monáe’s The Memory Librarian: AndOther Stories of Dirty Computer”
2025
Flash Talk (5-minute oral presentation)
Writing Innovation Symposium Annual Conference Marquette University
Flash Talk
Writing Innovation Symposium Annual Conference
Marquette University
“Revolution Amidst Lockdown: Black Lives Matter in Anderson .Paak’s “Lockdown”
Poetry Readings
“With Bated Breath (In Memory of Greg)”
2024
Marquette Literary Review Issue 16 Launch
Marquette University
Death and All His Friends Conference
English Department
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside
“From Selma to Ferguson”
2015
Invited lectures
Public Library Lectures
Hip-Hop 50th Anniversary Library Event
Mercer County Library System
Lawrence Township, NJ
August 2023
“The History of Hip Hop”
2023
2023
Black History Month Library Event
Graham Public Library, Union Grove, WI
February 2023
“The History of Hip Hop”
Academic Lectures
“Hip-Hop and African American English”
2023
Guest Lecturer for Steve Hartman Keiser
ENGL 3140: Sociolinguistics: World Englishes
Marquette University
March 2023
“‘Death in These Streets’: Revolution and Violence from The Black Power Movement to The Black Lives Matter Movement”
2022
Soup with Substance: A Lunchtime Speaker Series on Topics of Justice and Peace
Campus Ministry and Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach
Marquette University
February 2022
“Women within The Black Power Movement”
2021
Guest Lecturer for Danielle K. Clapham
ENGL 314: Advanced Composition I: The Rhetoric of Social Movements
University of Jamestown
Jamestown, ND
February 2021
Graduate Student Alumni Panel
2019
Invited Panelist, English Department Writer’s Conference
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside
May 2019
Göran Olsson’s The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2018
Invited Lecturer, The Critical View: A New Film and Lecture Series
The Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS)
Marquette University
October 2018
Graduate Student Alumni Panel
2018
Invited Panelist, English Department Writer’s Conference
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside
May 2018
Public Scholarship & media
Marquette Today [Marquette University], with Holly Burgess, 26. https://today.marquette.edu/2023/10/stories-of-graduate-student-success-holly-burgess-doctoral-student-in-the-department-of-english/.
“Stories of Graduate Student Success: Holly Burgess”
2023
“Ph.D. Candidate Speaks on the History of Hip-Hop”
2023
Black History Month, Fox6 News Milwaukee.
10 p.m. live broadcast.
Project Community: Black History Month WISN-TV Milwaukee, Channel 12,https://www.wisn.com/article/hip-hop-new-way-to-express-an-older-message/42788817
6 p.m. live broadcast and online.
“Hip-Hop: New Way to Express and Older Message”
2023
2023
Marquette Today [Marquette University],https://today.marquette.edu/2023/01/ph-d-candidate-speaks-on-the-history-of-hip-hop-at-graham-public-library-feb-6/.
“Ph.D. Candidate Speaks on the History of Hip-Hop at Graham Public Library”
“Soup with Substance Is Feb. 16.” Marquette Today [Marquette University],
2022
Teaching experience
Marquette University: Courses Taught
ENGL 1001: Foundations in Rhetoric
Spring 2023
ENGL 2011: Books That Matter
Fall 2022—Spring 2023
Thematic Title: African American Youth Culture and Literature
Thematic Title: Academic Literacies
Fall 2017, Fall 2016
ENGL 1001: Rhetoric and Composition 1
Teaching Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Fall 2024
Co-organizer and Panelist
English Department
Marquette University
Microteaching Mentor
Fall 2017
Spring 2018, Spring 2017
ENGL 1002: Rhetoric and Composition 2
Thematic Title: Public Literacies
Additional teaching experience
Teaching Assistant Orientation
English Department
Marquette University
Academic service
Marquette University: University Level
Professor Pizzaz
2023
Student Nomination
Eleventh Anniversary
Urban Scholars Program
Marquette University: Department Level
Sigma Tau Delta-Beta Delta
2023–present
Member
2023–2024
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Access Steering Committee
Committee Member
Association of English Graduate Students
2022–2024
Committee Member
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside: Department Level
Sigma Tau Delta-Tau Psi
2014–2015
Officer, Graphic Designer, and Member
pROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Literature Association
2026–present
American Historical Association
2026–present
Midwest Modern Language Association
2021–present
Sigma Tau Delta: International English Honor Society
2014–present
Beta Delta, Marquette University’s chapter
Tau Psi, The University of Wisconsin-Parkside’s chapter
2023–present
2014–2015