Lisa Beranek Terasa

Lisa Beranek Terasa is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Mount Mary University, affiliated with the School of Arts and Sciences. She has served in this role for over two decades, contributing as Composition sequence coordinator and department chair.

• Education
  • B.A. in English and Business Communications, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
  • M.A. in Broad Field English, Marquette University
  • Ph.D. in 18th, 19th, and 20th Century British Literature, Marquette University

Her research and teaching focus on British literature across the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, with a unique specialization in food representations in literature and contemporary food writing. She designed the course Food, Literature, and Popular Culture in 2010 to explore these intersections and emphasizes grammatical precision and effective communication in her pedagogy.

Terasa has presented her work on topics such as "Memoir as Cookbook" at the Southeastern Wisconsin Festival of Books in 2013. Her dedication to student success is reflected in her statement about being a "little voice in a student's ear" for future communication.