Donna Tanzer

Donna C. Tanzer is an Adjunct Professor of Writing and Humanities at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), where she teaches a wide range of courses including metafiction, children's literature, and fairy tales. She has also taught graduate education courses at Marian University in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She formerly taught AP English Literature and many more high school classes in West Allis, Wisconsin, where she also directed over 25 plays, including Shakespearean comedies and an...See more

Donna C. Tanzer is an Adjunct Professor of Writing and Humanities at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), where she teaches a wide range of courses including metafiction, children's literature, and fairy tales. She has also taught graduate education courses at Marian University in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She formerly taught AP English Literature and many more high school classes in West Allis, Wisconsin, where she also directed over 25 plays, including Shakespearean comedies and an original adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Ms. Tanzer earned a B.S. in English and Speech (theatre emphasis) from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and an M.A. in Education from Marian University. She has been an AP Reader in English Literature and Composition for the College Board since 2004. She wrote Teacher's Guide for the Advanced Placement Program to accompany Kirzner and Mandell's Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing (2013), published by Cengage, and was formerly the lead writer for several editions of Perrine's Literature: Teacher's Guide for the Advanced Placement Program (2007, revised and expanded 2009-2014, Cengage), coauthored with Claudia Klein Felske. Ms. Tanzer and Dr. Beller also co-wrote Interpreting Poetry: Classic and Contemporary Poems (Peoples Education, 2010). With Barbara Bloy, Ms. Tanzer co-authored four Shakespeare Skillbooks on Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello, also published by Peoples Education (2009). Other publications include contributions to the Utah English Journal and articles for two volumes of the College Board's AP Literature and Composition Professional Development Workshop Materials. See less