Alred, Gerald. Professor

Email: alred@uwm.edu
Web page: http://www.uwm.edu/~alred
Education: B.A. 1965, University of Dayton (English and Engineering); M.A. 1968, University of Dayton (English); Ph.D. Program in English 1971-74, Miami University (Ohio)

Selected Publications: The St. Martin's Bibliography of Business and Technical Communication, The Business Writer's Handbook, Handbook of Technical Writing, Writing That Works, The Professional Writer with Bedford/St. Martin's and Business and Technical Writing: An Annotated Bibliography of Books, 1880-1980. His articles include "Essential Works on Technical Communication," published in the 50th Anniversary Issue of Technical Communication, "'We Regret to Inform You': Toward a New Theory of Negative Messages" in Studies in Technical Communication and "Are Textbooks Contributions to Scholarship?" in College Composition and Communication. His article "Teaching in Germany and the Rhetoric of Culture," published in JBTC, is based on his research in cross-cultural theory and his experience as Guest Professor at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, where he taught theory, pedagogy, and practice of business and technical writing. Professor Alred is an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and a UWM Outstanding Teaching Award recipient.

Banerjee, Sukanya. Associate Professor

Degree(s): Ph.D., English, University of California, Riverside, Sept. 2001; M.A., English, University of Delaware, 1997; BA., English, Delhi University, India, 1994

Teaching Areas: Postcolonial Studies; Victorian Literature and Culture; Studies of colonialism and empire in the nineteenth century; South Asia; Gender Studies

Selected Publications:
Imperial Citizens: Nation, Empire, Narrative (Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, forthcoming)

"Empire, Nation, and the Professional Citizen: Reading Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling," Prose Studies, 28.3 (December 2006): 291-317.

"Political Economy, the Gothic, and the Question of Imperial Citizenship," Victorian Studies 47.2 (Winter 2005): 260-71.

"Lady Mary Montagu and the Boundaries of "Europe"," in Kristie Siegel, ed. Gender, Genre, and Travel (New York: Peter Lang, 2004), 31-54.

"Gender, Violence, and Community in South Asia in the Postcolonial Contemporary Present" (co-authored with Angana Chatterji, Lubna Chaudhury, et al.) Cultural Dynamics 16. 2/3 (October 2004): 125-39.

Blaeser, Kimberly. Professor

Selected Publications: Books: Absentee Indians and Other Poems (Michigan State University Press, 2002); Editor, Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose (Loonfeather Press, 1999); Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition (U of Oklahoma P, 1996); Trailing You (Greenfield Review Press, 1994). Articles in Books: "The Possibilities of a Native Poetics," (Nothing But the Truth, Prentice Hall); "'Like Reeds Through the Ribs of a Basket': Native Women Weaving Stories," (Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color, U of Illinois P); "The New 'Frontier' of Native American Literature: Dis-Arming History with Tribal Humor," (Native-American Writers, Chelsea House); "Writing Voices Speaking: Native Authors and an Oral Aesthetic," (Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Texts, U of Toronto P). Essays in Books: "The Voices We Carry," (After Confession: The Poet as Autobiographer, Graywolf P); "Rituals of Memory," (Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, Random House); "The Birth of New Languages," (This Giving Birth: Pregnancy and Childbirth in American Woman's Writing, Popular Press); "On Mapping and Urban Shamans," (As We Are Now: Essays by Urban Mixedbloods, U of California P); Short Fiction in Books: "Like Some Old Story," (Women on Hunting, ECCO Press); "Growing Things," (Blue Dawn, Red Earth, Doubleday); "Brewing Trouble," (Stories for a Winter's Night: Fiction by Native American Writers, White Pine Press); "Fancy Dog Contest," (Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing: American Indian, Inuit, First Nations, Aboriginal, Maori, Kegedonce P & Jukurrpa/IAD Press); "A Matter of Proportion," (Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology, HarperCollins); "From Aboard the Night Train," (Earth Song, Sky Spirit, Doubleday). Poetry anthologized in numerous Books including: Reinventing the Enemy's Language, (W.W. Norton); Sister Visions (Minnesota Historical Society P); The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection by Aboriginal Women (Sister Vision Press); Native American Songs and Poems (Dover Books); Unsettling America: An Anthology of Multicultural Poetry (Penguin).

Teaching Areas: Native American Literatures; Creative Writing; American Literature.

Blasini, Gilberto M. Assistant Professor

Selected Publications: Essay on Tomas Gutierrez Alea's The Last Supper (1976) for Film Analysis: A Norton Reader, ed. by Jeffrey Geiger and Randy Rutsky (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, forthcoming), "Islands in the TV Stream: The Caribbean in the U.S. Televisual Imaginary," in Prospero's Isles: The Presence of the Caribbean in the North American Imaginary, ed. by Diane Accaria and Rodolfo Popelnik (Basingtoke: Macmillan Academic Press, forthcoming), "The Performance of Multicultural Identity in U.S. Network Television: Shiny, Happy, Popstars (Holding Hands)," co-authored with L.S. Kim, in Emergences 11.2 (November, 2001), "El mundo segun Plaff. Una reevaluacion del cine cubano de finales de los 80," in Objeto Visual 7 (December, 2000), "The World According to Plaff: Reassessing Cuban Cinema in the 1980s," in Visible Nations: Latin American Cinema and Video, ed. Chon Noriega (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), entries on Reinaldo Arenas's Before Night Falls, and Luis Rafael Sanchez's Macho Camacho's Beat in Latin American Literature and its Times, eds. Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuck (San Francisco: Gale Research Press, 1999).

Teaching Areas: Third Cinema, Latin American and Caribbean Cinemas, Television Theory and Criticism, Post-1967 U.S. Cinema (Road Movies, Culture and Identity), Queer Latino Popular Culture.

Buley-Meissner, Mary Louise. Associate Professor

Selected Publications: "'Why Would We Want More of Those Students to Come Here?': Barriers Faced by Hmong American Students at a 'University Without Walls,'" (Civil Rights Project, Southeast Asian American Student Action and Harvard University, forthcoming); "Hmong Americans: A Growing Presence at UW-Milwaukee and in Wisconsin" (with Vincent Her, Myriad, 2004); "The Spirit of a People: Hmong American Life Stories" (Language Arts, 2002, Virginia Hamilton Essay Award), "Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: A Bibliographic Review of Resources for Teachers" in Contexts and Cultures: A Guidebook for Asian American Literature (Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming); and The Academy and the Possibility of Belief: Essays on Intellectual and Spiritual Life (edited with Mary McCaslin Thompson and Elizabeth Bachrach Tan, Critical Education and Ethics Series, Hampton Press, 2000).

Teaching Areas: Hmong American studies, Asian American literature and life stories, teacher education in multicultural literature, cross-cultural composition pedagogy

Callanan, Liam. Assistant Professor.

Books: All Saints (Delacorte, 2007). The Cloud Atlas (Delacorte, 2004). Work also published in: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR's Morning Edition, Forbes FYI, Writers' Chronicle, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Caketrain, failbetter, Phoebe and elsewhere.

Teaching and Research Areas: fiction writing, 20th century American literature, the American West, New Fabulists.

Cardenas, Brenda. Assistant Professor

Selected Publications:
Books and Compact Disk: Boomerang (collection of poetry forthcoming from Bilingual Review Press); From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Momotombo Press, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2005); Co-Editor, Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el Corazon y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH Abrazo Press, 2001); Chicano Illnoize: The Blue Island Sessions, poetry and music CD with Sonido Ink(quieto) (DeSPICable Records, 2001).

Poetry anthologized in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007); The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007); Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2005); U. S. Latino Literature Today (Pearson Longman College Division Textbooks, 2004); Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art by Women (Moon Journal Press, 2002); Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Random House, 2001); Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry About School (University of Iowa Press, 1999); Under the Pomegranate Tree: The Best Latino Erotica (Washington Square Press, 1996).

Poetry featured on-line in "The Wind Shifts: Six Poems from an Anthology of New Latino Poets," article and podcast by Francisco Aragon, The Poetry Foundation web site (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=179900), July, 2007; "Empty Spaces" on the Poetry Daily web site (http://www.poems.com/poem.php?date=13387), August 26, 2006; "Across Frontiers: The Poetry of Brenda Cardenas," Special Chapter in the e-poets.net Book of Voices, http://voices.e-poets.net/CardenasB/intro.shtml, launched 2002.

Poetry published in a number of literary magazines, including After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art, RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century, and Prairie Schooner.

Interdisciplinary Collaborative Performance Art and Installation Projects: Many performances throughout the nation with Sonido Ink(quieto), a spoken word and music ensemble (2000-2002); Floricanto: A Feast of the Arts, Poetry and Printmaking Exhibit and Performance with artist Jeff Abbey Maldonado and five other poets, Chicago Field Museum (2000) and Chicago Cultural Center (1999); Undesirable Elements/Chicago, Conceptual Theater Piece conceived and directed by Ping Chong in association with the six cast members, University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chernin Center for the Arts in Chicago (1999); Mas Cara, collaborative installation included in "Turning Points: Seven Collaborative Arts Pieces," University of Michigan (1998); Oh Goya! Goya with dancer and choreographer Evelyn Vélez Aguayo, included "Corpus Delecti—Sex, Food and Body Politics: A Season of U.S. Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American Performance Art," The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England (1996).

Teaching/Research Interests: Poetry Writing, United States Latino/a Literatures and Cultures, Performance Art, Interdisciplinary Arts-Poetry in Collaboration with Other Arts.

Activities: Board Member, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI; MARCH (Movimiento Artistico Chicano), Inc., Chicago, IL. Advisory Circle Member, Con Tinta Latino Literary Organization.

Clark, Dave. Assistant Professor

Selected Publications: "Is Professional Writing Relevant? A Model for Action Research." Technical Communication Quarterly. "Rhetoric of Empowerment: Genre, Activity, and The Distribution of Capital." In Thralls, Charlotte, and Mark Zachry (Eds.) The Cultural Turn. Writing (and) Corporate Growth: Texts and the "Technical/Social Split." Business Communication Quarterly. Burnett, Rebecca E., and David Clark. "Shaping Technologies: The Complexity of Electronic Collaborative Interaction." In Stuart Selber, ed. Computers and Technical Communication.

Teaching and Research Areas: Rhetoric of technology, research methods, and technical writing, including document design, Web design, knowledge management, multimedia documentation, and interface design.

Clark, George, Associate Professor

E-mail: clarkgeo@uwm.edu
Education: Ph.D., Creative Writing/Fiction, Florida State U, 1996

Selected Publications: Books: The Small Bees' Honey (White Pine Press). Work Published in: Zoetrope: All Story, Glimmer Train, Transition, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Black Warrior Review, Georgetown Review, Chelsea, Massachusetts Review, Southeast Review, Cream City Review. Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction Writing in 2002. Finalist for the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing.

Teaching Areas: Fiction Writing, Celtic Studies, African Studies, World Literature

Firer, Susan. Adjunct Assistant Professor

Selected Publications: Books: The Laugh We Make When We Fall, Backwaters Press 2002; The Lives of the Saints and Everything, Cleveland State University Press, 1993; The Underground Communion Rail, West End Press, 1992; My Life with the Tsar and Other Poems, New Rivers Press, 1979. Poems in such journals as: New American Writing, North American Review, Georgia Review, Hanging Loose, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Cream City Review, Chicago Review, Exquisite Corpse, Portland Review, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune Magazine. Poetry anthologies such as: Best American Poetry 1992 (Scribners/Cloth, Macmillan Collier Pbk), the Book of Irish American Poetry (Notre Dame Press), and A Whole Other Ballgame: Women's Literature on Women's Sport (Farrar, Straus and Girous). Two poems were read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio Writers' Almanac in the spring of 1994.

Teaching Areas: Creative Writing, Twentieth-Century Women Writers, Whitman's Tradition, and Contemporary American Poetry.

Fischer, J. Denny. Assistant Professor