Jay, Gregory. Professor

Selected Publications: Recent articles include: "'White Man's Book No Good': D. W. Griffith and the American Indian." Cinema Journal 39:4 (2000). 3-26. "Strategies and Challenges in High-Tech Teaching." Works and Days 16:1-2 (1998): 393-410. "Women Writers and Resisting Readers." Legacy 15:1(1998). 104-110. "Jewish Writers in the Multicultural Literature Class." Heath Anthology Newsletter 16 (Fall 1997). 8-11. Books include: American Literature and the Culture Wars. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997; America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990; T.S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1983; (with David Lee Miller) After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1985; "Critical Pedagogy: A Reassessment". Co-authored with Gerald Graff. Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities. Ed. Michael Berube and Cary Nelson. New York: Routledge, 1995; "Taking Multiculturalism Personally: Ethnos and Ethos in the Classroom." American Literary History 6:4 (1994). 613-32; "Knowledge, Power, and the Struggle for Representation." College English 56:1 (1994). 9-29; "Postmodernism in The Waste Land: Woman, Mass Culture, and Others." In Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism. Ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar. Ann Arbor, MI.: U of Michigan Press, 1992. 221-48; "The End of 'American' Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice." College English 53:3 (1991). 264-81.

Teaching Areas: Multiculturalism; American Literature to 1900; History of American Criticism; American Cultural Criticism 1890-1940; Backgrounds of Modernism 1880-1940; Critical Theory; 19th Century American Novel; Literature, Ethics, and Postmodernity; Contemporary Fiction and Cultural Differences; major author courses on Whitman, Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich.

Other Information: Director, Cultures and Communities Program, 2000 - present; Member, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly; Project Director, NEH Summer Institute on Rethinking American Studies, July-August, 1995; Founding member, Teachers for a Democratic Culture.

Kalter, Barrett. Assistant Professor

Current Project: Modern Antiques: Imagination, Scholarship, and the Material Past -- a study of the influence of antiquarianism on eighteenth-century English literature and consumer culture.

Selected Publications: DIY Gothic: Thomas Gray and the Medieval Revival, ELH (Winter 2004)

Teaching and Research Areas: Eighteenth-century British literature; Cultural materialism and material culture studies; Historiography

Kennedy, Gwynne. Associate Professor

Selected Publications: Just Anger: Representing Women's Anger in Early Modern England. Southern Illinois UP, 2000; co-editor, Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World (entries on Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, Caritas Pirckheimer, Murasaki Shikibu, Louise Labe, Mechthilde of Magdeburg). Greenwood Press, 2000; with Kim F. Hall, "Early Modern Women Writing Race." In Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Ed. Suzanne Woods and Margaret P. Hannay. MLA, 2000; "Reform or Rebellion?: The Limits of Female Authority in Elizabeth Cary's History of Edward II" in Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women.  Ed. Carole Levin and Patricia Sullivan. SUNY Press, 1995; "Lessons of the 'schole of wifedome'" in Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama. Ed. Carole Levin and Karen Robertson. Mellen Press, 1991.

Teaching Areas: Early modern literature, women writers, feminist theories, theories of emotion, women's studies.

Kincaid, Andrew. Assistant Professor

Selected Publications: "They Stand for All the Things I Hate: Georgian Architecture and Cultural Memory in Contemporary Dublin." Timothy A. Gibson and Mark Lowes, eds., Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context (Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) forthcoming in October 2006; Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment. (University of Minnesota Press), May 2006; a review of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory (Clare Carroll and Patricia King, eds.) e-Keltoi. Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, June 2005; "Memory, Urban Renewal and the Rise of the Memoir." College Literature, March 2005; "The Future of Irish Studies." REA: A Journal of Religion, Education & the Arts, April 2003; entries on "Architecture," "Michael Scott," and "Kevin Roche" in Everything Irish: The History, Literature, Art, Music, People, and Places of Ireland from A-Z (Ballantine), December 2003; and "Holding the Centre: The Geographies of Consolidation and the Emergence of Postcolonial Dublin." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, February 2001.

Teaching and Research Areas: Urbanism, Modernism, Postcolonial Theory, and Irish Studies.

Lanters, José. Professor

Selected Publications: Books: Unauthorized Versions: Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2000); Missed Understandings: A Study of Stage Adaptations of the Works of James Joyce (Amsterdam:Rodopi, 1988); Troubled Histories, Troubled Fictions: Twentieth-Century Anglo-Irish Prose, ed. Theo D'haen and José Lanters (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995). Recent articles include: "'Cobwebs on Your Walls': The State of the Debate about Globalisation and Irish Drama," in Global Ireland, ed. Ondrej Pilny and Clare Wallace (Prague, 2006): 33-44; "'We Are a Different People': Life Writing, Representation, and the Travellers," New Hibernia Review, 9, 2 (2005): 25-41; "The 'Tinker' Figure in the Children's Fiction of Patricia Lynch," ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 7 (June 2005): 151-62; "Reading the Irish Future in the Celtic Past: T.W. Rolleston and the Politics of Myth," in Reading Irish Histories, ed. Lawrence McBride (Dublin: Four Courts, 2003): 178-95; "Demythicizing/Remythicizing the Rising: Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry," Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 8, 1 (2002): 245-58; "Playwrights of the Western World: Synge, Murphy, McDonagh," in A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage, ed. Stephen Watt et. al. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000): 204-22; "Old Worlds, New Worlds, Alternative Worlds: Ulysses, Metamorphoses 13, and the Death of the Beloved Son," James Joyce Quarterly, 36, 3 (1999): 525-40. Other articles in Dutch Quarterly Review, Eire-Ireland, Irish University Review, Modern Drama, New Hibernia Review, Colby Quarterly, Journal of Irish Literature, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and elsewhere.

Teaching Areas: Irish literature, mythology and folklore, Modern British literature, the Classical tradition.

Other Information: Vice President, American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS); North American Representative and Secretary-Treasurer, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL); Advisory Committee member, UWM Center for Celtic Studies.

Liddy, James. Professor

Selected Publications: Books include: I Only Know That I Love Strength in My Friends and Greatness (Arlen House, 2003), Yeats: New Ways of Falling in Love (White Rabbit, 2003), Gold Set Dancing. (Salmon Poetry, 2000), Epitaphery (White Rabbit, 1997), Collected Poems: (Creighton UP, 1995), Young Men Go Walking, in Triad: Modern Irish Fiction (Wolfhound Press, 1986), A White Thought in a White Shade: New and Selected Poems (Kerr's Pinks Press, 1987). Articles include: "Kavanagh and the Beat Generation" in The London Magazine (2003), "Croesus and Dorothy Day: Moon Gaffney's Irish America" in New Hibernia Review, 7:1 (2003), "Nationalist and Worker in the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella & Thomas McCarthy" in NUA (2002), "How We Stood with Liam Miller: The Dolmen Miscellany, 1962" in New Hibernia Review, 2:3 (1998), "Pretexts or Oft in the Stilly Night" in Poetry Ireland Review (1989), "Island Truancies: the Sauntering of Mercier and Camier" in Review of Contemporary Fiction (1987), "A Memoir of Parnassus" in Patrick Kavanagh, Man and Poet, The National Poetry Foundation of America (1986), "The Double Vision of Irish-American Fiction" in Eire-Ireland (1984), "George Moore's Dublin" in George Moore in Perspective (1984), "Notes on the Wandering Celt: Aidan Higgins's Fiction" in Review of Contemporary Fiction (1983), "Ulster Poets and the Protestant Muse" in Eire-Ireland (1979).

Teaching Areas: Irish literature, creative writing, poetry, Beat Generation.

Martin, Andrew. Associate Professor

Selected Publications: Receptions of War: Vietnam in American Culture (Project for Discourse and Theory, Vol. 10, University of Oklahoma Press, 1993). Articles and Reviews in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Social Text, Discourse, East-West Film Journal, Focus.

Teaching Areas: Undergraduate: Film Courses: Introduction to Film Studies, Science Fiction, War and Cinema, Vietnam, British Cinema, Classical and Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism, American Literature-late 19th Century and 20th Century. Graduate Courses: Film Studies, American Literature from late 19th Century to 1930s. Realism, Naturalism, and American Modernism, Theories of Mass Culture, Cultural Studies.

Mayes, Patricia D., Associate Professor

Selected Publications: 2003. Language, Social Structure, and Culture: A Genre Analysis of Cooking Classes in Japan and America. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2002. "The transitive/intransitive construction of events in Japanese and English discourse" In K.M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner (eds.), Meaning through language contrast. Vol. 1. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 277-291. 2001. "The Grammatical Construction of Sequentially Ordered Events In Japanese and American Cooking Class Genres." In Enikö Németh (ed.), Pragmatics in 2000: Selected Papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association. 1999. With Amy Kyratzis. "Gender, Emotion, and Ideology: Language Socialization in Girls' and Boys' Nursery School Friendship Groups." In J. Verschueren (ed.), Language and Ideology: Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association.

Teaching and Research Interests: Corpus linguistics; discourse; language & culture; language socialization; second language acquisition; second language writing; TESOL pedagogy.

Mika, Margaret. Director of the Writing Center

Teaching Areas: Writing center theory, practice and administration

Other Information: Editorial boards, Journal of Instructional Psychology and College Student Journal; English Proficiency Essay coordinator through 1999; English Department Award for Teaching Excellence, 1995-96.