UW-Milwaukee: Department of English - Faculty S-W

Faculty S-W

	Sands, Peter. Associate Professor Email: sands@uwm.edu Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~sands Selected Publications: Articles on MOOs, Utopia and American Studies in Works and Days and American Studies Association Electronic Crossroads Project; on writing software in Kairos; on assignment design in ACE Journal; and reviews in Science-Fiction Studies, Utopian Studies, SFRA Review, Columbia Journal of American Studies, and Radical Teacher. Work in Progress: Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options (under contract at LEA), co-edited with James Inman and Cheryl Reed. Preparing manuscripts for three other books: . A Horrid Banquet': Cannibalism, Native Americans and the Fictions of National Formation; Critical Possibility: Utopia, Rhetoric and Education; and Living in the Bitstream: How to Handle the Electronic Load, under consideration at NCTE. Editor, Science Fiction Research Association Website. Teaching Areas: American Studies; Rhetoric and Composition; Computers and Pedagogy; Critical Theory and Cultural Studies; Science Fiction and Utopian Studies
	Sangari, Kumkum. Vilas Professor Education: Ph.D., Literature, University of Leeds Email: ksangari@uwm.edu Selected Publications: Politics of the Possible: Essay on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English (Anthem Press, 2002). From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender, co-edited with U. Chakravarti (Manohar, 1999). Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, co-edited with S. Vaid (Rutgers University Press, 1990). Women and Culture, co-edited with S. Vaid (SNDT University, 1985). Teaching Areas: Cultural and Literary Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory.
	Schuster, Charles. Professor and Associate Dean of Humanities and Communication Email: cis@uwm.edu Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~cis Selected Publications: Books: Co-editor, Rhetorical Choices (Longman, Publishers), Editor, CrossCurrents, volumes include Life Affirming Acts, Coming of Age, Attending to the Margins, Feminist Empirical Research, Getting Restless, The Mythology of Voice, Good Intentions, Gypsy Academics and Mother-Teachers (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook Publishers); General Editor, Literature and Culture Series, volumes include Literature and Gender, Literature and the Environment, Literature and Race, Literature and Class, Popular Fiction (Longman, Publishers); Co-editor, Speculations: Culture, Identity, and Values (Blair Press, 1992); Co-editor, The Politics of Writing Instruction (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1991 and winner of the CCCC Outstanding Book Award). Articles and reviews in College English, CCC, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, WPA Journal. Teaching Areas: History and theory of the essay, Bakhtinian theory, history of composition studies, rhetoric and style, 19th-century British literature.
	Spilka, Rachel. Associate Professor Email: spilka@uwm.edu Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~spilka Education: Ph.D., Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University; M.S., Journalism, Boston University; M.A., English Literature, Boston University Selected Publications: Co-Editor (2002) Reshaping Technical Communication: New Directions and Challenges for the 21st Century; Editor (1993) Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives . (Awarded the 1993 NCTE Award for Best Collection of Essays), containing "Moving Between Oral and Written Discourse to Fulfill Rhetorical and Social Goals" (1990). "Orality and literacy in the workplace: Process-and text-based strategies for multiple audience adaptation." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 4(1), January: 44-67. (Awarded the 1991 NCTE Award for Best Article Reporting Formal Research in Scientific and Technical Communication.) Work in Progress: Conducting qualitative study of multiple audience analysis in corporate settings. Teaching Areas: Professional, technical, and business writing; rhetoric, qualitative research, professional writing theory and pedagogy; document planning and evaluation; technical editing; usability testing.
	Van Pelt, William. Associate Professor Email: vanpelt@uwm.edu Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~vanpelt Education: Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, 1976-83 (Major: English Literature, Minor: German Literature); M.A. University of California, Riverside, 1971-73 (Major: English Literature, Minor: German Literature); B.A. University of California, Riverside, 1965-70 (Major: Mathematics and English Literature) Selected Publications: Recent publications include: Speculations: Readings in Culture, Identity, and Values, Second Edition (Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Blair Press, Prentice-Hall: 1995), with Charles Schuster; "A Conceptual Framework for Cultural and Individual Factors in International Web-Document Design," IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication, 26 pages, forthcoming March 2001, With Fatemeh Mariam Zahedi; "Postmodernism," in Theorizing Composition, ed. Mary Kennedy, London: Greenwood Pess: 1998, 218-223. See Curriculum Vitae at: http://www.uwm.edu/People/vanpelt/vitae.html Teaching Areas: Contemporary Rhetorical Theory; Technical Writing; Writing for Information Technology; Business Writing; The Poetry and Painting of William Blake; for a professional profile, see: http://www.uwm.edu/People/vanpelt/vanpelt.html
	Washburne, Carolyn Kott. Senior Lecturer Email: ckw@uwm.edu Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~ckw Education: B.A., English Literature, Wellesley College, 1965; M.S.W., Community Organization, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, 1971 Selected Publications: Three books for adults: Milwaukee: Midwestern Metropolis with Kristina Sauerwein (Cherbo Publishing Group, Inc., 2005), For Better, for Worse (Scribner's, 1977), and Women in Transition (Scribner's, 1975), Four books for young people: Drug Abuse (Lucent Books, 1997), Italian Americans (Marshall Cavendish, 1996), America in the Twentieth Century: 1930-1939 (Marshall Cavendish, 1995), and A Multicultural Portrait of Colonial Life (Marshal Cavendish, 1994). She acts as a book proposal consultant for nonfiction manuscripts and has edited over 100 trade books, scholarly books, reports, and technical documents. Her magazine articles have appeared in The New York Times, Utne Reader, Ms., Mademoiselle, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Magazine and more. Teaching Areas: Internship in English; Editing and Publishing; Nonfiction Writing for Publication; Creative Nonfiction; Business and Technical Editing
	Wilson, Michael. Associate Professor Email: michael@uwm.edu Web site: http://www.uwm.edu/~michael Education: B. A. Oklahoma State University; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University Selected Publications: "'A Communion of Unmerged Souls': Dialogism in Toni Morrison's Sula" in The Midwestern Miscellany (forthcoming); "Speaking of Home: The Idea of the Center in Some Contemproary American Indian Writing" in Wicazo Sa Review (1997); "Writing a Friendship Dance: Orality in Mourning Dove's Cogewea" in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal (1996). Teaching Areas: American indigenous literatures, images of indigenous peoples, postcolonialism and indigenous literatures, oral traditions and contemporary indigenous fiction.
	Anne Frances Wysocki. Associate Professor Email: awysocki@uwm.edu Education: University of California-Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, Michigan Technological University Selected Publications: Professor Wysocki is lead author of Writing New Media: Theory and applications for expanding the teaching of composition, which won the Computers and Writing Distinguished Book Award, and her compositions have appeared in Computers and Composition, Kairos, and the Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, as well as in many books. With Dennis Lynch she has published Compose/Design/Advocate: A Rhetoric for Integrating Written, Visual, and Oral Communication. She has designed and produced software to help undergraduates learn 3D visualization and to introduce them to geology. Her interactive new media pieces “A Bookling Monument” and “Leaved Life” have won, respectively, the Kairos Best Webtext award and the Institute for the Future of the Book’s Born Digital Competition. Teaching Areas: American indigenous literatures, images of indigenous peoples, postcolonialism and indigenous literatures, oral traditions and contemporary indigenous fiction.

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