UW-Milwaukee: Department of English

Senior Lecturers

	Blewett, Peter. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 534 Phone: (414)229-5041 Email: pblewett@uwm.edu Website: http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/ Education: PhD English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MA English, Marquette University BA Philosophy, Holy Redeemer College Teaching Areas: Composition, Creative Writing, Literature Publications: "Eclogue, Poems of Pat Moran and Peter Blewett." Green Bay: Basswood, 1998. "Umbrellas." Milwaukee: Clear Skies, 1990. Poems in various journals, such as Cream City Review, Poetry East, Seattle Review, West Branch, Literary Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, and Die Young! Related Activities: Member of Milwaukee Public Schools Board of Directors, District Six.
	Brusin, Sandy. Senior Lecturer English 102 Coordinator Office: Curtin Hall 402 Phone: (414)229-2922 Email: sbrusin@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: First-Year-Composition, Academic Discourse, Creative Non-Fiction Publications: TimesWisconsinTimes: "Little Boy Lost," Reconstructionist: "Yizkor," Wisconsin: "Search for Self," Jews "Hebrew School Wars" Related Activities: Member of National Council of Teachers of English, Member of Composition Adversary Committee, Member of Category B sub-committee for Academic Staff Other Information: On the Board of Coalition for Jewish Education (CJL)
	Chapson, James. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 593 Phone: (414)229-6077 Email: jchapson@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: Composition; Intro. to Creative Writing
	Clohessy, Ronald. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 278 E-mail: clohessy@uwm.edu Phone: (414) 229-2297 Teaching Areas: Composition, American Literature, Film and Literature, Introduction to English Studies, Freshman Seminar Related Activities: English 215 Study Group, English/English Education major mentoring
	Dale, Kathleen A. Senior Lecturer Office: Mitchell Hall 165A E-mail: kdale@uwm.edu Phone: (414) 229-3748 Website: http://www.uwm.edu/~kdale/ Teaching Areas: Composition, Academic Writing which includes a Service Learning Component Publications: The Lyric, Free Verse, Rattle, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The New River, The Poet's Canvas, Switched-on Gutenberg, Chiron Review, River Oak Review's issue on physics and poetry, Petroglyph, Pandora, and The Pedestal Magazine. Other Information: Poetic Awards: "Morning Glory" won 2nd prize in the Milwaukee Public Library's "Love Letters Lost and Found" Valentine's Day contest in February, and "The Only Children of Single-Parent Gods" won 2nd prize in the Wisconsin Academy Review's poetry contest. It appeared, along with "August Night Journey, Chicago Emergency Room : A Sestina." in the spring issue of their magazine. Readings: April 7, she read with the other winning poets at Avol's Bookstore in Madison, WI. She also read two other poems: "Tying the Knot" and "On the 50th Anniversary of Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education".
	Donay, Allen. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 533 Phone: (414) 229-5041 Email: donay@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: Business Writing, Criminal Justice
	Firer, Susan. Adjunct Assistant Professor Office: Curtin Hall 576 Phone: (414) 229-6993 Email: sfirer@uwm.edu Education: M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1982 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.
	Kaye, Catherine. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 678 Phone: (414) 229-6180 Email: cjkaye@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: English as a Second Language Related Activities: English: Coordinator, English as a Second Language
	Khatchadourian, Sonia. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 535 Email: soniak@uwm.edu Phone: (414) 229-5041 Teaching Areas: Creative Writing, Business Writing, International Business Communication, Composition, Cultural Studies, Literature. Related Activities: Classes on blues music; published articles about music; has weekly radio program on WMSE, 91.7 FM.
	Lyons, Christopher. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 524 Email: bobdylan@uwm.edu Phone: (414) 229-2971 Teaching Areas: Composition, Business Writing.
	Maris, Mariann. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 592 Phone: (414) 229-4152 Email: sarim@uwm.edu Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~sarim Education: M.A. Marquette University Teaching Areas: Business Writing; Freshman Seminars on Baseball and on Rhetoric of Terrorism Related Activities: Member of MLA, NCTE, WCTELA. UWM: Co-Chair of Chancellor's Auction. Community: Director, Shorewood Foundation Board of Directors; Milwaukee Area Academic Alliance in English; Reader, Advanced Placement English Literature; Chair, MCAP's Minority Recruitment Committee; Associate, Milwaukee Partnership Academy.
	Mattson, Jennifer Lynn. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 697 Phone: (414)229-4230 Email: jennifr@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: Language in the U.S., credit and non-credit ESL courses Other Information: Academic Staff Outstanding Teaching Award, 2000 Related Activities: Coordinator of Conversation Partner program, which matches ESL students with Americans wishing to learn more about international students' cultures (and sometimes their languages). Presenter at orientations for international TAs, assist with evaluation of international TAs' classroom skills
	Mika, Margaret. Director of the Writing Center Email: mmika@uwm.edu Education: M.A., Linguistics. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 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.
	Nelson, Steve. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 504 Phone: (414) 229-5044 Email: stnelson@uwm.edu Education: PhD English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Teaching Areas: Composition and Creative Writing Publications: Short Stories and Creative Nonfiction published in Phantasmagoria, eye-rhyme, Riverwind, the Absinthe Literary Review, Judas! Magazine, The Runner's High: Illumination and Ecstasy in Motion, and others. Related Activities: Former Fiction Editor of The Cream City Review, attended the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize
	Norman, Jeffrey. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 507 Phone: (414) 229-6022 Email: jenor@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: Composition, Academic Writing, various Literature courses Related Activities: 102 team facilitator; work with Writing Center
	Odrcic, Liana. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 503 Phone: (414) 229-6022 Email: ljo@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: Composition; 19th and 20th Century American literature; Women's Studies Related Activities: Serving on the Edison Initiative Advisory Board/Committee, 2005-2006.
	Perso, Jeffrey. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 525 E-mail: zubin@uwm.edu Phone: (414) 229-4243 Teaching Areas: Beat Writers, Freshman Seminar, English 102: College Writing and Research. Publications: Has edited four alternative newsweeklies and published fiction and non-fiction in over 25 periodicals, including The Alternative Press Review, Manzanita, Milwaukee Magazine, and Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine. Related Activities: Received the English Department's Teaching Excellence Award in 2005.
	Ross, Carol. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 524 Phone: (414) 229-2971 Email: cross@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: Composition, Academic Writing, Advanced Writing Workshop, Literary Nonfiction. Related Activities: Served on various English Department committees, volunteered for the Chancellor's Auction, currently volunteer at Hunger Task Force, Wisconsin Breast Cancer Showcase, and for other community organizations. Served as Holocaust Educator for the Coalition for Jewish Learning. Served on Category B Academic Staff Subcommittee. Published essays/articles, edited guidebook. Other Information: English Department Award for Teaching Excellence, 1993.
	Schneider, Benjamin. Senior Lecturer Assistant Director, Film Studies Program Office: Curtin Hall 474 Phone: (414)229-3935 Email: terrapin@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: Film Studies
	Smoller-Phillips, Mary-Jeane. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 588 Phone: (414)229-6077 Email: talechse@uwm.edu
	Terwelp, Kristin. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 522 Phone: (414)229-2972 Email: terwelp@uwm.edu Education: Ph.D. English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Teaching Areas: Creative Writing, Multicultural Literature, Women's Literature (emphasis Nineteenth-Century American and British), Composition, Freshman Seminar, Native American Literature, and Women's Studies. Publications: Poems, Interviews, Creative Nonfiction, and Editorials have appeared in Sojourner: the Women's Forum, The Cream City Review, The Career News, and others. Related Activities: Member of the UWM Visiting Writers Committee; Member of the Modern Language Association; Member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs; former Poetry Editor for The Cream City Review; former Editorial Assistant for The Career News. Other Information: English Department Award for Teaching Excellence, 2007; Finalist, Tinsley Helton Dissertation Fellowship, 2002.
	Walczyk, Nancy. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 502 Phone: (414) 229-3302 Email: nwalczyk@uwm.edu Teaching Areas: Business and Technical Writing, various courses in Irish Literature; Women's Studies Related Activities: Member, American Conference for Irish Studies. English: Computer Classroom Coordinator, member of Technology Committee. UWM: Associate Director of the Center for Celtic Studies; member College of Letters and Science IT Committee and IT Working Group. Community: Coordinator for Milwaukee Irish Fest and Irish Fest Summer School.
	Washburne, Carolyn Kott. Senior Lecturer Office: Curtin Hall 574 Phone: (414) 229-2709 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