English Faculty/Students in the News
November 2004
Christi Clancy won first place in a statewide 24-hour fiction contest hosted by the Wisconsin Humanities Council and the Madison Capital Times as part of the Wisconsin Book Festival. Her story, "White Heat," appeared in the Capital Times and will be re-printed in an upcoming issue of the Wisconsin Academy Review.
Susan Firer was nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize and for a James Merrill Writer in Residence appointment. In October, she won first place in OnMilwaukee.com's poetry contest. She has had poems accepted for three upcoming anthologies: All This Useless Beauty: Women Poets on Housework (University of Iowa Press); Visiting Frost: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Robert Frost (University of Iowa Press); and The Book of Irish American Poetry (Notre Dame University Press). New work has been published in Margie. Firer gave readings at The Zinc Bar, New York City, as part of the launch of Lungfull! magazine, Issue 13, in which she had new work, and in Minneapolis as part of the Literary Witnesses series. She read her work and led a workshop at UW-Sheboygan in April.
José Lanters serves as the literature representative on the Executive Committee of the American Conference for Irish Studies, and as North American representative and secretary-treasurer on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Lanters, Nancy Walczyk, and John Gleeson (Ethnic Studies) were the organizers of the Midwest Regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, held on the UWM campus Oct. 14-17. Lanters and Walczyk were the recipients of a Wisconsin Humanities Council mini-grant ($2,000) to sponsor a lecture on "A National Theatre" by noted Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy, and a roundtable discussion on "Theatre, Community, and Nation" featuring Thomas Kilroy, Joe Dowling (artistic director of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis), Joe Hanreddy (artistic director of the Milwaukee Rep), and Wayne Frank (Milwaukee playwright and former alderman).
Mariann Maris led a book discussion of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Nov. 7 at the Shorewood Library's Community Book Discussion Sunday. The Milwaukee Public Library chose Frankenstein as the "Milwaukee Reads" book selection for this fall. She will lead another discussion of the book on Dec. 15 at the Milwaukee Catholic Home.
Patrice Petro gave two invited lectures: "The Blue Angel in Multiple Language Versions" at Smith College in November, and "Legacies of Weimar Cinema" at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, in October. With Marcus Bullock and Peter Paik (French, Italian & Comparative Literature), she co-organized the conference, "Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, Diaspora," held at UWM's Center for International Education in April. Petro participated in a workshop, "Best Practices in Global Studies," at the Institute for Global Studies conference in Lake Geneva in October. She was an invited panelist on "The Job Search" and "Feminist Film Theory Today" (Feminism and Film History workshop) at The Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference held in Atlanta in March. Petro serves as an elected member of the Executive Council and SCMS treasurer, Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Lisa Samuels presented "Epistemology and representation in Laura Riding" at the Poets' House, New York City, in November.
Marilyn L. Taylor, named Milwaukee's poet laureate for 2004-05 by the Milwaukee Public Library, presented a workshop at Lawrence University's Björklunden Vid Sjön retreat house in Baileys Harbor, Wis., in October. In June, she served as seminar co-chair and panelist at the West Chester University Poetry Conference, and as panelist at the National Poetry Foundation Conference in Orono, Maine. Taylor was the keynote speaker at the Statewide High School Creative Writing Festival held at UW-Whitewater in November. Her poem, "The Blue Water Buffalo," won second place in the Emily Dickinson Awards competition, Universities West Press. Among her appearances during the past year have been poetry readings at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop and Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee; the Milwaukee Public Library; Marian College in Fond du Lac; and Avol's Books in Madison.
Publications
Patrice Petro, series editor, "New Directions in International Studies," sponsored by Rutgers University Press, and review of The German Cinema Book, by Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, and Deniz Gokturk, Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, Spring 2004.
José Lanters, "Old Worlds, New Worlds, Alternative Worlds: Ulysses, Metamorphoses 13, and the Death of the Beloved Son," pp. 153-168 in Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: James Joyce's Ulysses, Harold Bloom, ed., Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. The article was previously published in the James Joyce Quarterly.
James Liddy, The Doctor's House (autobiography). Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland: Salom Publishing, 2004.
Tasha G. Oren, Demon in the Box: Jews, Arabs, Politics, and Culture in the Making of Israeli Television, Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Tasha G. Oren and Patrice Petro, eds., Global Currents: Media and Technology Now, New Directions in International Studies Series, Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Marilyn L. Taylor, "In Other News," Smartish Pace, No. 10, Fifth Anniversary Issue, 2004; "The Blue Water Buffalo," (second place winner), Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology, Universities West Press, 2004; "After Twenty Years" and "The Native," The Cream City Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 2004; "Sappho Under the Arches," Wisconsin Academy Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring 2004; ten poems in The Poem Tree, an Anthology of Formal Verse (www.poemtree.com); review of Dog Angel, by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Cup of Poems, Fall 2004; and "Going Formal: How Rhyme and Meter Can Work For - or Against - You," The Writer, August, 2004.
