English Faculty/Students in the News
Faculty Recruitment
The English Department is pleased to announce it has hired in Creative Writing professor Liam Callanan. Liam came from George Mason University and is the author of a published novel "The Cloud Atlas."
October 2005
Congratulations to Patrice Petro, elected President Elect of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. SCMS is the largest and most prestigious professional organization of film and media scholars. www.cmstudies.org
Congratulations to José Lanters, elected Vice President of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), a multidisciplinary, international scholarly organization. After two years as VP, she will become President. www.acisweb.com
Gregory Jay with Sandra Jones, "Whiteness and the Multicultural Literature Classroom," MELUS: Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 30:2 (Summer 2005), pp. 99-121.
December 2005
Publications
Kim Blaeser, poems "Dictionary for a New Century" and "What They Did By Lamplight," Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework, edited by Pam Gemin. She also gave a keynote address and reading at the Marshall Festival in October in Minnesota and did a reading and talk at the Fall meeting of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets at Kohler.
George Clark, short story "The Story-Ghost," Glimmer Train; "The Wide Boys" was selected by the editors of The Best American Short Stories of 2005 as one of the "100 Distinguished Stories of 2004".Jen Collins, had work in Nimrod.
Ellen Elder, poem "Famine" appeared online at Disquiety Muse Quarterly.
Susan Firer, poem "Peonies," Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework. Milwaukee Magazine published her poem "Milwaukee" as a full page in their City Guide, which was a first for the Magazine. She also read her poem "Whitman's Voice" on WUWM's At Ten program.
Zeke Jarvis, poems appeared in Main Channel Voices, and he has work forthcoming in Isotope and Bitter Oleander.
Haesong Kwon, had poems appear in Goodfoot, and has them forthcoming in Snow Monkey and Poetry Hotel.
Phong Nguyen, has short stories "The sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" forthcoming in Rosebud and "Memory Sickness" in AGNI.
Stephen Powers, has poems in Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, and Paper Street.
Joe Radke, has a poem coming out in the summer 06 issue of Midwest Quarterly.
Dawn Tefft, had poems in Redivider, LitRag, and Wicked Alice. Her chapbook Fieldtrip to My Mother and Other Exotic Locations was published in its entirety in Mudlark.
Rene Steinke, has been short listed for the National Book Award for Holy Skirts.
