English Faculty/Students in the News
April 2005
Peter Blewett is president of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors.
José Lanters has been elected vice president of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), a multidisciplinary scholarly organization with approximately 1,500 members in the United States, Ireland, Canada, and other countries. The vice president automatically succeeds to the presidency after two years.
Mariann Maris was the featured guest on WUWM-FM's "UWM Today" show on Feb. 24. She and host Tom Luljak (University Relations and Communications) talked about the reading circles Maris started at three MPS schools. Adults and children in the groups read and discussed Mandalay's Child, a multicultural story by Milwaukee author Prem Sharma. The project was made possible by a $1,000 mini-grant to Greg Jay's Cultures and Communities Program. Maris also discussed the "Baseball, Reading, and Culture" freshman seminar she taught last fall. The show was repeated on Feb. 26.
Naz Bulamur's paper, "The Dialogical Zone in Hannah Webster Foster's 'The Coquette,'" won second place in the Graduate Research Paper category of the Women's Studies Research Paper and Project Contest. The paper was written for a class taught by James Sappenfield last semester.
Lisa Samuels read from her work at the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry held in England in April.
Kathleen Dale recently won two poetry awards: Second prize in the Wisconsin Academy Review's 2005 poetry contest, and second prize in "Love Letters: Lost and Found," the Milwaukee Public Library's 2005 poetry contest. In conjunction with the Wisconsin Academy Review contest, she read from her work at Avol's Bookstore in Madison on April 7.
Publications
William Jablonsky, The Indestructible Man (short stories), Livingston, AL: Livingston Press, April 2005. Jablonsky has two short stories forthcoming, one in the Palo Alto Review, the other in the Florida Review.
Lisa Samuels, Paradise for Everyone (poems), London: Shearsman Books, March 2005.
March 2004
Naz Bulamur presented a paper, "Translations in Irish Culture," at the 2004 Midwest ACIS (The American Conference for Irish Studies) conference in Milwaukee. The conference theme was "Community and Nation."
Susan Firer's poem "The Beautiful Pain of Too Much" was performed as the text for "The Weight of Skin," a piece choreographed by Janet Lilly (Dance) with music by John Taverner, on Jan. 30 in the sanctuary of St. Mark's in the Bowery (New York City). Firer was one of the recorded voices for Wild Space Dance Company's "North Point North," presented at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Jan. 29 and 30. On Jan. 29, she appeared on the Wisconsin Public Radio program "Higher Ground," reading four poems. She also gave a reading on March 15 at Cedarburg's Cultural Center.
Virginia Kuhn and student Stephanie King were videotaped by USC on Feb. 15 about Kuhn's work with TK3, an e-book program that she has been piloting and in which she is writing what may be the first multimedia dissertation in the country.
Jeff Poniewaz hosted a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry David Thoreau's Walden on Nov. 16 at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee.
Marilyn Taylor's poetry collection, Subject to Change (David Robert Books, 2004), has been nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize. On March 6, Taylor presented a poetry reading at the Central Branch of the Milwaukee Public Library to mark her second year as the city's Poet Laureate. Reading with Taylor was the poet Antler, Milwaukee's Poet Laureate for 2002-03 (and UWM alumnus).
Publications
Susan Firer, "Small Altar Moment" and "Interview 21," Reed Magazine (San Jose CA), "The Island of Thresholds," Court Green (Chicago), and "... , ! . ? #LXIX" and "... , ! . ? #LV," New American Writing (Mill Valley, CA).
Andrew Kincaid, "Memory and the City: Urban Renewal and Literary Memoirs in Contemporary Dublin," College Literature, Vol. 32, No. 2, April 2005.
Virginia Kuhn, "Picturing Work: Visual Projects in the Writing Classroom," Kairos, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 2005 (http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.2/).
Margaret Mika, "Review of WCOnline," The Writing Lab Newsletter, Vol. 29, No. 4, January 2005, pp 6-8.
Jeff Poniewaz, "Why Young Men Wore Their Hair Long in the Sixties," Red, White and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America, Ryan G. Cleave and Virgil Suarez, eds., Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004.
