English Faculty/Students in the News
Spring 2006
News
Naz Bulamur presented the paper "Dialogical Zone in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette" at the 2006 Joint Conference of National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations (PCA/ACA) in Atlanta, Georgia, which was also published in EnterText, an online peer-reviewed journal of Brunel University, West London.
Peter Blewett was a panelist for "Equality in Education" at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 28, 2006 and also for "Access to Music Study is Vital to Quality Education" at the National School Board Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois on April 11, 2006.
Greg Jay did a conference presentation on "Ethnic Studies Pedagogy" at the American Studies Association in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 29, 2005 and a presentation on "Service Learning and Multicultural Education" at the Modern Language Association in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 28, 2005. He also received a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for "Difficult Dialogues" to support curriculum development and service learning through the Cultures and Communities Program.
Cathy Kaye was presented The Above and Beyond Award for 2004 by the Student Accessibility Center.
Dawn Tefft presented at the Illinois Wesleyan's Tongue & Ink Undergraduate Creative Writing Conference in February of 2006.
Scott Winkler presented the paper "Corpses Rise, Gashes Heal: Reading Walt Whitman's America in the Ruins of the Future" at the December convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
Publications
Gerald Alred, "Bridging Cultures: The Academy and the Workplace" appeared in Journal of Business Communication (April 2006) as the lead article.
Tom Bontly, "Listening for the Silences" appeared in Sewanee Review, Fall 2006.
Karen Lee Boren, a Ph.D. graduate from UWM, published a novella, Girls in Peril, through Tin House Books in June of 2006.
Greg Jay and Sandra Jones published "The Grass Roots Approach to Curriculum Reform: The Cultures and Communities Program" in Creating a New Kind of University, ed. Nancy Zimpher, Stephen L. Percy, and Mary Jane Brukardt (Anker Publishing, 2005).
Greg Jay also published "Whiteness Studies and the Multicultural Literature Classroom" in MELUS, a special issue on Pedagogy, Praxis, Politics, and Multiethnic Literatures (Summer 2005) and a review of "Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood by Xiomara Santamarina" in Choice (April 2006).
James Liddy recently published two books: Honeysuckle, Honeyjuice: A Festschrift for James Liddy and On the Raft with Fr. Roseliep, which were both published through Arlen House in Ireland and distributed by Cornell University Press in the U.S.
Caroline Morrell's poem Swimmeret will be published in the upcoming all-poetry issue of Black Clock.
Phong Nguyen recently published "Naming the Trees: Literary Onomastics in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World" in Studies in American Fiction. His story "Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History: Columbus Discovers Asia" was taken by Iowa Review; and three of his short-short stories ("Body Art," "Previews," and "Death of an Ironist") will be featured in the next issue of Southern Indiana Review.
Bob Siegel recently published two books of poetry, The Waters Under the Earth, from Canon Press (2005) and A Pentecost of Finches from Paraclete Press (2006).
January 2006
News
UWM Professor George Makana Clark of the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English has just been named a winner of the O. Henry Prize for 2006. His winning story is entitled "The Center of the World." The Atlantic Monthly Magazine has remarked that the O. Henry Prizes are "widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." Past winners have included William Faulkner, Alice Munro, Truman Capote, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, and Sherman Alexie, among others. For more information on the O. Henry Prize, please visit www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/.Gregory Jay, Professor of English and Director of the Cultures and Communities Program, was the recipient of a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation as part of its "Difficult Dialogues" initiative. For more information visit http://www.cc.uwm.edu.
Patrice Petro was invited to talk at the "Women in Migration, Exile, Diaspora: Dietrich, Baker, and Beyond," German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, October 2005; "Global Studies," Center for Global Studies, conference on "Global Studies in Higher Education: A Conference on Research, Curricular, and Collaborative Opportunities, University of Illinois, June 2005; and the Graduate Commencement Address, UWM Graduate Commencement Ceremony, May 2005.
Publications
Tom Bontly, "Avian Variations," Sewanee Review, Summer 2005; and "Immortal Remains" Sewanee Review, Autumn 2005.
Debra Brenegan, published and forthcoming in Cotyledon and Phoebe.
Christi Clancy, the essay "Home, I Hope" appeared on literarymama.com in December 2005. The site was selected by Forbes.com as one of the "Best of the Web."
Kathleen Dale, the poem "The Apparent Immortality of Things" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Free Verse; her chapbook, Ties that Bind, which includes the poem, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Ellen Elder, poetry forthcoming in Roanoke Review, Sierra Nevada College Review, and River City.
Susan Firer, poems "... , ! . ? #LV" and "... , ! . ? #LXIX" in New American Writing; "The Island of Thresholds" in Court Green, Columbia College; "Small Altar Moment" and "Interview 21" in Reed; "Milwaukee" in Milwaukee Magazine as a full page in the 2005 City Guide; her poem "The Island of Always," in Free Verse (Issue #82) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
José Lanters, "'We Are a Different People': Life Writing, Representation, and the Travellers," New Hibernia Review, 9, 2 (2005), 25-41; and "The 'Tinker' Figure in the Children's Fiction of Patricia Lynch," ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 7 (June 2005), 151-62.
Phong Nguyen, fiction publications in AGNI and Rosebud; upcoming stories in the Spring 2006 issues of Massachusetts Review, Inkwell, Florida Review, and Meridian.
Patrice Petro, Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the 'War on Terror', co-edited with Andrew Martin, forthcoming Spring 2006, Rutgers University Press; "Legacies of Weimar Cinema," Cinema and Modernity, ed. Murray Pomerance, forthcoming Spring 2006, Rutgers University Press; Teaching Film co-edited with Lucy Fischer, MLA Options for Teaching Series, in progress; "Whose Crisis?" Cinema Journal, "In Focus on the Crisis in Scholarly Publishing," Cinema Journal vol. 44, no. 3, Spring 2005, 86-88.
Stephen Powers, poems forthcoming in Shenandoah and Boxcar Poetry Review.
