The English Department is pleased to announce it has hired ...
Brenda Cardenas a poet for the Creative Writing Program,
Rebecca Dunham a poet for the Creative Writing Program,
Lane Hall in Modern Studies,
Dennis Lynch as Director for the Freshman Writing Program, and
Anne Wysocki in Rhetorical Theory.
Sukanya Banerjee, was awarded the National Endowment for the Humantities, Summer Research Grant, 2007.
Debra Siebert and Kayla Moore have been named 2007-08 Center Scholars by the Center for Instructional and Professional Development for a collaborative project on our paired Learning Community Course (Freshman Seminar and English 102).
Kimberly Blaeser was invited as U. S. representative to participate in international writers' festival--the Utan Kayu festival, an international biennale in Jakarta and Magelang, Indonesia, August 23-30, 2007.
Rebecca Dunham won the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize and for the 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Lane Hall participated on the Environmental Renaissance, video/animation, City Hall, San Francisco, CA, organized by the Natural World Museum Wisconsin Triennial, video/animation, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI.
Lane Hall, Memory Palaces, print installation, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI.
Lane Hall was an Artist-In-Residence, Discovery World Museum, Milwaukee, WI.
Lane Hall was a visiting Artist: Workshop and Lecture, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.
Greg Jay participated in "Workshop on White Privilege," Common Ground Conference, UW Waukesha, January 19th; "Uplifting The Spectator: Oscar Micheaux and the Black Public Sphere," Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March 9th; "Teaching About Immigration Through Service Learning," University of Wisconsin Institute on Race and Ethnicity Conference, Milwaukee, April 26th; "Race Relations in Milwaukee," Panel Discussion, UWM, May 1; "Teaching About Multicultural America," National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education," May 31, 2007.
Greg Jay participated in 2006: "Service Learning and Multiculturalism," American Studies Association, Oakland, Oct. 13; "Service Learning and the Core Curriculum," Association of American Colleges and Universities, Philadelphia, Oct. 20.
Maurice Kilwein Guevara was on a panel that judged the Poetry Out Loud National Competition for the National Endowment for the Arts. The semi-finals and finals took place at Eisner Auditorium in George Washington University in Washington, D.C. April 2007.
Maurice Kilwein Guevara was a poetry resident at the Norton Island Residency off of the coast of Maine. Summer 2007.
James Liddy read poetry for Poetry Ireland a Poetry Reading at the Unitarian Church, Dublin, June, 2007.
Ron Clohessy presented "Ship of State: American Identity and Maritime Nationalism in the Sea Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper." For the James Fenimore Cooper panel at the American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2007.
Caroline Morrell is a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Poetry; Devine Fellowship for Creative Writing; and the Cora Owlett Latzer Award from The Academy of American Poets.
Susan Firer was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Lane Hall has an article "The Marquis Collection: Amateur Collections and Junk Science" in the online journal Antennae, which also used a Hall/Moline image for its cover. (http://www.antennae.org.uk/).
Lane Hall/Moline work has also been cited in "The Species of Origin," a UK website recently created to celebrate both the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of the Species. (see "artists" at http://www.speciesoforigin.org/).
Mariann Maris coordinator of the Milwaukee Area Academic Alliance in English held a workshop on Saturday, October 20, 2007 in Greene Hall, introduced Emilie Amundson, the new Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction English/Language Arts Coordinator to workshop participants. Teachers at the workshop had an opportunity to learn more about how to design classroom assessments to meet learning goals.
Adjunct faculty member Dr. C. Prescott Sobol presented "No Last Laugh: Justice, Humor, and the Imaginary Sainthood of Huck Finn" at the Reception Studies Society Conference held September 28-30 in Kansas City, MO.
Nancy Walczyk gave a paper at the Conference of Celtic Women in October, 2007, entitled "Collaborating Women: The Scottish Sisters and the Irish Cousins." The paper was on the Findlater sisters and on Irish cousins Somerville & Ross.
Mariann Maris chaired a workshop, "Poetry Blast." Twelve poets presented their original poems. at the National Council of Teachers of English Convention in New York City on Saturday, November 17, 2007.
Mariann Maris was invited by the professional business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi to become an honorary member of their fraternity on Friday, December 6, 2007.
Brenda Cardenas had two poems anthologized in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, Cracked Slab Books, this past Spring (2007).
Sukanya Banerjee, "Empire, Nation, and the Professional Citizen: Reading Cornelia Sorabji's *India Calling.*" PROSE STUDIES 28,3 (December 2006): 291-317.
Apprenticed to Justice by Kimberly Blaeser, a collection of poetry from the Earth Works Series of Salt Publishing, Cambridge University Press.
Traces in Blood Bone and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry, ed. by Kimberly Blaeser; includes work from 30 poets, published by Loonfeather Press.
Kimberly Blaeser's other major pub is "Cannons and Canonization: American Indian Poetries Through Autonomy, Colonization, Nationalism, and Decolonization" in The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States (editor Eric Cheyfitz), Columbia University Press.
Brenda Cardenas has several poems that appeared in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, edited by Francisco Aragon and published by the University of Arizona Press this past Spring.
Rebecca Dunham's book The Miniature Room (Truman State University Press) was released in 2006.
Rebecca Dunham has recently published or have individual poems forthcoming in some of the following journals: The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, FIELD, Agni, and Crab Orchard Review.
Greg Jay recently published "Other People's Holocausts: Trauma, Empathy, and Justice in Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror." Contemporary Literature Vol 48, no. 1 (Spring 2007).
Maurice Kilwein Guevara's poetry has recently been published in the anthology In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Lake Effect, and Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics.
James Liddy has recently published 6 poems in The Book of Irish American Poetry, edited by Dan Tobin, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 3 poems in Legal Studies Forum, XXX1, No 2, 2007. 2 poems in Poetry Ireland, 30, 2007. 1 poem in The Shop, 24, Summer 2007.
"The Old Shelbourne." The Irish Times, Saturday Magazine, February, 2007.
"John Allen Ryan, San Francisco Avatar,:" Blue Canary, 15, 2007.
Mark Netzloff has written "The English Colleges and the English Nation: Allen, Persons, Verstegan, and Diasporic Nationalism." Catholic Culture in Early Modern England. Ed. Ronald Corthell, Frances Dolan, Christopher Highley, and Arthur Marotti. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 236-60. Mark has also written "Sir Francis Drake's Ghost: Piracy, Cultural Memory, and Spectral Nationhood." Pirates: The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650. Literature in History Series. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 137-50.
Ron Clohessy published in James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers, No.24 - 2007 American Literature Association papers, July 2007.
Jeffrey Perso published a short story, "Dirty Towel & Rag," in ICONOCLAST, Number 96, Summer 2007 (New York).
Susan Firer had poems in the two most recent Cream City Reviews: "The Halo Factory" and "The City of Lake Circles Signs' Small Tornadoes."
Two poems by Susan Firer are published in the current Prairie Schooner: "When We Were Through" and "Where Song Comes From."
Susan Firer's two poems are anthologized in the newly published The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (University of Notre Dame Press): "The Lives of the Saints" and "My Mothers' Rosaries."
Susan Firer had four poems published in Free Verse: "Life in Waves," "The Undertow," "Wreckage," and "Under the Night Meteor Shocked Sky."
Susan Firer's new book, titled Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: New and Selected Poems l979-2007, was just released (October 2007).
Susan Firer has two poems that are forthcoming in Conduit (Minneapolis, MN) in October: "Hello Li Po" and "Dear Transport."
James Stoner's poem "In Big Sur" was published in The Pacific Review and "Road to Damascus" is forthcoming in Educational Studies.
Mika, Margaret. "Talking in Another Middle." Writing Lab Newsletter 32.1 (September, 2007): 9-11.
Carolyn Kott Washburne has recently published two profile articles, one about Kenosha sculptor Bruce Niemi in the August 24 issue of Executive Living, a magazine supplement of the Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee, and one about Alverno College President Mary Meehan in the October 2007 Milwaukee Home and Fine Living magazine.
Steve Nelson's "Dear Buddha," an essay exploring the nature of Buddhist enlightenment was published in the September/October issue of The Rambler. "The night we never did it" was recently awarded second place in the InermoonLit Award for Best Short-Short Story contest and another story, "My Contribution to Irish Literature," will be included in an upcoming issue of Storyglossia.
Ayse Naz Bulamur had "Margaret Fuller: In and Out of the Borders of the Nineteenth Century." in Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Market Place. Eds. Earl Yarington and Mary De Jong. Newcastle/UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 175-194.
Jen Collins' short short story "White girl/boy angst" was a top ten finalist in The Southeast Review's World's Best Short Short Story Contest. She has forthcoming publications in RHINO, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pebble Lake Review, and DIAGRAM, among others.
Zeke Jarvis had 2 short-shorts, "In Her" and "Rod Serling's Stand-In" accepted by REAL, Stephen F. Austin University's literary magazine.
Caroline Morrell's poems have appeared in Artful Dodge, Black Clock, Conjunctions, Court Green, Connecticut Review, Spinning Jenny, The Pinch and numerous other publications.
Gene Tanta and Reginald Shepherd, have two collaborative poems included in the anthology Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry that has come out; published by Soft Skull Press.
William Thorpe had two stories published in Permafrost in August and Fire Ring Voices in May.
Zeke Jarvis will have his story "Artificial Heart" appear in an upcoming issue of KNOCK Magazine.
Writing Center Fall 2006 Tutoring Staff. "Response to 'Prattle of the Sexes.'" Writing Lab Newsletter 32.1 (September, 2007): 11-13.
Drew Blanchard's poem "flocks of never" will appear in the forthcoming anthology Best of the Midwest: Fresh Writing from Twelve States.
David Yost had short fiction accepted by Pleiades, Workers Write!, and the minnesota review.
