The English Department is very pleased to welcome five new faculty members who will contribute their creative and scholarly energies to both established and emergent areas of the department:
Brenda Cardenas (Creative Writing, Chicano/a Studies, and Performance Studies),
Rebecca Dunham (Creative Writing, 20th Century American Literature, and US Women Writers),
Lane Hall (Modern Studies, Digital Arts and Experimental Narratives),
Dennis Lynch (Rhetoric, Composition, and Intellectual History), and
Anne Wysocki (Rhetoric, Composition, Digital Arts and Media).
Sukanya Banerjee, was awarded the National Endowment for the Humantities, Summer Research Grant, 2007.
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.
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).
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.
