November 14 , 2008
Aesha Adams-Roberts is on parental leave Fall 2008.
Milton Bates is on sabbatical 2008-09.
Fr. Ron Bieganowski serves as Business Administration Chaplaincy. Marquette University, 2008-09.
---. Offers Spiritual Direction. Marquette University, 2008-09.
---. Performs Marquette Weddings. Marquette University, 2008-09.
---.
Preached Retreats. Jesuit Retreat House. Oshkosh, WI, & St. Paul, MN
---. Offered Weekend Parish Service. St. Clare of Assisi. Edwards, CO
Amy Blair
Edwin Block edits Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature.
Mary Catherine Bodden is on leave Fall 2008.
---. Received a book contract from Palgrave Press for her manuscript, “Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman”.
---. Awarded a Faculty Development Grant. Graduate School. Marquette University, 2008-09.
---. Chaired “Women and the Law.” International Medieval Congress. Western University, MI. 2008.
---. Sponsored Special Session: “Figuring Crime: Women and the Representation of Crime in Medieval and Early Modern English Texts." International Medieval Congress, Western University, MI. 2008.
---. Developed digital archive of 16th and early 17th manuscripts of women’s court cases for graduate students’ projects 2008.
---. Serves on Advisory Board: Women and Gender Studies Program. Marquette University. 2008-09.
John Boly
Virginia Chappell directs the First-Year English Progra.
John Curran
Ed Duffy is on sabbatical 2008-09.
---. Received a book contract from Anthem Press for his manuscript, "The Constitution of Shelley's Poetry: The Argument of Language in Prometheus Unbound."
Michelle Felix presented a paper titled "Praisesong for the Widow and the Imperial Tradition of the Travel Narrative" at the conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars in Grenada, West Indies. May 2008.
Colleen Fenno organized and ran a workshop with Paula Gillepsie for Marquette pre-med students on writing the MCAT essay, November 7, 2008.
Michael Patrick Gillespie serves as Director of Graduate Studies.
---Was awarded a Faculty Development Grant. Graduate School. Marquette University, 2008-09.
---. Served as panelist at an ORSP brownbag lunch on grant writing. Marquette University. September 4, 2008.
---. Presented opening remarks at the first screening of the Irish Heritage and Culture Center’s Irish film series. September 12, 2008.
---.
Published a review of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism. James Joyce Quarterly 45 (Fall 2007):166-170
Paula
Gillespie published “Building Peer Tutoring Programs in Writing Centers: A Workshop Description and Report” (with Harvey Kail) in Conference Proceedings: EATAW 2007. Zeitschrift-Schreiben: Schreiben in Schule, Hochschule, und Beruf.
---. Co-Chairs Centennial Celebration of Women at Marquette (with Rana Altenburg and Donna Farrell). 2007-2010.
---. Organized (with Rebecca Nowacek) a Writing Across the Curriculum workshop for faculty and one for graduate students. Leader: Chris Anson, University of South Carolina. Funded by a Mellon Grant. September, 2008.
---. Leads Women’s Reading Group, a noontime book club open to all Marquette University women.
---. Chairs Phi Beta Kappa Nominating Committee. 2008
---. Led Manresa book discussion with first-year students. August 2008.
---. Led information sessions for new International students on writing at Marquette for Campus International Programs, one for graduate and one for undergraduate students. October 2008.
---. Led discussion on writing the successful college application essay for diverse high school students invited to Marquette by Admissions. August, 2008.
---. Member Executive Committee, Conference on College Composition and Communication.
---. Chairs, “Building a More Diverse CCCC” subcommittee.
---. Organized and ran a workshop with Colleen Fenno for Marquette pre-med students on writing the MCAT essay, November 7, 2008.
---. Organized, chaired, and presented at a Special Interest Group on getting tenure, International Writing Centers Association/National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 30 – Novenber 1. Two former Marquette graduate students gave talks in the session, Jay Sloan of Kent State-Stark and Jennifer Liethen Kunka, Francis Marion University.
Heather Hathaway is on sabbatical 2008-09.
Diane Hoeveler published “The Literary and Literal Circulation of Amelia Curran’s Portrait of Percy Shelley,” Wordsworth Circle 39 (2008), 27-30.
---. Published “Teaching ‘The Purloined Letter’ and Lacan’s ‘Seminar’: Introducing Students to Psychoanalysis via Poe.” In Approaches to Teaching Edgar Allan Poe’s Fiction and Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock and Anthony Magistrale. NY: MLA, 2008. Pp. 108-15.
---. Published “Richard Wright and the Gothic Tradition,” and “Richard Wright’s Savage Holiday.” In The Richard Wright Encyclopedia. Ed. Jerry Ward and Robert Butler. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. Pp. 153-56; 335-38.
---. Published “Romancing Venice: The Courtship of Percy Shelley in The Aspern Papers.” In Proceedings from the Tracing Henry James in Venice Conference. Ed. Melanie Ross and Gregory Zacharias. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. Pp. 155-67.
---. Published "Reading Poe Reading Blackwood’s: The Palimpsestic Subtext in 'The Fall of the House of Usher.'" In Double Visions: Literary Palimpsests of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Ed. Darby Lewes. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press/Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. Pp. 227-37.
---. Co-Edits European Romantic Review.
---. Awarded Faculty Development Grant. Graduate School. Marquette University, 2008-09.
---. Guest edited special omnibus review issue, European Romantic Review 19.5 (2008), 461-583. Wrote the Introduction, “Critical Studies in Romanticism Today,” and edited the 28 reviews.
CJ Hribal serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies.
---. Organized the Richard Russo reading and reception. October 2008.
Denna Iammarino was awarded the graduate student Smith Fellowship. Marquette University, 2008-09.
Thomas Jeffers
Stephen Karian published " Edmund Curll and the Circulation of Swift's Writings." Reading Swift: Papers from the Fifth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift. Ed.
Hermann J. Real. Wilhelm Fink, 2008: 99-129.
---. Published "Swift's First Poem: 'Ode to the Honourable Sir William Temple.'"
Huntington Library Quarterly 71 (2008): 489-501.
Steve Hartman Keiser presented "'It's so 'r'-y': A quantitative study of liquids in language contact and dialect di-/con-vergence" at New Ways of Analyzing Variation. Houston, TX. Nov. 7, 2008.
Christine Krueger
---. Presided a President of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
---. Chaired plenary session and presented “British History as European History and the Scholar Gypsy” at “Ruskin and Nineteenth Century Cultural Travel” conference, sponsored by INCS, University of Lancaster, U.K., Universita Ca’Foscari and Venice International University, Venice, Italy, September 2008.
---. Awarded a Faculty Development Award. Graduate School. Marquette University, 2008-09.
Tim Machan was awarded a Faculty Development Grant. Graduate School. Marquette University, 2008-09.
---. Published a second edition of Vafþrúðnismál (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2008)
---. Presented “Robert Henryson and the Matter of Multilingualism,” at Multilingualism in Medieval Britain, 1100-1400: Sources and Analysis, University of Bristol, 2008
---. Presented “When English Became Latin,” at Cultural Reformations: from Lollardy to the Civil War, Harvard University, 2008
---. Published a review of Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun, by John M. Fyler, (Cambridge, 2007), in Speculum 83 (2008): 984-85
---. Served as the ENGL representative to the Humanities P&T College Committee (2008-09).
Jodi Melamed published "The Killing Joke of Sympathy: Chester Himes's End of a Primitive Sounds the Limits of Mid-Century Racial Liberalism." American Literature 81 (Dec. 2008).
---. Arranged speakers for American Indian Heritage Celebration:
Suzan Shown Harzo ("Native American Cultural Rights")- Wednesday Oct. 22;
Dr. Joseph Gone ("Suicide in Native North America")-- October 28
Dr. Kim Blaeser (Poetry reading) -- October 30
Mark Denning (Discussion of the film "In Whose Honor? Indian Mascots in Sports")- October 24
Vida Muse was awarded the graduate student Raynor Fellowship. Marquette University, 2008-09.
Rebecca Nowacek was awarded a Faculty Development Grant. Graduate School. Marquette University, 2008-09.
---. Received a contract for an interdisciplinary co-edited collection, Citizenship Across the Curriculum from Indiana University Press. Her co-editors are Jeffrey Bernstein (political science, Eastern Michigan) and Michael B. Smith (history and environmental studies, Ithaca College).
Kris
Ratcliffe attended a Planning Retreat for Board of Directors, Rhetoric Society of America, Chicago, Fall 2008.
---. Serves on Board of Directors. Rhetoric Society of America. 2007-10.
---. Serves on Gender Equity Task Force. Rhetoric Socity of America. 2008-09.
---. Serves on CCCC Database Task Force. CCCC. 2007-08.
---. Serves on the Advisory Committee for PMLA. 2008-11.
---. Serves on Division on Teaching Writing. MLA. 2006-10
---. Co-chairs (with Stephanie Quade) the Academic Planning Subcommittee for the Centennial Celebration of Women at Marquette (AY 2009-10).
---. Published (with Donna Schuster) "Mentoring Toward Interdependency: 'Keeping It Real," Stories of Mentoriing: Theory and Praxis. Eds. Michelle Eble & Lynee Lewis Gaillet. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor P, 2008. 248-61.
Al
Rivero was awarded a Faculty Development Grant. Graduate School. Marquette University, 2008.
---. Chairs Search Committee for the Dean of A&S. Marquette University. 2008-09.
---. Co-edits Eighteenth-Century Novel (with George Justice).
---. Service on Organizing Committee, History of the Book Lectures, The Newberry Library (2008-09).
---. Service on Organizing Committee, Romance and Epic Seminar, The Newberry Library (2008-09).
---. Chaired panel on "Eighteenth-Century Characters." EC-ASECS Annual Meeting. Georgetown University. November 6-9, 2008.
Donna Decker Schuster published (with Kris Ratcliffe) "Mentoring Toward Interdependency: 'Keeping It Real," Stories of Mentoriing: Theory and Praxis. Eds. Michelle Eble & Lynee Lewis Gaillet. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor P, 2008. 248-61.
Angela Sorby was awarded a Faculty Development Grant. Graduate School. Marquette University, 2008-09.
---. Presented "Keyword: Golden Age," Children's Literature Association Conference, Normal, IL, June 2008.
---. Published review of Joan Shelley Rubin, Songs of Ourselves, American Historical Review 113 (2008), 449–451.
---. Published (with Joseph T. Thomas and Richard Flynn) "from the brain all the way to the heart: the 2008 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in Children's Poetry." The Lion and the Unicorn 32 (2008): 344-356.
---. Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Raymond Carver Review.
---. Published review of Joseph T. Thomas, Poetry's Playground. Children's Literature 36 (2008): 235-237.
---. Participated (as a reader) in Wisconsin Author's Night. Milwaukee Book Festival. October 2008.
Cliff Spargo published short story, “The Empty Center,” The Antioch Review 66:3 (Summer 2008): 523-36.
---. Published review-essay, “Fiction in Review: Edmund White’s Hotel De Dream,” The Yale Review 96:3 (July 2008).
---. Published, “The Apolitics of Antigone’s Lament,” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 41:3 (Sept. 2008), 117-26.
---. Gave lecture “Antigone: Toward a Theory of Apolitics,” The Year of Antigones Conference, May 15-7, 2008, DePaul University, Chicago, IL.
---. Presented paper “Violence, Sacrifice, and the Ethical Event,” Conference of the North American Levinas Society, Seattle University, Seattle, WA. August 31-Sept. 2, 2008.
Joshua Steffey was awarded a gradate student Schmitt Fellowship. Marquette University, 2008-09.
John Su is on a year-long MU Sabbatical Fellowship for 2008-09.
Sarah
Wadsworth presented (with Wayne A. Wiegand, Florida State University) gan invited lecture entitled "'Right Here I See My Own Books': A Cultural History of the Women's Library of the World's Columbian Exposition" at Northwestern University on June 6, 2008.
---. Published "What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study" in Henry James: A Blackwell Guide to Literature and Culture, ed. Greg W. Zacharias (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
Larry Watson published Doctor’s Boys (short story), North American Review, Volume 292, Number 6
---. Published Redemption (short story), Freight Stories, Issue #2, June 2008
---. Appeared on a panel (“Novel Lives”) at the Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago. June 2008. The annual fair is sponsored by the Chicago Tribune.
---. Spoke on fiction writing at the public library in Franklin, Wisconsin. September 2009.
---. Spoke on “Fiction’s Sources” to a convocation at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. September 24,2008. Cal Poly chose Montana 1948 for its Preface Reading Project, a program similar to Marquette’s Manresa Project. He also met with creative writing students and discussion facilitators.
---. Served as judge for the best first book for the High Plains Book Awards.
---. Was awarded a 2008 Outstanding Achievement award for his novel Sundown, Yellow Moon by the Wisconsin Library Association.
---. Recognized as a Notable Wisconsin Author by the Wisconsin Library Association for his contributions to the world of literature and ideas through the outstanding body of work during his lifetime.
---. Read his fiction as part of Marquette Authors Night, a Wisconsin Book Festival event, on October 13.
---, Spoke on "Growing Up Midwestern" to a convocation at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 16. Also spoke to a creative writing class at the college.
---. Spoke to writing classes at Homestead High School in Mequon, Wisconsin, on October 27. His novel Montana 1948 is studied in writing and literature classes at Homestead, and his appearance was the first in the school's visiting writer series.
---. Spoke and read from his fiction at Weyenberg Library in Mequon, Wisconsin, on October 27. The communities of Mequon and Thiensville have chosen Montana 1948 for their community reads program.
---. Published his most recent novel, Sundown, Yellow Moon, in paperback on November 1.
Colleen Willenbring was awarded a graduate student Goedden English Department Fellowship. Marquette University, 2008-09.
Amelia Zurcher has been appointed co-chair (with Nancy Snow) of the Women and Gender Studies Committee for 2009-10.
2007-2008 Publications, Presentations, Activities, and Awards
