January 24, 2011
Fr. Ron Bieganowski
- Serves as Business Administration Chaplaincy
- Offers Spiritual Direction
- Performs Marquette Weddings
- Preaches Retreats. Jesuit Retreat House. Oshkosh, WI, & St. Paul, MN
- Offers Weekend Parish Service. St. Clare of Assisi. Edwards, CO
- Serves on the Editorial Board for Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, The Journal of the Reception Study Society
- Presented “Rereading Race for the Great White Way: Show Boat’s reception as Novel and Musical” at the Reception Studies Society Biannual Conference, September 12 at Purdue University. She was also reelected for a third two-year term as a Representative to the Society’s Board.
Edwin Block
- Edits Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature.
- presenting "Flannery O'Connor, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Mystery of Human Existence" at the Loyola University Chicago O'Connor Conference, October 6-8, 2011.
- Published a poem, "Dry Thoughts," in Spiritus: The Journal of Spirituality, Spring, 2011.
- Directs the First-Year English Program.
- Published "The Gothic Heart of Victorian Serial Fiction" Studies in English Literature 50.4 (Autumn 2010): 791-810.
- Presenting "Reading 'An Every-Day Story' Through Bifocals: Seriality and the Limits of Realism in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters." at the annual convention of the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference. Montreal, Nov. 11-14, 2010. She also organized a panel at NAVSA: "Victorian Close Reading to 21st-Century Digital Reading".
- Serves as Director of Graduate Studies.
- Elected to chair the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 2011-2012 College Section Nominating Committee.
- Received a Summer Faculty Fellowship 2011.
- Received a Faculty Development Award to present a paper called "Slinging in Licherary Langwidg": Ezra Pound, W.H.D. Rouse, and a Modern Odyssey" at the Ezra Pound and London Conference. London. July 2011.
- Will present "'What these Ithacas Mean': the Homeric Nostos in Modernist Poetry" at the conference "War, the Odyssey, and Narratives of Return". University of South Carolina, March 2011.
- Delivered a paper, "The Cane Fields: A Site of Transnational Trauma in the Work of Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz" at the MELUS & USACLALS (Multi-Ethnic American and Postcolonial World Literatures) Joint Conference in April.
- Awarded Summer Faculty Fellowship for “Barbed Art: A Cultural Study of Japanese Internment Camp Aesthetics,” December 2010
- Published Conversations with Paule Marshall, eds. James C. Hall and Heather Hathaway, UP of Mississippi, 2010.
- Awarded Wisconsin Humanities Council Grant, with Vicki York, Lake Mills Public Library, “50 Years of Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction,” book series/discussion held January to May, 2011.
- Co-Edits European Romantic Review (6 issues a year)
- Won the Allan Lloyd Smith award from the International Gothic Association for Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820. Ohio State UP, 2010. 295 pp.
- Published The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romanticism, 3 vols. Coedited with Frederick Burwick and Nancy Goslee. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. Author of entries on “Gothic Drama,” “Rescue Opera,” “Female Gothic Fiction,” “Gothic Ballads,” and “Percy Shelley’s Prose.”
- Published “Where the Evidence Leads: Teaching Gothic Novels and the Law.” In Approaches to Teaching Literature and the Law. Ed. Austin Sarat, Cathrine Frank, and Matthew Anderson. NY: MLA, 2011, 244-59.
- Published “Homospectrality in Henry James’s Ghost Stories.” In Henry James and the Supernatural. Ed. Kimberly Reed. New York: Palgrave, 2011, 113-36.
- Published “Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy and the Performance of Romanticism.” In The Romantics in Italy: Dante, Italian Culture, and Romantic Literature. Ed. Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2011, 133-42.
- Published “The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader.” In Romanticism and the City. Ed. Larry Peer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 55-72.
- Will Publish“Demonizing the Catholic Other: Religion and the Secularization Process in Gothic Literature.” In Transatlantic Gothic: New Directions in Dark Romanticism. Ed. Monika Ebert and Bridget Marshall. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, forthcoming 2012.
- Will Publish “Percy Shelley’s Prose Fiction: Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, The Assassins, ‘The Coliseum.’” In The Oxford Handbook of Percy Shelley Studies. Ed. Michael O’Neill and Tony Howe. Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2012.
- Will Publish “Victorian Gothic Drama.” In Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic. Ed. Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, forthcoming 2012.
- Will Publish “Gothic Ruins” and “Gothic Opera.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Gothic. Ed. Andrew Smith, David Punter, and William Hughes. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2012.
- Will Publish “Anti-Catholicism and the Gothic Imaginary: The Historical and Literary Contexts.” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment 3 (2011).
- Will Publish a review of Gilbert & Gubar’s ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’ After Thirty Years, ed. Annette R. Federico. (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2009). In Gothic Studies 14 (2011).
- Will Publish “Sarah Wilkinson: Female Gothic Entrepreneur.” In Whores, Harlots and Housewives: The Postfeminist Eighteenth Century. Ed. Benjamin A. Brabon and Steve VanHagen. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming 2012.
- Will Publish “The Illustrations to Thomas Holcroft’s Tale of Mystery as Physiognomical Tableaux Vivant.” In Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1743-1809. Ed. Miriam Wallace and A. A. Markley. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. Pp. 188-213.
- Will Publish “Regina Maria Roche’s The Children of the Abbey: Contesting the Catholic Presence in Female Gothic Fiction,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 31 (2012)
- Delivered “Haunted Archives: Stalking the Gothic from the Dusty to the Digital,” invited keynote for the International Gothic Association conference, University of Heidelberg, Germany, August 2011.
- Delivered “Reinventing the Gothic Archive,” paper read at the International Conference on Romanticism meeting, University of Montreal, Canada, November 2011.
- Delivered “Absences and Apparitions: The Masculine Supplement in Henry James’s Ghost Stories,” paper read at the Henry James in Rome Conference, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, July 2011.
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Will publish “The Other Life,” short fiction, under contract for Iron Horse, Spring, 2011 special issue on “The State of American Fiction”
- Has in production “Comic and Cosmic Distance” (essay) for Bringing the Devil to His Knees, vol. II, to be published Spring, 2011 by University of Michigan Press
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Will present "Observations from the Way Back" at the Beloit Historical Society, Beloit, WI, February, 2011
- Will serve as a member of the Fiction Faculty at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, Jan. 2-13, 2011.
- Will chair a panel and present on “The Virtues of Obsession” at the Associated Writing Programs National Convention, Washington, DC, February 2011.
- Will present on “Raymond Carver as Teacher,” at the Associated Writing Programs National Convention, Washington, DC, February 2011.
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Served as the Judge for the University of Houston MFA Program's Creative Writing Fellowship and Writing Awards Competition, December, 2010
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Served as Fiction Mentor for the Loft Mentor Series, The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN, November, 2010. Chose four Fiction Fellowship recipients and worked with 12 emerging writers. Gave reading, master class, and individual conferences with writers.
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Presented "The Writer's Life," for the Loft Literary Center's Novel Writing Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November, 2010
- Read in the Bonk! Literary Series for the Racine Arts Council, August 28, 2010.
- Has in production “Voice and Characterization,” (essay), for A View From the Loft (anthology of essays on writing), to be published Fall, 2010.
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Presented "The Other Life" (short story), Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC, July, 2010
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Presented "Milan Kundera and the Novel of Ideas," and gave the commencement address at The Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Asheville, NC, July 2010
- Served as a Member of the Fiction Faculty, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, July 2-14, 2010
- Named the Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
- Serves as MU liaison for the Milwaukee Book Festival Steering Committee
- Serves as a reviewer for John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- Serves on the Academic Board for the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers
- Published Norman Podhoretz: A Biography. Cambridge University Press. 2010.
- Received an NEH fellowship to fund research on the Irish contexts of Jonathan Swift's poems for the Cambridge Edition of Swift's poems which he is co-editing with James Woolley of Lafayette College.
- Received a Regular Research Grant, which, along with an NEH fellowship, will fund research on the Irish contexts of Jonathan Swift's poems for the Cambridge Edition of Swift's poems which he is co-editing.
- Published Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Presented readings from Manoleria at the Woodland Patterns Bookcenter, Milwaukee. March 23, 2011.
- Won Tupelo Press' 10th Annual Crazyhorse First Book Award for poetry for his collection, Manoleria, published March 2011.
- Select pieces from his manuscript have recently appeared/are forthcoming in Jubilat; 1913: A Journal of Forms; Kenyon Review; and Forklift, Ohio.
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Published: Reading for the Law: Gender Advocacy and British Literary History, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.
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Elected chair, University Academic Senate (2010-2011).
- Will publish “Gothic Interiority and Servants in Edith Wharton’s A Backward Glance and ‘The Lady’s Maid’s Bell’” in Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Will present “New Womanhood and The Black Bourgeoisie” at the Modernist Studies Association in Buffalo, New York. October 2011.
- Will present “Reading Nannies’ Diaries: Gentrified Carework and Transnational Dreams in Contemporary American Women’s Fiction” at the Modern Language Association in Seattle, Washington. January, 2011.
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Elected to the Executive Committee for the Sociological Approaches to Literature Division, Modern Language Association (five-year term, 2011-2016).
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Presented a paper on "Normative Violence and the Material Politics of Anti-Racist Knowledges" at the Critical Ethnic Studies Conference, "Critical Ethnic Studies and the Futures of Genocide," March 2011.
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Gave an invited talk on "Neoliberal Multiculturalism" at the 2011 Zuckerman Conference, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University.
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Will present a paper on "Access" at the American Studies Association Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 2011.
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Will give an invited talk as part of the "Revolutionizing American Studies" speaker series at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, December 2011.
- Awarded a mini-grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council to complete an oral history project in the summer of 2010 documenting the social histories of Arab and Muslim women in Milwaukee. Dr. Melamed shares the award with Dr. Enaya Othman, the Director of the Arab and Muslim Women's Research and Resource Institute, of which Dr. Melamed is a founding board member.
- Will publish a chapter entitled, "Reading Tehran in Lolita: Seizing Literary Value for Neoliberal Multiculturalism,” in Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization. Eds. Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick Ferguson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2010.
- Has contract to publish Represent and Destroy: Antiracism, Global Capitalism, and the Political Cultures of American Literature." University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2011
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Paper Accepted: "Literary Studies, Violence, and Neoliberal Racialism." American Studies Association Conference. November, 2010, San Antonio Texas
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Paper Accepted: "Reassessing the Late Work of W.E.B. Du Bois: Thikning Race Beyond the Color-Line and Against U.S. Cold War Supremacy." Organization of American Historians Annual Conference. March, 2011, San Antonio, Texas.
- Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Excellent in Faculty Advising, Recipient, 2011.
- Published Citizenship Across the Curriculum (co-edited with Jeffrey L. Bernstein and Michael B. Smith) with Indiana University Press.
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Published “Three Models of Mentorship: Feminist Leadership and the Graduate Student WPA” in Krista Ratcliffe and Rebecca Rickley (eds.), Performing Feminism and Administration in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Hampton Press (2010). Co-authored with Julie Christoph, Mary Lou Odom, and Bonnie Smith.
- Has in production, Agents of Integration: Teaching for Transfer Across and Beyond the Academy, at SWR with SIUP, forthcoming 2011.
- Has in production, “Reflection in Action: A Signature Ignatian Pedagogy for the 21st-Century.” In Nancy Chick, Aeron Haynie, and Regan Gurung (eds.) Exploring More Signature Pedagogies, Stylus Press. Co-authored with Rebecca S. Nowacek and Susan Mountin.
- Is Chair of the CCC special interest group on Teaching Writing in Learning Communities and Interdisciplinary Classrooms
- Is faculty coordinator of Marquette's Manresa for Faculty learning community on Ignatian pedagogy
- Will attend Rhetoric Society of America Board Retreat. Chicago, IL. October 2010.
- Invited to consult with graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and present "Rhetorical Listening: What's Next?" November 2010.
- Will Chair “Deliberating Whiteness in the Teaching of Rhetoric and Writing” CCCC. Atanta, 2011
- Organized and Will Chair "Narrating Gender Lives " MLA. Los Angeles. Dec. 2011.
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Published Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts. Co-edited with Cheryl Glenn. Southern Illinois University Press 2010.
- President-elect. Rhetoric Society of America.
- Serves as Mentor to Associate Professors working toward promotion to Full Professor. Rhetoric Society of America. 2009-10.
- Serves on the Advisory Committee for PMLA. 2008-11.
- Serves on Division on Teaching Writing. MLA. 2006-11.
- Serves as Chair of Department
- In press and now listed on the Cambridge UP website: Critical editions of Samuel Richardson, Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Pamela in her Exalted Condition (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2012).
- Co-edits Eighteenth-Century Novel (with George Justice).
- MU's representative (1988- ) to Executive Committee, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
- Member, Organizing Committee, The History of the Book Lecture series, Newberry Library
- Elected to executive committee of the MLA Division on Restoration and Early-Eighteenth Century English Literature (five-year term, 2010-2015)
- Member, Editorial Board, The Georgia Edition of the Works of Tobias Smollett (University of Georgia Press)
- Member, Editorial Board, Studies in the Novel
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Received, along with Sarah Wadsworth, a collaborative NEH grant from the American Library Association to collaborate with Raynor Memorial Libraries and Milwaukee Public Library on an outreach project titled Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women. The project, which is based on a biography written by Harriet Reisen and a documentary film co-produced by Nancy Porter Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET New York’s American Masters, will support a series of public events to be scheduled in Fall 2011.
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Has joined the Editorial Board for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.
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Outstanding Poetry Book Recognition Award, Wisconsin Library Association (for Bird Skin Coat)
- Winner of Midwest Book Award in the poetry category from Midwest Independent Publishers Association (for Bird Skin Coat).
- Recent/upcoming poetry readings: Oberich Gardens Invitational (Madison); Lorine Niedecker Poetry Festival (Ft. Atkinson, WI); Wisconsin Book Festival (Madison); Boswell Books (Milwaukee); Crosshatch Poetry Series (Madison).
- Paper scheduled, "Raymond Carver's Grunge Fictions," MMLA (Chicago), November 2010
- Published book chapter, "Longfellow's Ghost: Writing Popular Poetry," in Blas Falconer, et. al., eds. Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern IL UP)
- Forthcoming in 2010 book chapter, "Children's Poetry and Children's Rights in America, 1865-1900," in Morag Styles, et. al., eds., Poetry and Childhood (Tretham House, UK)
- Forthcoming in 2010 review essay, "It's (Not) All Small Stuff: the 2009 Lion and the Unicorn Award in North American Children's Poetry," co-written with Joseph Thomas and Michael Heyman, in The Lion and the Unicorn.
- Forthcoming 2011 book chapter, "The Poetics of Bird-Defense, 1865-1920," in Michael Chasar, ed., Poetry After Cultural Studies (U of Iowa P)
- Awarded a Fulbright to Xiamen University in China for the spring of 2011.
- Serves on the Editorial Board of the Raymond Carver Review.
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Board member, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Society
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Board member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers
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Board member, Raymond Carver International Association
- Named chair of English at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, AR.
Kelsey Squire (graduate student)
- Received a Woodress Visiting Fellowship to conduct research on Willa Cather using materials at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln libraries. She will be in residence at the University of Nebraska for one month after graduation in May 2011. The fellowship includes a stipend and is supported by the Roberta and James Woodress Fund (James Woodress is an eminent Cather biographer and emeritus professor of English at the University of California-Davis).
- Serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies.
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Published Imagination and the contemporary novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Published “Postcolonial Fiction of the African Diaspora.” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Edited by Brian Shaffer. Chichester: Blackwell, 2010.
- Published “Realist Theory.” The Encyclopedia of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. Edited by M. Keith Booker. Chichester: Blackwell, 2010.
- Will publish “Right Here I See My Own Books”: A Cultural History of the Women’s Library at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (co-authored with Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies, Florida State University). Forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press, the book will be officially launched at an event at the Library of Congress honoring the National Women's History Museum, to which the authors are donating their royalties. Sponsored by the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies, the event will be held in March (Women's History Month), 2012.
- Received, along with Angela Sorby, a collaborative NEH grant from the American Library Association to collaborate with Raynor Memorial Libraries and Milwaukee Public Library on an outreach project titled Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women. The project, which is based on a biography written by Harriet Reisen and a documentary film co-produced by Nancy Porter Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET New York’s American Masters, will support a series of public events to be scheduled in Fall 2011.
- Published a review of Joanna Levin, Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 in Journal of American History 97.3 (December 2010): 821-22.
- Published "Henry James Rides Again" in The Henry James Review 31.1 (Fall 2010): 218-31.
- Presented a paper, “Candace Wheeler and the Woman’s Library of the World’s Columbian Exposition,” at Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris (Newark, DE) in October.
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Presented “Canon Formation and the American Public Library, 1900-1970: The Case of American Women Writers” at Library History XII: "Libraries in the History of Print Culture," Sept. 10-12, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Has been awarded the Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas by the Bibliographical Society of America.
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Presented, along with C. J. Hribal and Angela Sorby, a reading for Marquette’s Alumni Weekend, July 24.
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Featured participant in the Equality State Book Festival, held in Casper, Wyoming, September 24-25.
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Presented reading at the Booklovers Ball on the University of Minnesota campus. The ball is an annual benefit held for Milkweed Editions, a Minneapolis press, October 16.
- Visited classes and gave a reading and presentation at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico. Farmington and San Juan College selected Watson's novel, Montana 1948, for their first One Book/One Community reading programs. Spoke at the college as part of its Broadening Horizons series and met with book club members in the community, October 21-22.
- Received a contract with Milkweed Editions for a new novel (working title American Boy) to be published in 2010 or 2011.
- Chairs Women and Gender Studies Program.
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Published "Serious Extravagance: Romance Writing in Seventeenth-Century England," Literature Compass 8/6, 2011, 376-89.
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Published "The Narrative Turn Against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle's Parthenissa," in Go Figure: Energies, Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World, ed. Judith Anderson and Joan Pong Linton (NY: Fordham University Press, 2011), 73-90.
- Attended the Augsburg Center For Global Education’s seminar “Globalizing Women’s Studies: Pedagogy and Praxis,” in Mexico City, June 2011.
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