September 7 , 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
- Will participate in a roundtable discussion of James Machor¹s Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories,
1820-1865 at the Reception Studies Society Biennial Conference in September 2011
- Will publish Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States with the American Literatures Initiative, Temple University Press, publication date set for November 2011.
- MA grad in 2010. The Writing Center Director at Concordia University Wisconsin. Coordinate the peer tutoring and Supplemental Instruction programs, and teach as an adjunct in the English department. Currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.
- Edits Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature.
- Directs the First-Year English Program.
- Serves as Director of Graduate Studies
- Published "'Duke Byron Flows with Adust and Melancholy Choler': General and Special Character in Chapman's Byron Plays," Studies in Philology 108 (2011): 345-78.
- Elected to chair the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 2011-2012 College Section Nominating Committee.
- Co-chair of the recently formed Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Committee on Undergraduate Research.
- Member of the CCCC Special Task Force on Human Subjects.
- With Lee Nickoson (Bowling Green University), began work on Kenyon Writes, a three-year Mellon-funded study of writing at Kenyon College.
- Will publish "Taking it on the Road: Transferring Knowledge about Rhetoric and Writing across Curricula and Campuses" in the Fall 2011 issue of Composition Studies.
- Will publish "The Turn to Performance," the specially themed inaugural issue of CCC Online, a peer-reviewed digital journal sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English.
- Received a Summer Faculty Fellowship 2011.
- Presented 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 a seminar paper on Osip Mandelstam's The Egyptian Stamp at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Buffalo, NY.
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Will present a paper entitled "'Odysseus / the name of my family': Pound, Joyce, Homer" at MLA.
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An article entitled "'Cyclops,' Censorship, and Joyce's Monster Audiences" forthcoming in the James Joyce Quarterly.
- Awarded jointly for Reasoning Together the NAISA award (Native American and Indigenous Studies Association) for participating in one of the "ten most influencial books of the past decade" for indigenous scholarship, 2011.
- A book chapter in, Writing Center and the New Racism, is being printed and sent to the warehouse.
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Will publish “Organizing for Antiracism in Writing Centers: Principles for Enacting Social Change” with Moira Ozias in Writing Centers and the New Racism (edited by Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan), forthcoming with Utah State University Press.
- Will present “The Pursuit of Affiliation in Cross-Racial Collaborative Writing Talk” at the 2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
- Invited to co-lead a pre-conference workshop at the Midwest Writing Centers Association (MWCA) on “An Inquiry State of Mind: Research in the Writing Center” with Michele Eodice, October 2011.
- Gave invited presentation “Toward a New Conceptual Framework of Writing/Speaking Center Work: Designing More Equitable Social Futures” to Writing and Speaking Center staff members from Agnes Scott College and Spelman College, September 2011.
- Presented “(En)Acting Gender Equity: Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed for Gender Sensitization” with Rasha Diab, Tanya Cochran, and Manisha Shelat at the Women’s Worlds Congress in July 2011.
- Attended the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Summer Institute in July 2011.
- Serves as Co-chair of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) and Midwest Writing Centers Association (MWCA) Special Interest Groups (SIGs) on Anti-racist Activism.
- Co-Edits European Romantic Review (6 issues a year)
- 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 “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.
- Will deliver“Reinventing the Gothic Archive,” paper read at the International Conference on Romanticism meeting, University of Montreal, Canada, November 2011.
- 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
- Serves as Faculty Coordinator of FAME (Friends and Alumni of Marquette English)
- Will publish “Gothic Interiority and Servants in Edith Wharton’s A Backward Glance and ‘The Lady’s Maid’s Bell’” in Twentieth-Century Literature.
- This year’s recipient of the Siegel/McDaniel award of the Philip Roth Society. A revised version of her essay will most likely appear in the journal Philip Roth Studies some time in the upcoming year. This is an international cash prize competed for by graduate students from this country as well as from the U.K. and Canada who have submitted proposals, had them accepted, and subsequently presented papers on panels sponsored by the Roth Society.
- Elected to the Executive Committee for the Sociological Approaches to Literature Division, Modern Language Association (five-year term, 2011-2016).
- Published a book chapter, "Reading Tehran in Lolita: Making Racialized and Gendered Difference Work for Neoliberal Multiculturalism" in Strange Affinities: The Sexual and Gender Politics of Comparative Racialization Ed. Roderick Ferguson and Grace Hong, Duke University Press, September 2011
- Will publish in November 2011 my book manuscript Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism.
- Will give a talk on "Keyword: Diversity" at the American Studies Association Conference 2011 in Baltimore in October 2011.
- Will give an invited lecture at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as part of their Revolutionizing American Studies series entitled "Ghosting Human Capital: Neoracial Logics in Neoliberal Times" in December, 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 participate in a featured session on "Genres in Transition" at the 2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication.
- Has in press Agents of Integration: Understanding Transfer as a Rhetorical Act with Southern Illinois University Press.
- Will present at the Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference in Madison WI.
- Has in press, “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 Susan Mountin.
- Serves as President-elect. Rhetoric Society of America (RSA).
- Seves as 2012 RSA Conference Planner for Philadelphia, May 25-28, 2012.
- Serve on the CCCC Research Committee 2011-2014
- Serves on the advisory board of Penn State Press's Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation Series.
- Will present “The White Female Body as Administrator” CCCC. St. Louis, 2012
- Serves as Chair of English Department
- Published critical edition of Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson, Cambridge University Press, 2011
- Will publish critical edition of Samuel Richardson'sPamela 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
- 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.
- Published article, “Who Wrote ‘Rock Me to Sleep?’: Elizabeth Akers Allen and the Profession of Poetry” in MLQ (2011)
- Published book chapter, “The Golden Age” in Philip Nel and Lissa Paul, Keywords for Children’s Literature (NYU P, 2011)
- Published poem, “Thrifting,” in Massachusetts Review (2011)
- Delivered invited lectures in China, “Emily Dickinson: Woman, Poet, Gnostic” and “Creative Writing Programs in America: A History” at Dalian Maritime University; Southwest University (Chongqing); Taiyuan Technical University; and Xiamen University Foreign Studies Institute (2011)
- Serves on the Editorial Board for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.
- Forthcoming 2011 book chapter, "The Poetics of Bird-Defense, 1865-1920," in Michael Chasar, ed., Poetry After Cultural Studies(U of Iowa P)
- Will deliver two papers at the 2012 MLA: “Naguchi and the Purple Cow: Reading The Lark,” and “My Other Me: Ghost-Children in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.”
- Serves on the Editorial Board of the Raymond Carver Review
- Serves as board member, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Society
- Serves as board member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers
- Serves as board member, Raymond Carver International Association
- Serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies.
- Published Imagination and the contemporary novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Paper to be read. "Beauty and the Beastly Prime Minister." Annual meeting of the Modern Language Association. Seattle. 2012
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Review of The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies, by Mark Chiang. Journal of Asian Studies 70.2 (2011): 503-04. 2011
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"Amitav Ghosh And the Aesthetic Turn in Postcolonial Studies.” Journal of Modern Literature 34.3 (2011): 65-86. 2011
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- Serves on the board of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.
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Received, along with AngelaSorby and Susan Hopwood, anNEH grant from the American Library Association forRaynor Memorial Libraries and Milwaukee Public Library to collaborate on an outreach project titled Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women. The project, which is based on a biography written by HarrietReisen 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 scheduled throughout the fall semester. http://marquette.edu/library/news/2011/alcott.shtml
Published “Refusing to Write like Henry James: Women Reforming Realism in Fin de Siècle America,” European Journal of American Studies2 ( 2011).
- Publishedreview of Peter West, Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture, in Resources for American Literary Study 34.7 (May 2011): 255-57.
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Publishedreview of Valerie Gray, Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer,in The Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 5 (2010): 144-46.
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Delivered “Ghosts and Shadows: Reading Race in the Woman’s Building Library of the World’s Columbian Exposition,” Edward G. Holley Lecture, Library History Roundtable, American Library Association. New Orleans, LA, June 2011.
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Delivered “Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman’s Library at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair," invited lecture for the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, American Library Association, New Orleans, LA, June 2011.
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Presented “Roderick Hudson and the Atlantic Circle,” Book History plenary, Fifth International Conference of the Henry James Society, Rome, Italy, July 2011.
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Organized plenary session “Henry James and the History of the Book,”Fifth International Conference of the Henry James Society, Rome, Italy, July 2011.
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Moderated session, “Theatricality and Performance,” Fifth International Conference of the Henry James Society, Rome, Italy, July 2011.
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Will publish “Right Here I See My Own Books”: The Woman's Building 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 two events: one at the Library of Congress honoring the National Women's History Museum, to which the authors are donating their royalties, and one at the Chicago History Museum (cosponsored by Northwestern University).
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Will publish “Canonicity and the American Public Library: The Case of American Women Writers,” Library Trends 60.3 (February 2012).
- read his essay “Wisconsin Beauty, Common and Rare” on January 11, 2013, on Wisconsin Life on Wisconsin Public Radio.
- served as the final judge in fiction for the Tucson Festival of Books literary awards
- On October 4, 2012, Larry Watson spoke on “Fiction and Autobiography: A Writer’s Sources” at the Stillwater Library in Stillwater, Minnesota. Watson’s novel American Boy was selected for the library’s book club.
- On October 5, 2012, Larry Watson spoke to booksellers at the annual Midwest Independent Booksellers Association convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- On October 6, 2012, Larry Watson spoke on “The Writing Process” at Ridgedale Library in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
- Larry Watson was a featured author at the Chippewa Valley Book Fair. On October 20, 2012, he read from his fiction and spoke on “A Writer’s Sense of Place” at the L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
- On August 4, 2012, an interview with Larry Watson was the subject of a feature in the Wisconsin State Journal.
- On August 5, 2012, an interview with Larry Watson was the subject of a feature in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
- On August 12, Larry Watson read from his fiction at Arcadia Books in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
- Larry Watson’s novel American Boy was published in a paperback edition on August 27 by Milkweed Editions.
- On August 22, Larry Watson gave a presentation at Muskego Public Library on “Fiction and its Sources in the Writer’s Life.” Watson’s fiction was featured at the library’s summer reading program.
- On August 27, Watson spoke to classes at Marquette High School where his novel American Boy is being studied.
- Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association, named Larry Watson’s novel American Boy to its Editors’ Choice list for 2011. The novel was named in two categories: outstanding adult fiction and outstanding adult fiction for young adults.
- On December 9, 2011, Larry Watson spoke to English classes at Whitnall High School, where his novel Montana 1948 is studied.
- On December 12, 2011, Watson read from his fiction at the University of Minnesota.
- Watson spoke to English classes at Whitefish Bay High School on December 20, 2011.
- On December 27, 2011, KFAI, a Minneapolis-St. Paul radio station, featured Watson on Write On! a program of interviews with writers.
- Will publish American Boy, Milkweed, Oct. 2011.
- Presented, along with C. J. Hribal and Angela Sorby, a reading for Marquette’s Alumni Weekend, July 24.
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“Whose West, Which West, West of What?” appears in West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West, edited by Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland (University of Texas Press).
- American Boy will be published in October (Milkweed Editions).
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IndieNext, a newsletter and organization of Independent Booksellers, has chosen American Boy as an October featured title.
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Will be a keynote speaker at the Midwest Booksellers Association annual convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on September 22.
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Will speak at the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association annual convention in Dearborn, Michigan, on October 15.
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Will read from his fiction at the Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 19-23.
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Will read give readings from American Boy at Boswell’s Books in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 29, at Books & Company in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, on October 18, at Next Chapter in Mequon, Wisconsin, on October 26, and at Book Stall in Winnetka, Illinois, on October 27.
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Shorewood, Wisconsin, has selected novel Montana 1948 for its first Community Reads program. Watson will speak to students at Shorewood High School on October 5. He will offer a presentation for the public at the Shorewood Community Center on October 5.
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Will speak to ESL classes at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee on October 17. His novel Montana 1948 is being studied in the classes.
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In October, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Chapter a Day will feature American Boy.
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Will speak at the Verona Public Library in Verona, Wisconsin, on November 2.
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Will speak at the L. D. Fargo Public Library in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, on November 12.
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Along with other Milwaukee authors (including C. J. Hribal) he will read from his fiction at the Associated Writing Programs annual convention in Chicago, Illinois, in February 2012.
- An interview and profile will appear in an upcoming issue of Wisconsin People and Id
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was the subject of a feature article in the February 26, 2012, issue of Printers Row, a new Chicago Tribune magazine on books and writers.
- read from his fiction on March 3, 2012, at the Associated Writing Programs annual conference in Chicago. He was part of a panel of Milwaukee writers, including C. J. Hribal, who chaired the panel.
- Chairs Women and Gender Studies Program.
- 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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