Aesha Adams-Roberts

Milton Bates

• Will present "Telling the Vietnam War Story.” Public lecture sponsored by the Michigan Humanities Council and the One Book One Community program, Marquette, Michigan, Nov. 1, 2009.
• Will present "Stevens and Modernist Narrative.” Keynote Address, Conference on Wallace Stevens and Modernism, New York University, Mar. 4-6, 2010.

• Serves as Business Administration Chaplaincy, 2009-10.
• Offers Spiritual Direction,2009-10.
• Performs Marquette Weddings, 2009-10.
• Preaches Retreats. Jesuit Retreat House. Oshkosh, WI, & St. Paul, MN
• Offers Weekend Parish Service. St. Clare of Assisi. Edwards, CO

Amy Blair

• 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.

• Edits Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature.

Mary Catherine Bodden

Virginia Chappell

• Directs the First-Year English Program

John Curran

• Serves as Director of Graduate Studies
•  Published “Fletcher, Massinger, and Roman Imperial Character,”

  Comparative Drama 43 (2009):317-54.

•  Published “Jacob and Esau and the Iconoclasm of Merit,” Studies

  in English Literature 49.2(2009):285-309.

Ed Duffy

Heather Hathaway

• Co-Edits European Romantic Review.
• Published “Teaching the Female Body as Contested Territory.”  In "Approaches to Teaching Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels."   Ed. Ian Duncan and Evan Gottlieb.  NY: MLA, 2009.  Pp. 105-14.
• Will present “Germaine de Staël’s Corinne and the Performance of Romanticism” at the "Romantics in Italy: Dante, Italian Culture, and Romantic Literature." Florence, Italy. January 2010.
• Will present “The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader” at the sixteenth annual International Conference on Romanticism (ICR) conference. CUNY, New York City. November 2009.
• Elected At-large Senator, Faculty Academic Senate, 2008-11.
• Elected Senate representative, Board of Undergraduate Studies, MU, 2008-.
• Has in production Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820.  Ohio State UP, forthcoming May 2010. 400 pp.
• Has in production The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe.  Ontario, CA: Broadview Press, forthcoming 2010.  Coedited with Fred Frank
• Has received a book contract for The Blackwell Encyclopedia of British Romanticism. 4 vols.  Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2010.  Coedited with Frederick Burwick and Nancy Goslee.
• Delivered “Literature’s Role in the Secularization Process,” a public lecture as visiting scholar-in-residence, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, November 2009.
• Received Faculty Development Grant.

CJ Hribal

• Serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Thomas Jeffers

Stephen Karian

• Has in production Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript at Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

Steve Hartman Keiser

Daniel Khalastchi

• Won Tupelo Press' 10th Annual First Book Award for poetry for his collection, The Maturation of Man, which will be published in early 2011. 
• Select pieces from his manuscript have recently appeared/are forthcoming in Jubilat; 1913: A Journal of Forms; Kenyon Review; and Forklift, Ohio.

Christine Krueger

• Has in production Reading for the Law: Narrative Legal Theory, Feminist Advocacy, and the Uses of British Literary History at the University of Virginia Press. Forthcoming May 2010.

Tim Machan

Jodi Melamed

• Will present "Culture=Land: Indigenous Uses of Multiculturalism Against the Grain." American Studies Association Conference. November 2009. Washington D.C.
• In Fall 2009, the University of MInnesota Press awarded Dr. Jodi Melamed a contract to publish her manuscript, Represent and Destroy: Antiracism, Global Capitalism, and the Political Cultures of American Literature."

Rebecca Nowacek

Kris Ratcliffe

• Co-chairs (with Rana Altenberg and Donna Farrell) the Centennial Celebration of Women at Marquette (AY 2009-10).
• Served as Faculty Speaker, speaking on the 2009 First-Year Reading book selection, Persepolis, at the New Student Comvocation. Marquette University Orientation. August 2009.
• Received book contract for Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts. Co-edited with Cheryl Glenn. Southern Illinois University Press.
• Has in production Feminist Administration in Rhetoric and Composition Studies (co-edited with Becky Rickly) with Hampton Press. Forthcoming 2009.
• Organized and Will Chair, "Has Composition Moved Away from the Humanities?: What’s Lost? What’s Gained?"  MLA. Philadelphia, PA. Dec. 2009.
• Serves on Board of Directors. Rhetoric Society of America. 2007-10. (President-elect)
• Serves as Mentor to Associate Professors working toward promotion to Full Professor. Rhetoric Socity of America. 2009-10.
• Serves on the Advisory Committee for PMLA. 2008-11.
• Serves on Division on Teaching Writing. MLA. 2006-10.

• Co-edits Eighteenth-Century Novel (with George Justice).

• Published "Lively Rigor: The 2009 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry." The Lion and the Unicorn 33: 3 (September 2009) 376-396.
• Published“The Milwaukee School of Fleshly Poetry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox and  Popular Aestheticism,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 26: 1 (2009): 69-91.
• Will Present “Reinventing the Wheel: Traditions of Innovation in Poetry.” Associated Writing Programs Conference. Denver, CO. April 2010.
• Will Present “Contemporary Women Writers.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference. Philadelphia, PA. October 2009.
• Elected to Board of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Society.
• Serves on the Advisory Board, Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• Serves on the Editorial Board of the Raymond Carver Review.

Cliff Spargo

• Awarded Fellowship from the American Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C., for spring 2010.

Kelsey Squire  

• Recipient of 2009 John D. McCabe Excellence in Teaching Award
• Presented paper: "The Cultural Geography of ‘Winter Dreams’ and The Great Gatsby."  Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE).  University of Victoria, British Columbia.  June 6, 2009.
• Presented paper: "Remote and Islanded": Isolation of People and Places in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs."  Nineteenth Century Studies Association.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  March 26, 2009.
• Presented paper: "Landscape and the Rhetoric of Time: Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring."  The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.  University of North Carolina, Charlotte.  November 15, 2008.
• Presented paper: "A ‘Linnaean Novel’: The Influence and Presence of Natural History in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie."  The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM).  Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, University of Wisconsin-Madison.  September 12, 2008.

John Su

Sarah Wadsworth

• Presented a paper, "Alice A. Bartlett in the Context of the Alcotts, the Emersons, and James," at the 4th international conference of the Society for the Study of Women Writers, in Philadelphia, Oct. 25

Larry Watson

• Received a contract with Milkweed Editions for a new novel (working title American Boy) to be published in 2010 or 2011.
• Will participate in the Bridgewater Book Festival in Bridgewater, PA. September 2009.
• Essay, "Where Stories Come From," appears in Moebius, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2009).
• spoke to literature classes at Sauk Prairie High School in Sauk City, Wisconsin, where his novel Montana 1948 is studied.  Also present were teachers and students from a high school in France where the novel is also studied, October 12, 2009.

Amelia Zurcher

• Serves as co-chair (with Nancy Snow) of the Women and Gender Studies Committee for 2009-10.