Faculty News

 Elizabeth Angeli

• Was granted the Way Klingler Humanities/Social Sciences Fellowship, 2022-2024, “Public-facing Humanities as a Way to Form Hearts and Minds: A Systematic Review of Graduate Education & the Role of Discernment”

Lilly Campbell

• Published “Possibility Thinking in the Community-Engaged Classroom: Uniting Hope and Imagination towards Anti-Racist Action” with Betsy Bowen, Jenna Green, and Emily Phillips for Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal, 2023

• Received a Faculty Mission Integration Grant with Jenna Green for their project, "Mission Integration and Anti-racist Programming: Jesuit Pedagogy in the Marquette Core and Beyond,” 2022-2023

• Published: “Pedagogies of Rhetorical Empathy-in-Action: Role Playing and Story Sharing in Healthcare Provider Education” with Elisabeth L. Miller in the journal Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 2023

• Published: “Designing ‘Writing for Health and Medicine’: Course Arcs, Anchors, and Action,” with Elizabeth Angeli for Programmatic Perspectives, 2023

• Published: “Negotiating Scientific Identity and Agency: Graduate Student Perspectives on a Public Communication of Science Course" for The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, 2023

Gerry Canavan

• Received the Longlist, British Science Fiction Association Award for Nonfiction, Uneven Futures

• Serving as Chair of the English Department.

John Curran

• Published “Spenser’s Pleasing Analysis.” Studies in Philology 120 (2023): 33-69.

Jason Farr

• Received a fellowship to participate in the Second Book Institute at the University of Tulsa.

• Published an article titled “Feeling for Deaf Resonance in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond,” in Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 17.1: 1-21.

• Published a chapter on Defoe and disability in Daniel Defoe in Context from Cambridge University Press.

• Will publish a chapter titled “Disability and Sexuality” in the Routledge Companion to 18th-Century Literatures in English.

• Will publish an article titled “Improvisational Accessibility and Romanticism,” in Romantic Circles special issue, “Well-being in the Classroom.”

• Invited talks at Columbia University (Fall 23) and Harvard University (Spring 24).

• Participated in an all-deaf panel, which was a plenary panel, at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia.

• Co-organizer of the Newberry Library Eighteenth-Century Seminar

• Contributing to conversations about accessibility in the profession, including as a member of the Committee for Disability Issues in the Profession at MLA and as a member of the ADVANCE planning team at Marquette.

• Co-directing the LGBTQ+ Studies Research Group at Marquette

Tyler Farrell.

• Published Milwaukee Liddy Hagiography (Adjunct Press, 2023). Poems by Tyler Farrell

• Published Walk a Little Differently Uphill: Poems and Letters by James Liddy (Adjunct Press, 2023), compiled and edited by Tyler Farrell

• Poem forthcoming in Spring 2024 issue of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry entitled "On Reading John Montague Poems to my Father"

• Poetry reading tour planned with stops at Marquette on March 5, 2024 as well as Woodland Pattern, Northland College (Ashland, WI), UW-Madison, UW-Whitewater, University of St. Thomas, and Duluth, MN.

Jenn Fishman

• Serves as Co-Director of the Ott Memorial Writing Center. 

Paul Gagliardi

Published “All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comedies of the Federal Theatre Project,” Temple University Press, December 2023 

Melissa J. Ganz

• Will publish “Legal Vengeance and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in The Heart of Midlothian,” in Law, Equity, and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions, ed. Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

•  Will publish “Literature and the Law,” in The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English, ed. Sarah Eron, Nicole Aljoe, and Suvir Kaul (Routledge, 2024).

• Will publish “Marriage,” in The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, Robert Spoo and Simon Stern (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024). 

• Published "Marriage Law," in Daniel Defoe in Context, ed. Albert J. Rivero and George Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 257-64.

• Wrote exhibition catalog entries for Cruelty in Perfection (Plate III of The Four Stages of Cruelty) by William Hogarth, and Court of Chancery, Lincoln Inn’s Hall  by Augustus C. Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson, “Basic Needs and Justice: The Pursuit of Human Flourishing,” Exploring the Marquette Core Curriculum Exhibition, Haggerty Museum of Art, Spring 2023.
• Will present “Prudence and Passion: Moral Reasoning in Edgeworth’s Belinda,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, April 2024.
• Presented “British Law and Literature, 1789-1901: Texts and Contexts,” IWL Summer Grantee Research Social, Marquette University, November 2023.
• Served as commentator for Scott Juengel’s “The Novel and the Passport,” Eighteenth-Century Seminar, Newberry Library, November 2023.

• Presented “Legal Terror and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian” at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Toronto Law School, via Zoom, June 2023, and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Sam Houston State University, via Zoom, March 2023.

• Presented “Community and Careers: Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining English and Humanities Majors” as part of a roundtable on “Finding Majors: Ideas for Recruitment and Retention,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, March 2023.

• Presented “Imagining Rights: Liberalism and its Limits in the Long Eighteenth Century” as part of a roundtable on “Navigating Concepts of Rights with Today’s Students,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, March 2023.

• Organized and chaired a panel entitled “History, Law, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century Novel” at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Toronto Law School, June 2023, via Zoom.

• Received an Interdisciplinary Summer Grant, Institute for Women’s Leadership, Marquette University, 2023.

• Serves on the Advisory Committee of PMLA.
• Convenes the Humanities Research Colloquium at Marquette.

Jodi Melamed

• In spring semester 2024, Professor Melamed will serve as the Norman Freehling Professor of the Humanities at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.  There she will be working on her co-authored book, Operationalizing and Undoing Colonial Racial Capitalism (with Chandan Reddy).
• Published: “W.E.B. Du Bois’s UnAmerican End, Reconsidered” Tyler Monson, co-author. No Deed But Memory. Phillip Luke Sinitiere, editor (University of Mississippi Press, 2023). 
• Fellow of the Portal Project Social Justice Think Tank (UIUC)
• Awarded the Way Klingler Humanities Fellowship (2022-2024)
• Invited lectures accepted for Spring 2024:  Swarthmore College, University of Colorado Denver. 

Megan Paonessa

• Shortlisted in the 2023 National Flash Fiction Micro Madness Competition, listen to “But Our Bodies…” here.
• Awarded Professional Development Funding from Marquette University, Spring 2023
• Awarded NTT Scholarly Research Funding from Marquette University, 2022-23

Ben Pladek

• Published Dry Land (novel).
• Published "Spring Woods Spring" in Strange Horizons (short fiction).
• Published "The Runners" in Fantasy (short fiction).
• Will publish "Tell Them A Story to Teach Them Kindness" at Lightspeed (short fiction).
• Published "9 Historical Novels by 20th-century Queer Writers" at Electric Literature (article). 
• Presented on Dry Land at the Wisconsin Book Festival, the Mountain School of Vermont, and Haverford College; interviewed at NPR, Madison BookBeat, and Madison Magazine; reviewed at Kirkus, The Washington Post, and Locus Magazine.
• Director of Graduate Studies for the English Department

Jacob Riyeff

• Accepted new position as Marquette University’s Academic Integrity Director for a three-year term July 2022-June 2025
• Selected Poems:   

       “Haight Pome.” The Crank Magazine (Jan 2023)

• In winter of 2024, second poetry collection, Be Radiant, published by Fernwood Press

• In spring of 2024, “A Bibliography of the Literary Works of Bernard Isaac Durward” published in ANQ

• In partnership with other units, updating Marquette University’s academic integrity tutorial

• In December 2023, co-organized and hosted a virtual celebration of the mahaprasthana (passing) of Swami Abhishiktananda

• In summer of 2023, “We Have a Contemplation Problem” published in Living City

• In summer of 2023, “The City Is Alive” published in Living City Magazine

• In fall of 2023, “Swami Abhishiktananda and the Psalms” published in Dilitato Corde

Sarah Stanley

• Will present “A Case Study in Gaslighting: Manipulation and Intimate Partner Abuse in Rosemary’s Baby,” American Nightmares: The Inaugural Symposium of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, Salem, March 2024.
• Will present “‘Hurt People Hurt People’: Healing Intergenerational Trauma in Dark Bully Reverse Harem Romance,” 2024 Popular Culture Association National Conference, Chicago, March 2024.

John Su

• Serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affair

Sarah Wadsworth

• Director of Marquette University Press. 

• Published Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World's Columbian Exposition: Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive, coedited by Marija Dalbello (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

• Published a book chapter, “’Through the Window of This Book’: Teaching the History of the Book through Children’s Literature,” in Teaching the History of the Book, ed. Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023).
• Published a coauthored review (with Nicole C. Livengood) of This Beautiful Sisterhood of Books: A Digital Recreation of the Women’s Literary Department from the 1884 New Orlean’s World’s Fair," ed. Kate Adams and Jacqueline Thoni Howard,” in the Project Showcase of Recovery Hub for American Women Writers.
• Delivered a series of "Rep in Depth" lectures for Milwaukee Repertory Theater's production of Little Women. 
• Presented “The Awkward Age, The Yellow Book, and the Clash of Generations” at the Ninth International Conference of the Henry James Society in Kyoto, Japan. 
• Facilitated a Plenary Roundtable titled "Community and Communicability: The Madness of Editorial Art" at the Ninth International Conference of the Henry James Society in Kyoto, Japan.
• Chaired a panel titled "Communicating in Style" at the Ninth International Conference of the Henry James Society in Kyoto, Japan.
• Participated in a virtual roundtable on Teaching the History of the Book. Humanities Research Center in the “Meet VCU Authors” Series presented by Virginia Commonwealth University. 
• Awarded a President's and Chancellor's Challenge Grant for her work on The Story Fellow Program as part of a cross-campus humanities-based team aiming to engage students in a sustainable, yearlong, asset-based program to facilitate storying in partnership with community groups affected by poverty across Milwaukee.
• Received a Mini-Grant from the Center for Peacemaking at Marquette University.
• Received a Faculty Development Award from  the Office of Research and Innovation at Marquette University.
• Received a travel grant from Klingler College of Arts & Sciences.
• Served on the Conference Committee of the Ninth International Conference of the Henry James Society.
• Serves as Consulting Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Nineteenth Century Studies.
• Serves as Executive Director of the Henry James Society.
• Serves on the board of the Henry James Society.         

Katherine Zlabek

• Creative non-fiction essay, “If It Wants to Break,” will be published in The Iowa Review.
• Currently an Artist-in-Residence at Dane Arts
• Attended The Norton Island Residency for Writers and Artists
• Continues to serve as Senior Editorial Assistant for The Cincinnati Review

Amelia Zurcher

• Serves as Director of the University Honors Program.

 

 Elizabeth Angeli

• Published “Documenting Patient Interaction: EMS Report Reader Expectations and Improvements for Providers,” Angeli, Elizabeth L., Julia Jezykowski, Patrick Sinclair, Tom Grawey, James T. Poltrock, and Ben Weston, Wisconsin Medical Journal, vol. 121, no. 4, 2022, pp. 285-291.
• Published “EMS Report Writing Improved by Enhanced Structured Narrative Prompts,.” Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Julia A. Jezykowski, JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 19 July 2022.
• Published “Education Survey Finds Providers Feel Unprepared,” Angeli, Elizabeth L., Victoria Reinhartz, Sabrina Alahmad, and Julia Jezykowski, EMSWorld, ISSN 51, issue 4, April 2022.
• Published “When the Classroom is the Workplace: Developing Writing Curricula for Healthcare Training Programs.” Teaching Writing in the Health Professions: Perspectives, Problems, and Practices, edited by Michael J. Madson, Routledge, 2022, pp. 107-120.
• Was granted the Way Klingler Humanities/Social Sciences Fellowship, 2022-2024, “Public-facing Humanities as a Way to Form Hearts and Minds: A Systematic Review of Graduate Education & the Role of Discernment”

Lilly Campbell

• Received a Faculty Mission Integration Grant with Jenna Green for their project, "Mission Integration and Anti-racist Programming: Jesuit Pedagogy in the Marquette Core and Beyond,” 2022-2023

• Published: “Pedagogies of Rhetorical Empathy-in-Action: Role Playing and Story Sharing in Healthcare Provider Education” with Elisabeth L. Miller in the journal Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 2023

• Published: “Designing ‘Writing for Health and Medicine’: Course Arcs, Anchors, and Action,” with Elizabeth Angeli for Programmatic Perspectives, 2023

• Published: “Negotiating Scientific Identity and Agency: Graduate Student Perspectives on a Public Communication of Science Course" for The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, 2023

• Published “Nursing Simulations and Intermediary Genres: Bridging Students' Classroom and Clinical Writing" in Teaching Writing in the Health Professions: Perspectives, Problems, and Practices. Routledge, 2022.
• Published "Gender and Scientific Communication" in Routledge Handbook on Scientific Communication. Routledge, 2022.
• Invited lecture, "Rhetorical Body Work in Health Care: Embodied Communication and Technological Mediation" at the University of California-Irvine Center for Nursing Philosophy, April 28, 2022

Gerry Canavan

• Became Chair of the English Department.

• Published “Wakanda Forever? On Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018).” Contemporary American Cinema: The Science Fiction Film, eds. Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy (2022)

• Co-edited Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction (MIT Press), 2022
• Won Robert and Mary Gettel Teaching Excellence Award, 2022

• Was awarded the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service from the Science Fiction Research Association, 2022

John Curran

• “Spenser’s Pleasing Analysis.” Studies in Philology 120 (2023): 33-69.
• “Spenser and Logic: Gigantomachia and Contentlessness in The Faerie Queene.” Spenser Studies 36 (2022): 179-207.

Tyler Farrell

• Farrell has a book review of Richard Cole's poetry collection, Song of the Middle Manager forthcoming in the 2023 issue of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. 

• Farrell has a chapbook of poems forthcoming from Adjunct Press in Autumn 2023 entitled MKE Liddy Hagiography.

• Farrell was chosen to be on the Milwaukee Poet Laureate Nomination Committee at the The Milwaukee Public Library

• Farrell did various readings in the past year, but one notable reading was in January 2022 at the Milwaukee Chapter of the Shamrock Club of Wisconsin. Guinness and fun was had by all.

Jenn Fishman

• Serves as Co-Director of the Ott Memorial Writing Center. 

Leah Flack

• Co-Director of Institute of Women's Leadership

Paul Gagliardi

“All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comedies of the Federal Theatre Project” from Temple University Press will be published soon

Melissa J. Ganz

• Held a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2021-22.
• Published “‘A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’: Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 56, no. 1 (Fall 2022): 53-74.
• Published “Corporate Persons, Collective Responsibility, and the Literary Imagination,” Critical Analysis of Law: An Interdisciplinary and International Law Review 9, no. 2 (Fall 2022): 46-57.  
• Published “The fidelity of promising: Egoism and Obligation in Austen,” Review of English Studies 73, no. 309 (April 2022): 344-60.
• Will publish a chapter on “Marriage Law” in Daniel Defoe in Context, ed. Albert J. Rivero and George Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

• Wrote exhibition catalog entries for Cruelty in Perfection (Plate III of The Four Stages of Cruelty) by William Hogarth, and Court of Chancery, Lincoln Inn’s Hall  by Augustus C. Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson, “Basic Needs and Justice: The Pursuit of Human Flourishing,” Exploring the Marquette Core Curriculum Exhibition, Haggerty Museum of Art, Spring 2023.

• Will present “Legal Terror and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian” at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Sam Houston State University, via Zoom, March 2023.

• Will present “Community and Careers: Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining English and Humanities Majors” as part of a roundtable on “Finding Majors: Ideas for Recruitment and Retention,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, March 2023.

• Will present “Imagining Rights: Liberalism and its Limits in the Long Eighteenth Century,” as part of a roundtable on “Navigating Concepts of Rights with Today’s Students,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, March 2023.

• Presented “Legal Terror and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian” at the North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago, November 2022.

• Presented “A Higher Tribunal: Equity and Impartiality in Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison” at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Emory Law School, June 2022, via Zoom, and at a seminar on “Women and the Law” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Baltimore, April 2022.

• Presented “Prudence and Passion: Moral Reasoning in Edgeworth’s Belinda,” LSR Fellows Seminar, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, March 2022.
• Participated in a roundtable on “New Directions in Romantic Law and Literature,” hosted by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), February 2022, via Zoom.

• Chaired a panel on “The Interdisciplinary George Eliot: New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Studies,” North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago, November 2022.

• Organized and chaired a panel on “Unsettling Law in the British Novel,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities,” Emory Law School, June 2022, via Zoom.
• Serves on the Advisory Committee of PMLA.

• Serves on the Organizing Committee of the Law and Literature Works-in-Progress Webinar, Hosted by the University of Toronto Law School.
• Convenes the Humanities Research Colloquium at Marquette.

 

Jodi Melamed

• In spring semester 2024, Professor Melamed will serve as the Norman Freehling Professor of the Humanities at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.  There she will be working on her co-authored book, Operationalizing and Undoing Colonial Racial Capitalism (with Chandan Reddy).

• Published " ‘Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police’: Uprisings against Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders.” Lisa Cacho, co-author. Colonial Racial Capitalisms. Jodi Byrd, Lisa Cacho, Bryan Jordan Jefferson, and Susan Koshy, editors. September 2022

• “W.E.B. Du Bois’s UnAmerican End, Reconsidered” Tyler Monson, co-author. No Deed But Memory. Phillip Luke Sinitiere, editor. Forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press.

• Won Way Klingler Faculty Fellowship (2022)
• Fellow of the Portal Project Social Justice Think Tank (UIUC)

• Awarded the Way Klingler Humanities Fellowship (2022-2024)

Megan Paonessa

• Shortlisted in the 2023 National Flash Fiction Micro Madness Competition, listen to “But Our Bodies…” here.
• Awarded Professional Development Funding from Marquette University, Spring 2023
• Winner of the TL;DR Press Flash Fiction Contest for the story “Riedichi”, June 2022
• Awarded NTT Scholarly Research Funding from Marquette University, 2022-23
• Awarded the Center for Peacekeeping Research Grant from Marquette University, Spring 2022

Jacob Riyeff

• Accepted new position as Marquette University’s Academic Integrity Director for a three-year term July 2022-June 2025
• Book: The Saint Benedict Prayer Book published by Paraclete Press
• Chapbook: begalende published by Ghost City Press (Aug 2022)
• Selected Poems:   

       “Haight Pome.” The Crank Magazine (Jan 2023).

       “To a Whale Bobbing Rhythmically in the Surf.” boats against the current 1       (Nov 2022)

       “Three Excerpts.” Adversus Press (July 2022).

       “For my Father.” Wild Roof Journal (July 2022).

       “On First Concert at the Bradley Symphony Center, Milwaukee.” The               Brazen Head (June 2022)

• Essay:
        “We Are the Dreamer: Earth and Body in Times of Plague” Pt 1 and Pt 2.         (Nov 2022)

John Su

• Serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affair

Sarah Wadsworth

• Director of Marquette University Press. 
• Awarded a President's and Chancellor's Challenge Grant for her work on The Story Fellow Program as part of a cross-campus humanities-based team aiming to engage students in a sustainable, yearlong, asset-based program to facilitate storying in partnership with community groups affected by poverty across Milwaukee.
• Awarded a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council as part of a cross-campus team to develop and pilot the Story Fellow Program.
• Published the Introduction to The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1887-1889, ed. Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias (U of Nebraska P, 2022). pp. xix-lxvi.
• Delivered an invited lecture titled “Unlocking The Secret Garden: From Colonialism to Climate Crisis” at the Warehouse Art Museum, Milwaukee, in April 2022.
• Published two book reviews.
• Received a Research Recovery Mini Grant from Marquette's Office of Research and Innovation to complete Global Voices from the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition: Feminism, Transnationalism, and the Archive, coedited by Marija Dalbello (Library and Information Science, Rutgers University).
• Serves as Consulting Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Nineteenth Century Studies.
• Serves as Executive Director of the Henry James Society.
• Serves on the board of the Henry James Society.  
• Serves on the board of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.       

Katherine Zlabek

• Creative non-fiction essay, “If It Wants to Break,” will be published in The Iowa Review.
• Currently an Artist-in-Residence at Dane Arts
• Attended The Norton Island Residency for Writers and Artists
• Continues to serve as Senior Editorial Assistant for The Cincinnati Review

Amelia Zurcher

• Serving as Director of the University Honors Program.

 

 Elizabeth Angeli

• Published “When the Classroom is the Workplace: Developing Writing Curricula for Healthcare Training Programs.” Teaching Writing in the Health Professions: Perspectives, Problems, and Practices, edited by Michael J. Madson, Routledge, 2022, pp. 107-120.
• Published “Technical Communication Pedagogy and Layered Literacies in Workplace Training Courses.” Effective Teaching of Technical Communication, edited by Michael J. Klein, WAC Clearinghouse, 2021, pp. 287-302
• Was granted the Way Klingler Humanities/Social Sciences Fellowship, 2022-2024, “Public-facing Humanities as a Way to Form Hearts and Minds: A Systematic Review of Graduate Education & the Role of Discernment”

Lilly Campbell

• Published “Nursing Simulations and Intermediary Genres: Bridging Students' Classroom and Clinical Writing" in Teaching Writing in the Health Professions: Perspectives, Problems, and Practices. Routledge, 2022.
• Published "Gender and Scientific Communication" in Routledge Handbook on Scientific Communication. Routledge, 2022.
• Invited lecture, "Rhetorical Body Work in Health Care: Embodied Communication and Technological Mediation" at the University of California-Irvine Center for Nursing Philosophy, April 28, 2022
• Won a Marquette Difference Maker Award along with Dr. Cedric Burrows for revisions to the Foundations in Rhetoric curriculum to focus on racial justice
• Faculty Fellow at Marquette's Institute for Women's Leadership during Summer 2021

Gerry Canavan

• Became Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Study.

• Won the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service, Science Fiction Research Association and the Robert and Mary Gettel Teaching Excellence Award at Marquette.

• Published “Science Fiction and Utopia in the Anthropocene” in American Literature 93.2 (June 2021) and “Austerity Is Not a Jesuit Value" in Academe (September 2021) as well as articles and book chapters on Black Panther, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

• Keynotes and invited talks at the annual meeting of the PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies, the Marxist Education Project, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, UW Stout, The Rosenbach Library, InterCcECT Chicago, and Messengers from the Stars VI.

• Judge, Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Book Award, University of California, Riverside, and Co-Organizer, Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference 2021. 

Tyler Farrell

• Tyler Farrell will be teaching ENGL 2012: Well-Versed, a new core curriculum class. 

• Last year Farrell was chosen to be part of the Faculty Exploring Leadership Opportunities (FELOS) by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Gary Meyer, Ph.D.

• Poem published "Root River Bike Ride, Early Spring" in the Winter 2021 issue of The Solitary Plover, the newsletter of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker. Link: https://lorineniedecker.org/solitary-plover-archive/

• Farrell was also chosen to be on the Milwaukee Poet Laureate Nomination Committee at the The Milwaukee Public Library.

• Farrell has done various readings in the last year, but one notable reading was in January 2022 at the Milwaukee Chapter of the Shamrock Club of Wisconsin. Guinness and fun were had by all.

Jenn Fishman

• Serves as Co-Director of the Ott Memorial Writing Center. 

Leah Flack

• Chair of the English Department as of July 1, 2019

Paul Gagliardi

• Working on a book manuscript, All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project for Temple University Press to be published in 2021. 

Melissa J. Ganz

• Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2021-22.
• Will publish “’A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’: Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent” in Eighteenth-Century Studies (Fall 2022).
• Will publish a chapter on “Marriage Law” in Daniel Defoe in Context, ed. George Justice and Albert J. Rivero (Cambridge UP, 2022).
• Will publish a response to Lisa Siraganian’s Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons as part of a Book Forum in Critical Analysis of Law (Fall 2022).
• Published “The fidelity of promising: Egoism and Obligation in Austen,” in Review of English Studies (February 2022), Advance Access:  https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab092.
• Published “Debating Persuasion” in Approaches to Teaching Austen’s “Persuasion,” ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series, 2021).
• Will workshop a paper entitled “A Higher Tribunal: Equity and Impartiality in Sir Charles Grandison” as part of a seminar on “Women and the Law” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Baltimore, April 2022.
• Will present a paper on “Prudence and Passion: Moral Reasoning in Edgeworth’s Belinda,” LSR Fellows Seminar, University Center for Human Values, March 2022.
• Participated in a roundtable on “New Directions in Romantic Law and Literature,” Hosted by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), February 2022, via Zoom.
• Presented “‘A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’”:  Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent,” Ira W. DeCamp Seminar in Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, October 2021, via Zoom.
• Commented on a paper entitled “American Alienation:  Politics and Freedom in the Thought of Nella Larsen,” by Emma Rodman, LSR Fellows Seminar, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, October 2021, via Zoom.
• Participated in a panel discussion of Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons (Oxford UP, 2020) by Lisa Siraganian.  Hosted by the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University, March 2021, via Zoom. 
• Presented “Legal Terror and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in The Heart of Midlothian,” ASECS, April 2021, via Zoom.
• Organized and chaired a panel on “Humanitarianism and Human Rights,” ASECS, April 2021, via Zoom.
• Participated in a Presidential Panel on “Innovating the Next Fifty Years of ASECS,” ASECS, April 2021, via Zoom.
• Co-organized and co-chaired a panel on “Legal and Literary Form,” Modern Language Association, January 2021, via Zoom.
• Began a three-year term on the Advisory Committee of PMLA.
• Serves on the Organizing Committee of the Law and Literature Works-in-Progress Webinar, Hosted by the University of Toronto Law School.
• Convenes the Humanities Research Colloquium at Marquette.
• Completed term as Director of Strategy, Department of English, Marquette, Spring 2021.

Grant Gosizk

• Published “Sam Shepard’s Neo-Temperance Trilogy: Or, The Postmodern Cultural Logic of War-on-Drugs Melodramas,” American Studies Journal (Summer 2021). 

Elisa Karbin

• Recent Poems Published:
  “Vanitas: Self with Milkglass Ashtray” Bluestem (Winter 2021)
  “The Fox Sisters’ Orchard” Diode (2021)
  “On Transcending” Diode (2021)
• New American Poetry Prize poetry manuscript reader (2017-Present) 

Jodi Melamed

• Won Way Klingler Faculty Fellowship (2022)
• Fellow of the Portal Project Social Justice Think Tank (UIUC)
• Two articles in press:

  • “ ‘Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police’: Uprisings against Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders.” Lisa Cacho, co-author. Colonial Racial Capitalisms. Jodi Byrd, Lisa Cacho, Bryan Jordan Jefferson, and Susan Koshy, editors. Forthcoming from Duke University Press.

  • “W.E.B. Du Bois’s UnAmerican End, Reconsidered” Tyler Monson, co-author. No Deed But Memory. Phillip Luke Sinitiere, editor. Forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press.

• Invited talks at University of Michigan, Emory University, University of Missouri. 

Megan Paonessa

• Awarded the Center for Peacekeeping Research Grant from Marquette University, Spring 2022
• Published the novella, “The Great Reimagining of Greenletter Avenue,” winner of Moving Words chapbook contest,  October 2021
• Published the short stories Mother Gardener,” in Identity Theory, November 2021, and My Mother, the Psychic” in the ARZONO Press 2021 Annual Anthology, June 2021
• Published Reading & Writing with the Times: What Covid-19 taught me about the creative writing classroom for the Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching, Winter 2021
• NTT Research Award winner, Marquette University, Fall 2021
• Awarded Honorable Mention in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest, December 2021
• My short story Cloudspire” was a finalist in Reedsy’s post-apocalyptic climate change contest, April 2021

Jacob Riyeff

• Accepted new position as Marquette University’s Academic Integrity Director for a three-year term July 2022-June 2025

• Book: The Saint Benedict Prayer Book published by Paraclete Press

• Selected Poems:

  "On Free East Village Organ Concerts in September." Paddler Press (Spring 2022).

  "on being the toothfairy" and "One Night in Boulder." Better than Starbucks (Feb 2022).

  "the night." the broken spine, angels and dogs poetry project series (Jan 20222).

  "Bogquilt." Foxglove Journal (Dec 2021).

  "On Picking a Spotted Touch-Me-Not." Dappled Things, Mary Queen of Angels (2021).

  "The Lower Narrows." Solum Journal 2 (2021).

  "Baxter's Hollow." Macrina Magazine 8 (August 2021).

• Translations:

  “Three Old English Galdru.” Dappled Things (Summer 2021)

  “Weland the Smith.” Macrina Magazine (Summer 2021)

  “An Early Poem on Saint Benedict.” Spirit & Life (Summer 2021)

  “Against the Water-Elf-Disease.” Ancient Exchanges (Spring 2021)

  -Popular Essays:

  "The Devil Gets the Hook." Spirit & Life (117:6 (Mar-Apr 2022): 3-5.

  “Looking on the One We Have Pierced.” Spirit & Life (117.3 (Sept/Oct 2021): 6-8. 

  "Blessed Itala Mela: Mystic, Laywoman, Oblate." Paraclete Press (June 2021).

John Su

• Serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affair

Sarah Wadsworth

• Named Director of Marquette University Press. 
• Published “Nineteenth-Century Disease, Twenty-First-Century Dis-Ease” in ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 67.1 (2021): 203-35 ( Special Issue: Nineteenth-Century Scholars Respond to a Twenty-First Century Pandemic, edited by LuElla D’Amico). 
• Published “Reading over Pandemic Time” in The Vocation of the Educator in This Moment (Marquette University, 2021), eduted by Jennifer Maney and Melissa Shew. 
• Presented “Teaching Daisy Miller in Pandemic Times” in a roundtable sponsored “Illness and Disease” sponsored by the Henry James Society at the Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, July 2021. 
• Presented “The New Woman in the White City: Fin-de-siècle British Writing in the Woman’s Building Library” at the annual conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (virtual, March 2021). 
• Chaired “American Periodical Culture” at the annual conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (virtual, March 2021). 
• Chaired “Images of Italy” at the annual conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (virtual, March 2021). 
• Facilitated discussion of “Celebrating Louisa May Alcott,” annual research talk and conversation sponsored by the Louisa May Alcott Society.  
• Co-edits the interdisciplinary journal Nineteenth Century Studies.
• Serves as Executive Director of the Henry James Society.
• Serves as Treasurer of the Louisa May Alcott Society.   
• Serves on the board of the Henry James Society.  
• Serves on the board of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.     

Katherine Zlabek

• Has a CNF essay,  “Salt,” forthcoming in Reed Magazine, San José State University.
• Continues as Senior Editorial Assistant at The Cincinnati Review. 

Amelia Zurcher

• Serving as Director of the University Honors Program.

 

 Elizabeth Angeli

• Published “Technical Communication Pedagogy and Layered Literacies in Workplace Training Courses.” Effective Teaching of Technical Communication, edited by Michael J. Klein, WAC Clearinghouse, 2021, pp. 287-302

• Published “How Report Writing Supports Paramedic Students’ Learning.” International Paramedic Practice, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 28-33 

• Recipient of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Award for Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication for Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace (Routledge, 2019)
• Chosen as the Eunice C. Williamson Scholar in Health and Medical Communication, Louisiana Tech University
  
  

Fr. Ron Bieganowski

• Chaplain —College of Business Administration
• Pastoral service for Marquette Students and Graduates, (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Retreats, Spiritual Direction)
• Retreat Director – Jesuit Retreat Houses at Lake Elmo, MN, Oshkosh, WI, and Barrington, IL
• Assistant Pastor – St. Clare of Assisi, Edwards, CO
• Recently celebrated his 40th anniversary at Marquette

Sebastian Bitticks

• Published "Open Never: Life in the Image-World" (essay) in The Chicago Quarterly Review vol. 32 (2020)
• Published "Terra Incognita" (essay) in Chautauqua issue 17 (2020)
• Read at "Urban Spaces, Creative Places: A Blueprint for the Humanities in the City", the second annual conference for Marquette's Center for the Advancement of the Humanities (Feb. 2020)
  
  

Cedric Burrows

• Dr. Cedric Burrows received the 2020 Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Award from Marquette University
• Dr. Cedric Burrows discussed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy on WUWM-FM (89.7) on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 20, 2020

Lilly Campbell

•  Dr. Lilly Campbell, who received a National Science Foundation Discovery Award with Co-Principal Investigators Shion Guha (Computer Science) and Amrita George (Management)

• Won a Marquette Difference Maker Award along with Dr. Cedric Burrows for revisions to the Foundations in Rhetoric curriculum to focus on racial justice
• Published “Rhetorical Body Work: Professional Embodiment in Health Provider Education and the Technical Writing Classroom" in Technical Communication Quarterly 
• Faculty Fellow at Marquette's Institute for Women's Leadership during Summer 2021
  
  

Gerry Canavan

• "Research on Octavia E. Butler recently profiled in The New York Times and Harper's Magazine.

• Author of recent articles on Parable of the Trickster, Star Wars and Star Trek, the Singularity, Black Mirror, and science fiction after 2001.
• Permanent co-editor of Extrapolation and Science Fiction FIlm and Television. Co-editor of the World Science Fiction Series at Peter Lang.
• Has a book series titled Mass Markets: Studies in Franchise Culture

• President of the Science Fiction Research Association, 2020-2023

John Curran

• Published “Despaire and Briton Moniments: Moments of Protestant Clarity in The Faerie Queene.” Reformation 25.2 (2020): 175-91.
  

Jason Farr

• Author of forthcoming chapter for The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability.
• Invited to speak about new book Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Texas at Austin in January 2020.
• Invited to present new research on Samuel Johnson and deaf education at the Johnson Society of the Central Region at the University of Wisconsin­–Madison, 24-25 April.
• Co-organizing a conference, “Theory and Archive: The Future of Early Modern Disability Studies” at the Clark Library, UCLA–with Helen Deutsch (UCLA), Paul Kelleher (Emory), & Jared Richman (Colorado College). May, 2020. 
• Author of various public-facing essays that have appeared in The Rambling, Profession (co-authored with Travis Chi Wing Lau, UT-Austin), Bucknell UP Blog (as part of the American University Press’s Blog Tour, Read. Think. Act.), and The Chronicle of Higher Education (co-authored with Lau).
• Keynote Speaker for LGBTQ+ History Month at Marquette. 

Tyler Farrell

• Poem called, "Root River Bike Ride, Early Spring" forthcoming in the Winter 2021 issue of The Solitary Plover, the newsletter of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker. Link: https://lorineniedecker.org/solitary-plover-archive/
• Poems published:
  "Postcard to Frank O'Hara" forthcoming in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry" (Spring 2020)
  "Poem for the Sake of A Poem"
  "3 Basquiat Poems Written to Andy Warhol 

Jenn Fishman

• Serves as Co-Director of the Ott Memorial Writing Center. 
• Contributed "Conducting Consequential Research: The Access Writing Project" to a forthcoming special issue of Pedagogydedicated to undergraduate research in English Studies (with Katherine Hovland, Ali Leonhard, and Sunaina Randhawa). 
• Continued work on two editorial projects, The Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing (with Dominic DelliCarpini and Jane Greer) and Telling Stories: Perspectives on Longitudinal Research in Writing Studies (with Amy Kimme Hea). 

• Contributes ongoing leadership to the Coalition for Community Writing (Board of Directors) and the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (Advisory Board) as well as Community Literacy Journal, Literacy in Composition Studies, and Peitho. 

• Completed 7 years as the inaugural Co-Chair of the CCCC Committee on Undergraduate Research, which coauthored the CCCC Statement on Undergraduate Research in Writing and related Bibliography. 
• Co-organized Just Writing, the 3rd annual Writing Innovation Symposium. 
• Participated in the Conference on College Composition and Communication annual convention, the biennial Conference on Community Writing, the Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, the Rhetoric Society of America's Summer Institute and Biennial Conference, and the Writing Research Across Borders Triennial Conference in Xi'an, China. 
  
  

Leah Flack

• Chair of the English Department as of July 1, 2019
• Published James Joyce and Classical Modernism, Bloomsbury Academic Press, February 2020
  
  

Paul Gagliardi

• Published a review of Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia by Christian DuComb in Theatre History Studies. 
• Working on a book manuscript, All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project for Temple University Press to be published in 2021. 

  

Melissa J. Ganz

• Serves as Director of Strategy, Marquette English Department.
• Received a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University (to be held in 2021-22).
• Will publish “Debating Persuasion” in Approaches to Teaching Austen’s “Persuasion,” ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series, June 2021).
• Will present “Legal Terror and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in The Heart of Midlothian,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), April 2021, via Zoom.
• Organized and will chair a panel on “Humanitarianism and Human Rights,” ASECS, April 2021, via Zoom.
• Will participate in a Presidential Panel on “Innovating the Next Fifty Years of ASECS,” ASECS, April 2021, via Zoom.
• Co-organized and co-chaired a panel on “Legal and Literary Form,” Modern Language Association (MLA), January 2021, via Zoom.
• Presented a talk on law in Frankenstein at Texas Christian University, October 2020, via Zoom.
• Presented “Crime and Vice in the Victorian City:  The Case of Oliver Twist,” Center for the Advancement of the Humanities Second Annual Conference, “Urban Spaces, Creative Places: A Blueprint for the Humanities in the City,” Marquette University, February 2020
• Participant, “Post-Law School Panel + Q&A,” sponsored by the Pre-Law Society, Marquette University, January 2020
• Co-organized and co-chaired a panel on “Law, Literature, and Human Rights,” MLA, Seattle, January 2020
• Completing a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the MLA Forum on Law and the Humanities
• Convenes the Humanities Research Colloquium at Marquette

Grant Gosizk

• Will publish “Sam Shepard’s Neo-Temperance Trilogy: Or, The Postmodern Cultural Logic of War-on-Drugs Melodramas,” American Studies Journal (Summer 2021). 
• Will present “Minor Tranquilizers, Other-Directedness, and Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference (19 March 2020) online.

  

Heather Hathaway

• Associate Dean of Faculty and of Graduate Studies

• Interim Director of Center for the Advancement of the Humanities and of the Marquette University Press

• Author, That Damned Fence: Japanese American Literature During Internment. New York: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2020.           
• Presenter, “Genre, Trauma, and the Ethics of Silence in Japanese American Internment Literature,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 12, 2020.                      

CJ Hribal

• Finalist for the Tupelo Quarterly Fiction Prize for the story “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Marriage.”

• Presented (reading of fiction) Housebreaking, chapters 3 & 4, at The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, January 6, 2020.

• Featured speaker for the Write On, Door County Fiction Conference (“Writing on the Door”). Presentation title: “Everything I Learned About Writing I Learned from Harold and the Purple Crayon.” May 1 & 2, 2020. 

Elisa Karbin

• Recent Poems Published:
  “Vanitas: Self with Milkglass Ashtray” Bluestem (Winter 2021)
  “The Fox Sisters’ Orchard” Diode (forthcoming 2021)
  “On Transcending” Diode (forthcoming 2021 
• Contributing commentator, “The Muscle-Bro Poets Turning Swoleness Into Shakespeare” by Lauren Vinopal. Mel Magazine (Dec. 2020): online 
• New American Poetry Prize poetry manuscript reader (2017-Present) 
• Featured Faculty Reader, ReLit MU Reading Series, Marquette University English Department (Oct. 2020)
• Semifinalist, 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, 2021
• Semifinalist, 2020 Antivenom Poetry Award, 2020 
  

 

Samantha Majhor

• Will Present: “A History of Violence: Teaching Tommy Orange’s There There,” Native American Literature Symposium, March 2020.
  
  

Jodi Melamed

• Dr. Jodi Melamed received a 2020 Teaching Excellence Award from Marquette University.
• Recipient of the 2019-2020 University Sabbatical Fellowship Award 

• Invited Lecture: "Administrative Power and Ordinary Violence," Dartmouth University. To be presented February 28, 2020. 

• Committee Chair: Angela Y. Davis Prize, American Studies Association. Awarded to Prof. Haunani-Kay Trask. 

Ben Pladek

• Received MU Summer Faculty Fellowship and Regular Research Grant to support research at London's Wellcome Library for an anthology project on nineteenth-century poetry about embodiment.

• Will present paper "Teaching Eighteenth-Century Medical Ethics" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in St. Louis, MO, March 2020.

• Co-chaired the second annual conference for Marquette's Center for the Advancement of the Humanities, "Urban Spaces, Creative Places: A Blueprint for the Humanities in the City," February 14-15, 2020.

• Published short fiction in Flash Fiction Online and Bourbon Penn.

Jacob Riyeff

• Book: O Shining Light: Old English Meditations for Advent and Christmastide published by Gracewing 
• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry for “The Ruin”
• Poems:
  "De nominibus." Amethyst Review (February 2021)
  "Morning Snow." Green Ink Poetry (January 2021)
  "Meskonsing." Amethyst Review (October 2020)
  "On the Year's First Compost." Cabinet of Heed 29 (2020)
  "On Knowledge and Love." Amethyst Review (October 2020) 
• Translations:
  “Helgi Hundingbane’s Kviða.” Exchanges (Fall 2020)
  "A Journey Galdor." Trinity House Review (2020). 
• Popular Essays:
  "Advent—the Long Surprise." deep down things, dappledthings.org, November, 2020
  "Monasticism and the Problems of Big Tech." The Windhover 24.2 (2020)
  "Catholicism Is Not the Latin Church." deep down things, dappledthings.org, August, 2020.

 

Angela Sorby

• Editorial Board, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.
• Co-editing collection on Poetry and Sustainability with Sandra Lee Kleppe.
• Will present "Syllabus as Handwork" at MLA Seattle.
•  Will publish "Orchard" (poem) in Westerly.
• Will publish “Spectral Vikings in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry,” (book chapter) in From Iceland to the Americas, co-edited by Tim Machan and Jón Karl Helgason, Manchester University Press.
• Will publish "The Syllabus as Handwork," (essay) in Syllabu 
• Serves as board member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
• Serves as board member, Raymond Carver International Association.

John Su

• Serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affair

Sarah Wadsworth

• Received a 2020 Interdisciplinary Summer Pilot Grant from Marquette's Institute for Women's Leadership 
• Received a Diversity Course Development Grant from the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
• Published “Eavesdropping on Henry James: Reading Gender in the Private Letters.” Forum on “The Sound of James” in the Fall 2020 issue of The Henry James Review

• Published an annotated bibliography and served as volume advisor for a chapter on Daisy Miller in Short Story Criticism (Gale Cengage)
• Created and published an online Teaching Resource “Timeline to Women’s Suffrage, 1776-1920” with A. Kristen Foster (History)
• Published book reviews in Journal of American History and New England Quarterly. A third book review is forthcoming in Legacy, and a fourth has been submitted to NANO: New American Notes Online
• Has a book chapter in press for Teaching the History of the Book, forthcoming in the Options for Teaching series published by the Modern Language Association  
• Has an essay forthcoming in the journal ES
• Co-organized a panel and will present a conference paper at the 2021 virtual conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association 
• Served on the Steering Committee and co-moderated two sessions of the 2020 Suffrage and Innovation Conference hosted by the Institute for Women’s Leadership  
• Co-edits the interdisciplinary journal Nineteenth Century Studie
• Serves as Executive Director of the Henry James Society 
• Serves as Treasurer of the Louisa May Alcott Society.  
• Serves on the board of the Henry James Society. 
• Serves on the board of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.    

Amelia Zurcher

• Serving as Director of the University Honors Program.

Elizabeth Angeli

• Recipient of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Award for Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication.
• Chosen as the Eunice C. Williamson Scholar in Health and Medical Communication, Louisiana Tech University.
• Published “The Internal Rhetorical Work of a Public Health Crisis Response” with Christina D. Norwood, Rhetoric of Public Health, special issue of Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, vol. 2, no. 2, 2019, pp. 208-232. 
• Co-edited the “Contextualizing Care in Cultures: Perspectives on Cross Cultural and International Health and Medical Communication” special issue of Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, Fall 2019, with Kirk St.Amant (Louisiana Tech) 
• Published her single-authored monograph Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace in Routledge’s Association for Teachers of Technical Writing’s Technical and Professional Communication Series
• Co-edited the “Medical Humanities and/or the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine” special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly with Dr. Richard Johnson-Sheehan (Purdue University)
• Published "Embodied Healthcare Intuition: A Taxonomy of Sensory Cues Used by Healthcare Providers." Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, Vol 2, No. 4, (2019), 353-383.
• “Improving Documentation Outcomes by Building a Data-driven Argument.” ZOLL Summit 2019, Denver, CO, 7 May 2019. Accepted.
• “Performing Medicine, Performing Intuition: A Call for Rhetorical Studies of Medical Intuition.” 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Pittsburgh, PA, 13-16 Mar. 2019, with Lillian Campbell. 
• “Aligning Expert and Novice Healthcare Writers’ Expectations and Practices.” 2019 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW), Pittsburgh, PA, 12-13 Mar. 2019.

Fr. Ron Bieganowski

• Chaplain —College of Business Administration
• Pastoral service for Marquette Students and Graduates, (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Retreats, Spiritual Direction)
• Retreat Director – Jesuit Retreat Houses at Lake Elmo, MN, Oshkosh, WI, and Barrington, IL
• Assistant Pastor – St. Clare of Assisi, Edwards, CO
• Recently celebrated his 40th anniversary at Marquette

Cedric Burrows

• “Rhetorical Interventions for Countering Microaggressions.” Rasha Diab and Beth Godbee, and with contributions by Cedric Burrows and Thomas Ferrel. Pedagogy, vol. 19 no. 3, 2019, p. 455-481.

• Review of Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall 2019, pp. 483–485. 

Lilly Campbell

• Published an article, "Textual Mediation in Simulated Nursing Handoffs: Examining How Student Writing Coordinates Action" in the Journal of Writing Research (Feb 2019)
• Published an article, "Rhetorical Framing of the 'Inside Woman'" in a special issue of Peitho on Our Bodies, Ourselves (Sept 2019)
• Published an article, "Embodied Healthcare Intuition: A Taxonomy of Sensory Cues Used by Healthcare Providers" in Rhetoric of Health & Medicine (Dec 2019)
• Presented "Gen-Ed Revisions and Community Engagement: Opportunities for Alignment and Potential Pitfalls" at the Conference on Community Writing in Philadelphia, PA (Oct 2019) 

Gerry Canavan

• Author of recent articles on Parable of the Trickster, Star Wars and Star Trek, the Singularity, Black Mirror, and science fiction after 2001.
• Co-editor of The Cambridge History of Science Fiction(2019).
• Permanent co-editor of Extrapolation and Science Fiction FIlm and Television. Co-editor of the World Science Fiction Series at Peter Lang.
• Keynote speaker, Speculative Futures of Education conference (University of California, Riverside, December 2019).
• Wrote thinkpiece reviews of The Handmaid's Tale, the MCU, and other recent sf works that were widely circulated on social media

• President of the Science Fiction Research Association, 2020-2023

John Curran

• Published “Determin’d Things: The Historical Reconstruction of Character in Antony and Cleopatra,” for Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader, ed. Domenico Lovascio, (London: Bloomsbury/Arden, 2019), 133-54.

Jason Farr

• Author of the book, Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (Bucknell UP, June, 2019)
• Author of forthcoming chapter for The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability.
• Invited to speak about new book Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Texas at Austin in January 2020.
• Invited to present new research on Samuel Johnson and deaf education at the Johnson Society of the Central Region at the University of Wisconsin­–Madison, 24-25 April.
• Co-organizing a conference, “Theory and Archive: The Future of Early Modern Disability Studies” at the Clark Library, UCLA–with Helen Deutsch (UCLA), Paul Kelleher (Emory), & Jared Richman (Colorado College). May, 2020. 
• Author of various public-facing essays that have appeared in The Rambling, Profession (co-authored with Travis Chi Wing Lau, UT-Austin), Bucknell UP Blog (as part of the American University Press’s Blog Tour, Read. Think. Act.), and The Chronicle of Higher Education (co-authored with Lau).
• Appeared on the podcast Remixing the Humanities to discuss accessibility, queer/disabled embodiment, and scholarly spaces (with Lau).
• Keynote Speaker for LGBTQ+ History Month at Marquette. 

Tyler Farrell

• Poems published:
  "Postcard to Frank O'Hara" forthcoming in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry" (Spring 2020)
  "Root River Bike Ride, Early Spring" Ariel Anthology" (September 2019)
  "Poem for the Sake of A Poem"
  "3 Basquiat Poems Written to Andy Warhol"
  "For the Kepler Space Telescope" all three in Marquette Literary Review (Spring  2019)
  "Six Poems" published in Open-Eyed Full-Throated: An Anthology of American/Irish Poets. ed. Natalie Anderson (2019) Dublin: Arlen House, 83-90.
  "Buckley's Lunch" Eat Local :: Read Local - UW-Milwaukee (April                            2019) https://eatlocalreadlocal.org/

• Book Review: A Stone to Carry Home by Andrea Potos published in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry (Spring 2019)

• Presented a paper entitled: “James Liddy: Editor and Publisher" at the Midwest American Conference for Irish Studies, Oct. 10-12, 2019 at Creighton University in Omaha, NE.

• Presented a paper entitled “Connecting Students to Humanities Through Study Abroad Learning Experiences.” Humanities Advancement Conference –Celebrating the Humanities at Marquette, March 1-2, 2019. Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

• Poetry readings at Irish Fest, MIAD, Marquette University, Eat Local, Read Local, and at the Sugar Maple in Bayview. 

• Service: Milwaukee Poet Laureate Nomination Committee – The Milwaukee Public Library (2019). I helped select the 2019-2020 Milwaukee Poet Laureate, Dasha Kelly. Look for poetry events in the upcoming year. She is an excellent reader and poet. 

Jenn Fishman

• Since Spring 2019, serves as Acting Director of the Ott Memorial Writing Center. 
• Contributed "Conducting Consequential Research: The Access Writing Project" to a forthcoming special issue of Pedagogydedicated to undergraduate research in English Studies (with Katherine Hovland, Ali Leonhard, and Sunaina Randhawa). 
• Continued work on two editorial projects, The Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing (with Dominic DelliCarpini and Jane Greer) and Telling Stories: Perspectives on Longitudinal Research in Writing Studies (with Amy Kimme Hea). 
• Contributes ongoing leadership to the Coalition for Community Writing (Board of Directors) and the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (Advisory Board) as well as Community Literacy Journal, Literacy in Composition Studies, and Peitho. 
• Completed 7 years as the inaugural Co-Chair of the CCCC Committee on Undergraduate Research, which coauthored the CCCC Statement on Undergraduate Research in Writing and related Bibliography. 
• Co-organized Just Writing, the 3rd annual Writing Innovation Symposium. 
• Participated in the Conference on College Composition and Communication annual convention, the biennial Conference on Community Writing, the Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, the Rhetoric Society of America's Summer Institute and Biennial Conference, and the Writing Research Across Borders Triennial Conference in Xi'an, China. 

Leah Flack

• Chair of the English Department as of July 1, 2019
• Published James Joyce and Classical Modernism, Bloomsbury Academic Press, February 2020
• Published "Classical Literature," in The New Pound Studies, Ed. Mark Byron, Cambridge University Press,  2019
• Published "The Flights of Oona Frawley and Colum McCann," in Migrant Adaptations in Irish Literature, Eds. Matthew Spangler, Charlotte McIvor, Jason King, Cork University Press, 2019
• Published "Joyce's Classical Passwords," in The Dublin James Joyce Journal, 2019
• Published "Lost and Found in Translation: The Genesis of Modernism's Siren Songs," in Classics in Modernist Translation, Eds. Miranda Hickman and Lynn Kozak, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019, pp. 143-155.

Melissa J. Ganz

• Serves as Director of Strategy, Marquette English Department, 2019-20.
• Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective August 2019.
• Published Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment (University of Virginia Press, June 2019).
• Will publish “Debating Persuasion” in Approaches to Teaching Austen’s “Persuasion,” ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series, 2020).
• Will present “Legal Terror and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in The Heart of Midlothian,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), St. Louis, March 2020.
• Organized and will chair a panel on “Humanitarianism and Human Rights,” ASECS, St. Louis, March 2020.
• Will participate in a Presidential Panel on “Innovating the Next Fifty Years of ASECS,” ASECS, St. Louis, March 2020.
• Co-organized and will co-chair a panel on “Law, Literature, and Human Rights,” MLA, Seattle, January 2020.
• Serves as Chair of the Executive Committee of the MLA Forum on Law and the Humanities, 2019-20.
• Convenes the Humanities Research Colloquium at Marquette. 

Tosin Gbogi

• Invited Presentation: “Postcolonial Resistance, Transethnic Vernaculars, and New Youth Identities in African Hip Hop Cultures.” Symposium on Global Africa, Migration, Literature, and the Arts. Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, March 28-30, 2019.

• His poetry book, locomotifs and other songs, was featured in the 21st edition of Lagos Book and Art Festival. Lagos, November 4-10, 2019.

• Presented: "Poetry, Spectacle, and the 2019 Nigerian General Election." 62nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association Conference. Boston, November 21st-23rd, 2019.

• Panel Discussant: "Film, Digital Culture, and Musicality." 62nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association Conference. Boston, November 21st-23rd, 2019.

Heather Hathaway

• Acting Dean, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, 2019-2020 
• Author, That Damned Fence: Japanese American Literature During Internment. New York: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2020.           
• Co-editor, Conversations with Paule Marshall. Eds. James C. Hall and Heather  Hathaway. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2010; paperback 2019.
• Author, "Rewriting Race, Gender and Religion in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Paradise." Religions 10:6, 345-357. Special Issue 9 (May 2019): “My Soul is a Witness: Reimagining African American Women’s Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature.” Ed. Carole Henderson.
• Presenter, “Genre, Trauma, and the Ethics of Silence in Japanese American Internment Literature,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 12, 2020. 

• Plenary Speaker, “Terms of Employment: Perspectives from Upper Administration,” with Todd Butler, Washington State, Pullman; George Justice, Arizona State; and Emily Todd, Westfield State, Modern Language Association/Association of Departments of English Summer Seminar, Milwaukee, WI, June 23, 2019.                       
• Presenter, “Women and Children Last: The Lifelong Consequences of Inadequate Health Care for Incarcerated Japanese American Women and Children During World War II,” Western Association of Women Historians Conference, Portland, OR, April 27, 2019.
• Presenter, “Toshio Mori’s Yokohama, California: A Sanctuary Community Destroyed,” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Madison, WI, April 25, 2019. 
• Presenter, “Japanese American Internment Camp Refugees in Cincinnati,” MELUS/Multiethnic Literatures of the United States Conference, March 22, 2019.

CJ Hribal

• Published: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Marriage” [story], TQ19 (Fall, 2019): http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-marriage-by-c-j-hribal/

• Finalist for the Tupelo Quarterly Fiction Prize for the story “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Marriage.”

• Presented “You Want It Darker: On the Care and Feeding of Darker Narratives” at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs National Conference, Portland, OR, March 29, 2019.

• Presented (reading of fiction) Housebreaking, chapter 2, “They Are Just Like That,” The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, January 6, 2019.

• Chaired and organized the “You Want it Darker” panel at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs National Conference, Portland, OR, March 29, 2019.

• Presented (reading of fiction) Housebreaking, chapters 3 & 4, at The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, January 6, 2020.

• Featured speaker for the Write On, Door County Fiction Conference (“Writing on the Door”). Presentation title: “Everything I Learned About Writing I Learned from Harold and the Purple Crayon.” May 1 & 2, 2020. 

Samantha Majhor

• Will Present: “A History of Violence: Teaching Tommy Orange’s There There,” Native American Literature Symposium, March 2020.
• Invited Talk: “Research as Indigenous Art and Activism: A Conversation with Scholars featuring Jacki Rand (University of Iowa) and Samantha Majhor (Marquette University).” Harnessing the Flood: Indigenous Responses to Changing Climates Along the Mississippi River, University of Mississippi, October 2019. 
• Presented Paper: “Dakota Language as a Minnesota State Heritage Language Initiative.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, “Dakhóta Language Revitalizations in Mnísota Makoče,” Waikato, New Zealand, June 2019.
• Invited Talk: “Envisioning Dakhóta language revitalization in Mnísota Makhóčhe.” Dakhóta Omníčiye (Dakota Gathering), Fort Snelling at Bdote, May 2019. 
• Invited Talk: “Indigenous Literatures and Decolonization featuring Harald Gaski (University of Tromsø, Norway) and Samantha Majhor (University of Minnesota).” St. Olaf College, April, 2019.
•  Presented Paper, “Native Americans IRL: The Urban Indian Online According to Tommy Orange and Tommy Pico” Native American Literature Symposium, “New Media,” Prior Lake, Minnesota, March 2019.

Jodi Melamed

• Recipient of the 2019-2020 University Sabbatical Fellowship Award

• Invited Lecture: "Administrative Power and Ordinary Violence," Dartmouth University. To be presented February 28, 2020. 

• Committee Chair: Angela Y. Davis Prize, American Studies Association. Awarded to Prof. Haunani-Kay Trask. 

B. Pladek

• Published single-author monograph, The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790-1850, with Liverpool University Press, May 2019.

• Received MU Summer Faculty Fellowship and Regular Research Grant to support research at London's Wellcome Library for an anthology project on nineteenth-century poetry about embodiment.

• Presented paper "Collective Guilt in Wordsworth's Prelude and the Virgilian Epic Tradition" at the Romantic Interactions conference in Kraków, Poland, April 2019.

• Presented paper "#MeToo, Wordsworth's Prelude, and Collective Guilt" at the Wordsworth Summer Conference in Rydal, England, August 2019.

• Will present paper "Teaching Eighteenth-Century Medical Ethics" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in St. Louis, MO, March 2020.

• Co-chaired the second annual conference for Marquette's Center for the Advancement of the Humanities, "Urban Spaces, Creative Places: A Blueprint for the Humanities in the City," February 14-15, 2020.

• Contributed a blog post to the Keats Letters Project on "Sensation and Immortality," January 2019.

• Taught a collaborative course on Romanticism and Nature with Milwaukee’s Riverside Urban Ecology Center.

• Published short fiction in Flash Fiction Online and Bourbon Penn.

Angela Sorby

• Published “Big Rig” (poem) in New Ohio Review 25
• Co-curated exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art and published catalog essay, "Greetings from the Modern World: the Ariel Poems of Hardy, Eliot, and Sackville-West."
• Published review of Patricia Crane, Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America in American Literary History Review Series XX.
• Editorial Board, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.
• Chaired roundtable "Poetry and Sustainability" at MMLA Chicago.
• Co-editing collection on Poetry and Sustainability with Sandra Lee Kleppe.
• Will present "Syllabus as Handwork" at MLA Seattle.
•  Will publish "Orchard" (poem) in Westerly.
• Will publish “Spectral Vikings in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry,” (book chapter) in From Iceland to the Americas, co-edited by Tim Machan and Jón Karl Helgason, Manchester University Press.
• Will publish "The Syllabus as Handwork," (essay) in Syllabu 
• Serves as board member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
• Serves as board member, Raymond Carver International Association.

Elizaveta Strakhov

• Published John Lydgate’s Dance of Death and Related Works, ed. Megan L. Cook and Elizaveta Strakhov (Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University Press, 2019)
• Published “Rondeau," New Literary History: In Brief (Special Issue), 50.3 (2019), 469-73
• Published “Political Animals: Form and the Animal Fable in Langland’s Rodent Parliament and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018), 287-311
• Presented a panel response  “Response to Sarah Wood on Langland’s Manuscripts” at a symposium, Editions and Manuscripts of Middle English Poetry, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2019
• Co-presented with Shion Guha a public lecture, “Ignatian Pedagogy and the Ethics of Big Data” at the Marquette CIRCLES Alumni Event, Union League Club, Chicago, IL, May 2019
• Presented a paper, “Politicizing the Pastourelle in the Hundred Years War”, at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, May 2019
• Presented a paper, “Piers’ Half-Acre as Pedagogical Space”, at the International Piers Plowman Society Congress, University of Miami, Miami, FL, US, April 2019
• Presented a paper, “Silence of the Lambs: The French Pastourelle and the Hundred Years War,” at the Center for the Advancement of the Humanities Conference: Celebrating the Humanities at Marquette. Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, April 2019
• Served as a McNair Faculty Mentor in summer, 2019

John Su

• Serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affair

Sarah Wadsworth

• Completed term as Chair of the English Department.
• Continues to serve as Executive Director of the Henry James Society.
• Continues to coedit Nineteenth Century Studies.
• Prepared an annotated bibliography and served as volume advisor for a chapter on Daisy Miller in Short Story Criticism (forthcoming from Gale Cengage).
• Two book reviews are currently in press and will be published in Journal of American History and New England Quarterly. A third book review has been submitted to NANO: New American Notes Online.
• Co-presented a post-performance talk-back on opening day of the Evergreen Productions (Green Bay) performance of Little Women in De Pere, WI.
• Presented “Dating ‘The First American Novel’: The Case of  Penrose by William Williams” at the Klingler College of Arts & Sciences Celebration of Research (Marquette U).
• Has an article in preparation for the Fall 2020 issue of The Henry James Review.
• Has a book chapter in preparation for Teaching the History of the Book, forthcoming in the the Options for Teaching series published by the Modern Language Association. 
• Continues to serves on the board of the Henry James Society.
• Continues to serve on the board of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.  

Amelia Zurcher

• Serving as Director of the University Honors Program.
• "Life Writing in the Boyle Family Network,” in Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland, eds. Julie Eckerle and Naomi McAreavy, University of Nebraska Press, 2019, 110-151
• “Promises in Non-conforming women’s life writing,” Attending to Early Modern Women Triennial Conference 2019, Milwaukee, WI.
• “A Community-Engaged Honors Curriulum at an Urban, Jesuit University,” Honors Education at Research Universities Biannual Conference, Salt Lake City, spring 2019.

 

Elizabeth Angeli

• Published “Assemblage Mapping: A Research Methodology for Rhetoricians of Health and Medicine” in Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, edited by Lisa Meloncon and J. Blake Scott, Routledge, 2017.
• She and Dr. Lilly Campbell published a conference proceeding for ProComm 2017, “Intuition in Healthcare Communication Practices: Initial Findings from a Qualitative Inquiry.”
• She and Dr. Lilly Campbell received a Distinguished Paper Award for “Documenting Embodied Medical Intuition” at the 2017 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium.
• Her co-authored piece, “Responding to Public Health Crises: Bridging Collective Mindfulness and User Experience to Create Communication Interventions,” was published in Communication Design Quarterly with Christina D. Norwood. 
• Co-editing the “Medical Humanities and/or the Rhetorics of Health and Medicine” special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly with Richard Johnson-Sheehan, forthcoming 2018.
• Serves as Annotated Bibliography Editor for Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society (http://www.presenttensejournal.org/).

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Fr. Ron Bieganowski

• Chaplain —College of Business Administration
• Pastoral service for Marquette Students and Graduates, (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Retreats, Spiritual Direction)
• Retreat Director – Jesuit Retreat Houses at Lake Elmo, MN, Oshkosh, WI, and Barrington, IL
• Assistant Pastor – St. Clare of Assisi, Edwards, CO

• Recently celebrated his 40th anniversary at Marquette

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Amy Blair

• Serving as the Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Serves on the Editorial Board for Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, The Journal of the Reception Study Society.
• Co-editor, with James Machor, of the journal Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the official journal of the Reception Study Society. 

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Cedric Burrows

• ​Published “How Whiteness Haunts the Textbook Industry: The Reception of Nonwhites in Composition Textbooks.” Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education. Eds. Tammie Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, and Krista Ratcliffe. Carbondale, IL. Southern Illinois UP, 2017: 265-280.

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Lilly Campbell

• Published articles in Written Communication, Composition Forum, and a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly on "Rhetorics of Health and Medicine and/or the Medical Humanities."
• Published a chapter on writing pedagogy and simulation in the collection Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators, 3rd Edition.
• Published conference proceedings with Dr. Angeli in ProComm 2017.
• Received a "Distinguished Paper Award" with Dr. Angeli at the 2017 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine symposium.

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Gerry Canavan

• Developed and taught a short-story course for the J-term pilot (December 2016-January 2017)
• Was invited to participate in a workshop on posthumanism in Zurich, Switzerland, where he delivered a talk on H.G. Wells and nontechnological posthumanism in the Anthropocene
• Wrote thinkpiece reviews of Black Panther and Star Trek: Discovery that were widely circulated on social media
• Organized the 2018 meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, happening at Marquette this July
• Published articles on THEY LIVE and apocalyptic ecological parables for children
• Published book chapters on post-2001 science fiction and the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
• Completed edits on a special issue of Extrapolation on "Guilty Pleasure: Late Capitalism and Mere Genre" and on an immense 47-essay Cambridge History of Science Fiction.
• His book, Octavia E. Butler, was a finalist for a Locus Award
• Co-hosted a very fun "Buffy at 20" conference at Marquette with Dr. James South from the Department of Philosophy.
• Faculty director of Sigma Tau Delta
• Elected vice president of the Science Fiction Research Association

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John Curran

• Published "Milton and the Logic of Annihilation” in Milton Quarterly (51 [2017]: 1-22).

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Tyler Farrell

• Published Stichomythia, County Clare, Ireland, Salmon Poetry 2018
• Dr. Farrell's J-Session class ("British and Irish Drama On Stage") is a go, and he’ll be taking a group of students to see 6 plays in London, two theater tours, and two museum exhibits along with daily class meetings and work in December 2017
• His summer Ireland class was a huge hit last year (2017) and this coming summer (2018) it seems like it will be even bigger. Click here for more info and to apply.
• Was the organizer, reader, and emcee for the annual Irish Fest Poetry Celebration held every year at Irish Fest in the Cultural Village in August 2017.
• Will be publishing a poem in a new journal, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. It will be coming out in early 2018.
• Will be publishing a poem titled "Airplanes Make Perfect Mobiles" in the Summer 2018 issue of the Rapphannack review -

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Jenn Fishman

• Serving as Director of the First-Year English Program.
• Serving as Immediate Past President of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
• Serving as Co-Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Research for the Conference on College Composition and Communication
• Serving on the editorial boards of Community Literacy Journal, Literacy in Composition Studies, and Peitho
• Named a Finalist for the Ashoka U Cordes Award for Academic Learning for First-Year English at Marquette
• Coauthored "Occupying Research—Again/Still" with Joan Mullin, published Economies of Writing: Revaluations in Rhetoric and Composition edited byBruce Horner, Brice Nordquist, and Susan M. Ryan. Logan (Utah State UP)
• Coauthored the "CCCC Position Statement on Undergraduate Research in Writing" with members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee on Undergraduate Research
• Organized and presented "Reinventing Rhetoric through Undergraduate Research: A Roundtable Deliberation" at the Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Convention (Minneapolis, MN)
• Organized the First Annual Writing Innovation Symposium at Marquette, sponsored by the Social Innovation Initiative, the Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Haggerty Museum of Art
• Co-organized and presented"Learning Together: Gathering Resources and Building Critical Mass for Feminist Community Writing," Parts I and II at the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference (Dayton, OH) and the Conference on Community Writing (Boulder, CO)
• Organized and led (by invitation) a Deep Think Tank on Feminism, Activism, and Community Writing at the Biennial Conference on Community Writing (Boulder, CO)

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Leah Flack

• Serving as Director of Graduate Studies

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Melissa Ganz

• Will publish a chapter entitled “Debating Persuasion” in Approaches to Teaching Austen’s “Persuasion,” ed. Marcia Folsom and John Wiltshire (forthcoming, MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series).
• Reviewed Claire Jarvis’s Exquisite Masochism:  Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form in Victorian Studies 60:1 (Fall 2017).
• Presented “Physiognomy and Criminality in Oliver Twist” at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Georgetown Law School, March 2018, and at the Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference, “Visualizing Justice,” held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), October 2017.
• Presented “Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison and the Marriage Act” at a roundtable on “New Contexts for Samuel Richardson,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Minneapolis, March 2017.
• Presented “’A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’:  Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent,”  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Minneapolis, March 2017.
• Co-organized a roundtable on “Law, Literature, and Emotion,” to be held at the Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.
• Organized and chaired a panel on "Transnational Justice and the Literary Imagination," Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, January 2017.
• Serves on the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association’s Forum on Law and the Humanities.
• Convenes the Humanities Research Colloquium here at Marquette.
• Received a 2018 Summer Faculty Fellowship.

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Beth Godbee

• Received this year’s Community Engaged Teaching Award for continued collaborations with the YWCA Southeast Wisconsin, America’s Black Holocaust Museum, and racial justice organizing in Milwaukee.
• Invested in public writing, publishing in Inside Higher Ed and blogging weekly atHeart-Head-Heads.com about feeling, thinking, and doing for justice.
• Published “Writing Up: How Assertions of Epistemic Rights Counter Epistemic Injustice.” College English, July 2017.
• Published “Name It and Claim It: Cross-Campus Collaborations for Community-Based Learning,” with Elizabeth Andrejasich Gibes. Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning, Spring 2017.
• Published “Decoding Each Other Through Coding: Sharing Our Unlikely Research Collaboration,” with Adrianne Wojcik. The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (JAEPL), volume 22, Spring 2017.
• This fall, Beth presented at the Conference on Community Writing
• Presented “Listening Up, Taking Action: Conditions for Countering Injustice and Enacting More Equitable Relations,” with Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, and Cedric Burrows. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Portland, Oregon, 2017.
• Joined the Editorial Board for the Community Literacy Journal.

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Heather Hathaway

• Serving as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

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CJ Hribal

• Published “Do I Look Sick to You? (Notes on How to Make Love to a Cancer Patient” in the Bellevue Literary Review, 17.1 (Spring, 2017), and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
• Published “Ode to the Dive Bar” in Milwaukee Magazine (November, 2017, vol. 43, no. 11)
• Published “Root for the Home Team” in Milwaukee Magazine (June, 2017, vol. 43, no. 6).
• Won the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction from the Bellevue Literary Review for his story “Do I Look Sick to You? (Notes on How to Make Love to a Cancer Patient).”
• Presented “Bohumil Hrabal and Intimate Distance” at The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, Asheville, NC, January 7, 2017.
• Gave a reading from The Other Life at Warren Wilson College, January, 2017
• Served as a Member of the Fiction Faculty at The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, Asheville, NC, January 2-13, 2017.
• Serves as Chair of FAME (Friends and Alumni of Marquette English).
• 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. 

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Jodi Melamed

• Co-Editor: Economies of Dispossession, A Special Issue of Social Text. No. 135 (May 2018).
• Co-Author: "Predatory Value: Economies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities," Social Text No. 135 (May 2018).
• Author: "The Proliferation of Rights-Based Capitalist Violence and Pedagogies of Collective Action." American Quarterly Vol. 70, Issue 2 (June 2018).
• Keynote Speaker: “Dispossession by Administration.” Kanner Forum on Futures of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. June 1^st, 2017.
• Keynote Speaker: “Administrated Precarity and Settler Logisticality.” Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne. March 28-29, 2018
• Public Colloquium on "The Open Secret of Racial Capitalist Violence" (a forum on Melamed's old and new work on racial capitalism). Racial Capitalism Mellon Initiative. University of California, Davis. February 8, 2018.
• Elected to National Committee of the American Studies Association for a three year term (2015-2018).
• Invited Scholar: Race and Capitalism Working Group. Social Science Research Council and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago. (ongoing, 2016-present)

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Rebecca Nowacek

• Published “Reading Rhetorically, Reading Personally: College-Level Reading in the STEM Disciplines” in Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinber, and Sheridan Blau (eds) . Writing Teachers Teaching Reading. NCTE. Co-authored with Heather James. 2017.

• Published “Don’t Retreat. Teach Citizenship.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 17, 2017. http://www.chronicle.com/article/Don-t-Retreat-Teach/238923 . Co-authored with Jeff Bernstein and Michael Smith.
• Published "Rehabilitating Citizenship: Lessons from Across the Curriculum." Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation, Fall 2017. Co-authored with Jeff Bernstein and Michael Smith.
• Presented "Decoding Everyday Writing Center Documents." International Writing Center Association. Chicago, IL. November 2017.
• Presented “Emergent Transfer in Action: Researching Transfer of Learning in Writing Centers.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017.

• Director, Marquette’s Ott Memorial Writing Center
• Director of the WRITE (Writing and Research Integrative Tutor Experience) Fellows program.
• Director, Marquette University’s Course-Embedded Tutor (CET) Program

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Brittany Pladek

• Published "‘A Radical Causation’: Coleridge’s Lyrics and Collective Guilt." Romanticism 23.1 (2017): 62-74.
• Published "Beyond the Poet-Physician: Letitia Landon's Reader-Centered Therapy." The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery. Ed. Robin Runia. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature. New York: Routledge, 2018. 71-88.
• Co-editor with Dr. Emily Stanback (University of Southern Mississippi) of Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons: "Romanticism, Health, and Wellbeing" (2017).

• Will publish short stories in Luna Station Quarterly (2018) and The Golden Key (2018).
• Presented at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Conference (August 2017).
• Participated in panel conference, "The World is All Around Us," with Drs. Gerry Canavan and Richard Leson (UWM) (fall 2017).

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Al Rivero

• 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.
• 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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Angela Sorby

• Published “Conjuring Readers: Antebellum African-American Children’s Poetry,” a chapter in Anna Mae Duane and Kate Capshaw Smith, eds., Who Writes for Black Children? African-American Children’s Literature Before 1900 (University of Minnesota Press 2017).
• Published "’A Dimple in the Tomb": Cuteness in Emily Dickinson.’" ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 63: 2 (2017) 297-328.
• Published "The Boring Side of the Family,” Tina Schumann, ed., Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press (2017).
• Published "Exercise,” in Poetry Northwest 11: 3 (Summer/Fall 2017).
• Presented "Noah’s Ark and Theological Anxiety in American Children’s Poetry,” at the 2017 MLA, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017.
• Presented a paper on “Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Trouble with Christmas,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Bordeaux, France, June 2017.
• Serving as interim chair of the English Department for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 semesters
• Serves as board member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
• Serves as board member, Raymond Carver International Association.

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Elizaveta Strakhov

• “True Colors: The Significance of Machaut’s and Chaucer’s Use of Blue to Represent Fidelity,” in Machaut’s Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in Late Medieval Literature, ed. Burt Kimmelman and R. Barton Palmer (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2017), 139-164.

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John Su

• Serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affair

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Sarah Wadsworth

• Contributed a book chapter called “Approaching The Blithedale Romance through the History of the Book” to Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom (Ed. Christopher Diller and Sam Coale), published by AMS Press
• Will present "The Awkward Page: Picturing Imagery in The Awkward Age" at the annual conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.
• Will participate in "Little Women at 150," a roundtable of the Louisa May Alcott Society at the annual conference of the American Literature Association.
• Continues to co-edit the interdisciplinary journal Nineteenth Century Studies.
• Received a Travel Grant from the Office of International Education to take part in an intensive two-week Spanish course for faculty and staff of Jesuit institutions conducted at Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla in Puebla, Mexico.

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Larry Watson

• As Good As Gone was nominated for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Literature.
• In June 2017, Algonquin Books issued Good As Gone in paperback.
• His essay, “Once There Was a Spot,” appears in the anthology Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman and published by Penguin Books
• His poem, “Smoking Stop,” is forthcoming in Maine Review.
• In August 2017, Larry Watson spoke at the Boulder Junction Library in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. The subject of his talk was “Writing from the Middle.”
  Watson was the North Woods Book Festival’s featured author.
• In November 2017, he spoke and read from his fiction at the Elkhart Lake Public Library in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The community selected Watson’s novel, As Good As Gone, for its community reads program.
• On November 4, 2017, Watson appeared on a panel at the Southeast Wisconsin Book Festival at the University of Wisconsin/Waukesha. The panel discussed “True Grit and the Western in American Literature.”
• Dr. Watson is one of the authors featured in Jim Higgins’s 2017 book, Wisconsin Literary Luminaries.

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Amelia Zurcher

• Serving as Director of the University Honors Program.

Elizabeth Angeli

• Has in press “Assemblage Mapping: A Research Methodology for Rhetoricians of Health and Medicine” in Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, edited by Lisa Meloncon and J. Blake Scott, Routledge, forthcoming 2017.
• Published “Bridging the Complex Contexts of Care in Medical Usability” with John Jones, Catherine Gouge, Lisa Meloncon, Christina D. Norwood, Mariah Crilley, and Candice A. Welhausen. SIGDOC ’16: Proceedings of the 34^thAMC International Conference on the Design of Communication, Fall 2016, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2987630.
• Co-editing the “Medical Humanities and/or the Rhetorics of Health and Medicine” special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly with Richard Johnson-Sheehan, forthcoming 2018.
• Presented “UXD, Collective Mindfulness, and Public Health Crisis Communication.” 2016 Special Interest Group on Design of Communication, Silver Spring, MD, 23-24 Sept. 2016, with Christina Norwood.
• Presented “Researching Writing and Action in Inaccessible Research Sites.” 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX, 6-9 Apr. 2016.
• Presented “Collective Mindfulness in Public Health and Crisis Response.” 2016 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Houston, TX, 6 Apr. 2016, with Christina Norwood.
• Presented “Responding to Public Health Crises: Collective Mindfulness, High Reliability, and User Experience.” 2016 Symposium on Communicating Complex Information, Greenville, NC, 22-23 Feb. 2016, with Christina Norwood.
• Serves as Annotated Bibliography Editor for Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society (http://www.presenttensejournal.org/).
• Serves as Communications Chair for the Medical Rhetoric Special Interest Group.

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Fr. Ron Bieganowski

• Review of Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits & Modern Rhetorical Studies, edited by Cinthia Gannett & John C. Brereton, (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2016) for Christian Higher Education Vol. 15, 2016 - Issue 5.

• Chaplain —College of Business Administration
  Pastoral service for Marquette Students and Graduates, (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Retreats, Spiritual Direction)
  Retreat Director – Jesuit Retreat Houses at Lake Elmo, MN, Oshkosh, WI, and Barrington, IL
  Assistant Pastor – St. Clare of Assisi, Edwards, CO
• Recently celebrated his 40th anniversary at Marquette

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Amy Blair

• Serving as the Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Serves on the Editorial Board for Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, The Journal of the Reception Study Society.
• Co-editor, with James Machor, of the journal Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the official journal of the Reception Study Society. 

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Cedric Burrows

• ​Published “How Whiteness Haunts the Textbook Industry: The Reception of Nonwhites in Composition Textbooks.” Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education. Eds. Tammie Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, and Krista Ratcliffe. Carbondale, IL. Southern Illinois UP, 2017: 265-280.
• Published “Writing While Black: The Black Tax on African American Graduate Students.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. 14.1 (2016): 1-6. Print.
• Published “The Yardstick of Whiteness in Composition Textbooks.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 39.2 (2016): 42-46. Print.
• Presented a paper: “Writing While Black: The ‘Black Tax’ and the African American Student.” National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW). Tacoma, WA.
• Presented a paper: “Rhetorical Dissonance: Martin Luther King, Composition Textbooks, and the Modification of the Black Rhetorical Presence.” Rhetoric Society of America (RSA). Atlanta, GA.
• Panel Chair: “From Event to Method: Rethinking Witness through Historical Example.” Rhetoric Society of America (RSA). Atlanta, GA.
• Presented paper and co-organized panel: “Microaggressions in First-Year Writing Textbooks.” Rhetoric Society of America (RSA). Atlanta, GA.
• Presented paper: “Too Black, Too Strong: The Construction of the African American Male Writers in Composition Textbooks.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Houston, TX. 

Lilly Campbell

• Presented “Exploring Disciplinary Writing Frontiers: Generalist Tutors in Specialized Contexts" at the International Writing Center Association Conference in Denver, CO in October 2016
• Will Present "Learning to Think like a Nurse: Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Classroom, Simulated, and Hospital Writing Experiences" at the Writing Research Across Borders Conference in Bogota, Colombia in February 2017
• Won the University of Washington's Hermione and Louis Brown Graduate Prize for Best Article Accepted by a Journal in March 2016

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Gerry Canavan

• Published my first book, Modern Masters of Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler(University of Illinois Press, 2016)
• Published “Quiet, Too Quiet: Review of Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest.” Los Angeles Review of Books (February 2016): https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/quiet-too-quiet.
• Published articles on Olaf Stapledon, zombie comics, Kurt Vonnegut and Clifford D. Simak, and Dr. Seuss
• Co-edited a special issue of the journal Paradoxa (issue 28) titled "Global Weirding."
• Developed and taught a new course on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (Fall 2016)
• Developed and taught a short-story course for the J-term pilot (December 2016-January 2017)
• Organized with James South a one-day conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer(April 2017)
• Elected vice president of the Science Fiction Research Association
• Won the Way-Klingler Young Scholar Award, 2016.

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John Curran

• Serving as the Director of Graduate Studies
• Published "Poetical History,” in Spenser in Context, ed. Andrew Escobedo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 185-93.
• Published "What Should Be In That Caesar: The Question of Julius Caesar’s Greatness,” in Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader, ed. Andrew James Hartley (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016), 153-74.

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Ainehi Edoro

• Named one of the five most influential Nigerian women for 2016 by the The Guardian in connection with her journal Brittle Paper: An African Literary Experience.

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Jenn Fishman

• Serving as Director of the First-Year English Program.
• Published "Promising but Uncertain Work: Inventing and Reinventing the Research Exchange Index (REx)." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 48.3 (April 2017). Forthcoming.
  Published REx 1. Web only <http://researchexchange.colostate.edu/REx1/>. Co-founded and edited with Joan Mullin, 2016.
• Received a CCCC Research Initiative Grant for "Tracing the Impact of Undergraduate Research in Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies" with co-Principal Investigators Jane Greer and Dominic DelliCarpini.
• Received the National Council of Teachers of English Student Affiliate Excellence Award (for MASA, the Milwaukee-Area Student Affiliate of NCTE).
• Her student Kim Baker received the Maria Dittman Undergraduate Research Award for Bursting the Bubble, composed in ENGL 3210.
• Coedited (with Jess Enoch) a special issue of Peitho titled "The Next 25 Years of Feminist Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition."
• Organized (with Tarez Graban) and co-edited (with Trish Fancher, curator) the "New Work Showcase."
• Coauthored (with Rebecca Nowacek) "Networking Rhetoric for Jesuit Education in a New World" in Traditions of Eloquence edited by Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton (Fordham UP).
• Coauthored (with Mary Jo Reiff) "Taking the High Road: Teaching for Transfer in an FYC Program," which was reprinted in Ecologies of Writing Programs: Program Profiles in Context edited by Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, and Christian Weisser (Parlor P).
• Coorganized and chaired "Performing Feminist Action," an evening of concurrent microworkshops and mentoring tables sponsored by the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition at CCCC 2016 in Houston, TX.
• Presented a prepared response to "Assessing Learning in Scenes of Discovery: Projection, Reflection, and (Social) Action" with Bump Halbritter and Julie Lindquist at CCCC 2016 in Houston, TX.
• Presented a prepared response to "The Best of Three Worlds: Integrating Writing, Civic Engagement, and First-Year Experience Programs" with Allen Brizee, June Johnson, Morgan Reitmeyer, and Pat Bizzell at CCCC 2016 in Houston, TX.
• Presented a paper with media titled "An Intergenerational Reflection on Feminist Praxes in Writing Research" at the 10^th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference in Tempe, AZ.
• Presented a paper titled "College as Community: A Case for Expanding Our Definitions of These Keywords" at the Conference on Community Writing in Boulder, CO.
• Served as an invited faculty mentor and workshop co-leader at the 2nd Annual Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies at York College of Pennsylvania.
• Was a selected participant in "Institutional Histories of Rhetoric" a Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute Workshop led by David Flemming and Amy Wanin Madison, WI.

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Leah Flack

• Published "whatever is given/ can always be reimagined": Seamus Heaney's Indefinite Modernism." In Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture, Ed. Paige Reynolds (London: Anthem Press, 2016).
• Presented her research at McGill University (Montreal, CA) as part of a "Classics in Modernist Translation" conference.
• Presented her research at the Modernist Studies Association conference.
• Delivered a public lecture to conclude the internal-Mellon grant funded series, "Reconsidering the Rising."

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Melissa Ganz

• Reviewed Ayelet Ben-Yishai’s Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction, in Journal of British Studies 55:1 (January 2016): 237-39.
• Presented a paper on moral reasoning in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, March 2016.
• Participated in a roundtable on sensibility at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, March 2016.
• Organized and chaired a panel on "Crime and Punishment in the Enlightenment" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, March 2016.
• Co-organized and chaired a panel on "Literature, Law, and Public Life" at the Modern Language Association, Austin, January 2016.
• Elected to a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association’s Forum on Law and the Humanities, January 2016.
• Received a 2016 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Marquette University.
• Received a two-year grant from the Strategic Innovation Fund to support the Humanities Research Colloquium, Marquette University, 2015-2017.

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Beth Godbee

• Published chapter: “Making Commitments to Racial Justice Actionable,” with Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, and contributions by Neil Simpkins in Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication, edited by Frankie Condon and Vershawn Young. Across the Disciplines Books—a collaboration of the WAC Clearinghouse, Colorado State University Open Press, and University Press of Colorado, 2016. 19-39. (Reprint with revisions; e-book and print versions.)
• Published article: “Why Inquiry Matters: An Argument and Model for Inquiry-Based Writing Courses,” with Katherine Ellington and Megan Knowles. Wisconsin English Journal 58.2 (Fall 2016): 7-21. PDF. Web: <http://journals.library.wisc.edu/index.php/wej/issue/view/71>.
• Will publish article: “Writing Up: How Assertions of Epistemic Rights Counter Epistemic Injustice.” Forthcoming in College English, July 2017.
• Will publish article: “Name It and Claim It: Cross-Campus Collaborations for Community-Based Learning,” with Elizabeth Andrejasich Gibes. Forthcoming in Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning, Spring 2017.
• Will publish narrative: “Decoding Each Other Through Coding: Sharing Our Unlikely Research Collaboration,” with Adrianne Wojcik. Forthcoming in The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (JAEPL), volume 22, Spring 2017.
• Presented panel: “Countering Microaggressions and Enacting Change: Frameworks for Rhetorical Intervention,” with Cedric Burrows, Rasha Diab, and Thomas Ferrel. Rhetoric Society of America (RSA). Atlanta, Georgia, 2016.
• Presented paper: “Reclaiming Feminist and Womanist Ways of Knowing, Countering Epistemic Injustice.” Cultural Rhetorics Conference. East Lansing, Michigan, 2016.
• Presented panel: “Conditioned for Immobility? A Dialectical Approach for Moving Toward Social Justice,” with Rasha Diab. The Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, Kentucky, 2016.
• Presented workshop: “Contemplative Writing: Practices for More Mindful Learning and Action.” Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English (WCTE). Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2016.
• Will present panel: “Listening Up, Taking Action: Conditions for Countering Injustice and Enacting More Equitable Relations,” with Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, and Cedric Burrows. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Portland, Oregon, 2017.
• Served as elected member: College Section Steering Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2015—2016.
• Served: Editorial Board for Praxis: A Writing Center Journal.
• Served: Service-learning partnerships with the YWCA Southeast Wisconsin’s Racial Justice Program and America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM).
• Received: Center for Peacemaking Faculty Research Mini-Grants, 2015 and 2016.
• Nominated: Article “Body + Power + Justice: Movement-Based Workshops for Critical Tutor Education” (with Moira Ozias and Jasmine Kar Tang) nominated for the 2016 International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Best Article Award.

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Heather Hathaway

• Received a Summer Faculty Fellowship for her book project, "Don't Fence Me In": A Literary and Cultural History Of Japanese American Internment. 

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CJ Hribal

• Won the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction from the Bellevue Literary Review for his story “Do I Look Sick to You? (Notes on How to Make Love to a Cancer Patient).”
• Serves as Chair of FAME (Friends and Alumni of Marquette English).
• 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 “The One Constant”: Milwaukee Magazine, March, 2016, Print and online (1200 words).
• Presented “Eva Figes and the Lyric Novel“ at The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, January 7, 2016.
• Read from The Other Life, a novel-in-progress, at Warren Wilson College, January 8, 2016.
• Served as a Visiting Member of the Fiction Faculty for the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, January 2-13, 2016. 

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Jodi Melamed

• Published “Being Together Subversively, Outside in the University of Hegemonic Affirmation and Repressive Violence, As Things Heat Up (Again).” American Quarterly. 68.4 (Spring 2016). 980-991.
• Published “Proceduralism, Predisposing, Poesis: Institutionality, In the Making.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. Issue 5.1 (Spring 2016): Web. 7000 words. http://csalateral.org/wp/issue/5-1/forum-alt-humanities-institutionality-making-melamed/
• Published “Post-marxism, American studies, and post-capitalist futures.” Approaches to American Cultural Studies. Eds. Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg. New York: Routledge, 2016. 133-145.
• Keynote Speaker: “Administrated Precarity and Settler Logisticality.” Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne. October 30-31 2017
• Keynote Speaker: “Dispossession by Administration.” Kanner Forum on Futures of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. June 1^st, 2017.
• Keynote Speaker: “Diversity in German Politics and Culture in the Context of the Refugee Crisis.” Conference on “Diversity in Business, Institutions, and Education.”  Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations. June 2-4, 2016.
• Invited Lecture: “Dispossession by Administration.” Women and Gender Studies and Geography Colloquium Series. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. October 28, 2016.
• Invited Lecture for the “Race, Debt, Property” Symposium hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Madison Humanities Research Center. March 10-12, 2016.  10 invited participants including Cheryl Harris, Cedric Johnson, and Joanne Barker. Ends with a public plenary with participants.
• Invited Presentation. “Al Helm: Martin Luther King, Jr. in Palestine.”   Muslim Milwaukee Film Festival. April 17, 2016.
• Keynote Speaker: “ ‘One Never Has Enough Documents’: Diversity/Vielfalt in Germany in 2016.” Conference on “Diversity in Business, Institutions, and Education.” Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations. June 2-4, 2016.
• Invited Lecture: “Economies of Dispossession” for the “Race, Debt, Property” Symposium hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Madison Humanities Research Center. March 10-12, 2016. 10 invited participants including Cheryl Harris, Cedric Johnson, and Joanne Barker. Also included a final public plenary with participants.
• Keynote Invitation [declined]. “The Prehistory of Neoliberalism.”Novel Symposium. Duke University, April 2016
• Keynote Invitation [declined]. “Neoliberalism and the Global South.” Humanities Lecture Series. State University of New York, Binghamton. Fall 2016.
• Invited Presentation. “Al Helm: Martin Luther King, Jr. in Palestine.” Muslim Milwaukee Film Festival. April 17, 2016.
• Elected to National Committee of the American Studies Association for a three year term (2015-2018).
• Serving as Past President of the "Marxism, Literature, and Society" Forum of the Modern Language Association.
• Elected to the Executive Committee for the Sociological Approaches to Literature Division, Modern Language Association (five-year term, 2011-2016).
• Invited Scholar: Race and Capitalism Working Group. Social Science Research Council and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago. (ongoing, 2016-present)

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Rebecca Nowacek

• Director, Marquette’s Ott Memorial Writing Center
• Director, Marquette University’s Course-Embedded Tutor (CET) Program
• Author, “Assessing the Affective.” In The Future Scholar: Researching and Teaching the Frameworks for Writing and Information Literacy. Eds. Randall McClure and James P. Purdy. Information Today, Inc. (2016): 251-272. Co-authored with Heather James.
• Author, “Going Global, Getting Digital: Case Studies in Contemporary Jesuit Rhetoric Education.” Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton (eds.), Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Rhetorical Studies. (2016). Fordham University Press. Co-authored with Jenn Fishman.
• Author, “Transfer and Translingualism.” College English, Vol 78.3 (2016): 258-64. Co-authored with Rebecca Lorimer Leonard.
• Author, “Mass Literacy and Writing Centers: Deborah Brandt’s The Rise of Writing” (book review). Writing Center Journal 35.2, Spring/Summer 2016. Co-authored with Brad Hughes and Julie Christoph.
• Invited speaker, Brigham Young University, November 2016.
• Invited speaker, University of Michigan, March 2016.
• Invited speaker, Transylvania University, January 2016.

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Brittany Pladek

• Faculty Advisor for Sigma Tau Delta.
• Published “Steven Universe.” Review. Science Fiction Film and Television 9.3 (2016).
• Published “Romanticism, Medicine, and the Natural Supernatural, by Gavin Budge.” Book review. Studies in Romanticism 54.4 (2016), 575-578.
• Published “Ought From Is.” Lackington’s. July 2016. Short story.
• Presented "The Pain We Do Not Know: Letitia Landon's Therapeutic Discontent" at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (Berkeley 2016).
• Presented "'This Very Social Rose:'Aurora Leigh and Dante's Inferno" at the North American Victorian Studies Association (Phoenix, 2016).
• Will publish"‘A Radical Causation’: Coleridge’s Lyrics and Collective Guilt," forthcoming in Romanticism (April 2017)
• Co-editor with Dr. Emily Stanback (University of Southern Mississippi) of Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons: "Romanticism, Health, and Wellbeing" (2017). 

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Al Rivero

• Served as Interim Chair for the English Department from January 2016 through July 2016
• 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.
• 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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Angela Sorby

• Published “Women Poets, Child Readers,” A History of American Women’s Poetry, Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2016. Book chapter.
• Published “Children’s Culture,” The Blackwell Companion to Popular Culture, Gary Burns, ed., New York: Blackwell, 2016. Book chapter.
• Published "Code Violations: Chicago Review in the 1990s,” in Chicago Review 59: 4 (2016). Essay.
• Review of Michael C. Cohen, The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America, Modern Philology 2016 114:1, E42-E44. Review.
• Published “No One Knows Where the Ladder Goes,” The First Line 18:4 (2016). Flash fiction.
• “Conjuring Readers: Antebellum African-American Children’s Poetry,” Early African-American Children’s Literature, Anna Mae Duane and Kate Capshaw Smith, eds., University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming in 2017.
• Presented “Queer Little Folks and the Emergence of Cuteness,” at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society Conference, Spokane, WA, June 2016.
• "Noah’s Ark and Theological Anxiety in American Children’s Poetry,” to be presented at the 2017 MLA, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017.
• "Harriet Beecher Stowe and Transatlantic Cuteness," to be presented at the 2017 SSAWW, Bordeaux, France, July 2017.
• Serves as board member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
• Serves as board member, Raymond Carver International Association.

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John Su

• Serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affair

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Sarah Wadsworth

• Serving as Chair of the English Department
• Serves on the board of directors of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.
• Co-editor of the journal Nineteenth Century Studies.
• Published a review of The Europeans. Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. Ed. Susan M. Griffin (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015). Review of English Studies 67 (April 2016).
• Published a review of The Ambassadors. Ed. Nicola Bradbury. Cambridge Edition of the Complete Works of Henry James. Review of English Studies 68 (2016)
• Has in press--“Approaching The Blithedale Romance through the History of the Book.” Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom: Contexts, Materials, Approaches. Ed. Christopher Diller. Brooklyn, NY: AMS Press. Forthcoming, 2016.
• Served as editorial adviser and produced an annotated bibliography for the following: “Kenneth Graham​e.” Children’s Literature Review. Multi-volume series. Boston: Gale Cengage. Forthcoming, 2016.
• Presented “From Celebrity Memoir to Female Bildungsroman: Fanny Kemble, Henry James, and Novelistic Innovation.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association. Lincoln, NE.
• Presented “Roderick and Roland and Diana and Persis: Alcott, James, and the Roman Künstlerroman.” American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA.
• Presented on Alice in Wonderland and "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" to the Milwaukee Ballet Book Club.
• Received the 2016 Way-Klingler Teaching Enhancement Grant with Catey Ott Thompson (Dance), Connie Petersen (Theatre), Susan Mountin (Manresa), and Lynne Shumow (Haggerty Museum of Art).
• Faculty Fellow: Collegium. Colloquy on Catholic Higher Education. Portland, OR.

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Larry Watson

• As Good As Gone, Larry Watson’s tenth book of fiction, was published by Algonquin Books in June 2016.
• As Good As Gone was selected as an Amazon Best Book for July 2016.
• As Good As Gone was nominated for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Literature.
• NPR named As Good As Gone one of its 300 best reads for 2016.
• The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel named As Good As Gone one of its 100 best books of 2016.
• On October 8, 2016, Larry Watson appeared on a panel and conducted workshops at the Sinclair Lewis Writers Festival in Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

• Larry Watson served as the final judge for the 2015 New American Fiction prize (award winner named in 2016).
• On November 30, 2016, Larry Watson spoke to junior and senior English classes at Whitnall High School in Greenfield, Wisconsin, where students are studying his novel, Montana 1948.

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Amelia Zurcher

• Serving as Director of the University Honors Program.

Fr. Ron Bieganowski

• Review of Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits & Modern Rhetorical Studies, edited by Cinthia Gannett & John C. Brereton, (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2016) for Christian Higher Education Vol. 15, 2016 - Issue 5.

• Chaplain —College of Business Administration
  Pastoral service for Marquette Students and Graduates, (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Retreats, Spiritual Direction)
  Retreat Director – Jesuit Retreat Houses at Lake Elmo, MN, Oshkosh, WI, and Barrington, IL
  Assistant Pastor – St. Clare of Assisi, Edwards, CO
• Recently celebrated his 40th anniversary at Marquette

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Amy Blair

• Serving as the Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Serves on the Editorial Board for Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, The Journal of the Reception Study Society.
• Co-editor, with James Machor, of the journal Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the official journal of the Reception Study Society. 

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Cedric Burrows

• Published "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz or Malcolm X: The Construction of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz’s Religious Identity in Composition Readers." Journal of Africana Religions 3.1 (2015): 31-43.​

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Gerry Canavan

• Published Octavia E. Butler, University of Illinois Press, 2016
• Published “Quiet, Too Quiet: Review of Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest.” Los Angeles Review of Books (February 2016): https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/quiet-too-quiet.
• Capital as Artificial Intelligence.” Journal of American Studies: “Fictions of Speculation” (October 2015), eds. Annie McClanahan and Hamilton Carroll: 1-25.
• “Anything Could Happen (And We Would Believe It).” New Orleans Review 41 (2015): 223-226.
• “The Warm Equations.” Los Angeles Review of Books. June 2015.
• Published “The Octavia E. Butler Papers.” The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction 3.1 (Fall 2015): 42-53.
• Published “Ecology 101.” SFRA Review 314 (Winter 2015): 16-25.
• Co-Editor with Eric Carl Link, The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Editor, Science Fiction Film and Television (Liverpool University Press, 2014-).
• Editor, Extrapolation (Liverpool University Press, 2014-).
• Won the Way-Klingler Young Scholar Award, 2016.

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John Curran

• Serving as the Director of Graduate Studies
• Published "Poetical History,” in Spenser in Context, ed. Andrew Escobedo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 185-93.
• Published "What Should Be In That Caesar: The Question of Julius Caesar’s Greatness,” in Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader, ed. Andrew James Hartley (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016), 153-74.

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Jenn Fishman

• Serving as Director of the First-Year English Program.
• Received a CCCC Research Initiative Grant for "Tracing the Impact of Undergraduate Research in Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies" with co-Principal Investigators Jane Greer and Dominic DelliCarpini.
• Received the National Council of Teachers of English Student Affiliate Excellence Award (for MASA, the Milwaukee-Area Student Affiliate of NCTE).
• Her student Kim Baker received the Maria Dittman Undergraduate Research Awardfor Bursting the Bubble, composed in ENGL 3210.
• Coedited (with Jess Enoch) a special issue of Peitho titled "The Next 25 Years of Feminist Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition."
• Organized (with Tarez Graban) and co-edited (with Trish Fancher, curator) the "New Work Showcase."
• Coauthored (with Rebecca Nowacek) "Networking Rhetoric for Jesuit Education in a New World" in Traditions of Eloquence edited by Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton (Fordham UP).
• Coauthored (with Mary Jo Reiff) "Taking the High Road: Teaching for Transfer in an FYC Program," which was reprinted in Ecologies of Writing Programs: Program Profiles in Context edited by Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, and Christian Weisser (Parlor P).
• Coorganized and chaired "Performing Feminist Action," an evening of concurrent microworkshops and mentoring tables sponsored by the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition at CCCC 2016 in Houston, TX.
• Presented a prepared response to "Assessing Learning in Scenes of Discovery: Projection, Reflection, and (Social) Action" with Bump Halbritter and Julie Lindquist at CCCC 2016 in Houston, TX.
• Presented a prepared response to "The Best of Three Worlds: Integrating Writing, Civic Engagement, and First-Year Experience Programs" with Allen Brizee, June Johnson, Morgan Reitmeyer, and Pat Bizzell at CCCC 2016 in Houston, TX.
• Presented a paper titled "Catching Fire: Community, Collaboration, and Undergraduate Research" at the 2015 NCTE Convention in Minneapolis, MN.
• Presented a paper with media titled "An Intergenerational Reflection on Feminist Praxes in Writing Research" at the 10^th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference in Tempe, AZ.
• Presented a paper titled "College as Community: A Case for Expanding Our Definitions of These Keywords" at the Conference on Community Writing in Boulder, CO.
• Served as an invited faculty mentor and workshop co-leader at the 2nd Annual Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies at York College of Pennsylvania.
• Was a selected participant in "Institutional Histories of Rhetoric" a Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute Workshop led by David Flemming and Amy Wanin Madison, WI.

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Leah Flack

• Published Modernism and Homer: The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound. (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Published "'The news in the Odyssey is still news': Ezra Pound, W. H. D. Rouse, and a Modern Odyssey." Modernism/Modernity (January 2015).
• Will publish a chapter, "'What is given / Can always be re-imagined': Seamus Heaney's Indefinite Modernism" in The Afterlives of Modernism in Irish Literature and Culture, the inaugural book in a new Irish studies series edited by Paige Reynolds (2015)
• Presented her research at the Society for Classical Studies (Chicago), the Classical Association (Nottingham, England), the British Association of Modernist Studies (London), the Modernist Studies Association (Pittsburgh), and the Modern Languages Association (Vancouver) conferences.
• Presented a paper at the Midwest American Conference for Irish Studies.

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Melissa Ganz

• Published "Carrying On Like a Madman: Insanity and Responsibility in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 70:3 (December 2015): 363-97.
• Published "Freedom and Fetters: Nuptial Law in Burney's The Wanderer," in Impassioned Jurisprudence: Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760-1848, ed. Nancy E. Johnson (Bucknell University Press, 2015), 66-88.
• Published "Debate," in The Pocket Instructor: Literature: 101 Exercises for the College Classroom, ed. Diana Fuss and William A. Gleason (Princeton University Press, 2015), 21-23.
• Reviewed Ayelet Ben-Yishai’s Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction, in Journal of British Studies 55:1 (January 2016): 237-39.
• Presented a paper on moral reasoning in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, March 2016.
• Participated in a roundtable on sensibility at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, March 2016.
• Organized and chaired a panel on "Crime and Punishment in the Enlightenment" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, March 2016.
• Co-organized and chaired a panel on "Literature, Law, and Public Life" at the Modern Language Association, Austin, January 2016.
• Elected to a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association’s Forum on Law and the Humanities, January 2016.
• Received a 2015 Way Klingler Young Scholar Award, Marquette University.
• Received a 2016 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Marquette University.
• Received a two-year grant from the Strategic Innovation Fund to support the Humanities Research Colloquium, Marquette University, June 2015.

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Beth Godbee

• Published article: “Body + Power + Justice: Movement-Based Workshops for Critical Tutor Education,” with Moira Ozias and Jasmine Kar Tang. Writing Center Journal 34.2, (Spring/Summer 2015): 61-112. Print.
• Published article: “Stretching Beyond the Semester: Undergraduate Research, Ethnography of the University, and Proposals for Local Change,” with Jessie Bazan, Megan Glise, Ariel Gonzalez, Katelyn Quigley, and Brittany White. Perspectives on Undergraduate Research and Mentoring (PURM) 3.2 (June 2015): Web. <http://blogs.elon.edu/purm/2015/08/31/stretching-beyond-the-semester/>.
• Published pedagogical resource: “Forum Theatre: Using Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to Build Receptive,” with Rasha Diab. Contemplative Practices for Anti-Oppression Education. Ed. Beth Berilla. 2015. Web: <http://www.contemplativepracticesforantioppressionpedagogy.com/blog/>.
• Published blog post: “Expanded Perspectives on Power,” with Rasha Diab and Thomas Ferrel. The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL)’s Blog: A Virtual Gathering Place. June 2015. Web: <https://aeplblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/expanded-perspectives-on-power/>.
• Published blog post: “A Look Back and Continued Commitment to ‘Community Building in Online Writing Centers.’” Axis: The Blog of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. June 2015. Web: <http://www.praxisuwc.com/praxis-blog/alookback>.
• Presented: “Countering Injustice and Affirming Writers’ Rights.” Department of English, University of Delaware. Newark, Delaware. March 2016.
• Presented: “Why ‘The Digital’ in High Impact Learning Practices.” The Writing Program, Gelardin New Media Center, and Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. Georgetown University. Washington, D.C. February 2016.
• Presented: “Rethinking Power Relationships and Professionalism,” with Rasha Diab and Thomas Ferrel.” Community of Scholars Program, Council of International Graduate Students, and the Graduate School. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 2015.
• Presented: “Power With: Relations and Solidarity.” Panel: “Rewriting Power Relations: Expanding Our Vocabulary of Power as Teachers of English,” with Rasha Diab and Thomas Ferrel. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 2015.
• Presented: “Power To: Goal-Directed Investment.” Panel: “Power over, Power to, and Power with: Toward an Expanded Vocabulary of Power,” with Rasha Diab and Thomas Ferrel. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November 2015.
• Presented: “Cross-Campus Collaborations as Necessary Infrastructure for Community-Based Learning,” with Elizabeth Andrejasich-Gibes. Conference on Community Writing. Boulder, Colorado. October 2015.
• Presented: “How Contemplative Writing Practices Enable ‘Writing for Social Justice.’” Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE). Washington, D.C. October 2015.
• Co-authored and mentored presentation: “Inquiry-Driven, Project-Based Writing Courses: The Model of ‘Ethnography of the University’ and the Value of Undergraduate Research,” with Katie Ellington, Megan Knowles, and Colleen Pate. Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English (WCTE). Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 2015.
• Presented: “Body + Power + Justice: Movement-Based Workshops for Critical Tutor Education,” with Moira Ozias and Jasmine Kar Tang. WCJ Live broadcast online by Writing Center Journal in a “Meet the Author” format. September 2015.
• Presented: “Rhetorical Possibilities in Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed,” with Rasha Diab. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed (PTO) Conference. Chicago, Illinois. June 2015.
• Attended: “Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Global Citizenship.” Rhetoric Society of American (RSA) Summer Institute Workshop. Madison, Wisconsin. June 2015.
• Elected: College Section Steering Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2015—2016.
• Served: Editorial Board for Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, 2015—ongoing.
• Received: Rynne Faculty Research Fellowship from Marquette’s Center for Peacemaking, 2015.
• Received: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Travel Grant from Marquette’s Center for Teaching and Learning, 2015.
• Received: Faculty Research Mini-Grants from Marquette’s Center for Peacemaking, 2015 and 2016.
• Received: Marquette University Faculty Development Awards, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
• Will present: “Countering Microaggressions, Affirming Epistemic Rights.” Panel: “Countering Microaggressions and Enacting Change: Frameworks for Rhetorical Intervention,” with Cedric Burrows, Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, and Jacqueline Jones Royster. Rhetoric Society of America (RSA). Atlanta, Georgia. May 2016.
• Will publish: “‘Hanging Out’: Cultivating Life-Giving Writing Groups Online,” with Tanya Cochran, Rasha Diab, and Thomas Ferrel. Forthcoming in The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (JAEPL), volume 21, spring 2016.
• Will publish: “Making Commitments to Racial Justice Actionable,” with Rasha Diab and Thomas Ferrel. Performing Anti-racist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication, edited by Frankie Condon and Vershawn Young. Forthcoming with the WAC Clearinghouse (e-publication) and Parlor Press (print publication). Anticipated publication spring/summer 2016.
• Will publish “Why Inquiry Matters: An Argument and Model for Inquiry-Based Writing Courses,” with Marquette English majors and undergraduate researchers Katherine Ellington and Megan Knowles. Forthcoming in The Wisconsin English Journal in 2016.

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Steve Hartman-Keiser

• Published “Religious Identity and the perception of linguistic difference: the case of Pennsylvania German” Language and Communication 42. (May 2015): 125-134. 

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Heather Hathaway

• Received a Summer Faculty Fellowship for her book project, "Don't Fence Me In": A Literary and Cultural History Of Japanese American Internment.

• Will present “Trauma and the Rhetoric of Silence in Japanese American Internment Literature,” at the Association for Asian American Studies conference in Evanston, Illinois, April 23-25, 2015
• Will present "Literary Reimaginings of Internment: Why Now?" at the Multiethnic Literatures of the United States conference in Athens, GA, April 2015.
• Guest lectured for the Wisconsin Humanities Council at the New Berlin Public Library on "The Loving Story" (documentary on the Civil Rights case, Loving vs. Virginia) in March 2014 and George Orwell's 1984 in March 2015.

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CJ Hribal

• Serves as Chair of FAME (Friends and Alumni of Marquette English).
• 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.
• Presented "You Are Not Who You Think You Are: Meditations on the Second Person" at Warren Wilson College, January 5, 2015.
• Read from The Other Life, a novel-in-progress, at Warren Wilson College, January 8, 2015.
• Served as a Visiting Member of the Fiction Faculty for the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, January 2-12, 2015.
• Presented “Do I Look Sick to You? Notes on How to Make Love to a Cancer Patient” (short fiction) at the Voices of the Midwest Festival, the University of Michigan, March 20, 2015.
• Presented “The Landscape of the Imagination” for “Midwestern Place as Story” panel, Voices of the Midwest Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 3/26/2015
• Presented "Strict Joy: Structure and the Wildness of Everyday Life" for panel on “Untaming Domestic Realism,” Associated Writing Programs National Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 4/9/2015
• Presented “Characters as Large as Life: A User’s Manual” and Chaired the panel at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs National Conference, April 9, 2015.
• Published “Jackie Patch.” Winesburg, Indiana. Eds. Michael Martone and Bryan Furuness. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015. 17-21. Print.
• Published “Julie Patch.” Winesburg, Indiana. Eds. Michael Martone and Bryan Furuness. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015. 22-26. Print.
• Published “Summer Innocence: Buying Time”: Milwaukee Magazine, 15 June 2015: 61-62. Print and online. (1075 words). Also read this essay aloud on WUWM’s“Lake Effect” program.
• Published “This Old House: Leaving the Empty Nest”: Milwaukee Magazine, 10 October 2015. (http://www.milwaukeemag.com/2015/10/19/this-old-house-leaving-the-empty-nest/) Print and online. (1400 words).
• Published “The One Constant”: Milwaukee Magazine, March, 2016, Print and online (1200 words).
• Presented “Eva Figes and the Lyric Novel“ at The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, January 7, 2016.
• Read from The Other Life, a novel-in-progress, at Warren Wilson College, January 8, 2016.
• Served as a Visiting Member of the Fiction Faculty for the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, January 2-13, 2016.

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Christine L. Krueger

• Awarded the competitive year-long sabbatical fellowship for 2014-15.

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Jodi Melamed

• Keynote Speaker: “Diversity in German Politics and Culture in the Context of the Refugee Crisis.” Conference on “Diversity in Business, Institutions, and Education.”  Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations. June 2-4, 2016.
• Invited Lecture for the “Race, Debt, Property” Symposium hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Madison Humanities Research Center. March 10-12, 2016.  10 invited participants including Cheryl Harris, Cedric Johnson, and Joanne Barker. Ends with a public plenary with participants.
• Keynote Invitation [declined]. “The Prehistory of Neoliberalism.” Novel Symposium. Duke University, April 2016.
• Panel Chair and Response: “Misery Loves Complicity: Pedagogies of Social Justice Within and Beyond Corporate Universities.” American Studies Association 2015 Conference. Toronto, Canada. October 10, 2015.
• Invited Presentation. “Al Helm: Martin Luther King, Jr. in Palestine.”   Muslim Milwaukee Film Festival. April 17, 2016.
• Presentation: “Racial Justice Training for First Year Students.” Marquette University. October 2015.
• Presentation: “Racial Justice for RAs.” Marquette University. August, 2015.
• Elected to National Committee of the American Studies Association for a three year term (2015-2018).
• Serving as Past President of the "Marxism, Literature, and Society" Forum of the Modern Language Association.
• Elected to the Executive Committee for the Sociological Approaches to Literature Division, Modern Language Association (five-year term, 2011-2016).
• Currently serves as Chair of MLA's Executive Committee of Sociological Approaches to Literature and will be chairing and presenting a paper at a tribute panel to Jose Munoz at the January 2015 conference. 

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Rebecca Nowacek

• Director, Marquette’s Ott Memorial Writing Center
• Director, Marquette University’s Course-Embedded Tutor (CET) Program
• Author, “Transfer and Translingualism.” College English, Vol 78.3 (2016): 258-64. Co-authored with Rebecca Lorimer Leonard.
• Author, “Threshold Concepts in Writing Center Work.” Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle (eds.), Naming What We Know. (2015). Utah State University Press. Co-authored with Brad Hughes.
• Recipient, Outstanding Article Award, International Writing Centers Association. For “Threshold Concepts in Writing Center Work: Scaffolding the Development of Tutor Expertise.” In Naming What We Know. Eds. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle. Utah State University Press (2015): 171-185. Co-authored with Brad Hughes.
• Invited speaker, University of Michigan, March 2016.
• Invited speaker, Transylvania University, January 2016.
• Invited speaker, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta. September 2015.

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Brittany Pladek

• Faculty Advisor for Sigma Tau Delta.
• Published “Steven Universe.” Review. Science Fiction Film and Television 9.3 (2016).
• Published “Romanticism, Medicine, and the Natural Supernatural, by Gavin Budge.” Book review. Studies in Romanticism 54.4 (2016), 575-578.
• Published “Ought From Is.” Lackington’s. July 2016. Short story.
• Presented "The Pain We Do Not Know: Letitia Landon's Therapeutic Discontent" at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (Berkeley 2016).
• Presented "'This Very Social Rose:'Aurora Leigh and Dante's Inferno" at the North American Victorian Studies Association (Phoenix, 2016).
• Will publish"‘A Radical Causation’: Coleridge’s Lyrics and Collective Guilt," forthcoming in Romanticism (April 2017)
• Co-editor with Dr. Emily Stanback (University of Southern Mississippi) of Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons: "Romanticism, Health, and Wellbeing" (2017).

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Al Rivero

• Served as Interim Chair for the English Department from January 2016 through July 2016
• 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.

Angela Sorby

• Published “Women Poets, Child Readers,” A History of American Women’s Poetry, Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2016. Book chapter.
• Published “Children’s Culture,” The Blackwell Companion to Popular Culture, Gary Burns, ed., New York: Blackwell, 2016. Book chapter.
• Published "Code Violations: Chicago Review in the 1990s,” in Chicago Review 59: 4 (2016). Essay.
• Review of Michael C. Cohen, The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America, Modern Philology 2016 114:1, E42-E44. Review.
• Published “No One Knows Where the Ladder Goes,” The First Line 18:4 (2016). Flash fiction.
• “Conjuring Readers: Antebellum African-American Children’s Poetry,” Early African-American Children’s Literature, Anna Mae Duane and Kate Capshaw Smith, eds., University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming in 2017.
• Presented “Queer Little Folks and the Emergence of Cuteness,” at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society Conference, Spokane, WA, June 2016.
• "Noah’s Ark and Theological Anxiety in American Children’s Poetry,” to be presented at the 2017 MLA, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017.
• "Harriet Beecher Stowe and Transatlantic Cuteness," to be presented at the 2017 SSAWW, Bordeaux, France, July 2017.
• Serves as board member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
• Serves as board member, Raymond Carver International Association.

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John Su

• Serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affair

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Sarah Wadsworth

• Serving as Chair of the English Department
• Serves on the board of directors of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.
• Co-editor of the journal Nineteenth Century Studies.
• Published review of The Europeans. Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. Ed. Susan M. Griffin (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015). Review of English Studies 67 (April 2016).
• Published review of The Ambassadors. Ed. Nicola Bradbury. Cambridge Edition of the Complete Works of Henry James. Review of English Studies 68 (2016).

• Published “Unsettling Engagements in Moods and Little Women, or Learning to Love Louisa May Alcott.” Critical Insights: Little Women. Ed. Anne K. Philips and Gregory Eiselein. Ipswich, MA: Grey House Publishing / Salem Press, 2015. 174-88.
• Published “The Year of the Child: Children’s Literature, Childhood Studies, and the Turn to Childism.” Essay-Review of Anna Mae Duane, The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities; Jodi Eichler-Levine, Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature; Gary D. Schmidt, Making Americans: Children’s Literature from 1930 to 1960. American Literary History 27.2 (Summer 2015): 331-41.
• Published review of Francesca Sawaya, The Difficult Art of Giving: Patronage, Philanthropy, and the American Literary Market. Journal of American History 102 (Sept. 2015)

• Has in press--“Approaching The Blithedale Romance through the History of the Book.” Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom: Contexts, Materials, Approaches. Ed. Christopher Diller. Brooklyn, NY: AMS Press. Forthcoming, 2016.
• Served as editorial adviser and produced an annotated bibliography for “Kenneth Graham​e.” Children’s Literature Review. Multi-volume series. Boston: Gale Cengage. Forthcoming, 2016.
• Received the 2016 Way-Klingler Teaching Enhancement Grant with Catey Ott Thompson (Dance), Connie Petersen (Theatre), Susan Mountin (Manresa), and Lynne Shumow(Haggerty Museum of Art).

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Larry Watson

• Larry Watson is serving as judge for the 2016 New American Fiction contest.
• On June 21, 2016, Algonquin Books will publish Larry Watson’s tenth book, As Good As Gone. Watson will go on a ten city book tour to publicize the novel.
• On March 16, 2016, Larry Watson served on a panel at the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association spring conference.
• In April 2015, Larry Watson will give a reading and lecture and visit classes at Saginaw Valley State University as part of its Dow Visiting Scholars and Artists series.
• Larry Watson will be a featured participant in the Waupaca Book Festival held in Waupaca, Wisconsin on April 17-18, 2015.
• On September 19, 2015, Larry Watson participated in a conversation via Skype with Billings, Montana, readers. His novel Montana 1948 had been selected for a Billings Community Reads program.
• On October 21, 2015, Larry Watson spoke to UW/Milwaukee ESL classes reading his novel Montana 1948.
• On November 13, 2015, Larry Watson conducted writing workshops at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.
• On December 11, 2015, Larry Watson spoke to classes at Whitnall High School where his novel Montana 1948 is being studied.
• Larry Watson's novel Let Him Go has been nominated for the 2015 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.

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Amelia Zurcher

• Serving as Director of the University Honors Program.

Fr. Ron Bieganowski

• Chaplain —College of Business Administration
  Pastoral service for Marquette Students and Graduates, (Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals, Retreats, Spiritual Direction)
  Retreat Director – Jesuit Retreat Houses at Lake Elmo, MN, Oshkosh, WI, and Barrington, IL
  Assistant Pastor – St. Clare of Assisi, Edwards, CO

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Amy Blair

• Published "American Readers and Their Novels." Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 6: The American Novel 1879-1940. Eds. Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott. New York: Oxford UP, 2014
• Serves on the Editorial Board for Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, The Journal of the Reception Study Society.
• Co-editor, with James Machor, of the journal Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, the official journal of the Reception Study Society. 

 

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Cedric Burrows

• Published "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz or Malcolm X: The Construction of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz’s Religious Identity in Composition Readers." Journal of Africana Religions 3.1 (2015): 31-43.​

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Gerry Canavan

• Co-Editor with Eric Carl Link, The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Editor, Science Fiction Film and Television (Liverpool University Press, 2014-).
• Editor, Extrapolation (Liverpool University Press, 2014-).
• Published Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, co-edited with Kim Stanley Robinson (Wesleyan University Press, 2014).
• Published “Knowing No One’s Listening: Octavia Butler’s Unexpected Stories” and “‘There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns’: Recovering Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Parables.” Los Angeles Review of Books (Summer 2014).
• Published "I'd Rather Be in Afghanistan: Antinomies of Battle: Los Angeles." Democratic Communique 26.2: "Media, Technology, and the Culture of Militarism: Watching, Playing and Struggling in the War Society." Eds. Robin Andersen and Tanner Mirrlees (Fall 2014): 39-54.
• Published "If the Engine Ever Stops, We'd All Die': Snowpiercer and Necrofuturism." Paradoxa 26: "SF Now." Eds. Mark Bould and A. Rhys Williams (Fall 2014): 41-66.
• Led a workshop on science fiction and the environment at the international SFF NOW conference at the University of Warwick in Warwick, England.
• Won a John Brockway Huntington Foundation Fellowship to study at the Huntington Library and published a two-part essay at the Los Angeles Review of Books on the unpublished work of Octavia Butler as archived in the Huntington Library.
• Published a short history of early American science fiction in The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Vol. 6: The American Novel: 1870-1940.
• Planning a one-day symposium in Spring 2015 at Marquette on the topic of his NEH Enduring Questions grant, “What Is Worth Preserving?"

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John Curran

• Published Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy (University of Delaware Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

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Jenn Fishman

• Institutional report. Kenyon Writes: Looking Back, Looking Ahead. Print and web.
• Blog posts. Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Web.
• Interview."The Future of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Catalyst or Inhibitor?" Trends in Social Innovation Education. Print.
• Selected participant. Workshop on Institutional Histories of Rhetoric. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. 5-7 June.
• Respondent. "Necessity is the Mother of Intervention: Shifting Scenes, Recent Developments, and the Delivery of Old News." Computers and Writing. Stout, WI. 29 May.
• Session co-organizer and presenter. "Networks for Research: Building Infrastructures to Support Empirical Research at #4C15 and Beyond." CCCC. Tampa, FL. 20 March.
• Respondent. "Big Data and Deep Data: Disrupting Educational Grand Narratives of Student Writing Development and Success." CCCC. Tampa, FL. 20 March.
• Respondent. "Embracing the Anxiety of Influence in Writing Studies Research." CCCC. Tampa, FL. 20 March.
• Session organizer. "A New Work Showcase." Sponsored by the CWSHRC. CCCC. Tampa, FL. 18 March.
• Invited speaker. "Accessibility and the Work of First-Year Writing." Montclair State University. 17 February.
• Invited speaker. "Dynamic Research: Reflections on Disciplinary Research Practices." Academic Librarians Assembly (Marquette University). Milwaukee, WI. 10 February.
• Participant. Roundtable on Digital Humanities. Coalition of Networked Information. Washington, D.C. December 7.
• Delivered paper. "Section V: The Age of Revolutions." Norton's Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing: A Discussion, Part II. American Society for the History of Rhetoric at National Communication Association. Chicago, IL. 22 November.
• Co-organizer, co-leader: "A Conversation with Pre-Service, First-Year, and Student Teachers." Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. Oshkosh, WI. 24 October.
• Coauthored and co-delivered paper. "REx: The Research Exchange Index." Thomas R. Watson Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. 16 October.
• Invited speaker. "Reviewing for REx, the Research Exchange Index." English 5363: Research Methods in Technical Communication and Rhetoric with Dr. Kelli Cargile-Cook. Texas Tech University (via Skype). 8 September.
• Session organizer and co-leader. "Making DH Community by Making a Community Syllabus. THATCamp MKE. Milwaukee, WI. 24 May.
• Founder and Advisory Board Chair. Milwaukee-Area Student Affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English.
• President of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CWSHRC)

• Member of the CWSHRC Task Force on Digital Media
  • Member (Ex Officio) of the Peitho Editorial Board.
  • Member of the Literacy in Composition Studies Editorial Board.
• Co-chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Committee on Undergraduate Research
• Member of the CCCC Task Force on CCC's Digital Future
• Member of the Council for Writing Program Administrators Research Grant Committee
• Member of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Event Task Force

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Leah Flack

• Will publish her monograph, Modernism and Homer: the Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound, with Cambridge University Press in 2015.
• Published "1922’s ‘UnUlyssean’ Ulysses: Modernist Visions and Revisions of Homer." Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home. Eds. Sheila Murnaghan and Hunter Gardner. The Ohio State University Press (2014).
• Published "'The news in the Odyssey is still news': Ezra Pound, W. H. D. Rouse, and a Modern Odyssey." Modernism/Modernity (January 2015).
• Will publish a chapter, "'What is given / Can always be re-imagined': Seamus Heaney's Indefinite Modernism" in The Afterlives of Modernism in Irish Literature and Culture, the inaugural book in a new Irish studies series edited by Paige Reynolds (2015)
• Presented her research at the Society for Classical Studies (Chicago), the Classical Association (Nottingham, England), the British Association of Modernist Studies (London), the Modernist Studies Association (Pittsburgh), and the Modern Languages Association (Vancouver) conferences.
• Piloted the English department's new introductory course, ENG 3000, in Fall 2014.

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Melissa Ganz

• Published "Freedom and Fetters: Radical Marriage in Burney's The Wanderer," in Impassioned Jurisprudence: Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760-1848 (Bucknell University Press, 2015).

• Published "Debate" in The Pocket Instructor: Literature: 101 Exercises for the College Classroom (Princeton University Press, 2015).

• Co-organized a workshop on “Women and Early Modern Civility,” Attending to Early Modern Women, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, June 2015.

• Presented “‘The Fidelity of Promising’:  Austen Among the Philosophers,” American Society for  Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, March 2015.

• Presented “William Godwin, Jack Sheppard, and Criminal Biography:  Re-Reading Caleb Williams,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Georgetown Law School, March 2015.

• Presented “‘The Fidelity of Promising’:  Egoism and Obligation in Austen,” International Society for the  Study of Narrative, MIT, March 2014.

• Presented “Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment,” Law School Faculty Workshop, Marquette Law School, March 2014.

• Presented “Justice and Judgment in Frankenstein” at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Virginia Law School, March 2014, and at the Modern Language Association, Chicago, January 2014.

• Co-organized and chaired a panel on “Criminal Justice and the Literary Imagination,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, January 2014.

• Received a 2015 Way Klingler Young Scholar Award, Marquette University.

• Received a two-year grant from the Strategic Innovation Fund to support the Humanities Research Colloquium, Marquette University, June 2015.

• Received a 2014 Summer Faculty Fellowship from Marquette to support work on her book project, “Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment.”      

• Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society), 2014-15.

    

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Beth Godbee

• Published article: “Asserting the Right to Belong: Feminist Co-Mentoring Among Graduate Student Women,” with Julia Novotny (MU ’13). Feminist Teacher 23.3 (Fall 2014): 177-195.
• Published conference proceedings: “High Risk, High Yield: Embodied Facilitation for Racial Justice in Writing Workshops Across the Disciplines,” with Jasmine Kar Tang. Conference Proceedings and Archives of the Twelfth International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference. The WAC Clearinghouse (2014): Web. <http://wac.colostate.edu/proceedings/iwac2014/sessions.cfm>.
• Published blog post: “Linguistic Prejudice and a Call for Epistemic Rights.” The Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC)’s Blog Carnival “Beyond a ‘Single Language/Single Modality’ Approach to Writing.” Oct. 2014. <http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2014/10/31/linguistic-prejudice-and-a-call-for-epistemic-rights/>.
• Published annotated bibliography with introduction: “Readings for Racial Justice: Sources from Within and Beyond Writing Centers,” with Bobbi Olson and the IWCA SIG Collective. International Writing Centers Association (IWCA), 2014. Web: <http://writingcenters.org/resources/antiracism-and-lgbtq-resources/>.
• Published anecdote: “Commitment-Driven Co-Authoring,” with Tanya R. Cochran, Rasha Diab, and Thomas Ferrel in Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Letizia Guglielmo’s Scholarly Publication in a Changing Landscape: Models for Success. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 92-94.
• Published review of Rhetoric of Respect: Recognizing Change at a Community Writing Center, by Tiffany Rousculp (NCTE, 2014). Writing Center Journal 34.1 (Fall/Winter 2014): 153-160.
• Published review of First Semester: Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of the Middle Ground, by Jessica Restaino  (NCTE, 2012), with MU graduate students Margaret Briggs-Dineen, Wendy Fall, Danielle Klein, Laura Linder- Scholer, Alyssa McGrath, Michael Stock, and Sarah Thompson. Composition Studies 42.2 (Fall 2014): 182-185.
• Will publish “Body + Power + Justice: Movement-Based Workshops for Critical Tutor Education,” with Moira Ozias and Jasmine Kar Tang. To appear in Writing Center Journal, issue 34.2, Spring 2015.
• Will publish “Stretching Beyond the Semester: Undergraduate Research, Ethnography of the University, and Proposals for Local Change,” with MU undergraduates Jessie Bazan (’14), Megan Glise (’14), Ariel Gonzalez, Katelyn Quigley, and Brittany White. To appear in Perspectives on Undergraduate Research and Mentoring (PURM), issue 4.1, Spring 2015.
• Will publish “‘Hanging Out’: Cultivating Life-Giving Writing Groups Online,” with Tanya Cochran, Rasha Diab, and Thomas Ferrel. To appear in the “Connecting” section of The Journal of the Assembly on Expanded Perspectives on Learning (JAEPL), Volume 20, 2015.
• Presented “‘Writing Up’: Peering into Christine’s Story to Identify Agency and Actions for Social Change” at the European Writing Centers Association (EWCA) Conference. Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany, July 2014.
• Presented “High Risk, High Yield: Embodied Facilitation for Racial Justice in Writing Workshops Across the Disciplines” with Jasmine Kar Tang at the International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2014.
• Presented “Rehearsing and Enacting Intervention: Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed for Reflective Responsivity” with Rasha Diab at The Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, Kentucky, October 2014.
• Will present “Toward a Richer Vocabulary of Power” as part of the panel: “The Risk and Promise of Relational Work” with Rasha Diab and Thomas Ferrel and chaired by Lynée Lewis Gaillet at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Tampa, Florida, March 2015.
• Will present at the pre-conference workshop “Rewriting Plato’s Legacy: Ethics, Rhetoric, and Writing Studies” organized by John Duffy and Lois Agnew at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Tampa, Florida, March 2015.
• Will present workshop “Rhetorical Possibilities in Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed,” with Rasha Diab, at the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed (PTO) Conference. Chicago, Illinois, June 2015.
• Received a Problem Solver Seed Grant from the Marquette’s Service Learning Program for community-based learning course “Writing for Social Justice” (English 421) in collaboration with YWCA Southeast Wisconsin and MU’s Digital Media Center, Spring 2015.
• Received a Summer Faculty Fellowship and Faculty Development Award, Summer 2014.
• Received an International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference Scholarship, 2014.
• Received Faculty Development Awards, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
• Recognized as a Semi-Finalist for the National Association of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship competition, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
• Will participate in the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Summer Institute Workshop “Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Global Citizenship.” Madison, Wisconsin, June 2015.
• Will present on-campus talk: “Project-Based Learning with Milwaukee as Co-Teacher,” through the Center for Teaching and Learning (CLS) series “Innovative Teaching Inspires Innovative Minds,” April 2015.

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Heather Hathaway

• Serving as Director of Graduate Studies.
• Presented “Third-Generation Return: The Internment Fiction of David Mura and Julie Otsuka,” at the Multiethnic Literatures of the United States conference in Oklahoma City, OK, March 6-9, 2014.

• Received a Summer Faculty Fellowship for her book project, "Don't Fence Me In": A Literary and Cultural History Of Japanese American Internment.
• Will present “Trauma and the Rhetoric of Silence in Japanese American Internment Literature,” at the Association for Asian American Studies conference in Evanston, Illinois, April 23-25, 2015
• Will present "Literary Reimaginings of Internment: Why Now?" at the Multiethnic Literatures of the United States conference in Athens, GA, April 2015.
• Guest lectured for the Wisconsin Humanities Council at the New Berlin Public Library on "The Loving Story" (documentary on the Civil Rights case, Loving vs. Virginia) in March 2014 and George Orwell's 1984 in March 2015.

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Diane Hoeveler

• The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880. Cardiff: University of Wales Press (distributed in USA by University of Chicago Press), 2014.
• New articles: “Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest: The Heroine, The Abbey, and Their Circulation in Popular Romantic Textuality.” In Ann Radcliffe: Gothic and Romantic Engagements, 1789-1826. Ed. Angela Wright and Dale Townshend. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014: 100-116.
• “The Legacy of France: ‘mon semblable, mon frère!’” Review of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Impact of Terror, by Angela Wright; and The Fantastic and European Gothic: History, Literature and the French Revolution, by Matthew Gibson. European Romantic Review 25.4 (2014): 491-96.
• “The Irish Protestant Imaginary: The Cultural Contexts for the Gothic Chapbooks Published by Bennett Dugdale, 1800-1805.” In Irish Gothics: Genres, Forms, Modes and Traditions. Ed. Christina Morin and Niall Antoin Gillespie. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014. 47-78.

• Contributing Co-Editor with Deborah Morse and author, A Companion to the Brontës. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2015. Co-Editor of volume and author of “The Brontës and the Gothic Tradition.”

• Contributing Co-Editor with Deborah Morse and author, Commemorating Charlotte Brontë: Time, Space, Place. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate P, forthcoming 2015.  Co-editor of volume and co-author of the Introduction.  Author of “Charlotte Brontë and the Anxious Imagination.”
• “The Not-so New Gothic: Charlotte Brontë’s Juvenilia and the Gothic Tradition.” In Charlotte Bronte from the Beginnings: New Essays from Juvenilia to the Major Works.  Ed. Judith Pike and Lucy Morrison. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming 2015.
• “Dreaming of the Other: The Brontë Novels and Gothic Residue.” In 21^st META British Novelists Conference: The Brontë Sisters and Their Work Proceedings. Ed. Nil Korkut et al. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2015.

•  “Shorter Gothic Fictions: Ballads and Chapbooks, Tales and Fragments,”coauthored with Douglass H. Thomson. In Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Angela Wright and Dale Townshend.  Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh Press, forthcoming 2015.

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CJ Hribal

• Serves as Chair of FAME (Friends and Alumni of Marquette English).
• 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.
• Presented "You Are Not Who You Think You Are: Meditations on the Second Person" at Warren Wilson College, January 5, 2015.
• Read from The Other Life, a novel-in-progress, at Warren Wilson College, January 8, 2015.
• Served as a Visiting Member of the Fiction Faculty for the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, January 2-12, 2015.
• Will read “Do I Look Sick to You? Notes on How to Make Love to a Cancer Patient” (short fiction) at the Voices of the Midwest Festival, the University of Michigan, March 20, 2015.
• Will present “Midwestern Place as Story” at the Voices of the Midwest Festival, the University of Michigan, March 21, 2015.
• Will present “Untaming Domestic Realism” at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs National Conference, April 9, 2015.
• Will present “Characters as Large as Life: A User’s Manual” and chair the panel at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs National Conference, April 9, 2015.
• “Jackie and Julie Patch,” short fiction, will be published in the anthology Winesburg, Indiana in July, 2015.

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Christine L. Krueger

• Awarded the competitive year-long sabbatical fellowship for 2014-15.

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Jodi Melamed

• Elected to the Executive Committee for the Sociological Approaches to Literature Division, Modern Language Association (five-year term, 2011-2016).
• Published a co-authored essay "Academic Freedom with Violence" for the Journal of Academic Freedom.
• Her chapter on "Diversity" is appearing in Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition.
• Co-editing a special edition of Social Text on "Economies of Dispossession."
• Presented at the 2014 American Studies Association Conference.
• Delivered two Distinguished Speaker Lectures at the University of Washington, Bothell, and the University of Washington, Seattle.
• Currently serves as Chair of MLA's Executive Committee of Sociological Approaches to Literature and will be chairing and presenting a paper at a tribute panel to Jose Munoz at the January 2015 conference. 

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Rebecca Nowacek

• Director of Normal H. Ott Memorial Writing Center.
• Co-edited Literacy, Economy, Power (Southern Illinois University Press) with John Duffy, Julie Nelson Christoph, Eli Goldblatt, Nelson Graff, and Bryan Trabold.
• Presented an invited talk for Indiana University’s Center for Innovation in Teaching Program, February 2015.
• Presented at the International Writing Center Association / National Conference on Peer Tutoring of Writing, October 2014.
• Presented at the Watson Conference, October 2014.
• Presented an invited talk and book circle at University of Michigan, February 2014.
• Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2014. 

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Brittany Pladek

• Will publish "'In Sickness not Ignoble:' Soul-making and the Rejection of Relief in the Hyperion Poems" in Studies in Romanticism, Fall 2015.
• Presented "A Radical Causation: Coleridge and Collective Guilt" at the International Conference on Romanticism (Minneapolis 2014).
• Will present at the roundtable, "How Do We Study Eighteenth-Century Science?" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Los Angeles 2015).
• Won a 2015 Marquette Summer Faculty Fellowship and Regular Research Grant. 

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Kris Ratcliffe

• Serves as Chair of the English Department (until 6/2015)

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Al Rivero

• 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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Angela Sorby

• Published The Sleeve Waves. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye.
• Wrote a chapter, “Disciplined Play: Children’s Poetry to 1920,” in The Cambridge History of American Poetry, Alfred Bendixen, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2014, 425-444.
• Published review of Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem by Catherine Robson, MLQ 76: 1 (March 2015): 112-114.
• Published review (with Monika Elbert) of Anna Mae Duane, Suffering Childhood: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim. Journal of American Studies 48:1 (February 2014): 1-9.
• Presented a paper, “Goops on the Cusp of Cuteness,” Gender Studies and Childhood conference, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, December 2014.
• Presented a paper, “African-American Child Readers in the Antebellum South,” African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture Conference, Madison, WI, September 2014.
• Attended conference, “Reflections on the Cambridge History,” American Literature Association Poetry Symposium, Savannah, GA, October 2014.
• Serving as Director of First-Year English.
• Serves as board member, Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
• Serves as board member, Raymond Carver International Association.

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John Su

• Published "Beauty and the Beastly Prime Minister." ELH. 81.3 (2014): 1083-1110.
• Serving as Core Director and Chair of the Provost Search Committee.
• Interim Chair of the English Department as of 6/2015

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Sarah Wadsworth

• Serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Published "‘When the Cup Has Been Drained’: Addiction and Recovery in The Wind and the Willows.” Children’s Literature: Annual of the Children’s Literature Association and the Modern Language Association Division on Children’s Literature42 (2014): 42-70.
• Published “‘Lifted Moments’: Emily Dickinson, Hymn Revision, and the Revival Music Meme-Plex.” The Emily Dickinson Journal 23 (Spring 2014): 46-74.
• Presented a paper titled "'Pandora' and the Popular Press" at the Sixth International Conference of the Henry James Society in Aberdeen, Scotland in July 2014.
• Serves on the board of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.
• Will become coeditor of the journal Nineteenth-Century Studies in the summer of 2014.
• Received a Summer Faculty Fellowship for 2014.

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Larry Watson

• Larry Watson’s novel Let Him Go received the Wisconsin Library Association’s 2014 Book of the Year award for adult literature.  It’s the third time that Watson has received the award.  He’ll speak at the Wisconsin Library Association’s annual convention in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, on November 5.
• Larry Watson's short story, "Your Mother Once Was Famous," appears in the Winter 2014 issue of Great Lakes Review.
• His novel, American Boy, has been named the Campus Reads selection for the 2013-14 academic year at Bismarck State College in Bismarck, North Dakota.
• On September 23, 2014 Larry Watson was the keynote speaker at a banned books event sponsored by the ACLU and held at Stonefly Brewery in Milwaukee.
• Larry Watson was a featured participant at the South Dakota Book Festival held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 25-27, 2014.  Watson gave a presentation on “Writing the American West” and appeared on a panel discussing “Writing the Land.”
• Larry Watson was a featured participant at the Washington Island Literary Festival held on Washington Island, Wisconsin, October 2-4, 2014.  Watson read from his fiction and appeared on a panel discussing the topic “Family and Heartland.”
• Dr. Watson gave a presentation on “A Writer’s Sense of Place” at the Baraboo Public Library in Baraboo, Wisconsin, on October 13, 2014.
• Dr. Watson read from his novel Let Him Go at the Sunset Playhouse in Elm Grove, WI, October 22, 2014.  The novel was chosen for the Elm Grove Reads program.
• Larry Watson was a featured participant in the High Plains Book Fest, held in Billings, Montana, October 25-26, 2014.
• On October 26 at the High Plains Book Fest, held in Billings, Montana, Watson’s novel Let Him Go received the festival’s award for best fiction.
• On November 10, 2014 Larry Watson spoke to classes at Watertown High School in Watertown, WI.  Students are reading Watson’s novel Montana 1948.  Watson will also speak at the Watertown Public Library.
• On November 21, Watson spoke to a University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee ESL class that’s studying Watson’s novel Montana 1948.
• In April 2015, Larry Watson will give a reading and lecture and visit classes at Saginaw Valley State University as part of its Dow Visiting Scholars and Artists series.
• Larry Watson will be a featured participant in the Waupaca Book Festival held in Waupaca, Wisconsin on April 17-18, 2015.
• Larry Watson's novel Let Him Go has been nominated for the 2015 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.

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Amelia Zurcher

• Serving as Director of the University Honors Program.
• Published “Civility and Extravagance" in Timon of Athens and Urania," Mary Wroth and Shakespeare, ed. Paul Salzman and Marion Wynne-Davies. London: Routledge, 2014, 95-112