Below is our growing list of the professional work--publications, grants, awards, and other honors--undertaken by English Department faculty and staff.
Publications || Grants, Awards, & Other Honors
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Grants, Awards, and Other Honors
Underkofler Excellence in
Teaching Awards
Marnie Dresser (2001)
Karen McLeer
UW Colleges Kaplan Awards
Ellyn Lem
Greg Ahrenhoerster (two-time recipient) 1999 & 2007
Holly Hassel
J.D. Whitney
Bill Gillard
Joe Milicia
Marc Seals
Brian Duckwitz
Jennifer Flatt
Nancy Chick (two-time recipient)
Jane Oitzinger
Katherine Holman
Stephanie Johnson
John Pruitt
Julie Tharp
Joel Friederich
Professor of the
Year/Teaching Awards at individual campuses
Sherri Byrand (inaugural recipient in 2008): Barret P. Scherff Instructional
Academic Staff Recognition Award (UW-Sheboygan)
J.D. Whitney—twice
Joe Milicia
Marc Seals—twice
Jennifer Flatt-thrice!
John Pruitt – twice|
Julie Tharp
Grants from the Institute
on Race and Ethnicity
Nancy Chick
Peggy Rozga – 2
John Pruitt
Julie Tharp
Janet LaBrie-2
Undergraduate Teaching
and Learning Grants
Joe Milicia
Nancy Chick - 4
Holly Hassel: University of Wisconsin System Undergraduate Teaching and Learning
Grant. “Empowering At-Risk Writers: Critical Reading and Source-Based Writing in
First-Year Composition. With Joanne Giordano, Annette Hackbarth-Onson, Christina
McCaslin, and Deb Timoney. $9,471.00. SoTL project 2007-2008 academic year.
Undergraduate Teaching
Improvement Grants
Joe Milicia
Jane Oitzinger - 2
The Fund for the
Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Grants
Jane Oitzinger
Grant to
Increase Student Engagement (G.I.S.E.)
Ellyn Lem
Karen McLeer-3
Jessica Lyn Van Slooten
Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching
Laura
Apfelbeck (2004)
Nancy Chick (inaugural winner)
Ellyn Lem (nominee)
Peggy Rozga
Wisconsin
Teaching Fellow
Chuck
Rybak (2007-2008)
Nancy Chick
Holly Hassel
John Pruitt
Joel Friederich
Wisconsin
Teaching Scholar
Nancy
Chick
Marnie Dresser
Jane Oitzinger
Other
Grants
Holly
Hassel:
UW Colleges Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Follow-up grant. A one-time funding opportunity to support the project. "English Department Group Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project." 2005-2006 Academic Year. Co-written with Greg Ahrenhoerster. $4,20
"Reaching At-Risk Students: A UW System Workshop and Online Resource." Co-authored with Joanne Giordano. University of Wisconsin Office of Professional and Instructional Development Grant for the 2008-2009 academic year. $40,000.
Office of Professional and Instructional Development Conference Development Grant Award. Summer, 2004. Supporting the organization and facilitation of a Workshop on Teaching Literature for the UW-Colleges English Department, August 2004. Co-written with Nancy Chick. $1000.
Joe Milicia:
Interdisciplinary Studies Course Development Grant, 1996: to develop a team-taught English/History course for UW Sheboygan, “History by Hollywood: American Myth and Reality in Films from Birth of a Nation to Nixon.”
UW Design for Diversity Professional Development Grant, Summer 1994: proposal title: "Ethnic Minority Literature, Hawaii, and the Multicultural Experience."
Nancy Chick: 2 LTDC Curricular Redesign Grants
Peggy Rozga: 2007 Wisconsin Humanities Council $10,000.00 major grant to pay for honoraria for speakers, publicity materials, and other expenses of the 2007 March On Milwaukee events commemorating the 40th anniversary of Milwaukee's open housing marches.
John Pruitt: 3 (library, OPID, and summer research)
Karen McLeer 2: (UW Colleges Technology Opportunity Grant, November 1999; UW-Platteville Curricular Redesign Grant, 2001-2002)
Julie Tharp: Fulbright, OPID
Joel
Friederich: Wisconsin Humanities Council (2007, 2008)
Sabbaticals: Joe Milicia, Nancy Chick, Malcolm Allen, Marnie Dresser
Fellowships: Joe Milicia: Research Fellowship at the Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987-88.
Greg Ahrenhoerster
M. D. Allen
BOOK
The Medievalism of Lawrence of Arabia. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 199
ARTICLES
“The Literary Life: New Grub Street and Illusions perdues.” In Proceedings, as yet untitled, of the Third International George Gissing Conference. Ed. Christine Huguet. Iutgevers, Netherlands; Equilibris. (forthcoming)
“Margaret Bedford Gissing, Pendennis, and the Manchester Débâcle.” The Gissing Journal 44.4 (October 2008): 1-9.
“The Third International George Gissing Conference (27-28 March 2008, Lille, France): A Personal Response.” The Gissing Journal 44.3 (July 2008): 1-6.
“Chesney Wold and ‘A Daughter of the Lodge’: The Death of the Feudal Spirit,” in “Spellbound”: George Gissing. 2 vols. Ed. Christine Huguet. Uitgevers, Netherlands: Equilibris, 2008: 2, 133-45.
“Bleak House and The Emancipated.” The Gissing Journal 43.4 (October 2007): 17-27.
“’Feeble Idyllicism’: Gissing’s Critique of Oliver Twist and Ryecroft.” The Gissing Journal 43.3 (July 2007): 26-32.
“Edmund Widdowson and the Rev. John Todd’s Student’s Manual.” The Gissing Journal 43.2 (April 2007): 30-36.
“Eduard Bertz’s Rugby, Tennessee.” The Gissing Journal 41.1 (January 2005): 1-12.
“The Curious Affair of the Lady Venus,” in Shaw and Other Matters: A Festschrift for Stanley Weintraub on the Occasion of His Forty-Second Anniversary at the Pennsylvania State University. Ed. Susan Rusinko. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London: Associated University Presses, 1998: 110-20.
“The New Path: English Women Travelers in the Middle East.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 40 (1994[1995]): 1-5.
“Lawrence of Arabia and Ryecroft.” The Gissing Newsletter26.4 (October 1990): 11-16.
“Charles Lamb and Born in Exile.” The Gissing Newsletter 24.4 (October 1988): 1-7.
“Lawrence’s Medievalism,” in the T. E. Lawrence Puzzle. Ed. Stephen E. Tabachnick. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984: 53-70. Abridged version in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 18. Eds. Dennis Poupard and James E. Person. Detroit: Gale, 1985: 180-83.
“A New Source for Born in Exile?” The Gissing Newsletter 16.3 (July 1980): 25-32.
ARTICLES IN LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND REFERENCE WORKS
“Buchi Emecheta,” in Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Third Revised Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem. (forthcoming)
“Maryse Condé,” in Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Third Revised Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem. (forthcoming)
“Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet and Old Goriot [articles by D. Gosselin Nakeeb revised and updated]; The Wild Ass’s Skin and Cousin Bette,” [original articles] in Magill’s Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2009. (forthcoming)
“Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ,” in MasterplotsII: Christian Literature. 4 vols. Ed. John K. Roth. Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2007: 1, 136-39.
“Dawning of Deliverance,” in MasterplotsII: Christian Literature. 4 vols. Ed. John K. Roth. Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2007: 1, 416-19.
“Barbara Toy,” in British Travel Writers, 1940-1990, vol. 204 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Eds. Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits. Detroit: Gale, 1999: 288-96.
“Wilfred Thesiger,” in British Travel Writers, 1940-1990, vol. 204 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Eds. Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits. Detroit: Gale, 1999: 265-75.
“H. St.John Philby,” in British Travel Writers, 1910-1945, vol. 195 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Eds. Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits, 1998: 272-80.
“Henry M. Stanley,” in American Travel Writers, 1850-1915, vol. 189 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Eds. Donald Ross and James J. Schramer. Detroit: Gale, 1998: 283-304.
“Joe Orton,” in Modern British Dramatists Since World War II, vol. 13.2 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Stanley Weintraub. Detroit: Gale, 1982: 364-70. Updated version in Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, vol. 8. Detroit: Gale, 1992: 308-14.
“St.John Greer Ervine,” in Modern British Dramatists, 1900-1945, vol. 10.1 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Stanley Weintraub. Detroit: Gale, 1982: 186-90.
More than twenty reviews and review-essays in Arab Studies Quarterly, Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, Choice, Contemporary Literary Criticism, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, The Gissing Journal, Magill’s Literary Annual 2008 and 2009, Review, Seventeenth-Century News, Studies in Travel Writing, and World Literature Today.
Laura Apfelbeck
Judy Barisonzi
Mathew Bartkowiak
Deborah Bernhardt
“Apology Is Red Up Like This,” “Scanning, With the Eye,” and “There Is No Towards.” Fence. (Spring 2006): 130-139.
“The Kiss” and “Lethal.” Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry. (Volume II, Issue II, Summer 2005): 12-13.
“Latin Roots Sui and Cidium.” columbia poetry review. (Issue 18, Spring 2005): 56.
“Sometimes a Septum Almost Deviates.” Court Green. (Issue 2, Spring 2005): 11.
“Landscaping.” Barrow Street. (Summer 2004): 12-15.
“Death and Saucepan,” “Happy Living! A Guidebook for Brides,” “To Lisa: We Descend From Worried Mothers,” “Replacing a Threshold,” “Something Happened I Couldn’t Have Told You Then” and “What Lisa Thinks.” Quarterly West. (Issue 58, Summer 2004): 80-88.
“Temple Grandin’s Squeeze Machine.” Indiana Review. (Winter 2004: Volume 26, Number 2): 32.
“The Hereafter Has Been Modified as Follows.” EOAGH: a Journal of the Arts (chax.org/eoagh). Fall 2003.
“Accomplishing His Death.” River City. (Winter 2002): 115.
“Girl Who Was Afraid of the Ceiling.” Spork 1.3 (Winter 2002): 278-279.
“Made Out of Sixes.” Pog 2: The Second Anthology of Writers and Artists Appearing In Events Sponsored by Pog, ed. by Jesse Seldess. (Tucson: Pog, 2001): 46-47.
“Text” and “Fractal.” Shankpainter 41. (2001): 50-55.
Audio review: Hard to Say with William Stobb on miPOradio: Episode #5, "Thankful for Echolalia"
Barry Brissman
“Anthologizing Transformation: Breaking Down Students’ “Private Theories” about Poetry.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 29.4 (May 2002): 418–423.
Marnie Bullock Dresser
Recent publications include poetry in The Bellingham Review, Front Range Review and The Absinthe Literary Review.
The article “Greater Than the Sum: How Poems Make a Book” appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, Spring 2003.
"The View from the Tightrope” is part of a cd called Some Kind of Sign, available from Nightjar Records.
Wasabi Proverbs, a full-length play, was the focus of a reading and workshop in April 2004.
Since 1991, poems of mine have appeared in The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, The Talking River Review, Sou'wester, The American Literary Review, The Laurel Review, Tar River Poetry, CutBank, Shepherd's Express, Slipstream and others.
"The Province of Naming" was named "High Merit" poem for the 1999 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Conference.
My book-length manuscript of poetry, Mothering God [previously named Violent Mercy], has been a finalist and semi-finalist in several national book contests, most recently the The Akron Series in Poetry in 2006. Other contests in which I have been a finalist and semi-finalist include the University of Wisconsin Brittingham/Felix Pollak Award and the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award (two times). A chapbook, The Province of Naming, was a top-ten finalist in Slipstream’s chapbook contest in 1997.
Scott Emmert
“Drawing-Room Naturalism in Edith Wharton’s Early Short Stories.” Journal of the Short Story in English 39 (Autumn 2002): 57-71.
“A Jaundiced View of America: Robert W. Chambers and The King in Yellow.” Journal of American Culture 22.2 (Summer 1999): 39-44.
“Dreiser’s Metaphor: The Stoic and Cowperwood’s Tomb.” Dreiser Studies 30.1 (Spring 1999): 21-34.
“Teacher Retention.” Column on Education and Academics. Phi Kappa Phi Forum 86.3 (2006): 3, 5.
“The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.” Column on Education and Academics. Phi Kappa Phi Forum 85.3 (2005): 3, 5.
“Perspectives on the Game.” Rev. of Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems. Elysian Fields Quarterly Spring 2005: 106-7.
“2005: The Year of Languages.” Column on Education and Academics. Phi Kappa Phi Forum 85.1 (2005): 3, 5.
“Math and Writing Anxieties.” Column on Education and Academics. Phi Kappa Phi Forum 84.3 (2004): 3, 5.
“Interdisciplinary Studies.” Column on Education and Academics. Phi Kappa Phi Forum 84.1 (2004): 3, 5.
“What’s in a Name? Echoes of Biblical Women in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth.” The Gaskell Society Journal 18 (2004): 50-64.
“Unexpected Confessions.” Column on Education and Academics. Phi Kappa Phi Forum 83.3 (2003): 3, 5.
“Preaching to the Clergy: Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey as a Treatise on Sermon Style and Delivery.” Victorian Literature and Culture 31.1 (2003): 225-240.
“‘“I am not Esther’”: Biblical Heroines and Sarah Grand's Challenge to Institutional Christianity in The Heavenly Twins.” Silent Voices: Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers. Ed. Brenda Ayres. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 155-171.
“Henry Purcell and Gerard Manley Hopkins: Two Explorations of Identity.” Literature and Musical Adaptation. Ed. Michael J. Meyer. New York: Rodopi Press, 2002. 47-59.
“Dinah and the Debate Over Vocation in Adam Bede.” George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies 42-43 (2002): 30-49.
With Dr. Francis L. Fennell. “Musical Responses to Hopkins.” Hopkins Quarterly 28.1-2 (2001): 3-54.
“Settling for a Great Job.” Profession 2001. New York: MLA, 2000. 85-91.
“Henry Purcell and Gerard Manley Hopkins: Two Explorations of Identity.” PIPA: Publication of the Illinois Philological Association 2 (1999): n. pag.
Ken Grant
Holly Hassel
“’I can’t get no girlie action’: The Illusion of Inclusion in 1990s American Action Films, or ‘The Babe Scientist” Phenomenon.’” Chick Flicks. Eds. Suzanne Ferris and Mallory Young. Routledge Press, 2007.
Jen Heinert
Book: Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Studies in Major Literary Authors Series. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Stephanie Johnson
Fiction Collection: One of These Things is Not Like the Others (Keyhole Press, 2009).
Janet LaBrie
Katie Kalish
Paula Langteau
Joseph Milicia
Christine Pavesic
Alayne Peterson
“Riders of the New Wave: The Feminist Science Fiction of Le Guin, Russ, and Tiptree,” chapter in Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives, published by Cambridge Scholars Publications, edited by Robin Hammerman (pub. November 1, 2007)
John Pruitt
Peggy Rozga
Memoir: “Voting Rights, But First Mrs. Abernathy’s Chicken.” Focus (Spelman College). Spring 2006.
Essay: “Navigating the Mainstream: Metaphors and Multi-Cultural Literature.” MELUS. Fall 2005.
Essay: “Grown Deep: The Mississippi as a Site of Conflict in Southern Literature.” Conflict in Southern Literature. Ed. Ben Robertson. Selected papers from the Conflict in Southern Literature Conference hosted by Troy University (Alabama) and published by Troy University, Spring 2006.
“Imbalance” and “The son returns home. Alive.” Nimrod. Spring 2006. The editors of Nimrod nominated "The son returns home. Alive" for the 2006 volume of the anthology Best New Poets.
"Every Fish Has Her Form." Buffalo Carp. 3 (2006).
“Elk.” The Binnacle. Fall 2005.
Chuck Rybak
Lisa Seale
Marc Seals
“Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler, series),” Student's Companion to American Literary Characters. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman (2008).
“Notes on Raymond Chandler’s ‘Red Wind,’” Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 9.1 (2008):166-72.
“Terry Lennox (Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, 1954),” Student's Companion to American Literary Characters. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman (2008).
“Richard Cantwell (Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and Into the Trees, 1950),” Student's Companion to American Literary Characters. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman (2008).
“Renata (Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and Into the Trees, 1950),” Student's Companion to American Literary Characters. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman (2008).
“Reclaimed Experience: Trauma Theory and Ernest Hemingway’s Lost Manuscripts,” The Hemingway Review 24.2 (2005): 62-73.
“Thin Man, Fat Man, Union Man, Thief: Constructions of Depression-Era Masculinities in Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon,” Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative 2.1 (2002): 67-79.
“Passing the Buck: Playing the Downward Blame Game,” National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal 81.4 (2001): 42.
Julie Tharp
“Neighbors” and “Hunting Season” in Seeking Community: Stories from the Marshfield History Project. Ed. Robert Wolf. Marshfield Community Stories Project, 2006.
“When the Body is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre.” Autobiographical Writings Across the Disciplines Eds. Olivia Frey and Diane Freedman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
“Windigo Ways: Eating and Excess in Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 27.4 (Fall 2003): 117-131.
“Women’s Writing. CHOICE Library Guide (March 2001): 1225-1233.
“'Fine Ponies’: Cars in American Indian Film and Literature.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 24. 3 (Summer 2000): 77-91.
“The Maternal Aesthetic of Mama Day.” Gloria Naylor: Strategy and Technique, Magic and Myth. Ed. Holly Stave. Cranberry, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 2000.
