Department Faculty

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English- American Studies, Michigan State University
M.A. in English- Creative Writing, Michigan State University
B.A. in English, University of Michigan

Research Specialties:

Literature of the Americas, Cultural Geography, Latino/a Literature, Regional Literatures of the United States, Midwest Literature, Romanticism and Literature of Nature, Popular Culture, Poetry

Classes Taught:

Advanced Study of Major Authors
American Realism and Naturalism
Forms of Poetry
Literature of American Ethnic and Minority Cultures
Creative Writing
Literature and the Human Experience
Composition

Other interests:

Piano and guitar, searching for classic soul on vinyl, hiking, bicycling, gardening, travel

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition (3/92), Union Graduate School: 1987 to 1992
M.A. in English, University of Florida:  1967 to 1969
B.A. in English, Kansas State College of Pittsburg: 1963 to 1967

Publications:

Collaboration to Create Department-Based Student Learning Outcomes, co-authored with Bill Cerbin in Student Learning:  A Central Focus for Institutions of Higher Learning.  Eds. Austin Doherty, Tim Riordan, James Roth.  Milwaukee:  Alverno College Institute, 2002.
Learning to Write, Writing-to-Learn, co-authored with Bill Cerbin.
Getting Started: Developing a Writing-in-the-Major Program, co-authored with Bill Cerbin & Bryan Kopp.
Why Learning to Write Well is Difficult in College, co-authored with Bill Cerbin & Bryan Kopp.
Writing for Understanding, co-authored with Bill Cerbin & Bryan Kopp.
The Power of the Written Voice: Analytic Teaching 13, 1 (1992): 37-44.
Messing up the minds of the citizenry en route--Essential Questions of Value in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, in  Celebrating Censored Books, Eds. Nicholas Karolides and Lee Burress (WCTE, 1985). This book has been distributed by NCTE and was published in a new edition by Scarecrow Press in 1993.
"Writing the Model (Writing: the Model)" in Writing-Across-the-Curriculum in the West Central Wisconsin Consortium, Ed. Wilma Clark (UW-Eau Claire, 1983).
Frequent contributor to Calyx, quarterly journal of Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School.

Research Specialties:

How people develop their abilities to write, how meaningful understanding develops in students, and what teaching activities facilitate both writing and understanding.

Courses Taught:

ENG110: College Writing I
ENG200: Literature and Human Experience: The Contemporary Short Story
ENG309: Writing in the Sciences
ENG313: Prose Style and Editing
ENG413: Writing Portfolio
UWL100: First Year Student Seminar

Academic Background:

B.A. in Philosophy and Literature, Johnston Center at the University of Redlands
M.A. in European Studies, Claremont Graduate School
M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon

Publications:

"Reply to Leonard Wilcox," Postmodern Culture, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (November, 2003)

"The Baudrillardian Symbolic, 9/11 and the War of Good and Evil," Postmodern Culture, Vol. 13, Issue 1 (November 2002)

"Ethical Value and Negative Aesthetics: Reconsidering the Baudrillard-Ballard Connection," PMLA (January 1999) 64-77

"Enlightenment's Other in Patrick S»skind's Perfume: Adorno and the Ineffable Utopia of Modern Art," Comparative Literature Studies 32 (1995): 401-418.

Research Specialties:

Critical Theory after Nietzsche
20th-Century European and American Fiction
The New Sincerity in music, literature, and film

Courses Taught:

Western Literature II: Enlightenment to Present
Trouble in Utopia
The Novel
Critical Theory
European Literature
The Sixties
20th Century American Literature
The Modern Graphic Novel

Current Research:

Other interests:

 Politics, film, hip hop, jazz, Grateful Dead, comic books

Academic Background:

B.A. in English from University of North Carolina - Charlotte
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from University of Oregon

Publications:

A novel, How the Sun Shines on Noise (Livingston Press).
Poems and short stories have appeared in The Sun, Asheville Poetry Review, Fugue, Hawaii Review, Wind Magazine, Wisconsin Review, storySouth.

Research Specialties:

Creative Writing Pedagogy, Contemporary Fiction and Poetry, Literature of the American South, Working Class Literature.

Courses Taught:

Creative Writing
American Literature II: Since 1865
College Writing

Other interests:

 Running, biking, kayaking, jazz-drumming, blues-harmonica blowing, photography

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English with a Concentration in Composition and Rhetoric and Minors in Victorian Literature and Modern American Fiction, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois (August 1995)
M.A. in English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois (May 1992)
Graduate Courses in English, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (August 1988-May 1989)
B.A. in English, Oakland City College, Oakland City, Indiana (April 1988)
Certification in Secondary Education

Publications:

“’Doing Disney’ Fosters Media Literacy in Freshmen.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 9.3 (Fall 2005).

“Asynchronous Electronic Peer Response in a Hybrid Basic Writing Classroom.” Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings, 2nd Ed.  Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.

“Asynchronous Electronic Peer Response in a Hybrid Basic Writing Classroom.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 30.2 (December 2002): 145-155.

Multiple Entries. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing. Eds. Linda Adler-Kassner and Greg Glau. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2002.

“Chasing Objectivity: How Grading Rubrics Can Provide Consistency and Context.”  Journal of Teaching Writing 17.1-2 (Winter 1999): 56-73.

“The Best of Both Worlds: Asynchronous Learning as a Bridge to Online Education.”  Instructional Telecommunications Council Newsletter, Sept. 2000. (Co-authored with Erin Fisher and Ann Carter)

Research Specialties:

Composition theory and pedagogy; developmental writing pedagogy; preparation of secondary English teachers.

Courses Taught:

Introduction to College Writing (Eng 050)
College Writing I (Eng 110)
American Literature I (Eng 201)
American Literature II (Eng 202)
Writing for Teachers (Eng 306)
Prose Style and Editing (Eng 313)
Language Studies for Secondary Teachers (Eng 334)
Advanced Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing: Studies in Authorship and Collaboration (Eng 497)

Other interests:

Contemporary fiction, food writing, cooking, vegetable gardening, yoga, travel

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (1997)
M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (1992)
B.A. in English, Bryn Mawr College, (1989)

Publications:

Touching Scenes and Finishing Touches: Blindness in the Slasher Film" (in Christopher Sharrett's Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media, Wayne State University Press, 1999)
"The Noble Ruined Body: Blindness and Visual Prosthetics in Three Science Fiction Films" (in Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns' Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability, University Press of America, 2001)
Points of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture

Research Specialties:

Film Studies, Disability Studies, Popular Culture, Western Drama, Feminist Theory

Classes Taught:

College Writing I
Literature and Human Society: Disability in Literature
Drama and Film
Women and Popular Culture
Foundations for Literary Studies
Studies in Film and Literature
Women and Hollywood Film
Classical Greek Drama

Other interests:

 Flower-gardening, movie-watching, knitting, running, child-rearing

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English specializing in American Studies, University of Colorado
M.A. in Education, Bradley University
B.A. in French Literature, Northwestern University

Research Specialties:

Women Writers from the British Romantic Period, Early Female Travel and Nature Writers, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary American Poetry, Creative Nonfiction Works, Autobiographical Writings by 19th Century Women of Color, Philosophy of Teaching, Pedagogical Methods

Classes Taught:

19th and 20th Century British Literature
British Romanticism
19th Century American Literature
20th Century Women's Travel and Nature Writing
History of Slavery in the Caribbean

Biographical tidbits: four children, grandchildren

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English, University of Leeds
M.A. in Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
M.A. in English, Winona State University
B.A. in History and English, Winona State University

Publications:

Working on an article involving the supernatural in Early Modern English Drama.

Research Specialty: 

Representations of the supernatural in the culture of Early Modern England.

Classes Taught:

Shakespeare I
British Literature I
Freshman Composition

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English, St. Louis University
M.A. in English, University of Colorado - Boulder
A.B. English and History, Regis College

 Research Specialties:

International Folklore, English Recusant Writers, Historical Children's Writers

Classes Taught:

Milton
16th and 17th Century English Literature
Children's Literature
Young Adult Literature
Current Trends in Literature for Children and Young Adults
English Survey General Education Courses

Other interests:

 Golf, backpacking, baseball, all things physical

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Victorian Poetry, University of Southern Illinois - Carbondale
M.A. in Victorian Poetry, University of Southern Illinois - Carbondale
B.A. in French, University of Illinois - Chicago

Courses Taught:

ENG 303: College Writing II
ENG 204: English Literature II
ENG 467: Victorian Poets
ENG 343: Creative Nonfiction
ENG 445: Literature and Environmental Action

Other interests:

 UWL's environmental studies program, writing, reading, playing piano

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English, Cultural Studies, University of Florida
M.A. in English, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University
M.A. in English, Angelo State University
Secondary Teacher Certification in English, University of Texas - Austin
B.B.A. in Management, University of North Texas

Publications:

http://anthurium.miami.edu/volume_2/issue_2/hart-caribbean.htm

Research Specialties:

Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Culture, Globalization Studies, Folklore, Exilic Narratives, Creative Writing, American and British Literature

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing
ENG 200: Caribbean Literature and Culture
ENG 204: British Literature and Culture of the 19th and 20th Centuries
ENG 357: World Literatures: Migrations of Folklore

Other interests:

 Globalization studies, folklore, exilic narratives, creative writing, British and American literature, guitar, biking

Academic Background:

M.E.P.D. Secondary Education, UWL, 1992
B.A. English, UW-L, 1988

Publications:

Letters Home: Experience as Short Story in Europe
Letters Home: Experience as Short Story in Ireland

Courses Taught:

ENG050
ENG110
ENG200
EFN205
C&I 405/605
CST110

Other interests and biographical tidbits:

 writing short stories and polemics, humanities,  environment, classic fiction, current nonfiction, married, two children, one grandchild

Academic Background:

1986 PhD in English, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1975 MA in English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1973 BA in English, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

Research Specialties:

American Literature after 1945, especially postmodern, African American, and Chicano/a literature. Recent research focuses on Toni Morrison.

Courses Taught:

Literature and Human Experience Course: Mythologies of Modern Memory
Foundations for Literary Studies
Various 300 and 400-level courses in American literature
Major Authors: William Faulkner & Toni Morrison
Urban Ethnic Literature
Literature Capstone
Writing for Business, Management, and the Professions

Academic Background:

Ph. D. in English, University of California - Davis
M.A. in Creative Writing, University of California - Davis
B.S. in Mathematics, University of California - Davis
M.S. in Wine Chemistry, University of California - Davis

Publications:

Neil Simon: A Casebook

Research Specialties:

American Literature, Drama, Musical Theatre, Computer Technology, Film History

Courses Taught:

American Literature: 1865 to Present
Reality Literature
American Drama
Modern Drama
Drama: Ancient Greece to Present
Feature-Article Writing
Technical Writing

Other interests:

Professional theatre organist, wine collector, longtime Mac guy, English department webmaster

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English specializing in Rhetoric and Composition and Cultural Studies,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (August 2000)
M.A. in English, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa (May 1993)
B.A. in English with a Minor in Philosophy, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire (May 1991)

Research Specialties:

Lesson Research, Plagiarism, Rhetorical Situations, Postmodernism, Globalism

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing
ENG 200: Literature and the Human Experience: Critical Moments in Forbidden Places
ENG 307: Professional Writing
ENG 306: Writing for Teachers
ENG 334: Language Studies for Secondary Teachers
ENG 306: Writing for Teachers
ENG 430: The Essay
ENG 451: Writing Portfolio
Critical Theory

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English specializing in Rhetoric and Composition and Literary Theory, Purdue University (1993)

Research Specialties:

Rhetorical Invention, Comparative and Contrastive Rhetoric

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing
ENG 306: Writing for Teachers
ENG 333: Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 337: The Rhetorics of Style
ENG 434: Chinese Discourse: Different Ways of Thinking and Writing
ENG 413: Language Studies for Secondary Teachers (ENG334), Writing Portfolio)
ENG 496: Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Director of the Writing Center

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin
M.A. in American Poetry, University of Minnesota - St. Cloud
B.A. in Creative Writing, University of Iowa

Research Specialties:

Dialect Studies, Works of Joseph Conrad, Sign Language

Other interests:

 Sign language, medical field, executive editor of Joseph Conrad Today, on editorial board of Cambridge University Press

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in American Literature and History, University of Wisconsin - Madison (1987)
M.A. in American Studies, University of Minnesota (1978)
B.S. in English and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse (1976)

Research Specialties:

Pre-1900 American Literature, Wisconsin/Midwest Literature, Journalism and Mass Communication

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 201/202: American Literature Survey
ENG 307: Writing for Management, Public Relations and the Professions
ENG 321: Advanced Writing about Literature
ENG 325: News Reporting and Editing
ENG 455: American Literature Before 1800 (ENG455)
ENG 465: The American Renaissance
ENG 475: American Literature Between Two Wars
ENG 479: The American Novel

Research Specialties:

Treaty Rights Dispute in Northern Wyoming, Science Fiction, Literature and Drama, Shakespeare

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 200: Literature and the Human Experience: Science Fiction

Other interests:

Shakespeare in the summer at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Science Fiction--especially Star Trek, reading, poetry, music, working with Church Libraries, spending time on the family farm, long walks in the country, spending time with friends, gardening and baking.

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Modern Letters, University of Tulsa
M.A. in English, Oklahoma State University
B.A. in English and Philosophy, Oklahoma State University

Research Specialties:
Modern British Literature, James Joyce.

Courses Taught:
20th and 21st Century British Literature
Irish Literature
General Education Literature

Other interests:

 Rides a motorcycle chasing after James Dicky, down Cherry Log Road, and John Gardner, on Nickle Mountain.

Quote:

"I have recently been researching those things which English department chair-people  spend their time ferreting out. In my life prior to this one I have been a professor of modern British literature, with a specialization in James Joyce, Modernist literature, and Irish literature, so I suppose I can say that Joyce and Beckett provided the wrong kinds of training for being an administrator -- the ghosts of their language still occupy too much space in my brain, so that even now I find myself, like Beckett's Molloy, unsure of how I came to be in this room where I seem to be blackening pages with signs I can't understand, knowing only that they pay me for it and that occasionally someone comes to take the pages away."

Academic Background:

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
M.A., University of California, Riverside
B.A., University of California, Riverside

Publications:

A Primer on the Language Theory of St. Augustine: The Literal Level

Research Specialties:

Medieval Literature with a Focus in Alliterative Poetry, Christian Culture, Liberal Arts Theory, Patristics with an Emphasis on the Writings of Augustine of Hippo.

Courses Taught:

Chaucer, Old and Middle English Literature
Business Prose
World Literature to the Renaissance
The History of the English Language
Crossroads in Christianity

Other interests:

 fishing and tending his half-acre, runs a low-budget smuggling operation that traffics illegal contraband (mostly uncut gemstones).

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English, University of Nebraska (1984)
M.A. in English Literature, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (1978)
B.A. in History, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (1973)

Research Specialties:
African American Nationalism, Rhetorics of Dispossession and Subpersonhood, Tropes of Race as Inscriptions of the Other

Other interests:

His 1986 Lincoln City Library Foundation Oscar Micheaux Lecture was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored in part by The Nebraska Literary Heritage Association.