Dr. Michael Martin is Haas Lecture Series speaker
January 2009
Dr. Michael Martin, Assistant Professor of Technical Communication served as the keynote speaker for the first Chancellor Leonard Haas Lecture Series in Eau Claire during winterm. His address "Establishing Grace: A call for the 21st century church" considered the issue of separation between church and state in light of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's contention that the church has an obligation to speak out on behalf of those impoverished or oppressed. Focusing on Luther's understanding of grace and his Two Kingdom's Doctrine, Martin argues that Bonhoeffer's stance against the Nazi is instructional for us in a 21st century global world. The lecture is based on his published dissertation, rhetorical analysis of the German Lutheran political activist, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the book is titled Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Creating Ethos in Uncertain Circumstances. The book is available through Amazon or at Barnes and Noble.
Dr. Martin recevied his doctorate degree from Michigan Technological University.
Dr. Brian Fitch publishes book chapter
Fall 2008
Dr. Brian Fitch Associate Professor of the English and Philosophy Department, has published a book chapter with Dr. Alec Kirby of the Social Sciences Department titled "Closing the Distance Education: Using Technology to Bring Together Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Students of Mexico, the United States, and Canada in the book Designing Globally Networked Learning Environments: Visionary Partnerships, Policies, and Pedagogies (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2008). The book is available on Amazon.
In another chapter in the same book, former Technical Communication Program Director, Dr. Bruce Maylath is a co-author of a chapter titled " Growing Grassroots Partnerships: Trans-Atlantic Collaboration between American Instructors and Students of Technical Writing and European Instructors and Students of Translation". Current Assistant Professors Drs. Matthew Livesey, Michael Martin and Julie Watts collaborated with European students in this project.
English Faculty are busy with publications and presentations
Fall 2008
Drs. Glenda Jones, Andrea Muldoon, and Kevin Drzakowski gave a panel presentation entitled "Multiple Literacies: Ideas for Helping College Freshmen Effectively Meet the Challenges of a New Century" at the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English convention in Madison on October 3rd.
Dr. Kevin Drzakowski's play titled Grand Junction is currently being performed by the Play 'n Well Players in Plainwell, Michigan. He is also part of the cast for the upcoming performance of Arsenic and Old Lace at the Mabel Tainter.
In August he presented a paper titled "Make a Little Birdhouse on the Stage: Adapting the Lyrics of They Might Be Giants" at the American Theatre in Higher Education Conference in Denver.
Dr. Drzakowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy and received his doctorate from Western Michigan University.
Dr. Joan Navarre has published an article recently the Journal English Literature in Transition. The article is titled in "Paul Verlaine and A Platonic Lament: Beardsley's Portrayal of a Parallel Love Story in Wilde's Salome" and appears on pp. 152-163.
Dr. Navarre is a lecturer in the Department of English and Philosophy and received her doctorate at Marquette University.
Dr Jerry Kapus has a chapter titled "Harry Mudd Always Lies” in the book Star Trek and Philosophy edited by Jason Eberl and Kevin Decker (Open Court Press, 2008, pp. 245-259). He also presented a paper titled “Realism, Deflationism, and Success,” at the 22nd World Congress of Philosophy International Federation of Philosophical Societies, Seoul, Republic of Korea this past July.
Dr. Kapus is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy.
Dr. Michael Levy, the chair of the English and Philosophy Department has publish an article titled “Images of Masculinity in the Recent Fiction of David Almond” in the journal Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. The article appears on pp. 49-60.
In addition, he has published a book review on Voyages: Hated and on the Run” in the periodical VOYA. which appears on pp. 318-319. Dr. Levy is also currently the co-editor the Spring 2008 issue of the journal Extrapolation.
Dr. Lopa Basu presented a paper titled "Uptown Minneapolis: Exploring the Fault Lines of Urban Creative Space" at the City as Text institute at Minneapolis and St. Paul this past August. Her paper has been accepted for publication in the upcoming book A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Ada Long to be published by NCHC.
Dr. Basu is an Assistant Professor in the English and Philosophy Department and received her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
David Tank publishes book
July 2008
Lecturer David Tank has published a book titled River of Hope: My Journey with Kathy in Search of Healing from Lou Gehrig's Disease (Planert Creek Press). The book is David's personal reflection on his co-journey through the difficult disease process as his late wife, Kathy, battled ALS. The book is available at planertcreekpress.com.
Dr. Brian Fitch gets published
December, 2007
Dr. Brian Fitch has two poems in the current issue of Ars Interpres. Other poets in this issue include Czeslaw Milosz, Les Murray, John Kinsella, and others.
Dr. Fitch’s poems are posted at: http://www.arsint.com/no_4_5.html.
Fantasy fiction into film conference
November 17, 2007, University of Minnesota
Dr. Jean-Marie Dauplaise and Dr. Jonna Gjevre, both Associate Professors of English, gave presentations at the University of Minnesota on Saturday, November 17th, 2007. The presentation was about Fantasy Fiction into Film: Diana Wynne Jones and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Hayao Miyazaki and Peter Jackson captured the imagination of international audiences with their adaptations of Howl’s Moving Castle and Lord of the Rings, respectively. At first glance, Miyazaki’s anime adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones’ classic British novel appears to boldly reinvent its source while Jackson’s approach to Tolkien seems burdened by preoccupations with fidelity. However, a closer look at Jackson’s and Miyazaki’s treatment of world-building, violent conflict, and gender roles, both in relation to their fantasy sources and to these artists’ signature conventions as filmmakers, reveals a more complicated story. This paper will explore gender, violence, and the realms of fantasy in Lord of the Rings and Howl’s Moving Castle, showing the degree to which Miyazaki’s Moving Castle and Jackson’s Rings both extend the filmmakers’ established conventions, while also transforming the visionary work of J.R.R. Tolkien and Diana Wynne Jones.
Dr. Jean-Marie Dauplaise is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout; she teaches courses in Fiction into Film, American Cinema and writing courses for art and design majors. She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in art history, English literature and film studies from Emory University’s The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. With Dr. Jonna Gjevre, she co-directs a film series held each spring in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Dr. Jonna Gjevre is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where she teaches courses in Advanced Rhetoric, Modern British Literature, and Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Dr. Kathryn Mapes presents paper
October 19, 2007
Dr. Kathryn Mapes, English and philosophy, attended the International Romanticism Conference held on Oct. 19 in Towson, Md. She presented a paper titled: "Recollective Reverie in Byron’s Intimate Correspondence with Augusta: The Alpine Journal, ‘Epistle to Augusta’ and ‘Don Juan.’"
Dr. Andrea Muldoon gets published
October 18, 2007
Dr. Muldoon got an article accepted for publication in Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism and Pedagogy. The title of Dr. Muldoon’s piece is: "Terms of Engagement: A Snapshot of Scholarly Exchange in Rhetoric and Composition’s Professional Journals."
Dr. Andrea Muldoon is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of the writing center at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Dr. Matt Livesey represents UW-Stout
October 18, 2007
Dr. Livesey represented Stout at the International Conference on Open and Distance Education in Toluca, Mexico in early October. He also gave a presentation at the annual conference of the Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication in Greenville, NC last week.
The presentation was entitled "Controlled Language in Technical Communication Curricula," and was part of a panel on language awareness organized by Bruce Maylath.
Dr. Matt Livesey is Assistant Professor and Director of the Technical Communications Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Poet laureate visit
April 11, 2005, 210 Applied Arts
Denise Sweet, Poet laureate of Wisconsin, will be reading from her work.
An Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) enrolled at White Earth, Sweet has given over 200 public readings in the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Great Britain. In 1998, she was one of five U.S. writers to be sponsored by the U.S. Embassy to attend the First World Congress of Indigenous Literatures of the Americas held in Guatemala.
Sweet often works with educators in the areas of creativity, diversity, storytelling, drama and indigenous language preservation, particularly in the Great Lakes region and in the Southwest. She coordinated the First Annual Anishinaabeg Symposium on Culture, History and Contemporary Issues co-sponsored by UW-Green Bay and UW-Eau Claire in 1998-99.
From 1998-2003, Sweet was co-director of the National Native Writers and Artists Forum and the National Native American Performing Arts Festival, both associated with the Navajo Nation and Telluride Institute.
Her collection of poems, Songs for Discharming, won the First Book Award from Returning the Gift: The Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and also received the Posner Award for Poetry of the Wisconsin Council of Writers. Her poems and fiction have been published in collections and in numerous periodicals and literary publications.
In 2001, Sweet was awarded a year's sabbatical from UW-Green Bay to work on a now-completed manuscript, "As Those With Faith Will Do: Selected Poetry and Prose." She is at work on another collection, "Travelling: The Up North Poems."
Sweet's activities include serving as narrator for video productions for Wisconsin Public Television and the Wisconsin State Historical Society. She had a featured role in a full-length feature film, "Black Cloud," directed and produced by Ricky Schroeder, scheduled for release in limited theaters sometime this year.
Sweet joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1990. She is a member of the English, Humanistic Studies and American Indian Studies faculties. Sweet is a former chairperson of American Indian Studies and a former adviser to the student literary magazine and student Writer's Union. She has co-instructed travel seminars among the Mayan peoples in Mexico and Guatemala. Sweet also founded a summer workshop at UW-Green Bay for young adolescent writers, especially students of color.
The reading is being sponsored by the Department of English and Philosophy through a grant from the Dean of Arts and Sciences and The Women's Studies Program at UW-Stout.
Refreshments will be served, courtesy of Multiculural Student Services.
Jennifer Brantly
March 3, 2005, Furlong Art Gallery
Jennifer Brantley, a nationally published poet, critic, and essayist read from Lake Superior’s Moods and Latitudes: A Woman’s Search for Water, a mixed-genre manuscript centered on Lake Superior that will be completed this summer.
A native of North Carolina, Brantley is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. She is the editor of Literary Magazine Review, a twenty-year old national magazine, and her poetry has been published in North American Review, 13th Moon, Hurricane Alice, Women and Language, Genre, Kaleidoscope, Living Forge, and other magazines. Her scholarly work includes an article on Gloria Naylor in Everything Got Four Sides: The Early Novels of Gloria Naylor (University Press of Florida) and “Clorox The Dishes: A Defense of Snow Falling on Cedars” in Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints, vol. 2, Scarecrow Press, 2002. For her poetry, she has won a Hart Crane award and an Academy of American Poets Award (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). Presently she is co-editing an anthology of Women’s Literature to be published by Houghton-Mifflin.
The reading was sponsored by the Department of English and Philosophy, the Furlong Gallery, and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, UW-Stout, Menomonie, WI.
Poetry Reading
February 17, 2005, Furlong Art Gallery
Robert Schuler, Professor of English at UW-Stout and an internationally known poet, read from two new collections of his poems, dance into heaven and Songs of Love. dance into heaven will appear in February from Juniper Press of St. Paul, MN. Songs of Love will be published in August 2005 by Tiger’s Eye Press, Sacramento, CA.
Copies of dance into heaven, along with previous collections of Schuler’s poems, were available after the reading for purchase and signing.
The reading was sponsored by the Department of English and Philosophy, the Furlong Gallery, and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, UW-Stout, Menomonie, WI.