NEW FACULTY. Two new visiting assistant professors are joining the English Department this year: Cedric Burrows (University of Kansas) and Christopher Maslanka (UW-Madison).

FACULTY NEWS

Gerry Canavan

• Won an NEH Grant for his project, "Enduring Questions: What is Worth Preserving?"

Jenn Fishman

• Vice President of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.
• Co-chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Committee on Undergraduate Research.
• Member of the Council for Writing Program Administrators Research Grant Committee.
• Principal Investigator of Kenyon Writes, a two-year Mellon-funded study of writing at Kenyon College.
• Co-founder and co-editor of REx:The Research Exchange Index.
• Published ;"College Writing, Identification, and the Production of Intellectual Property: Voices from the Stanford Study of Writing" with Andrea A. Lunsford and Warren Liew inCollege English(May 2013); and will publish "EP 2.0 and the New Media Legacy of Jesuit Education" with Allen Brizee inConversations on Jesuit Higher Education, No. 43 (2013).

Leah Flack won a 2013 Summer Faculty Fellowship

Melissa Ganz

• Published “‘Clandestine Schemes’:  Burney’s Cecilia and the Marriage Act” in The Eighteenth Century:  Theory and Interpretation 54:1 (Spring 2013).
• Received a Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant this fall to participate in the Eighteenth-Century Seminar at the Newberry Library.

Beth Godbee

• Published “Making Commitments to Racial Justice Actionable” in Across the Disciplines and “A Multi-Dimensional Pedagogy for Racial Justice in Writing Centers” in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, both co-authored with Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, and Neil Simpkins.
• Co-founded the Milwaukee Writing Center Consortium with Rebecca Nowacek of Marquette and Margie Mika of UW-Milwaukee.

Heather Hathaway is serving as Director of Graduate Studies.

Diane Hoeveler

• Co-Edits European Romantic Review (6 issues a year)

• New books: “The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in Popular British Fiction, 1780-1880.” This book examines the role that gothic novels and chapbooks played during the anti-Catholic campaign in England, 1780-1829.  Chapters focus on representations of nuns, monks, the Inquisition, and monastic ruins.  120,000 words.  Cardiff: University of Wales Press (distributed in USA by University of Chicago Press), 2014.
• Editor and author, A Companion to the Brontës.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2014. Editor of volume and author of the Introduction and “The Brontës and the Gothic Tradition.”
• 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, January 2014.
• “Gothic Adaptation, 1765-1830.”  In The Gothic World.  Ed. Dale Townshend and Glennis Byron. London: Routledge, 2013.
• “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, 2013.
• “Percy Shelley’s Prose Fiction: Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, The Assassins, ‘The Coliseum.’” In The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Ed. Michael O’Neill and Tony Howe.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. 193-207.
• “Drama” (I: 196-203); “Gothic Ruins” (II: 579-581); and “Gothic Opera” (II: 484-488). In Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Gothic. 2 vols. Ed. Andrew Smith, David Punter, and William Hughes.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2013.
• “Demonizing the Catholic Other:  Religion and the Secularization Process in Gothic Literature.”  In Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century.  Ed. Monika Ebert and Bridget Marshall.  Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2013. 83-96.
• Author and Guest editor, “A Gothic Cabinet of Curiosities.”  Introduction to a special cluster of articles on the gothic.  European Romantic Review 24 (January, 2013).  I wrote the Introduction, edited the articles, and contributed “William-Henry Ireland, T. I. Horsley Curties, and the Anti-Catholic Gothic Novel.”  1-2; 43-65.
• “Regina Maria Roche’s The Children of the Abbey: Contesting the Catholic Presence in Female Gothic Fiction,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 31 (2012): 137-158.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

• “The Brontës and the Gothic Tradition,” invited keynote lecture for the 21st METU British, Ankara, Turkey, December 2013
• “The Penny Dreadful and the (Almost) Last Gasp of the Gothic,” paper read at the eleventh biennial International Gothic Association (IGA) conference, University of Surrey, England, August 2013.
• Richard Warner’s Netley Abbey and the Gothic Ruins Discourse,” paper read at the British Association of Romantic Studies, University of Southampton, July 2013.
• “Contesting the Catholic Presence in Regina Maria Roche’s Children of the Abbey,” paper read at the Pride and Prejudices Conference: Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century; Chawton House Library, Hampshire-England, July 2013.
• “Gendering the Customs Discourse: It Started in a Harem,” plenary panel presentation at the twenty-second annual conference on Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers, University of New Mexico, April 2013.
• Plenary lecture, “Mourning in Plain View: Monuments, Trauma, and Historical Memory and Forgetting,” Conference on Trauma in British and European Nationalism sponsored by Leir Program--Clark University, Luxembourg, March 2013.
• “William-Henry Ireland and the Anti-Catholic Gothic: Gondez the Monk and The Abbess,” paper read at the nineteenth International Conference on Romanticism (ICR) at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, November 2012.

 

CJ Hribal (Goeden Endowed Chair) is serving as Coordinator of FAME (Friends and Alumni of Marquette English)

Kris Ratcliffe is serving as Department Chair

• Will speak at Standford's Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference (Sept. 2013)
• Will speak at Syracuse University (Sept 2013)
• Will speak at University of New Mexico (March 2014)
• Will speak at University of Maryland (April 2014)
• Will speak at the luncheon at the 2014 Rhetoric Society of America Conference in San Antonio (May 2014)

Angela Sorby has assumed directorship of the First-Year English Composition Program.

John Su is serving as Core Director and Chair of the Provost Search Committee

Larry Watson

• Was a featured author at the Tucson Festival of Books held at the University of Arizona, March 9-10, 2013.  Watson will also conduct a Masters Workshop at the university.
• Was e a featured author at Books in the Woods held at Gunflint Lodge, Minnesota, April 4-7, 2013.  Watson will lead literary discussion groups and make a formal presentation.

Amelia Zurcher is serving as Director of the Honors Program.

 

Read Marquette Matters:

1. Angela Sorby and Sarah Wadsworth collaborate with local libraries for Louisa May Alcott series.
2. Rebecca Nowacek, Director of the Ott Memorial Writing Center, discusses writing center mission.

English PhDs recently accepted academic positions:

• Carly Anger (PhD 2013) is an Assistant Professor of English at Olive Harvey College (part of the City Colleges of Chicago).
• Eric Dunnum (PhD 2012) is an Assistant Professor of English at Campbell University in North Carolina.
• Stephanie Stella (PhD 2013) is teaching at a private school in Rome, Italy.

Shaunna Wilkinson received the English Department's Goeden Fellowship for 2013-14.

Kathleen Burt received the Smith Fellowshiop for 2013-14.