News & Events
WIPS: "Use-of-Force Policy as Workplace Genre: A Consideration of the Rhetorical Work of Policing" by Michael Knievel
 | Michael Knievel will present for WIPS April 19th at 5 p.m. in Hoyt 215. |
UW Professor Named ACE Fellow
March 29, 2012 — University of Wyoming English Professor Susan Frye has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2012-13 academic year. The ACE Fellows Program, established in 1965, is designed to strengthen institutions and leadership in American higher education by identifying and preparing promising senior faculty and administrators for responsible positions in college and university administration. Fifty-seven Fellows, nominated by the presidents or chancellors of their institutions, were selected this year following a rigorous application process. |
WIPS: “The Passions of the Cambridge Apostles: John Kemble and the Spanish Expedition of 1830-31” by Eric Nye
Eric Nye will present for WIPS on March 22nd at 5 p.m. in Hoyt 212
Antonio Gisbert (1835-1902), El fusilamiento de Torrijos y sus compañeros en la playa de Málaga (1888), Prado, Madrid. |  |
M.A. Speaker Series: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Out and About: The New Look of Public Space Disability Integration
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Thursday, Feb. 23 4:10-5:30 Public talk and discussion, Classroom Building 310, "Out and About: The New Look of Public Space Disability Integration" Friday, Feb. 24 9 a.m.-11 a.m., Mathison Library. MA Students' Brunch with Rosemarie Garland Thomson |
Paul Bergstraesser awarded NEA Literature Fellowship
 | Paul Bergstraesser was recently awarded a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. The award is solely based on artistic merit--in Paul's case, a short story he submitted--and includes a $25,000 grant. Paul plans to use the money to buy time to work on his current writing project, a novel titled "Code of the Worst." Fellowship Awards List |
WIPS: "Unsightly Bodies: Invisible Female Aliens within Athens and Aztlan" by Bunny Logan
Bunny will present her works in progress report on November 17th in Mathison Library at 5:10 p.m. Refreshments will be provided. |
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UW Professor Wins High Plains Book Award
October 17, 2011 — University of Wyoming Department of English Professor Alyson Hagy is the recipient of the High Plains Book Award for the best book of fiction. It is the second time she has won the award, previously receiving the best woman writer award. Hagy, also an MFA Program in Creative Writing faculty member, was honored for her latest book, "Ghosts of Wyoming," described as "an unsentimental vision of the West, old and new." Her book explores the hardscrabble lives and terrain of America's least-populous state. "Ghosts of Wyoming" explores both the state's colorful pioneer past and brings to life the not-often-heard voices of oil field workers, rock climbers and those left behind by the latest boom and bust. The book also updates several traditional ghost stories set in Wyoming. Read More... |
UW Student Has Short Story Published in The New Yorker
October 4, 2011 — A year ago, Callan Wink submitted a short story to The New Yorker and waited to hear back from the weekly magazine's editors. A long wait ensued before the University of Wyoming student heard back, saying his piece was rejected. But the editors of the long-running publication, known for its illustrated and often topical covers, commentaries on popular culture and eccentric Americana, told Wink they liked his style and asked if he had any other works worthy of submission. The New Yorker has more than one million subscribers and is published 47 times a year. Read More... |  |
A Conversation about the Heath Anthology of American Literature with Paul Lauter (Trinity College)
 | Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has served as President of the American Studies Association (of the United States), and he is General Editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature, now in its sixth edition. He will give a lecture on Monday, October 10th in Mathison Library (Hoyt 212) at 4:10 p.m.. |
Lecturer Reading Series #2
| September 12, 2011 -- Lecturer Reading Series #2 will take place on November 12, 7:00 p.m., at Second Story Books. The readers will be Pam Galbreath, Maggie Garner, Nell Hanley, and April Heaney. |
UW's MFA Program in Creative Writing Ranked in the Top 30
August 24, 2011 — Ryan Ikeda had been searching for a quality MFA creating writing program when he came across Seth Abramson's blog, which monitors and ranks MFA programs. His curiosity was perked by the University of Wyoming program's top 50 national ranking. "Wyoming's MFA program stood head and shoulders above the other schools I was considering. The decision wasn't between this program and another program, rather it was between my established life and career in California or following my dream to write," the Bay Area native says. "My only choice was Wyoming. So, yes, I did consider other programs, however, very briefly." Read More ... |
WIPS: "The Captivity Narrative's Racial Metamessages in Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God and Barney and Betty Hill's The Interrupted Journey" by Jeanne Holland
This paper historically contextualizes and examines how white privilege and other racial anxieties appear in Rowlandson's 1682 narrative and in John Fuller's account of Barney and Betty Hill's September 1961 UFO abduction. As a genre dramatizing contact with the Other, the captivity narrative often illuminates the subject's own subconscious fears and aspirations regarding cultural positionality. Jeanne will present her Work in Progress Tuesday, September 20th at 5:00 p.m. in Mathison Library. |
Public Lecture: "The Dangerous Life of a Robert Burns Scholar" by Gerard Carruthers, Visiting Professor from the University of Glasgow
Thursday, October 20th, 5 p.m. in CR 302, Professor Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow, and Visiting Professor at UW, discusses what happens when scholarship steps on myth. Hair raising tales about the the afterlife of an iconic author and the perils of a literary scholar in the mean streets of Glasgow. Reception to follow in Hoyt Hall Mathison Library (212). |
Public Lecture: "Jewry of the Plain" by Eleanor Kaufman, Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA
| The Department of English is proud to host Eleanor Kaufman, Professor of Comparative Literature and French and Francophone Studies at UCLA, and affiliate of the Center for the Study of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies, for a two-day visit to the University of Wyoming. Eleanor Kaufman has published widely on twentieth century French philosophy, and has additional interests in Medieval philosophy and Christian theology, literature and philosophy of the Jewish diaspora, Maghrebian literature, and modern American literature. She is the author of The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski (Johns Hopkins, 2001), as well as two forthcoming books: Gilles Deleuze: Dialectic, Structure, and Being (Johns Hopkins University Press) and At Odds with Badiou: Politics, Dialectics, and Religion from Sartre and Deleuze to Lacan and Agamben (Columbia University Press). She is currently working on two additional book-length projects: “The Incorporeal: Rocks, Plants, and Objects in French Phenomenology” (the subject of the Gauss Seminars that she delivered at Princeton in spring 2009); and “The Jewry of the Plain,” on the archives and cemeteries that commemorate Jewish settlement in remote regions of the American West at the end of the nineteenth century, and simultaneously a meditation on the work of Jacques Derrida. More information about Professor Kaufman can be found here: http://www.complit.ucla.edu/people/faculty/eleanork/ During her visit to UW, Professor Kaufman will deliver a public lecture about Jewish settlement of the American West. Additional support for her visit has been generously provided by the programs in Religious Studies and American Studies and the departments of Modern Languages and History. |
MA Speaker Series presents: Jeff Grabill, October 5-7, 2011
Jeff Grabill is the Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures and the Co-Director of the Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center at Michigan State University. Grabill received his PhD in English from Purdue University with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition and secondary areas in professional and technical writing and literary theory. He teaches composition, technical writing, and digital rhetoric courses as well as develops and administers professional writing programs. His research is located at the intersection of professional and technical writing, rhetorical theory, and literacy theory, and focuses on the literate and technological practices of citizens, users, students, and others within communities and non-academic institutions. Grabill’s recent book focuses on community literacy programs (Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change) and he has won awards for articles published in College Composition and Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Computers and Composition. Jeff Grabill's visit will include a public lecture entitled "We Are All Knowledge Workers: Professional Writing and Public Life" on October 5th at 4 p.m. in BU 127. |  |
Sheriff or Outlaw? A Scottish Author in the American West
June 28, 2011 — A new name is added to the list of heroes of the American West such as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, Wild Bill Hickok and Pat Garrett. It's Sir Walter Scott. University of Wyoming English Professor Caroline McCraken-Flesher and other literary experts say Scott, author of enduring novels such as "Ivanhoe," "Rob Roy" and "The Lady of the Lake," inspired the Western novel and many of John Wayne's famous cowboy characters. His influence will be discussed at the ninth International Conference on Walter Scott, July 5-9 at UW. McCracken-Flesher says it marks only the third time the international conference has been held in North America. |  |
The Ninth International Scott Conference, Walter Scott: Sheriff and Outlaw, was held July 5-9, 2011 at University of Wyoming. Jenni Calder delivered the plenary talk, "Sir Walter Scott goes West: Scott's Frontier Legacy".
Susan Aronstein Receives Graduate Faculty Distinguished Mentor Award
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May 2, 2011 -- Susan Aronstein receives the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. This award recognizes outstanding faculty commitment to graduate student mentoring. As the first director of the M.A. program in English, Susan has been a committed advocate for our M.A. students and she has done wonderful work in strengthening the program structurally. |
Van Baalen-Wood Receives Hollon Family Award
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May 2, 2011 — Getting students to think on their own is what makes Meg Van Baalen-Wood stand out as a quality instructor -- even though she may not be face-to-face with them throughout the year. Van Baalen-Wood, an academic professional lecturer in the UW Department of English, teaches online writing courses through the UW Outreach School. Department of English faculty and students praise her high qualifications and teaching methods. Those accolades have earned her the Hollon Family Award for Teaching Excellence in Off-campus Programs. "Meg's excellence in teaching distance courses is respected and honored among her colleagues," says Sandra Clark, Department of English assistant chair. "Meg is always revolutionizing and impressing us about what, in fact, constitutes this kind of teaching. Her willingness to patiently explain the procedures to a faculty that has limited education about the process enlightens and energizes us." |  |
Robert Torry Earns Ellbogen Lifetime Teaching Award
 | May 2, 2011 — That Robert Torry is the 2011 recipient of the John P. Ellbogen Lifetime Teaching Award is not a surprise. The surprise is that he didn't earn the University of Wyoming's highest teaching award sooner. "When I won this award three years ago, I made a mental list of those who had a better claim to it and Bob was at the top of that list," says Duncan Harris, director of the UW Honors Program.
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Susan Frye: Making a Difference One Student at a Time
April 25, 2011 — Marvelous. Students continuously use that word to describe University of Wyoming Department of English Professor Susan Frye, who has influenced countless students with her positive outlook and passion for English literature. Her influence on students has earned Frye the Ellbogen Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award, established in 1977 by businessman John P. "Jack" Ellbogen, to "foster, encourage, and reward excellence in classroom teaching at UW." Winners are selected from a list nominated by students, and the awards are based entirely on classroom performance and helpfulness to students. Other recipients this year are Rachel Watson, an instructor in the Department of Molecular Biology, and Margaret Flanigan, associate lecturer in the Department of Zoology and Physiology. |  |
UW Professor’s Book Looks at Women’s Needlework from New Perspective
 | April 25, 2011 — A visit to Hardwick Hall in central England while researching Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots sparked 10 years of research and writing for Susan Frye's latest book, "Pens and Needles - Women's Textualities in Early Modern England." Frye, a University of Wyoming Department of English professor, has studied Shakespeare and his times and has previously written a book on Queen Elizabeth I. She takes a new look at that period and the way its women used needlework, art and writing to reshape their roles in society. Frye's research spans the ruling, merchant and landed classes. |