Senior Lecturers
Peter Blewett
Office: Curtin Hall 583Phone: (414)229-4567
E-mail: pblewett@uwm.edu
Website: http://mpsportal.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/portal/server.pt
Education:
PhD, English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MA, English, Marquette University
BA, Philosophy, Holy Redeemer College
Teaching Areas: composition, creative writing, literature
Publications:
"Eclogue, Poems of Pat Moran and Peter Blewett." Green Bay: Basswood, 1998.
"Umbrellas." Milwaukee: Clear Skies, 1990.
Poems in various journals, such as Cream City Review, Poetry East, Seattle Review, West Branch, Literary Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, and Die Young!
Related Activities: Member of Milwaukee Public Schools Board of Directors, district six
Mary Brehm
Office: Curtin Hall 402Phone: (414)229-2922
E-mail: mb@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: composition, linguistics
Related Activities: Coordinator, English 102
Sandy Brusin
Office: Curtin Hall 402Phone: (414)229-2922
E-mail: sbrusin@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: first-year composition, academic discourse, creative non-fiction
Publications:
"Little Boy Lost," TimesWisconsinTimes
"Yizkor," Reconstructionist
"Search for Self," Wisconsin
"Hebrew School Wars," Jews
Related Activities:
Memberships - National Council of Teachers of English, UWM Composition Adversary Committee, Category B subcommittee for Academic Staff
On the Board of Coalition for Jewish Education (CJL)
James Chapson
Office: Curtin Hall 525Phone: (414)229-4243
E-mail: jchapson@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: composition, introduction to creative writing
Allen Donay
Office: Curtin Hall 533Phone: (414)229-5041
E-mail: donay@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: business writing, criminal justice
Catherine Kaye
Office: Curtin Hall 678Phone: (414)229-6180
E-mail: cjkaye@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: English as a second language
Related Activities: Coordinator, English as a Second Language
Sonia Khatchadourian
Office: Curtin Hall 567Phone: (414)229-6047
E-mail: soniak@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: creative writing, business writing, international business communication, composition, cultural studies, literature
Related Activities: Classes on blues music, published articles about music, weekly radio program on WMSE 91.7 FM
Daniel Listoe
Office: Curtin Hall 524Phone: (414)229-2971
E-mail: dlistoe@uwm.edu
Website: https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/dlistoe/www/
Teaching Areas: freshman seminar, literary studies, rhetoric and human rights, writing and literacy studies
Selected Publications: The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, North Dakota Quarterly, SubStance
Christopher Lyons
Office: Curtin Hall 524Phone: (414)229-2971
E-mail: bobdylan@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: composition, business writing
Mariann Maris
Office: Curtin Hall 592Phone: (414)229-4152
E-mail: sarim@uwm.edu
Website: http://www.uwm.edu/~sarim
Education: MA, Marquette University
Teaching Areas: business writing, freshman seminars on baseball and the rhetoric of terrorism
Related Activities:
Memberships - MLA, NCTE, WCTELA
Community - Director, Shorewood Foundation Board of Directors; Milwaukee Area Academic Alliance in English; Reader, Advanced Placement English Literature; Chair, MCAP's Minority Recruitment Committee; Associate, Milwaukee Partnership Academy
UWM - Co-Chair of Chancellor's Auction
Jennifer Lynn Mattson
Office: Curtin Hall 697Phone: (414)229-4230
E-mail: jennifr@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: language in the U.S., credit and non-credit ESL courses
Related Activities: Coordinator of Conversation Partner program, which matches ESL students with Americans wishing to learn more about international students' cultures (and sometimes their languages). Presenter at orientations for international TAs, assist with evaluation of international TAs' classroom skills.
Academic Staff Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2000
Jeffrey Norman
Office: Curtin Hall 507Phone: (414)229-6022
E-mail: jenor@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: composition, academic writing, various literature courses
Related Activities: 102 team facilitator, work with Writing Center
Liana Odcirc
Office: Curtin Hall 503Phone: (414)229-6022
E-mail: ljo@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: composition, 19th and 20th century American literature, women's studies
Related Activities: Edison Initiative Advisory Board/Committee, 2005-2006
Jeffrey Perso
Office: Curtin Hall 525Phone: (414)229-4243
E-mail: zubin@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: Beat writers, freshman seminar, English 102: College Writing and Research
Publications: Edited four alternative newsweeklies and published fiction and non-fiction in over 25 periodicals, including The Alternative Press Review, Manzanita, Milwaukee Magazine, and Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine
English Department Award for Teaching Excellence, 2005
Carol Ross
Office: Curtin Hall 485Phone: (414)229-5959
E-mail: cross@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: composition, academic writing, advanced writing workshop, literary nonfiction
Related Activities: Served on various English Department committees, volunteered for the Chancellor's Auction, currently volunteer at Hunger Task Force, Wisconsin Breast Cancer Showcase, and for other community organizations. Served as Holocaust Educator for the Coalition for Jewish Learning. Served on Category B subcommittee for Academic Staff. Published essays/articles, edited guidebook.
English Department Award for Teaching Excellence, 1993
Benjamin Schneider
Assistant Director, Film Studies ProgramOffice: Curtin Hall 488
Phone: (414)229-4869
E-mail: terrapin@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: film studies
Kristin Terwelp
Office: Curtin Hall 522Phone: (414)229-2972
E-mail: terwelp@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: creative writing, multicultural literature, women's literature (emphasis 19th century American and British), composition, freshman seminar, Native American literature, women's studies
Publications: poems, interviews, creative nonfiction, and editorials have appeared in Sojourner: the Women's Forum, The Cream City Review, The Career News, and others
Related Activities:
Memberships - UWM Visiting Writers Committee, Modern Language Association, Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Former poetry editor for The Cream City Review, former Editorial Assistant for The Career News English Department Award for Teaching Excellence, 2007
Finalist, Tinsley Helton Dissertation Fellowship, 2002
Nancy Walczyk
Associate Director of the Center for Celtic StudiesOffice: Curtin Hall 502
Phone: (414)229-3302
E-mail: nwalczyk@uwm.edu
Teaching Areas: business and technical writing, Irish literature, women's studies
Related Activities:
Memberships - American Conference for Irish Studies, UWM Technology Committee, UWM College of Letters and Science IT Committee and IT Working Group
Community - Coordinator for Milwaukee Irish Fest and Irish Fest Summer School