Department Faculty

Sue Hengel
University Service Associate in English
email: shengel@uwlax.edu
office: 433 Wimberly Hall
phone: 785-8295
 

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:

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:

"Discussing Disgrace in a Critical Theory Classroom." Encountering 'Disgrace': Reading and Teaching Coetzee's Novel. Camden House Press (2009).

"Nietzsche, Adorno, and Metaphysics." New Essays on the Frankfurt School. Co-authored with Dr. Carsten Strathausen. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2008).

"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 Süskind's Perfume: Adorno and the Ineffable Utopia of Modern Art," Comparative Literature Studies 32 (1995): 401-418.

Research Specialties:

Critical Theory after Nietzsche
The Novel
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 in Translation
The Sixties
20th Century American Literature
The Graphic Novel
The Art of Memoir
Truth and Beauty in the Contemporary Novel
Paris, Capital of the 19th Century
College Writing

Other interests:

Politics, nutrition, film, jazz, Grateful Dead, hip-hop, basketball, disc golf, my little girl Phoebe

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).

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:

“Deliverance—1919,” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, ed. Susan Burch and Paul K. Longmore. New York: Facts on File, 2009.

“’Play[ing] her part correctly’:  Helen Keller as Vaudevillian Freak.”  Disability Studies Quarterly  25.3 (2005).
 
Rev. of Reversing the Lens:  Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Through Film, ed. Jun Xing and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Ethnic Studies Review  26.2 (2004).
 
"The Noble Ruined Body:  Blindness and Visual Prosthetics in Three Science Fiction Films."  Screening Disability. Ed. Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001.
 
Editor (with Marcy Epstein).  Points of Contact:  Disability, Art, and Culture.  Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 2000.

"Touching Scenes and Finishing Touches: Blindness in the Slasher Film." Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media.  Ed. Christopher Sharrett. Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1999.

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
Literature and Human Society: Disability in Literature, Drama, and Film 
Women Authors

Other interests:

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

Academic Background:

Ph.D., English, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
M.A., English, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
B.A., English and Textual Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Recent Publications:

The City of the Senses. New York: Palgrave, 2011.

"The Aesthetics of Empire: Affect and the Universality of Consumption." Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics Under the Sign of Globalisation. Eds. Mads Anders Baggesgaard & Jakob Ladegaard.  Aarhus University Press, 2011.

"Transnational Urbanism and the Creative Class." Translated into Swedish in Fronesis 24 (June 2007)

"IKEA and Democracy as Furniture." Nature, Society, and Thought. 17 (2) (2004).

Conference Papers:

"The Romance of Techne." Modern Language Association. Seattle, Washington. January 5, 2012.

"Tool Aesthetics and the Humanities." Class/Aesthetics/Worlds Conference. Minneapolis, MN. October 15, 2011.

"The Romantic City and the Independent Eye."  North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.  Park City, Utah. August, 2011.

"The Urban (Un)Seen." Writing the 19th Century City Special Session. Modern Language Association Conference. Los Angeles. January 2011.

"Posthuman Romanticism and the (Animal) Other." Posthumanism and the Ends of Animality Panel. Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. Indianapolis. October 2010.

"The (Dis)Continuous City, Identity and the Role of Cultural Critique." The Women's and Gender Studies Lecture Series. State University of New York at Potsdam, December 8, 2009.

"The Aesthetics of Empire: Affect and the Universality of Consumption." Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics under the Sign of Globalization Conference. Aarhus University, Denmark. September 2008.

"'Bartleby' and the City of Immaterial Labor." Special Session Chair. Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago. December 2007.

Research Interests:

Romanticism, 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century American Literature, the City, Visual Culture, Cultural Theory

Courses Taught:

British Literature II

College Writing I

Ph.D. in English, Emory University (2006)
B.A. in English, Tulane University (1997)

Recent Publications:

Review of Loving in Verse, by Stephen Guy-Bray. University of Toronto Quarterly (Winter 2007/2008)

“Ghostly Metaphysicality: A Manuscript Variant of Robert Herrick’s ‘The Apparition,’” Notes & Queries (June 2005)

Recent Conference Presentations:

“‘Outrageous Grossness’: A Taste of Robert Herrick,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (November 2008)

“Donne, Herrick, and the Early Modern Fetish,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (February 2007)

“Selections and Collections: Piecing Together Herrick's Hesperides,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Diego, California (December 2003)

“Appropriating Authority and Navigating Narrative in Thomas Nashe’s Traveling Text,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Newport Beach, California (October 2003)

“Surfacing Robert Herrick’s Hesperides,” Renaissance Society of America National Meeting, Toronto, Canada (March 2003)

“Liquid Subjectivities: Love of Self and Other in Baz Luhrmann’s Water-logged Romeo and Juliet,” Southwest Popular Culture Association Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico (March 2001)

Research Specialties:

16^th and 17^th Century English Literature
Theories of the Early Modern Subject and Object
Milton
Shakespeare and Film
Gender and Sexuality Studies

Courses Taught: 

ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 203: English Literature I
ENG 363: Shakespeare I

Other Interests:

Yoga, world travel, hiking, camping, movie-watching, baking, Native American literature, English football (soccer)

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English Education, the University of Iowa (1994)
B.A. in English, The University of Iowa (1972)

Publications:

College Writing I

Literature and Human Society

Methods of Teaching in English Education

Language Study for Secondary Teachers

Academic Background:

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale
M.A. University of Illinois at Springfield
B.S. Illinois State University

Recent Conference Presentations:

"How to Do Satire: Old Irish Satire as Ritual Speech Act." 44th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. (May 7-10, 2009).

"'Wip faerie forth y-nome': Fairy Abduction as Metaphor in Sir Orfeo." Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (March 5-7, 2009)

"Absolutist Tendencies: Philanax and Philip Sidney's Anti-Absolutism." AEGIS Graduate Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (April 10-11, 2009).

"'Liberty and Union Now and Forever': Marianne Moore and Marriage." Midwest Conference for Language, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (March 30-31, 2007).

Areas of Specialization:

Old and Middle English Literature

Research Interests:

The High and Late Middle Ages; Chaucer; Medieval Romance; Affective Piety; Theories of Emotions and Affect; Gender Studies; Theories of Authenticity

Classes Taught:

Western Literature I (ENG 205)
College Writing I (ENG 110)

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, 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:

Research Specialties:

Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Culture, Globalization Studies, Folklore, Exilic Narratives

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
ENG 368: 20th Century British Literature
ENG 469: Postcolonial Literature

Other interests:

Creative Writing, American and British Literature, guitar, biking, and walking the dog

Ph.D. in Literature, University of California, San Diego M.A. in German Literature, University of California, San Diego B.A. in Literature and Writing, University of California, San Diego

Research Specialties:

Courses Taught:

Other interests:

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
Ph.D. English, State University of New York at Buffalo
M.A English, State University of New York at Buffalo
M.Phil. Himachel Predesh University, Shimla, India
M.A. English and B.Ed., Kashmir University, Srinagar, India
B.A English, Political Science, Sanskrit, Kashmir University, Srinagar, India

Publications:

Books, special issues, co-editor and contributing author:
Indian Cinema. Special Issue. Projections: Journal of Movies and Mind. 3: 2 (Winter 2009)
Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Neuroscience. Special Issue. College Literature. vol. 33: no. 1 (Winter 2006).
Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Associated University Presses, 2003
Comparative Poetics: Non-Western Traditions in Literary Theory. Special Issue. College Literature. vol. 23: no.1 (Feb. 1996).
Literary India: Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism and Culture. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995
Criticism and Lacan: Essays in Dialogue on Language, Structure, and the Unconscious. Athens, Georgia: the University of Georgia Press, 1990

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
“Prophesying with Accents Terrible: Emotion and Appraisal in Macbeth,” Towards a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts. Ed. Frederick Aldama. Austin, Texas: the University of Texas Press, 2009. 465-520
“Color and Artefact Emotion in Alternative Cinema: A Comparative Analysis of Gabbeh, Mirch Masla, and Meenaxi: A Tale of 3 Cities.” Indian Cinema, 2009
“From Despair to Wonder: Scenes of Transcendence in Indian Cinema.” Projections: Journal of Movies and Mind. vol.2. no.1 (Summer 2008). 78-94
“Von der Verzweiflung zum Staunen: Szenen der Transcendenz im indischen Kino.” Trans. Anne Bartsch. In Audiovisuelle Emotionen. Köln: Von Halem Verlag, 2007.
“Emotion, Perception, and Anagnorisis in Comedy of Errors.” Cognitive Shakespeare, 2006. 94:126
“Orientalism and Anxiety of Influence: Seeking Sakuntala in Goethe’s Faust.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. vol. 2: nos.1& 2. (Fall 2004).
“Patriarchy and Paranoia: Imaginary Infidelity in Uttararamcharita and The Winter’s Tale.” Literary India, 1995. 103-131.
“Dhvani and the “Full Word”: Suggestion and Signification from Abhinavagupta to Jacques Lacan.” Comparative Poetics, 1996. 142-163.
“Language in the Textual Unconscious: Shakespeare, Ovid, and Saxo Grammaticus.” Criticism and Lacan (1990). 248-26. Reprint. Classical and Medieval Literature. vol. 58 (2004). 305-313

Research Specialties:
Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Critical Theory, Cognitive Theory, Studies in Emotion and Narrative, Indian Film and Literature, Comparative Aesthetics and Postcolonial Theory

Courses Taught:
Shakespeare I and II, Critical Theory, Renaissance Literature, Anglophone Postcolonial Literature, surveys in International Studies in Literature, British Literature, Western Literature, American Literature, Literature and Human Experience and Freshman Writing.  

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
M.S. in Wine Chemistry, University of California - Davis
B.S. in Mathematics, University of California - Davis

Publications:

Neil Simon: A Casebook
Numerous scholarly and popular articles

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
"Yanks vs. Brits" (Anglo-American Drama)
Feature-Article Writing
Technical Writing
Writing in the Sciences

Other interests:

Professional theatre organist, wine collector, longtime Mac guy, English department webmaster (1999–2010)

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition, 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)

Positions:

Writing Programs Coordinator, Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning
Associate Director, Lesson Study Project

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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 Linguistics, University of South Carolina (concentration: sociolinguistics)
M.A. in Linguistics, University of South Carolina (concentration: sociolinguistics)
B.A. in French and Russian, La Salle University

Publications:

Forthcoming. “Naming versus not naming field sites and fieldwork participants.” In Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, & Gerard Van Herk (eds.), Data collection in sociolinguistics: Methods and applications. Routledge.

2011. “Drag queens’ use of language and the performance of blurred gendered and racial identities.” Journal of Homosexuality 58. 793-811.

Selected Conference Presentations:

2011. “Southern, working class, gay male English varieties and the Gay American English continuum.” American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. (Jan. 6-8, 2011)

2010. “Gay men’s discussions of family and the circulation of shared discourses.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. (Nov. 17-21, 2010)

2010. “The (in)compatibility of sounding gay and sounding southern.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 39, San Antonio, TX. (Nov. 4-6, 2010)

2010. “When non-mainstream does not equal nonstandard: Toward an understanding of in-group assessments of intelligence by speakers of Gay American English” American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. (Jan. 7-10, 2010)

2008. “Gay male language socialization through online social networks.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Nov. 19-23, 2008)

Research Specialties:

sociolinguistics, language & sexuality, language & gender, language attitudes, folk dialectology, social network theory, social varieties of American English, language & identity

Courses Taught:

College Writing I (ENG 110)
Modern English Grammars (ENG 332)
Introduction to Linguistics (ENG 432)

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Professional/Technical Writing and Rhetoric, Illinois State University
M.A. in Feminist Rhetorics and Women's Autobiography, Illinois State University
B.A. in English at Buena Vista University

Recent Publications:

"Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Rebooting Contingent Faculty's Marginalized Status in Online Writing Courses." Forum in College English Special Issue on Contingent Faculty. Forthcoming, Spring 2011.

"Epiphany of A Cynic: Feminist Pedagogy and its Fluidity." In: Jung, Julie. Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2005 (131-33).

Research Specialties:

Issues of Gender and Disability in Technical/Professional Writing
Feminist Rhetorics
Writing Pedagogy
Online Education

Courses Taught:

Other interests:

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.

University of Oregon, Ph.D. (2008)
UC Davis, J.D. (1998)
Yale University, B.A. (1994)

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