English UW-Green Bay News Posts

UW-Green Bay’s Tara DaPra receives publication

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Dec 20, 2022

Tara DaPra, UW-Green Bay assistant professor of writing & applied arts, english, and writing foundations, recently published some of her work. DaPra’s flash nonfiction essay, “The Last Road Trip”, was published in Liminal Transit Review, a literary journal that publishes genre-blurring work with themes of immigration, diaspora, displacement, decolonization, and borders, and the intersections of these…

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Prof. Rebecca Nesvet has two new publications in English Literature

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Kristin Bouchard

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Nov 21, 2022

Prof. Rebecca Nesvet (English) has two new publications out this week: 1. “Mocking Andromeda in Julia Constance Fletcher’s The Fantasticks (1900,)” in the journal CAHIERS VICTORIENS ET EDOUARDIENS (vol. 96 – Autumn 2022). 2. “Jane Williams, Rolling Stone: Reconstructing British Romanticism’s Guitar God(dess).” In Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism (London: Routledge, 2022),

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Learning opportunity for faculty and staff with Audio Assignment Workshop

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Editorial Student

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Nov 8, 2022

All UW-Green Bay faculty and staff are invited to join the Audio Assignment Workshop on November 30, from 4:00-5:00pm in CL 304. In this session, Digital Collections & Metadata Librarian, Kate Farley and Associate Professor of Humanities & English, Kris Purzycki will work through the basics of creating a scaffolded assignment where students record, edit, and produce…

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UW-Green Bay alumna Wendy Wimmer’s debut collection receives national attention

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Kristin Bouchard

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Nov 1, 2022

UW-Green Bay alumna Wendy Wimmer (English, 1997) has received national attention for her newly published debut short story collection ENTRY LEVEL: STORIES. The collection received a starred Kirkus Review and a favorable feature in Publisher’s Weekly, as well as being lauded by literary news site The Millions as one of the most anticipated releases of…

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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies hosting panel on ‘Abortion and Reproductive Justice after Dobbs’ this Thursday

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Kristin Bouchard

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Sep 27, 2022

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at UW-Green Bay is hosting a panel discussion on the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Panelists include faculty from WGSS, English, History, Political Science, and Psychology. The panel will take place on Thursday, Sept. 29 in the Christie Theater at 5:00-6:30 pm. Audience questions will…

Faculty/Staff

Brian Sutton publishes short stories

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Kristin Bouchard

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Sep 20, 2022

Brian Sutton, an emeritus associate professor of English at UW-Green Bay, has had four short stories either published or accepted for publication by literary journals in a span of just over three weeks. On September 1, his short story “The Woman with the Dog” was published in Oyster River Pages; on September 6, his short…

Media Coverage

Watch now: Chronicling the wild lakes of Wisconsin | Entertainment | madison.com

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Kristin Bouchard

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Aug 22, 2022

MERCER — Scores of dragonflies rose as John Bates (UW-Green Bay alumnus ’74, ’86) navigated his Subaru Ascent around potholes, over bumps and through the occasional puddle. The ¾-mile dirt road to Sherman Lake is just wide enough for a single vehicle and a step up perhaps from a logging road. Located just east of…

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UW-Green Bay English program and Veteran’s Services have new websites

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Sue Bodilly

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Jun 23, 2022

The Web Acceleration Team and members of Marketing and University Communication worked with English faculty to create a beautiful website for the English program. Check it out: English – UW-Green Bay. Also launched this week was a new Veteran’s Services site.

Faculty/Staff

Faculty note: Prof. Nesvet receives fellowship at UW-Madison

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Sue Bodilly

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May 10, 2022

UW-Green Bay Prof. Nesvet (English, Humanities) will be a UW System research fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) at UW-Madison, in academic year 2022-23.

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Join the Virtual Book Launch, Friday, May 6, for Call Me Morgue, a collection of ‘death snacks’ by Morgan Moran

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Sue Bodilly

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May 3, 2022

Green Bay, Wis.—In a sometimes wrenching, often irreverent collection of “death snacks,” debut author Morgan Moran captures her fascination with death and its inner workings in her book, Call Me Morgue. The book is based on the author’s blog, which chronicles her journey into death work as a mortician’s apprentice after a 12-year career in…

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