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Florence Amamoto: Publication: “Opportunities and Issues: Talking About Faith at a Church-Related College” in The Spirit of Service: Exploring Faith, Service, and Social Justice in Higher Education, ed. Carolyn O'Grady and Brian Johnson. Anker Publishers, 2006.
Elizabeth Baer: Publication: "Service Learning for Social Justice: Moving Faculty Commitment from Personal to Pedagogical through Faculty Development" in The Spirit of Service: Exploring Faith, Service, and Social Justice in Higher Education, ed. Carolyn O'Grady and Brian Johnson. Anker Publishers, 2006.; Review: Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust Edited by Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes and Voices & Views: A History of the Holocaust Edition Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2006.; Presentations: “Cavities in White Teeth: Zadie Smith’s Critique of the Impulse Toward Utopia,” at the Literatures in English Conference; “The Golem Redux: Intertextuality in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction” at the Lessons and Legacies Conference; “International Service Learning: Social Justice on Other Soil” at Campus Compact Conference.
Laura Behling: Publications: "Meeting the Millennial Generation Halfway: Reconceptualizing Faculty Work" in Network: A Journal of Faculty Development (Spring 2007); "Politics and the Pandemic: HIV/AIDS, Africa, and the Discourse of Disability," in the Review of Disability Studies; "Liberal Arts Colleges and the Spellings Commission Report: Carpe Diem" in LiberalArtsOnline, a publication of the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, Wabash College, with Mariangela Maguire (interim dean of faculty).; Review: Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture for the Midwest Modern Language Association Journal.; Presentations: "Meeting the Millennial Student Halfway: Experiential Education for Students and Faculty," at New York University's Faculty Resource Network's annual symposium; "Relationship Building Between Education and Arts and Sciences Faculty,” Accreditation, Accountability, and Quality professional development conference sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education and NCATE, with John Clementson, Education.
Rebecca Fremo: Presentation: "Teaching (and) Writing Without Composition” panel at the Annual MnSCU Conference on Composition at Century College, with Ellen Bergman (senior English major), Kate Ellingsen (senior English and communication studies major), Jared Walz (junior English major).
Mitch Harris: Presentation: Invited by the John Donne Society to serve as the respondent for the society's special session at the 42nd International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Mich. His paper focused on Donne's use of anti-Petrarchan thematics in "Witchcraft by a Picture" and his use of iconography and paradox in the sonnet sequence "La Corona."
Baker Lawley: Award: Emerging Artist grant from the Jerome Foundation, administered through SASE/Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, for work with his novel manuscript.; Presentation: "Teaching (and) Writing Without Composition” panel at the Annual MnSCU Conference on Composition at Century College, with Ellen Bergman (senior English major), Kate Ellingsen (senior English and communication studies major), Jared Walz (junior English major).; Faculty: Marist College Summer Writing Institute
Allen Learst: Publication: “The Blood of Children,” Water~Stone Review.
Matt Rasmussen: Award: Selected for participation in the Loft Literary Center Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose; the program offers advanced criticism and professional development opportunities to twelve writers: four each in the genres of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.; Publication: Poems published in several journals, including Gulf Coast and Passages North.
Don Scheese: Presentation: "The Presence of the Prehistoric in Literature About Bandelier National Monument," Western Literature Association Annual Meeting.
Joyce Sutphen: Publications: Co-editor, with Connie Wanek and Thom Tammaro of To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present (New Rivers Press, 2006); Poems have recently appeared in Dogwood, The Wolf (London), Water~Stone, Magma 36 (London), Dust and Fire and The Courtland Review, as well as poems in two new anthologies: What Light (Intermedia Arts and Milkweed Editions) and Where One Voice Ends Another Begins (Minnesota Historical Press). Whistling Shade, and online at Poetry Is and Minnesota Artists Online.; Presentations: Seminar paper on Shakespeare's sonnets at the annual conference of the Shakespeare Association of America; Visiting writer's talk for the assembled Introduction to Creative Writing classes at the University of Minnesota; she was a guest speaker at the College of St. Catherine's weekend course in Women and Poetry, and she was also the keynote speaker for the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets' Fall Conference in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.