Division of Languages and Literature 2001-02

ENGLISH

Margaret Davis

Publications:

• Mobile Register:  Review of Ahab's Wife

Attended:

• American Association of Colleges and Universities national conference on Writing Across the Curriculum, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana

• American Association of Colleges and Universities annual meeting, Washington, DC

• Alabama Writers Symposium,  Monroeville, Alabama

• Mobile Tricentennial Weekend

• Presenter:  "Father Abram Ryan:  Mobile's Poet/Priest"

• SHC Opening Day faculty development seminar, August 2001

• SHC faculty development seminar on Writing Across the Curriculum

• SHC technology workshop on making flyers

Lectures/presentations/workshops given:

• Moderated Talking about Teaching faculty discussion

Member:

• Committee on Educational Policy and Academic Affairs, SHC Board of Trustees

• Friends of Spring Hill College Library:  Board of Directors

• Ecumenical Ministries of Baldwin County, Inc.:  Board of Directors

Incorporated service learning project into ENG 246 Hispanic-American Literature:  students interviewed Hispanic-American families in Mobile, recorded and wrote their stories, and published a booklet of the stories with accompanying pictures for distribution to the families and to church members

-Wrote and received mini-grant from Alabama Humanities Foundation to fund Alabama Women Writers sponsored by Friends of SHC Library
-Director of Alabama Women Writers 2001-2002 for three Friends of SHC Library programs

Judged essay contest for Mitchell prize for Association of College English Teachers of Alabama

Selected Teacher of the Year, 2001-2002

Increased use of  ERes:  posted homework assignments, used collaborative sessions, etc.

Stephanie Girard

Attended:

• Professional and Organizational Development Conference, St. Louis, Missouri

• Modern Language Association convention, New Orleans, Louisiana

• International Writing Center Conference, Savannah, Georgia

• Mobile Tricentennial Literary Weekend

• Delivered Rick Bragg paper

• South Alabama Poetry Reading at Carpe Diem, Mobile, Alabama

• SHC faculty development workshops:  Wlodkowski and Price

• SHC Justice Seminar

• Organizer

Publications:

• Instructor's guide and website for Making Sense, a composition reader being published by Houghton Mifflin

• Editor with Teresa Atkins, Mobile Memories:  Factor Press, 2002, Mobile, Alabama

Completed Mobile Memories service learning project that was incorporated into last year's ENG 243 Introduction to Non-Fiction Prose:  Last year, after interviewing senior citizens at the Mobile Senior Center about their memories of Mobile and then writing manuscripts about those memories, students in the publishing class designed the Mobile Memories book and copy-edited some of the manuscripts;  this year a  professional writing major and I finished the formatting and copy-editing, and the book was published; also made arrangements for the sale of the book 

-Administered Teagle Grant, including writing proposals for matching funds 
-Organized set-up and scheduling of wireless classroom
-Created  "Resources for Teaching Justice" ERes page
-Participated in writing a National Endowment for the Humanities grant
-Researched institutional review boards

-Judge for Annual Poetry Slam
-Received Outstanding Service Award from Senior Citizens Services

Revised ENG 121 Composition and Introduction to Literature I:  organized readings and papers around the theme of responsible leadership in connection with the Justice Seminar

Works in progress:

• Pressure Points: working on introduction

• Developing a proposal for a creative nonfiction textbook in which Houghton Mifflin has already expressed an interest

• Revising the Rick Bragg paper into an article

• Teagle Interdisciplinary Partnership grant with Dr. Steve Wilson to research and model a writing center for SHC

John Hafner

Publications:

• Article on Eugene Walter for First Draft

• Review of Patricia Mayer’s Terminal Bend and Charlotte Miller’s Behold, This Dreamer in the Mobile Register

Lectures given:

• Speaker,  Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers meeting

• Speaker and discussion leader for two book clubs: one on Godwin's Evensong and one on Faulkner's Unvanquished

• Organizer and speaker on Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Mobile Tricentennial Literary Weekend

• Speaker and interviewer, Alabama Literary Symposium, Monroeville, Alabama

• Speaker, Mobile Public Library, Book Clubs

Member:

• Friends of the Mobile Public Library:  Board member and Co-chair of High School Creative Writing Contest 

• Alabama Humanities Foundation:  Board member and Executive Committee member

• Alabama Writers' Forum:  Board member

• Alabama Chapter, Fulbright Association:  President

• Leadership Mobile Class of 2002:  Co-president

• Mobile Tricentennial Committee:  Co-chair of Mobile Tricentennial Literary Weekend

• Friends of SHC Library:  Planner and speaker

Co-chair of Art Off Centre Windows Art Project, Centre for the Living Arts 

Peer panelist for grants review process of Alabama State Council on the Arts, Literary Projects

 Works in progress: 

• Tricentennial essay collection about Mobile

• Work on Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Michael Kaffer [Division Chair]

Awarded Altmayer Chair in Literature for 2001-2003

Attended:

• Modern Language Association annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

• SHC Justice Seminar

Member:

• Modern Language Association

• American Studies Association

-Spent four days in London doing research for two articles
-Reviewed a new edition of an anthology for Bedford St. Martins
-Paper accepted for conference in Atlanta in November 2002
-Submitted proposal for a presentation at Modern Language Association meeting
-Submitted an article to College English

Participated in writing the departmental National Endowment for the Humanities grant

Nominated for inclusion in Who's Who in American Teachers (must be nominated by a student)

Substantially revised ENG 245/492 African-American Literature and ENG 520 Modern European Fiction, adding five new works per course;  also incorporated a major service learning project into the African-American Literature course

-Used ERes in all classes
-Taught writing on the computer using an electronic drop box in all courses

Works in progress:

• Preparing final draft for a paper on Ibsen and Willy Russell

• Article on Oscar Wilde (have made preliminary notes)

• Four more papers in the very early stages of preparation -- have a thesis to explore and have done an initial bibliography search

Martha Patterson

Offered a contract with University of Illinois Press for Imagining the American New Woman, 1895-1914

Attended:

• Modern Language Association meeting

• Delivered paper on Willa Cather

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Dr. Raymond Wlodkowski

• SHC Justice Seminar

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Lecture in Gender Lecture Series, University of South Alabama

• SHC Faculty Friday presentation on the Gibson Girl

Awarded:

• Teagle Interdisciplinary Partnership grant with Dr. Jo Forstrom

• Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship

-Revised ENG 121 Composition and Introduction to Literature I to incorporate justice issues ideas from the Justice Seminar
-Revised ENG 123 Composition and Introduction to Literature II to include more contemporary literature and to engage students in discussions about a wider range of genres  
-New course preparation:  ENG 315 Foundations of American Literature
-Helped students in ENG 240 Introduction to Poetry organize a poetry slam that was attended by students and faculty from SHC and University of South Alabama

Have continued to implement active learning strategies introduced in Barbara Walvoord's workshop

Have continued the race, class, and gender reading group to serve both as a discussion vehicle for women's studies issues and as a means of helping other faculty prepare to teach the Introduction to Women's Studies course

Developed PowerPoint presentations on Transcendentalism and the Gibson Girl

Helped write the department's application for a National Endowment for the Humanities Focus grant

Works in progress:

• Revising book manuscript for September 2002 deadline

David Sauer

Publications:

• Annual bibliography in The David Mamet Review

• Article on Lillian Hellmann and David Mamet in Modern Drama

Attended:

• Modern Language Association annual convention, New Orleans, Louisiana

• American Society for Theatre Research annual convention, San Diego, California

• Cooperative Center for Study Abroad (CCSA) fall and spring meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio

Presentations given:

• Pre- and post-performance lectures on The Tempest for the Brewton Arts League, given on the bus to and from the  Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, Alabama

• University of South Alabama: on Cooperative Center for Study Abroad programs

Member:

• David Mamet Society

• Steering Committee for the Alabama Humanities Foundation and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's "Theatre in the Mind" program which gives scholarly/performance-based lectures for each play produced at the Festival

• Cooperative Center for Study Abroad (CCSA):  Board of Directors

Received Mitchell Faculty Research Award

-Revised freshman English course around the theme of evil in response to 9-11
-Revised ENG 465 Modern Drama to include a collection of Stoppard's plays
-New course preparation:  ENG 295 Special Topics:  Detective Fiction

Acted in a student-written/directed play during spring semester

Worked on Teagle and National Endowment for the Humanities grant applications

Administered the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad program in London during summer 2001

Works in progress:

• Finishing David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook for Greenwood Press (co-authored with my wife)

• Article for The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet edited by Christopher Bigsby

Melissa Schaub

Attended:

• Modern Language Association annual convention

• Victorians Institute annual meeting

• Presented paper:  "The Spectacle of Britishness:  Shirley Temple meets Victoria in The Little Princess"

• British Women Writers Conference

• Presented paper: "A Divine Right to Happiness:  Religious Visions and the Woman Reader in Madame Bovary and The Doctor's Wife"

• SHC Opening Week faculty development workshops, fall and spring semesters 

-Reviewed essay for the journal Clio
-Submitted article to the journal SEL

-New course preparations:  ENG 123 Composition and Literature II, ENG 240 Introduction to Poetry, and ENG 450 British Novel to 1900
-Incorporated techniques presented in the writing-to-learn workshop into freshman writing course
-Used ERes for delivering handouts and assignments in all classes;  used discussion board function in British Novel class in spring

Helped cowrite the department's National Endowment for the Humanities grant proposal

Works in progress:

• Planning the massive revision needed to turn dissertation into a book

Michael Williams, S.J.

Attended:

• Modern Language Association annual convention, New Orleans, Louisiana

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Several lectures for the 12-step community in the Mobile area

Continued work with Dr. Raymond Hebert of Thomas More College to revamp our  team-taught course for the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad Ireland program

-Substantial revision of ENG 491/520 The English Language for a combined graduate and undergraduate evening class
-With Dr. Patricia Harrison, created the first linked course between ENG 123 Composition and Literature II and HIS 102 Western Civilization Since 1648;  involved close cooperation, shared assignments, and a joint research paper submitted for both courses 
-Incorporated ERes and PowerPoint into classes

Serve in Mobile’s 12-step community as a counselor

Works in progress:

• Continuing to work with Dr. Raymond Hebert of Thomas More College to develop new joint courses for the  Cooperative Center for Study Abroad Ireland program

• Continuing to read and study in the field of Irish literature, especially contemporary Irish drama, concerning the Northern Ireland situation;  hope  to offer a new course in contemporary Irish drama, entitled "Staging the Troubles," within the next two years

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Guido Arze 

Attended:

• Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies annual meeting

For SPA 303Advanced Spanish Conversation, wrote a first draft of a new textbook which promotes the students' active participation in their preliminary immersion in the real Hispanic world culture and language

In coordination with Rev. Chris Viscardi, gave advanced students the opportunity to speak Spanish with a group of local Hispanic families 

Works in progress:

• Developing new courses, including Spanish for Business, Spanish for Medical Personnel, and Latin American Cinema

Charles Kargleder

Member:

• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)

• Alabama Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages (AATFL)

• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

• Southwest Conference on Latin American Studies (SCOLAS)

• Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)

Attended:

• Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies annual meeting

• Chaired session on Spanish American literature

• South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual meeting

• Presented paper:  “Nellie Campobello’s Las manos de Mama:  Motherhood and Violence in the Mexican Revolution" 

Incorporated videos on Spanish authors and masterpieces into upper-division courses;  students also did research on the web and lectured to the class in Spanish concerning their assignment

Works in progress:

• Ready to submit an article, "Jose Marti in Costa Rican Literature," for publication

• Preparing article on the Costa Rican poet Ana Antillon to submit for publication

• Continuing research in the fields of Mexican fiction and Costa Rican literature

Colette Windish

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