Faculty

Contact Information

Professor

Office: ASH 192E
Phone: 402.554.3318
nbacon@unomaha.edu

PhD University of California Berkeley
MA San Francisco State University
BA San Francisco State University

Research Areas

Transition from Academic to Nonacademic Writing
Service Learning
Prose Style

Recent Publications

Bacon, Nora. The Well-Crafted Sentence: A Writer's Guide to Style. Bedford/St. Martins, 2009.

Sather, Paul and Nora Bacon. "There is No Substitute for Experience." Diversity Digest 9:1 (fall, 2005).

Bacon, Nora. "Differences in Faculty and Community Partners' Theories of Learning. " Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 9:1 (fall, 2002): 34-44.

Deans, Thomas and Nora Bacon. "Writing as Students, Writing as Citizens: Service-Learning in First-Year Composition Courses." Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience. Ed. Zlotkowski. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2002.

Bacon, Nora. "Building a Swan's Nest for Instruction in Rhetoric." College Compostion and Communication 51.4 (June, 2000): 589-609.

Bacon, Nora. "The Trouble with Transfer: Lessons from a Study of Community Service Writing." Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 6 (1999): 53-62.

Bacon, Nora. "Community Service Writing: Problems, Challenges, Questions." Writing for the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition. Ed. Adler-Kassner, Crooks, and Watters. Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education, 1997.

Teaching

First-year Writing Courses
Composition Theory Pedagogy
College Writing Instruction
Community Service Writing
Rhetoric of the Sentence

Contact Information

Professor
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Office: ASH 280
Phone: 402.554.2338
dboocker@unomaha.edu
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

 

Selected Publications

“Milton after 9/11,” Milton in Popular Culture, eds. Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory Semenza. New York: Palgrave (2006), 177-186

“Milton and the Woman Controversy,” in A Search for Meaning: Critical Essays on Early Modern Literature, ed. Paula H. Payne, Peter Lang (2004), 125-143

“Milton, Garrison and the Rhetoric of Demonization,” American Periodicals 9 (1999): 15-26

“‘Women are indebted to Milton...’: Milton and Woman’s Rights in the Nineteenth Century,” in Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind, eds. Durham and McColgan, Susquehanna University Press (1997), 51-64. (Volume was winner of the Milton Society of America Irene Samuel Award for the best multi-author collection of essays)

“‘according to our custom’: Milton’s Papal Attacks and their Italian Sources,” Explorations in Renaissance Culture XX (1994): 19-39

“A Fissure in the Milton Window?: Arnold’s 1888 Address,” in Spokesperson Milton, eds. Durham and McColgan, Susquehanna University Press (1994), 126-137

“Milton at Vallombrosa,” Milton Quarterly 26 (March 1992): 20-21 .

Research Areas

Milton
Milton and His Influence
Milton and Science
Influence Theory

Teaching Areas

Milton
17th-Century
English Survey (Beowulf through 18th Century)

Contact Information

Associate Professor, English
Former Associate Director, Women's Studies
Former Chair, UNO Safe Space and Ally Training

Office: ASH 189D | Phone: 402.554.3313 fbramlett@unomaha.edu

PhD University of Georgia
MA University of Alabama at Birmingham
BA Mississippi State University

Note: For the academic year 2012-2013, Dr. Bramlett will be teaching linguistics in the English Department at Stockholm University. He will return to UNO in August 2013.

Research Areas

Linguistics and Comics
Discourse Analysis
Gay Men's English
Homophobia and Anti-gay Bias

UNO Features Dr. Bramlett on YouTube

Recent Publications

Linguistics and the Study of Comics

Edited by Frank Bramlett, Palgrave Macmillian Press, 2012.

 

 

Bramlett, Frank. 2012. Linguistic codes and character development in Afro Samurai. In Frank Bramlett (ed.), Linguistics and the study of comics, 183-209. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jefferson, Stephen & Frank Bramlett. 2010. The moderating roles of gender and anti-gay prejudice in explaining stigma by association in male dyads. Journal of Homosexuality. 57(3). 401-414.

Bramlett, Frank. 2010. The confluence of heroism, sissyhood, and camp in The Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. 5(1). Department of English. http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/ archives/v5_1/bramlett/

Bramlett, Frank & David Raabe. 2004. Redefining intimacy: Carver and conversation. Narrative 12(2). 178-194.

Recent Presentations

Bramlett, Frank. 2011. Comics and Pedagogy Round Table. ICAF [International Comic Arts Forum]. White River Junction, Vermont. USA. Other panelists: Qiana Whitted, James Sturm, Jason Lutes, Jen Vaughn, and Mark McKinney.

Bramlett, Frank. 2011. Conversation analysis and the representation of time in comics. Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes dessinées and Comics. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.

Bramlett, Frank. 2008. Interrogating linguistic blackface in Afro Samurai. ICAF [International Comic Arts Forum]. School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL.

Bramlett, Frank. 2007. Camp, sissies, and queers in The Rawhide Kid. ICAF [International Comic Arts Forum]. Library of Congress, James Madison Building, Washington, DC.

Teaching

Introduction to Linguistics
Structure of English
Discourse, Culture, and Power
Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Sociolinguistics
Composition for English Language Learners

 

Contact Information

Associate Professor

Office: ASH 189N
Phone: 402.554.3312
tbridgeford@unomaha.edu
www.tracybridgeford.com

 

 

PhD Michigan Tech
MA North Dakota State University
BA University of North Dakota

Administrative Responsibilities

Graduate Program Chair
Interim Department Chair (Spring 2013)
Director, Technical Communication Graduate Certificate
Co-editor, Programmatic Perspectives
Chief Information Officer (cptsc.org)

Research & Publications

Sharing Our Intellectual Traces: Narratives from Program Administrators in Technical, Professional, and Scientific Communication (in press). Baywood.

Communities of practice: The shopfloor of human capitol. (2007). In Cynthia L. Selfe (Ed.), resources in technical communication: Outcomes and approaches (pp. 161-178). Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company.

"Kairotically Speaking": Kairos and the Power of Identity. (2006). Kairos 11(1).

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication
Co-editor, 2004

with Drs. Karla Kitalong and Dickie Selfe

Teaching

Digital LIteracies
Technical Communication
Information Design
Technical Editing
Capstone Course in Technical Communication
Internship Course

Contact Information

Assistant Professor

Office: ASH 189N
Phone: 402.554.2894
lbuchelt@unomaha.edu

M.A., Ph.D. Boston College (British and Irish Medieval Studies), B.A. San Francisco State University (French Language and Literature)

 

Selected Publications

All About Eve: Memory and Re-Collection in Junius 11’s Epic Poems Genesis and Christ and Satan.” In Women and Medieval Epic, Sara Poor and Jana Schulman, eds. ( New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming January 2007), 137-158.

"The Art of Dinnseanchas: Excavating the Storied Past of Place.” In Éire/Land. Exhibition catalogue for Éire/Land: Irish Landscape Painting at Boston College McMullen Museum of Art. ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2003), 115-120.

“Alchemical Thought in Yeats’s Later Plays: A Full Moon in March and The Resurrection.” In Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism, (16:1, 1997): 1-9.

Research Areas

British and Irish Medieval Literature, Early Medieval Insular Gospel Manuscripts, Early Medieval Insular Apocrypha, Medieval Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscript Culture, Anglo-Norman Literature, Arthurian Literature, 19 th and Early 20 th Century British and Irish Medievalism.

Teaching Areas

Early British Survey, Chaucer, Medieval Celtic Literatures, Arthurian Literature, Anglo-Saxon Literature, Critical Theory.

Contact Information

Associate Professor

Office: CB 123
Phone: 402.554.3458
mcarroll@unomaha.edu

 

 

Contact Information

Lecturer

Office: ASH 189T
Phone: 402.554.3330
mchristensen@unomaha.edu

PhD University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MA University of Nebraska at Kearney
BA University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Teaching Interests

Composition
Technology and Writing
First Year Experience
Introductory Literature

Currently pursuing PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Publications

“‘Overstanding’ the Short Story: Using Fay Weldon’s ‘IND AFF’ to Introduce Students to Various Critical Perspectives” Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 6.1 (Fall 2005): 72-82.

“Teaching Borges’s ‘Garden’: A Three-Tiered Approach.” Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 2.2 (Spring 2002): 76-82.

“Re-examining the ‘Coldly Objective’ Point-of-View in Chekhov’s ‘The Bet’ and ‘A Trifle from Life.’” Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 3.1 (Fall 2002): 56-63.

Contact Information

Associate Professor

Office: ASH 192D
Phone: 402.554.2638
rdarcy@unomaha.edu

PhD, MA University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA Yale University

 

Publications

“Marlowe and Marston’s Cursus.” Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page. Ed. Sarah K. Scott and M. L. Stapleton. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 149-58.

"Shakespeare's Empty Plot: The Epicenotaph in Timon of Athens," Renaissance Drama n.s. 33 (2004): 159-79.

"Freeing Daughters on Open Markets: The Incest Clause in The Merchant of Venice," in Money and the Age of Shakespeare, ed. Linda Woodbridge (New York: Palgrave, 2003): 189-200.

"'Under My Hands . . . a Double Duty': Printing and Pressing Marlowe's Hero and Leander," JEMCS (Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies) 2.2 (2002): 26-56.

Research Areas

Early Modern Literature and Culture
History of Ideas
Theory
Gender and Sexuality

Teaching Areas

Shakespeare
Critical Theory
Sixteenth-Century Literature
Shakespeare's Contemporaries
Early British Survey
Critical Methods
First-Year Writing

Contact Information

Assistant Professor

Office: ASH 189F
Phone: 402.554.2845
kgirten@unomaha.edu

PhD, English, Rutgers University, 2006
MA, English, University of Colorado, 1999
BA, English (magna cum laude), Indiana University, 1995

UNO Features Dr. Girten on YouTube

Publications

"Unsexed Souls: Natural Philosophy as Transformation in Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectator," Eighteenth-Century Studies (Fall 2009)

"Mingling with Matter: Tactile Microscopy and the Philosophic Mind in Brobdingnag and Beyond," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54.4 (Winter 2013). (Forthcoming)

“Charlotte Smith’s Tactile Poetics,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. (Forthcoming)

Research Areas

Restoration, Eighteenth-Century, and Romantic Literature and Culture; History and Philosophy of Science; Women’s Literary History; Aesthetic Theory; Feminist Theory; Visual Studies; Embodied Rhetoric and Pedagogy.

Teaching Areas

Eighteenth-Century Literature, Romanticism, Literature and Science, Visual Literatures (comic books and film), Women’s and Gender Studies in Literature, British Comedy, Early British Survey, Critical Theory.

Contact Information

Assistant Professor

Office: AS 189 H
Phone: 554-

BA, MA, and MPhil, University of Delhi
PhD, Syracuse University

 

Publications

"Gifting Pain: the Pleasures of Liberal Guilt in London, a Pilgrimage and Street Life in London." Forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture (2012).

Research and Teaching Areas

Victorian Literature and Culture
Visual Studies, Popular Culture
Postcolonial Studies

 

 

 

Contact Information

Assistant Professor

Office: ASH 189 E
Phone: 402.554.3323

rguerra@unomaha.edu

PhD University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MA University of Nebraska-Lincoln
BA University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 
Research and Teaching Areas

Chicano/a Literature
Latino/a Literature
Twentieth and Twenty-first Century American Literature
Postmodernism
Testimonio Literature

Publications

"Teaching 'Story' as a Component of Fiction in Cisneros's Caramelo." Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction (Fall 2008).

Contact Information

Professor

Office: ASH 189H
Phone: 402.554.3319

jmeier@unomaha.edu

Professor Johanningsmeier was the recent recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar award and taught for a full academic year in the Institute for American Studies at the University of Leipzig, in Germany. He is frequently consulted by scholars around the world for his expertise in how fictions published in both books and periodicals affected the attitudes and actions of American readers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He also has an abiding interest in helping improve English instruction in secondary schools, and thus he regularly makes guest appearances in local schools and teaches an Advanced Placement Summer Teacher Training Institute course in English Literature and Composition.

Select Publications

Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900

Cambridge University Press, 1997

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "The 1894 Syndicated Newspaper Appearances of The Red Badge of Courage." American Literary Realism 40.3 (2008): 226-247.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "How American Readers Originally Experienced James’s ‘The Real Thing.’" The Henry James Review 27 (Winter 2006): 75-99.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "Welcome Guests or Representatives of the ‘Mal-Odorous Class’? Periodicals and Their Readers in American Public Libraries, 1876-1914." Libraries and Culture 39 (2004): 260-292.

Johanningsmeier, Charles."The Devil, Capitalism, and Frank Norris: Defining the ‘Reading Field’ for Sunday Newspaper Fiction, 1870-1910." American Periodicals 14.1 (Spring 2004): 91-112.

Johanningsmeier, Charles."Unmasking Willa Cather's 'Mortal Enemy.'"Cather Studies 5 (2003): 237-272.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "Subverting Readers' Assumptions and Expectations: Jewett's 'Tame Indians.'" American Literacy Realism 34 (2002): 233-250.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman): Two Shrewd Businesswomen in Search of New Markets." The New England Quarterly 70 (March 1997): 57-82.

Teaching Areas

American regionalist literature
Readers and American literary history
American immigrant literature
Multicultural Literature

Contact Information

Assistant Professor

Office: ASH 189G
Phone: 402.554.3367
tmkennedy@unomaha.edu

PhD, MA University of Arizona
MS  Illinois State University
BS  Illinois State University

Administrative Responsibilities

Co-Editor, UNO Women’s Archive Project

Research Areas

Feminist Rhetorics
Memory Studies
Rhetoric and Film
Whiteness Studies
Writing Pedagogy
Creative Nonfiction—memoir, graphic memoir, lyrical essay

Recent Publications

“Mary Magdelene and the Politics of Public Memory: Interrogating The Da Vinci Code.” Feminist Formations 24.2 (Aug. 2012).

 

Writing from the Heartland: Critical Reading and Writing at UNO (with Rachel Bash and Maggie Christensen). Hayden McNeil: Plymouth, MI. 2011.

 

“Dead Babies Photo.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary NonFiction 36 (May 2011).

“Reading, Writing, and Thinking about Disability Issues” (with Tracey Menten). English Journal 100.2 (Nov.  2010): 61-67.

“Re-membering White Privilege: Rhetorical Memory and Film.” Online Essay. Conference on College Composition and Communication Diversity Blog: Invited Guest Entry (July 2010).

“Enthymematical, Epistemic, and Emotional Silence(s) in the Rhetoric of Whiteness.” JAC 27. 1/2 (2007): 253-75.

“Loading Up the U-Haul: Traveling the Spaces Between Friends and Lovers.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 8 (Fall 2004): 45-55. Rpt. In Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationship. Ed. Jacqueline S. Weinstock and Esther D. Rothblum. Harrington Park P, 2005. 45-56.

“The Matter of Whiteness: Or, Why Whiteness Studies Is Important in Rhetoric and Composition Studies.” (with Joyce Irene Middleton and Krista Ratcliffe) Rhetoric Review 24.4 (2005): 359-73.

“(Re)Presenting Mary Magdalene: A Feminist Reading of The Last Temptation of Christ.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 9 (Spring 2005). http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art9-scorsesemisogynist.html

Teaching Areas

First-year writing
Composition Theory and Pedagogies
Rhetorical Theory and History
Rhetorics of Difference

Contact Information

Instructor

Office: ASH 189 M
Phone: 402.554.3322
jkeisner@unomaha.edu

M.F.A., Western Michigan University, May, 2007
Creative Nonfiction
M.A., University of Nebraska at Omaha, May, 2004
B.A., Wayne State College, May, 1996

Current Teaching Areas

Composition: Research and Argument, Form and Style in Creative Nonfiction, Introduction to Literature and Autobiographical Reading and Writing

Other Information

Jody Keisner has publications in SNReview, Left Hand Waving, Women’s Studies, Third Coast, Studies in the Humanities, Modern English Teacher, The Fertile Source, Native Americans Today, and NEBRASKAland.

Contact Information

Associate Professor

Office: ASH 204 A
Phone: 402.554.3329
lknopp@unomaha.edu

PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.A. Western Illinois University
B.A. Iowa Wesleyan College

Lisa Knopp is the author of five collections of essays (see below). Her most recent book, What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, is an informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, that explore the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, rivers Knopp has come to understand and cherish. At the same time, she contemplates how people experience landscape, identifying three primary roles of environmental perception: the insider, the outsider, and the outsider seeking to become an insider. Viewing the waterways through these approaches, she searches for knowledge and meaning.

Knopp’s creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Missouri Review, Michigan Review, Gettysburg Review, Northwest Review, Cream City Review, Connecticut Review, Shenandoah, Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Schooner, Yoga Journal, Chicago Tribune, Shadowbox, and Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. Six times, she’s received a Notable Essay citation from The Best American Essays series, and she is the past recipient of a fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. She has taught in the Masters of Fine Arts programs at the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale and at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information, please go to her website.

Publications

What the River Carries

University of Missouri Press, 2012

 

 

 

 

Interior Places

University of Nebraska Press, 2008

 

 

 

 

The Nature of Home

University of Nebraska Press, 2002

 

 

 

 

Flight of Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape

University of Iowa Press, 1998

 

 

 

Field of Vision

University of Iowa Press, 1996

 

 

Teaching Areas

Creative Nonficiton Courses:
Modern Familiar Essay
Narrative Nonfiction
Travel Writing
Experiments in Creative Nonfiction

Contact Information

Lecturer

Office: ASH 189S
Phone: 402.554.3320
mknudtson@unomaha.edu

MA Creighton University
BA Creighton University

Teaching Areas

Composition
General Literature
Technical Writing Across Disciplines

Contact Information

Lecturer

Office: ASH 189C
Phone: 402.554.3103
mkruger@.unomaha.edu

MA University of Nebraska at Omaha
BA California State University—Long Beach

 

Teaching Areas

Composition
Women's Studies

Contact Information

Associate Professor

Office: ASH 189Q | 402.554.3309
jlatchaw@unomaha.edu

PhD University of Pittsburgh
MA University of Pittsburgh
MFA University of Pittsburgh
BS University of Minnesota

 

Research & Publications

The Dialogic Classroom: Teachers Integrating Computers, Pedagogy, & Research

National Council Teachers of English, 1998
1998

 

 

Teaching Areas

Computers and Composition
Cultural Studies
Rhetoric

Contact Information

Lecturer

Office: ASH 189V
Phone: 402.554.3102
mmarx@unomaha.edu

MA University of Nebraska at Omaha
BA University of Nebraska at Omaha

 

 

 

Publications

Marx, Matthew. "Chelle," "Inside the life of a quiet dream," and "Tonight only, appearing in person." The Bulb 5 Apr. 2000.

Marx, Matthew. "The Lost" and "Palimpsest Lacunae." Red Penguin Sep. 2000.

Teaching Areas

Introduction to Literature
Short Story
Advanced Composition

Contact Information

Visiting Instructor

Office: ASH 189 W
Phone:
brett.a.miller@colorado.edu

PhD University of Cambridge
MA University of Colorado, Boulder
BA Colorado State University

 

Research Areas

Phonology
Phonetics
Historical Linguistics

Recent Publications

Miller, Brett, Neil Myler, and Bert Vaux. Phonology in Universal Grammar. To appear in Ian Roberts (ed.) with Oxford University Press.

Miller, Brett. 2012. Sonority and the larynx. In Steve Parker (ed.), The Sonority Controversy. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Vaux, Bert and Brett Miller. 2011. The representation of fricatives. In Marc van Oostendorp et al. (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Miller, Brett. 2007. Ejectives to plain voiced stops in PIE? In Coulter George et al. (eds.), Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective, Cambridge Classical Journal 32, 19-33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Teaching

Introduction to Linguistics
Structure of English

 

Contact Information

Professor

Office: ASH 189P
Phone: 402.554.3324
omordaunt@unomaha.edu

PhD Indiana University
MS Indiana University
BA University of Botswana

 

Research Areas

Black literature
Socio- and Applied Linguistics

Teaching Areas

English as a Second Language
Introduction to Linguistics
Cross-Cultural Communication
Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistcs
Black Short Story

Contact Information

Associate Professor

Office: ASH 189X
Phone: 402.554.2635
davidpeterso1@unomaha.edu

 PhD and MA, University of Georgia; BA, St. Leo's College

 

Administrative Responsibilities

English Dual Enrollment Coordinator

Teaching and Research Interests

16th to 20th century American literatures and cultures, gay and lesbian studies, homophobic discourse studies, literatures and cultures of the American West, Irish Drama, Native American literatures, critical theory

Recent Publications

with Joan Latchaw. “Tragicomedy and Zikkaron in Mel Brooks’ To Be or Not to Be,” in Jews and Humor, ed. Leonard J. Greenspoon, West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011. 195-210.

“New West or Old?: Men and Masculinity in Some Recent Fiction by Western American Men.” Western American Literature, 46.1 (2011): 75-88.

“Neoliberal Homophobia: Heteronormative Human Capital and the Exclusion of Queer Subject- Citizens,” Journal of Homosexuality, 18.6-7 (2011): 1-16.

“The ‘basis for a just, free, and stable society’: Institutional Homophobia and Governance at the Family Research Council,” Gender and Language, 4.2 (2011): 257-286.

“’Everthing built on that’”: Queering Western Space in Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” in Queering Paradigms (Burkhard Scherer, ed.), Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010, 281-298.

Courses

Introduction to Genre Studies: Poetry, Drama, Film
Liteature of Western Civilization: The Ancient World
American Literature to 1865American Drama
Irish Drama
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
American Poetry to 1900
American Modernist Poetry
Contact & Conquest Narratives, 1400s-1650
Discovery & Travel Narratives, 1650-1800
American Frontier Narratives, 1790s-1920s
Seminar for Advanced Placement Teachers
Critical Approaches to Literature
Introduction to Literary Research
Advanced Composition

Contact Information

Professor

Office: AS 403
Phone: 402.554.3325
jtprice@unomaha.edu
www.johntprice.com

PhD University of Iowa
MFA University of Iowa
BA University of Iowa

 Professor Price was recently awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his essays have appeared in, among other places, the following journals or collections: Orion, The Christian Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, The Best Spiritual Writing 2000 (Harper), In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal (Norton), Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, Organization and Environment, and Healing: 20 Prominent Authors Write About Inspirational Moments of Achieving Health and Gaining Insight (Tarcher/Putnam). To investigate more of Professor Price's work, go to www.johntprice.com.

Research & Publications

Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

 

 

 

Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships: A Memoir

Da Capo Press, 2008.

 

 

Teaching Areas

Creative Nonfiction
American Literature
Great Plains Literature
Environmental Literature

Contact Information

Instructor

Office: ASH 189B
Phone: 402.554.2637
kradosta@unomaha.edu

MA University of Nebraska at Omaha

 

Teaching Areas/Other Responsibilities

Composition, English as a Second Language, general literature
Writing Center Graduate Consultant

Contact Information

Associate Professor

Office: ASH 189L
Phone: 402.554.3326
brobins@mail.unomaha.edu

PhD University of Oklahoma
MA New Mexico State University
BFA University of Montana

 

Research Areas

Contemporary Native American Literature
Visual Arts

Teaching Areas

Native American Literature
First-Year Writing
Southwestern Literature

Contact Information

Instructor

Office: ASH 189U
Phone: 402.554.3311
kschwab@unomaha.edu

BA University of Nebraska at Lincoln, English and Classical Greek
MA University of Nebraska at Omaha, English

Teaching Interests

First Year Writing
Introduction to Literature
Creative Nonfiction and Autobiography

 

Contact Information

Professor

Office: CB 109
Phone: 402.554.3463
pamelasmith@unomaha.edu

Contact Information

Instructor

Office: ASH 189 K
Phone: 402.554.4025
bvasquez@unomaha.edu

 

 

 

Teaching Areas

Composition and Literature

Kay Burke
Suzanne Barrett
Melissa Conroy
Lisa Cook
Kay Burke
Richard Cupich
Kenneth Flint
Molly Garriott
Eve Hermanson
Sheri Hronek
Erin Joy
Al Kammerer
Patrick Kinney
Jennifer Kozar
Elizabeth Mack
David Martin
Emilie Mindrup
Kim Schwab
Connie Sorenson-Birk
Victoria Stamm
Scott Sutton
Nathanael Tagg
Chuck Taylor
Gina Wagner
Diana Wendt
Mary Wilson
Sarah Zahm
Shane Zephier
Molly Zimmer

First Year Teaching Assistants

Scott Aichinger
Ryan Grandick
Angelika Stout
Ann Johnson
Kathleen Lawler
Samantha Miller
Amber McCaskill
Sara Tangall

Second Year Teaching Assistants

Ryan Brown
Ann Johnson
Nick Lesiak
Deirdre McMurtry
John McWilliam
Courtney Mustoe
Kyle Simonsen
Suzanne Withem

Contact Information

Professor Emeritus

Office: ASH 189J
Phone: 402.554.3636
jmckenna@unomaha.edu

PhD Ohio University
BA Allegheny College

 

Research Areas

Contemporary American and British Literature
Creative Nonfiction
Keirsian Temperament Theory applied to Characters and Conflict in fiction and drama
Pedagogy and Principles of Effective Instruction in Writing Creative Nonfiction and Expository Prose (selected creative nonfiction by J. J. McKenna: "Three Easy Pieces: A Triptych on Time"
Poetry Writing (selected poems by J. J. McKenna: At the Japanese Gardens, Wind and Water, Descending from the Top of the World)
Writing

Teaching Areas

Contemporary Literature and Writing
Characters and Conflict: Applying Keirsian Temperament Theory to understand more clearly the true nature of Literary Characters and the origins of Conflict in fiction and drama
Creative Nonfiction and the Modern Familiar Essay
Tom Stoppard’s Plays and Film Scripts
Theodore Roethke’s Poetry, Zen, and Taoist Philosophies
Literary Research Methods

Contact Information

Assistant Professor and Director of UNO Honors Program

Office: ASH 105A
Phone: 402.554.2598
rsaltzma@unomaha.edu

MA University of Iowa
BA University of Nebraska Omaha

Contact Information

Professor Emeritus

Office: ASH I, Phone: 402.554.3636
mskau@unomaha.edu

PhD University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MA University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BA University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

 

Selected Research & Publications

"A Clown in the Grave":
Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso

Awarded inclusion on Choice Outstanding Title List
Southern Illinois UP, 1999

 

 

 

Skau, Michael. "Constantly Risking Absurdity":
The Writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Troy,
NY: Whitston, 1989.

Skau, Michael. "Beat Generation." Dictionary
of Literary Themes and Motifs. Ed. Jean-Charles
Seigneuret. New York: Greenwood, 1988. 162-69.

Skau, Michael. "The Central Verbal System:
The Prose of William S. Burroughs." Style 15.4
(Fall 1981): 401-14.

Skau, Michael. Me and God Poems. Omaha:
Brady Press, 1990.

Teaching Areas

20th-century American
English Literature
20th-century English Literature
Beat Generation Writers

Contact Information

Professor Emeritus

PhD University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Office: ASH 189J
Phone: 402-554-2635

 

 

Teaching and Service Areas

English Composition (all colligiate levels)
American Literature
Past Writing Program Adminstrator, Department of English