We currently have two publishers who
are English professors at Millikin:
Dr. Randy Brooks, Publisher of Brooks
Books
Founded in 1976 as High/Coo Press, Brooks Books has published
over 100 editions ranging from online editions, chapbooks, trade
paperbacks and library clothbound books. Although Brooks Books
has published several bibliographies and special interest books,
the primary focus of the press is to publish collections of
the best contemporary haiku available.
Brooks Books • 3720 N. Woodridge Dr. • Decatur, IL
62526
email: brooksbooks@sbcglobal.net
Dr. Steven Frech, Publisher of Oneiros Press
Onieros Press publishes fine, collector's edition poetry broadsides
featuring excellent graphic design and contemporary American
poetry.
Onieros Press • 854 W. William St. • Decatur, IL
62522
email: sjfrech@yahoo.com
Several English faculty serve as editors and editorial board
members of magazines, serials and newsletters:
Dr. Randy Brooks, Editor of Mayfly
Mayfly is a small chapbook-size haiku magazine published
every summer and winter. Each cover features a haiga by sumi-e
painter, Lidia Rozmus.
Dr. Randy Brooks, Web-editor of Modern
Haiku
Founded in 1969, Modern Haiku is one of the longest-standing
English language haiku magazines. Each issue includes an extensive
section of critical reviews of new haiku books, essays on contemporary
haiku, and a wide variety of haikai poetry. Modern Haiku
is is published every February, June October.
Dr. Priscilla Meddaugh, adviser to The
Decaturian
Dr. Carmella Braniger & Dr. Steven Frech, advisers to Collage
Millikin English faculty have authored
and edited several books in recent years:
Dr. Randy Brooks
Randy Brooks, Editor; Katie Steimann, Student Editor. Lull Before Dark: Haiku by Caroline Gourlay, Brooks Books (Decatur, IL), November 2006.
Randy Brooks, Editor; Christine Sandidge, Student Editor. The Silence Between Us: Selected Haiku of Wally Swist, Brooks Books (Decatur, IL), March 2005.
Randy Brooks, Editor; Brock Peoples, Student Editor. Deep
Shade Flickering Sunlight: Selected Haiku of O Mabson Southard,
Brooks Books (Decatur, IL), March 2004.
Randy Brooks, Editor; Lidonna Beer, Student Editor. To Hear
the Rain: Selected Haiku of Peggy Lyles, Brooks Books (Decatur,
IL), November 2002.
Randy Brooks & George Swede, Editors. Global Haiku:Twenty-five
Poets World-Wide, Iron Press (Essex, England) and Mosaic
Press, (Oakville, Ontario), April 2000.
Randy Brooks, Editor. Almost Unseen: The Selected Haiku
of George Swede by George Swede, Brooks Books (Decatur,
IL), April 2000.
Randy Brooks. School’s Out: Selected Haiku of Randy
Brooks, (Foster City, CA: Press Here), 1999.
Randy Brooks & Lee Gurga, Editors. A Solitary Leaf:
Haiku Society of America Member Anthology 1996, the Haiku
Society of America, August 1997.
Randy Brooks & Lee Gurga, Editors. Midwest Haiku Anthology,
High/Coo Press, (Decatur, IL), 1992. Haiku Society of America
1993 Merit Book Award, 2nd place.
Dr. Stephen Frech
Stephen Frech. If Not For These Wrinkles of Darkness: Rembrandt,
a Self-Portrait (White Pine Press), 1996. 1995 Wick Poetry
Chapbook Contest.
Stephen Frech. Toward Evening and the Day Well Spent,
(Kent State University Press), 2001. White Pine Press Poetry
Prize, 2000.
Dr. Dan Guillory
Dan Guillory. Wartime Decatur, (Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing), 2006.
Dan Guillory. Images of Decatur: Decatur, (Mount Pleasant,
SC: Arcadia Publishing), 2004.
Dan Guillory. When the Waters Recede: Rescue and Recovery
After the Great Flood, (Urbana, IL: Stormline Press), 1997.
Dan Guillory. Alligator Inventions, (Urbana, IL: Stormline
Press), 1992.
Dan Guillory. Living With Lincoln: Life and Art in the Heartland,
(Urbana, IL: Stormline Press), 1989.
Dr. Carmella Braniger
"Gleaning the Fields: Harvesting through Self-Reflection." AWP's Pedagogy Papers, Association of Writing
Programs, 2006.
“The Short Story Portfolio for Introductory Creative
Writing." AWP Pedagogy Papers, Association of Writing
Programs, 2003.
“Bringing to and Drawing from the Well: Discovery of the
Creative Moment." AWP Pedagogy Papers, Association
of Writing Programs, 2001.
Dr. Randy Brooks
Co-author with Jodi Benton-Kupper and Deborah Slayton. "Curricular
Aims: Assessment of a University Capstone Course." The
Journal of General Education 53.3-4, The Pennsylvania State
University Press, (University Park, PA) March, 2005.
"Online Publishing" an article for The Internet
Encyclopedia, (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons,
Inc.) December, 2003. This three-volume encyclopedia is a primary
reference source providing state-of-the-art information concerning
the Internet as a business tool, IT platform, and communications
and commerce medium.
"Teaching Haiku in Higher Education: An Immersion into
the Living Tradition—the Case of Millikin University."
World Haiku Review 1.3, The World Haiku Club, (Oxford,
England) November, 2001.
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/1-3/haikuineducation_rbrooks.shtml
Essay. "Consonance as the Genesis of Humor
in Haiku." Haijinx 1.2, (Temple, TX) June, 2001.
Located at:http://www.haijinx.com/I-2/brooks/index.html
“Gestalt Psychology and Haiku: A Poetics
of Imagistic Thinking“ published in the My Neighbor's
Life: 30th Haiku Society of America Anniversary Anthology,
Laughing Cypress Press, (Bellevue, Washington) 1999.
Dr. Stephen Frech
"Interview with Peter Johnson." Another Chicago
Magazine, Spring 2003.
"Rembrandt and Social Conscience." Over the Bent
World Brooding: Responsibility and the Arts, Newman University,
(Wichita, KS), February 17, 2001.
Dr. Michael George
“Popular Music, Visual Arts, and the Creative Option: An Approach to Teaching Arthuriana as a Living Tradition.” published in Arthuriana 15:4 (December 2005): 14-18.
“Representation, Religion, and Sexuality in the York ‘Joseph’s Troubles’ Pageant” an essay in the book, Intersections of Sexuality and the Divine in Medieval Literature: The Word Made Flesh. Edited by Susannah M. Chewning and published by Ashgate
Publishing Ltd., (Aldershot, Hampshire, UK), February 2005.
Dr. Anne Matthews
"Following the Intrigue: Aphra Behn, Genre, and Restoration
Science." The Journal of Narrative Technique, 26
(Fall 1996).
Dr. Priscilla Meddaugh
Meddaugh, P.M., and Kay, J. (2000). "The Press, the Pentagon,
the People's Right to Know: Compromises in the Gulf." Free
Speech Yearbook.
Meddaugh, P.M., and Kay, J., Hauser, E., and Fitzgibbon, J.
(June, 1998). "News Media Misses the Mark." The
Detroit Free Press. [news article]
Dr. Michael O'Conner
"Technology and the Teaching of Freshman Composition."
The Composition Chronicle. (April, 1998).
Dr. Carmella Braniger
“Little ‘Ole Jack: Trickster or Culture Hero?” at the Annual Conference of the Illinois Philological Association (Decatur, IL) April 2, 2005.
"Gleaning the Fields: Harvesting through Self-Reflection" at the National Association of Writers and Writing Programs' Annual Conference, March 2006 in Austin, Texas. This paper was published in AWP's Pedagogy Papers 2006.
A panel (with Dr. Zhao & Dr. Matthews) on "Reflective Learning, Writing, and Teaching in First-Year Writing Classes" Forty-second Annual Community College and University English Articulation Conference, (Allerton House, Monticello, IL) April 11, 2006.
“Representing: Looking at the Text Through Different
Lenses." Panel on Cultural Translation, EGSA Conference,
University of Missouri, (Columbia, MO) February 15, 2002.
“Bringing to and Drawing from the Well: Discovery of the
Creative Moment." Creative Writing Pedagogy Panel, AWP
Conference, Association of Writing Programs, (Palm Springs,
CA) April 21, 2001.
“The Body as a Place for Pain, Survival and Imagination:
Recreation of Identity in Toni Morrison's Paradise."
African American Culture Panel, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Conference, (Albuquerque, NM) February 10, 2000.
Dr. Randy Brooks
"Curricular Aims: Assessment of a University Capstone
Experience." Presented with Jodi Kupper, Director of the
School of Education and Deborah Slayton, Associate Professor
of Nursing. The International Conference on Civic Education
Research, Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Participation
and Citizenship (New Orleans, LA) November 2003.
"Winning Web Design Consulting Strategies.” Society
for Technical Communication, Central Illinois Chapter, (Urbana,
IL) January 14, 2003.
“Living the Tradition: Haiku in Higher Education.”
Xavier Humanities Endowment Faculty Lecture, Xavier University,
(New Orleans, LA) September 12. And at the Haiku Society of
America Quarterly Meeting, (New Orleans, LA) September 14, 2002.
“Formative Evaluation of Electronic Portfolios: Constructing
A Bridge Between Writers and Readers.” 18th Annual Computers
and Writing Conference: Teaching and Learning in Virtual Spaces,
Illinois State University (Bloomington, IL) May 18, 2002.
http://faculty.millikin.edu/~rbrooks/webportfolios/index.html
Poster Session Exhibit (with Paul Dorsey, MIS
professor). “Personal Knowledge Management: the Integration
of Inquiry Skills and Technology.” Technology, Learning
& Intellectual Development: Challenges at the Crossroads
of the Education Revolution, a conference sponsored by the Association
of American Colleges and University (Baltimore, MD), November
1-4, 2001.
Dr. Stephen Frech
“Rembrandt: Narrative to Lyric, History to Self” at the conference on Epiphanies of Beauty, Notre Dame University Center for Ethics & Culture, South Bend, IN, November 18-20, 2004.
“The History of Broadsides” at the Decatur Arts Council, April 7, 2005.
Dr. Mike George
“He Priketh Harde and Depe”: Carnivalesque Inversion of the Horse-and-Rider Figure in Fragment I (A) of The Canterbury Tales.” at the Medieval Association of the Midwest Conference, Springfield, IL, 24 September 2005.
“If It Feels Good, Wish It: The Anglo-Irish Land of Cokaygne in Its Imaginative Context” at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 5 May 2005.
“Art and Music in the Arthur Classroom” as a roundtable participant at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 8 May 2005.
“I am, in fact, a hobbit (in all but size)”: J.
R. R. Tolkien’s Popularity and Significance. Public lecture
for the Shawnee State University Honors Program. April 17, 2003.
With English student Michelle Deterding. "The Carnivalesque
Other t Plan: Comic reversal in Mankind. Seventh Annual Conference
of the Illinois Philological Association. March 29, 2003.
"The Ars dictaminis as a Source of the Modern Business
Letter." CAES Conference, Muncie, Indiana, October, 2002.
Dr. Paul Haspel
"Beware of the Man from the Agency: The Unwritten Rules
of the Washington, D.C., Suspense Film." the Popular Culture
Association in the South conference in New Orleans, September,
2004.
"The Pit and the Profit Motive: The Cycle of Creative
Growth and Decline in American International Pictures' Edgar
Allan Poe Films." The annual Literature-Film Conference,
Towson, Maryland, 2003.
"From Y2K to 9/11: Building Collaborative Learning Communities
in the English Classroom in Response to Traumatic Historical
Events." The International Learning Conference, the University
of London, London, UK, July, 2003.
"Griswold's Dastardly Deed." Keynote presentation
at Poe Birthday Celebration, Westminster Hall, Baltimore, Maryland,
2003.
"A Mad Raven Sells Better: The Griswold Image of Edgar
Allan Poe and Its Resonance in American Popular Culture."
International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, Towson, Maryland,
2002.
"George Washington Cable and Bonaventure: A New Orleans
Author's Literary Sojourn into Acadiana." Society for the
Study of Southern Literature biannual conference, Lafayette,
Louisiana, 2002.
"A Border State of Mind: Maryland Writers and the Southern
Literary Canon, From the Mason-Dixon Line to the Potomac River."
Southern Humanities Council annual conference, San Antonio,
Texas, 2001.
"Surrealism Fights Racism: John Waters's Hairspray and
the Desegregation of the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park." Popular
Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association
in the South annual conference, Nashville, Tennessee, 2000.
Dr. Anne Matthews
(With Jason Helfer, Assistant Professor of Education), “Autoethnographic Construction as a Means to Interrogate Self, Other, Community, and Service” Association for Teacher Educators, Atlanta, GA, February, 2006.
"Reflections on Teaching and Technology." Midwest
Modern Language Association, (Kansas City), November, 2000.
"Varieties of Constructed Experience: Literature in First-Year
Composition." Midwest Modern Language Association, (Minneapolis,
MN), November, 1999.
"Reading the Body in the Late Seventeenth Century."
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, (San Antonio,
TX), February, 1998.
Dr. Priscilla Meddaugh
“Legitimizing Hate: White Supremacist Strategies on the Net” at the National Communication Association Conference, (in conjunction with Communicating Common Ground and the Southern Poverty Law Center), Boston, Mass., November, 2005.
"The Discourse of Stormfront Listserv." National
Communication Association Conference, (Seattle, WA), November,
2000.
"The 'Other' in Alt.Politics.White Power." Easterm
Communication Association Conference, (Pittsburgh, PA), April,
2000.
"Usenet and Sexual Abuse: An Ethnography." Joint
Central States Communication Association/Southern States Communication
Association Conference, (St. Louis, MO), April, 1999.
"The Intifada as a Social Movement: When Two Worlds Collide."
Joint Central States Communication Association/Southern States
Communication Association Conference, (St. Louis, MO), April,
1999.
Dr. Michael O'Conner
"Mark Twain's The Great Revolution at Pitcairn: Hawaiian
Facts and Imperialistic Fictions," Midwest Modern Language
Association Conference, (St. Louis, MO), November, 1998.
"Introducing Project CROW-American Literature," TechEd
Chicago, (Chicago, IL), October 20, 2000.
Dr. Peiling Zhao
“Building Bridges through Rhetorical Grammar Instruction” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 25, 2006.
“Taking Colonization Abroad and Bringing Hybridity Home: Race, Gender, and Class in Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor” at the Illinois Philological Association Conference on April 7, 2006.
Dr. Carmella Braniger
Three poems, “The Postal Man’s Vasectomy,” “Picasso’s Barefoot Girl,” and “Unlikely Swervings” in Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Vol. 4, September 2005.
"Pear in a Bottle" appeared this fall in Speculations:
An Anthology for Reading, Writing and Research, published
by Kendall/Hunt, 2003.
Six poems in MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry,
forthcoming in the September 2004 and September 2005 issues.
Two poems in The Sycamore Review, 12.1, 2001.
Poem in Poems & Plays, 8, Spring/Summer 2001.
Poem in Thorny Locust, 9.1, 2001.
Poem in Boarding House Review, September 2001.
Dr. Randy Brooks
Five haiku accepted for publication in the forthcoming Baseball Haiku Anthology, to be published by Norton in the spring of 2007.
One poem in Edge of Light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language
Haiku 2003, Red Moon Press, (Winchester, VA), 2004.
Twenty-five poems in English and translated into Russian in
a new anthology, Haikumena, (Russia) October 2003.
Four poems in Haiku: A Poet’s Guide by Lee Gurga,
Modern Haiku Press, (Lincoln, IL), 2003.
Poem in Pegging the Wind: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language
Haiku 2002, Red Moon Press, (Winchester, VA), 2003.
Poem published in World Haiku Saijiki—40 Key Words,
edited and translated into several languages by Ban’ya
Natsuishi, World Haiku Association Commemorative Publication,
Ginyu Press, (Tokyo, Japan), 2003.
Poem published in The New Pond: An English-language Haiku
Anthology, edited and translated into Japanese by Emiko
Miyashita, Hokumei-sha Press, (Tokyo, Japan), 2002.
Ten poems and an author profile. "The Poetry of Randy
Brooks: Vintage Haiku." World Haiku Review 1.3, The World
Haiku Club, (Oxford, England) November, 2001.
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/1-3/vintagehaiku_rbrooks.shtml
Fifteen poems including 3 haiga. "Spotlight
on Randy Brooks’ Haiku." Haijinx 1.2, (Temple, TX)
June, 2001. Located at:
http://www.haijinx.com/I-2/brooks/index.html
Dr. Stephen Frech
Poem “Hendrickje Stoffels” published in Sunstone, March 2005.
Poem “The Field Could Harbor Still a Quiet Fawn” published in Good Foot 6.
Poem published in Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate
Icon, edited and by Nick Carbo and Denise Duhamel, Anthology
Press, 2002.
Four poems published in The Gatekeeper's Secret , edited
and by Sutton Hool, University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Poetry published in numerous literary magazines including:
Ascent, Blue Unicorn, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Crab Creek
Review, Ekphrasis, Farmer's Market, The Florida Review, Georgia
Review, High Plains Literary Review, Hunger Magazine, The Literary
Review, Literature and Belief, Lowell Review, Malahat Review,
Mankato Poetry Review, Plainsongs, Pleiades, Potpourri, Rhino,
River King Poetry Supplement, Riverrun, River Styx, Rockford
Review, Seattle Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Review,
and Wind Magazine.
Professor Sandra McKenna
Poem “Green” first published in The Illinois Times newspaper in November 2004, then again in The Millikin Quarterly, Spring 2005.
Poem published in Libraries Remember: 9-11 in Poetry &
Prose, Springfield Poets & Writers Literary Forum, Lincoln
Library, (Springfield, IL), 2004.
Dr. Randy Brooks
Book review of Spiritual Necessity: Selected Poems of Frank
Samperi was published in the summer 2004 issue of Modern
Haiku.
Book review of Haiku Guy by David G. Lanoue in the
Xavier Review published by Xavier University, (New Orleans,
LA) Spring, 2003.
Book review of Summer Dreams: American Haibun & Haiga,
Volume 3 in Modern Haiku, 33.3 (Madison, WI) Fall, 2002.
Book review of A Dream of This World: One Hundred Haiku
by Nagata Koi in Modern Haiku, 33.1 (Madison, WI) Winter-Spring,
2002.
Dr. Randy Brooks
With the assistance of senior art therapy major, Jennifer
Griebel, Randy Brooks, Professor of English, led ten poetry
writing and watercolor painting workshops for all classes (1-5)
in the Harristown Elementary School. These workshops were conducted
over several weeks in October, culminating with a poetry reading
and celebration of the student work at National Reading Night,
November 20, 2003.
Workshop on writing haiku at the Decatur Area Writers Fair,
(Decatur, IL) in October 2003.
Creative Writing Workshops. “The Joy of Reading and Writing
Haiku.” All sections including first through fifth grade
students (twenty-four workshops), Warrensburg-Latham Elementary
School, (Warrensburg, IL), February 10 through March 2, 2003.
Workshop. “Web Design and Advanced Web Graphics.”
Health Alliance, (Urbana, IL), July 16 and July 24, 2002.
Dr. Priscilla Meddaugh
"College Bound Journalism Workshop." University of
Wisconsin-Waukesha, (Waukesha, WI), Summer 2002.
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