Current Issue Editor’s Introduction: Resuscitating Zona Gale 21 Mar 202021 Mar 2020 John Pruitt, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Rock County campus, pruittj @ uww.edu Zona Gale was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1874 and died in Chicago in 1938. Since then, we haven’t…
Vol 60, No 2 (2018) Editor’s Introduction: Shakespeare in Wisconsin 31 Oct 201831 Oct 2018 John Pruitt, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Rock County, pruittj @ uww.edu Not too long ago I read Katherine West Scheil’s book She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America,…
Vol 60, No 1 (2018) Editor’s Introduction 26 Apr 201828 May 2018 John Pruitt, University of Wisconsin-Rock County, john.pruitt @ uwc.edu _____________________________________________________________________________ April means not only National Poetry Month and the occasional, strangely placed sleet and snowstorm that sounded like a billion…
Vol 59, No 1-2 (2017) Editor’s Introduction 28 Oct 201723 Nov 2017 John Pruitt, University of Wisconsin-Rock County, john.pruitt @ uwc.edu First an announcement: Wisconsin English Journal will be presented with a 2017 Affiliate Journal Award at this year’s NCTE convention, and…
Vol 57, No 2 (2015) From the Editor 5 Jun 201723 Nov 2017 John Pruitt, Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Rock County Perhaps I’m a fool. A role model? Help me decide.Continue reading "From the Editor"
Vol 58, No 2 (2016) From the Editor 14 Nov 201623 Nov 2017 John Pruitt, Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Rock County [PDF version here: From the Editor] In January I’m set to teach Contemporary Women Writers, and, as always, the anxiety…
Vol 58, No 1 (2016) From the Editor 10 May 20168 Dec 2016 The Writing about Writing (WaW) movement has grown popular over the past few years, and I’ve joined in. I teach first-year composition every semester. In fact, I’ve taught these and…