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Karley Adney, Assistant Professor of English. karley.adney@uwc.edu.  Karley Adney's greatest passion is teaching. She received her B.A. and M.A. from St. Cloud State University. She is finishing her doctorate at Northern Illinois University, where she specializes in 16th and 17th century British literature. She loves Shakespeare and Harry Potter, the New York Yankees, and cooking. She thinks that reading anything makes you a better reader and writer, and can prove this even with her subscription to Star magazine. She has been a Husky since her undergrad and is thrilled to be a UWMC Husky now as well!
 

Joanne Giordano, Associate Lecture of English, Basic Skills Instructor: joanne.giordano@uwc.edu. Joanne Baird Giordano received an M.A. in English and a graduate certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages from Brigham Young University. She teaches composition, reading, ESL, and learning skills. She has previously taught courses in social science writing, advanced composition for multicultural students, literature, and intercultural communication. She has also worked as a technical writer, editor, and consultant. A native of Utah, she has lived in Massachusetts, Virginia, England, France, and Belgium. Her husband, Eric, is an assistant professor of political science at UWMC. They have four children and no free time.

Jean Greenwood, Associate Lecturer: 715/261/6234  jean.greenwood@uwc.edu   Jean Greenwood teaches English composition and coordinates the Lecture and Fine Arts Series. In her spare time, she spends what she would have spent getting a Ph D on her riding education. She has a graduate degree from the school of falls and hard knocks. Horses, like her English students, are her pupils AND her teachers – and both serve as perfectly inclusive and complete metaphors in her life.
 

Holly Hassel, Assistant Professor: 715/261/6265   holly.hassel@uwc.edu      Holly Hassel received a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing with a philosophy minor and an M.A. in English from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN. She earned her Ph.D. in August of 2002 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln after completing her dissertation entitled "Wine, Women, and Song: Gender and Alcohol in Twentieth-Century American Fiction." She teaches courses in  literature, composition, film studies, and women's studies. She publishes and presents work on feminist pedagogy, women in film, specifically fantasy and science fiction, the teaching literary studies, and alcohol in American Modernism. She also enjoys writing poetry and is currently working on a collection of poems about 1980s private detective television shows. Off-campus, Dr. Hassel enjoys running,  reading Us Weekly and fantasy and mystery novels, doing karaoke, and playing with her three cats. She lives in Wausau with her husband, Jason, and daughter, Trixie Turtle.

Zeke Jarvis, Associate Lecturer: Zeke Jarvis received his BA in Math and English from UW-Madison, and he received an MA from UW-Milwaukee, where he's finishing up his PhD this year. He's given papers, such as "Did Jesus Have a Sense of Humor?", at MMLA and other regional conferences, and he's had short stories and poems published in places like Bitter Oleander and Heliotrope. He also got married on the beach at sunset this past May. Sorry ladies.

Ann Knol, Associate Lecturer: 715-261-6206, ann.knol@uwc.edu teaches English composition and business writing and tutors in the Writing Center. She received her Bachelor of Science in journalism and English and her Masters of English in English, with a creative writing specialty, from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She currently is enrolled in a limited residency Master of Fine Arts program in fiction writing through Warren Wilson College. Before coming to UWMC in 2002, she had more than two decades of journalism experience, as a full-time reporter for the Southern Illinoisan and Wausau Daily Herald newspapers, as a correspondent on retainer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and as a correspondent and researcher for Money Magazine, Fortune, InStyle, and Real Simple. Ann also served as an associate editor at eBay Magazine and as a contributor to various other publications. She continues to work as a correspondent for Money Magazine during breaks from UWMC. Her husband, Douglas, is the principal of the Antigo Middle School and they have three children, Nicholas, Molly and Max. Nicholas and Molly are now in college, which may give Ann some special insights into the pressures of college life. She enjoys watching students grow as writers and as people.

Lynn M. Kordus, Associate Lecturer:   715/261/6339 lynn.kordus@uwc.edu

Janice Marshall, Lecturer:  715/261/6295 janice.marshall@uwc.edu  Janice Marshall earned a B.A. in English from Wartburg College and an M.A. in English from Marquette University. Her award-winning writing includes the Fayette County American Legion's "What America Means to Me" essay contest as an eight grader, the Hardee's Employee Labor Day Essay Contest and most recently, the Outstanding English Graduate award at Wartburg. Besides teaching writing, literature, and public speaking for the last 13 years, she has served as a high school speech judge for ten years. Off-campus, Professor Marshall is a kamikaze gardener who is in the process of ridding her lawn of grass, which delights her loving husband of four years. Her unflappable cats Cyrus (12) and Cinnamon (2) are unimpressed, as usual.

McCaslin, Christina: christina.mccaslin@uwc.edu: Christina McCaslin earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Western Illinois University. For her concentration in literature during graduate study, Professor McCaslin wrote a thesis on The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne as a "prophetess." She enjoys teaching composition but sees it more as "coaching," and frequently incorporates literature and current events into her courses. According to McCaslin, people say winters in Wisconsin are cold, but since she chills easily, 45 degrees might as well be 90 below. You'll recognize her as the gal in the sweaters and snow boots at all times.

Mark Parman, Associate Lecturer: 715/261/6264  mark.parman@uwc.edu Besides serving as the faculty advisor for UWMC's always irreverent student newspaper, the Forum, Mark Parman teaches Basic Writing skills, Composition I, and Composition II. He also teaches News Writing and Applied Journalism.  In addition to his work as bicycling editor for Silent Sports and the media director for the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival and the 24 Hours of Nine Mile.  He has written for Sports Afield, Outdoor World, the Bark, Mushing, Gun Dog, Pointing Dog Journal, the Upland Almanac, the Boundary Waters Journal, Fur-Fish-Game, Wisconsin Outdoor Journal as well as for Ducks Unlimited and the Ruffed Grouse Society.

Mary Svien-Schiltz, Associate Lecturer: 715/261/6261  mary.schiltz@uwc.edu  Mary Schiltz received a BA in Art from Luther College in Decorah, IA. She taught water colors and drawing at the college level in Alaska at Matanuska Susitna College, in addition to her 18-year high school teaching career in Art and English.  Further, Professor Schiltz has taught painting and writing class on and off for 22 years as well as memoir writing and family history research. She has completed graduate work in English at UW-Green Bay, UW Stevens Point and Concordia College. She homesteaded in Alaska for eight years, enjoying wilderness living. Off-campus, Professor Schiltz is married to a wonderful guy and has two grown sons. Her hobbies are reading and writing; she is currently working on an Alaskan memoir and a historical novel based on Norwegian ancestry.

  Lisa Seale, Professor: lisa.seale@uwc.edu. Lisa Seale has taught American Literature and Composition courses at UW-Marathon County since 1993. She currently holds the position of Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the UW Colleges, in Madison (2007-2009).

Deb Timoney, Writing Specialist  715-261-6245 debbie.timoney@uwc.edu. Deb Timoney received an MBA from Dowling College in New York. She received numerous academic awards both as an Undergraduate and as a Graduate student. While attending Dowling College, she taught writing, psychology and American Sign Language. This semester at UWMC she’ll be teaching writing, reading and communication. Deb’s hobbies include annoying her sister, reading Psychology Today, sign language and anything academic. Since moving to Wisconsin, Deb has learned that she loves barbequed brats and camping. Her cat, Tigger, has discovered that he loves the great outdoors and attempts to sneak out every night. Deb greatly enjoys working with young adults and hopes she can help them become the writers they were born to be. Deb looks forward to a wonderful career with UWMC.

Greg Venne, Writing Specialist, TRIO Program: greg.venne@uwc.edu Greg Venne earned his B.S. from UW-River Falls and a M.S.T. from UW-Stevens Point. He joined the UWMC faculty after 33 years of teaching at Wausau West High School where he served as the department chair and language arts coordinator.

Linda L. Ware, Emerita Professor: 715/261-6275 linda.ware@uwc.edu      Professor Ware earned a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University, an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed Ph.D. course work at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her specializations include Women Writers, American Ethnic Studies, and Literature/Visual Arts Connections. She has taught courses in Twentieth Century American and Anglo/Irish Literature Before 1945/After 1945, Women's Studies in Fiction, Minority Studies and the Canon in American Fiction. She is married to an attorney and her children have chosen similar professional lives: her daughter is an attorney and her son a film writer. In addition to a small art business, Linda is working on a manuscript titled Lit with Piercing Glances: The Painting and the Painter in Contemporary Novels by Women. She is also Vice Chair of the Wisconsin Arts Board.

J.D. Whitney, Professor: 715/261-6258 j.d.whitney@uwc.edu J.D. Whitney was partially educated at the University of Michigan. Author of 14 books/chapbooks of poetry, he has received writing fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the National Endowment for the Arts. Courses he teaches here at UWMC include Composition, Intro. to Literature, Creative Writing, Native American Mythology & Legend, The Literature of Nature, and Contemporary Native-American Literature. He has also taught at College of the Menominee Nation.

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• UW-Marathon County First-Year Composition Learning Outcomes
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