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Margaret (Peggy) Rozga

OFFICE ADDRESS:  1500 University Drive, Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188
OFFICE TELEPHONE:  (262) 521-5522; FAX: (262)521-5491
HOME ADDRESS: 519 Patrick Lane, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53208-3637        
HOME TELEPHONE:  (414)763-7887; (414) 791-7929 (cell phone)
EMAIL: margaret.rozga@uwc.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • B.A., Alverno College.  Major: English; minor: sociology
  • M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Major area: Twentieth Century Literature
  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Dissertation:  The Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates

CURRENT POSITION

  • Professor of English, University of Wisconsin – Waukesha. English department associate chair, fall 2000-present.
  • Courses of special interest: Twentieth Century African American Literature and History, team-taught with history professor Tim Thering; Drawing and Writing Poetry in Response to Nature, team-taught with art professor Barbara Reinhart at the UW-Waukesha Field Station; Introduction to Poetry; Introduction to Literature; Creative Writing (poetry emphasis)
  • Listed with Poets & Writers in the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

  • Associate and Assistant Professor of English, UW-Waukesha.
  • Lecturer, UW–Milwaukee Educational Opportunity Program.
  • Lecturer, George Washington University.

RECENT HONORS

UW Colleges / UW Extension Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, September 2007.

RELEVANT RECENT UNIVERSITY SERVICE

  • Chair, UW-Waukesha Evaluation Committee, June 2007-present.
  • Chair, UW-Waukesha Issues and Actions Strategic Planning Committee, October 2007-present.
  • Member, UW Colleges English Department Executive Committee, 1993-present.
  • Faculty Advisor to UW Waukesha Students for Peace, January 2005-present.
  • Faculty Advisor to The Windy Hill Review, the UW-Waukesha literary magazine, 1996-2002.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • Judge, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Triad Contest, New Poets Division, August 2007.
  • Judge, Maricopa County Community Colleges Playwriting Competition. January 2007.
  • Judge, Wisconsin Regional Writers Association Jade Ring Annual Poetry Contest, July 2005.
  • Poetry judge, Net Poetry and Art Competition (NPAC), Spring 2004.
  • Judge, Bo Carter Memorial Writing Competition, Waukesha Writers’ Workshop, Spring 2004 – 2007.
  • Board Member, Plowshares, Waukesha, Wisconsin.  February 2004-2007.
  • Judge, Waukesha public speaking association poetry contest, spring 2001.
  • Judge, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets student poetry contest, 1995.
  • Member, Executive Committee, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 1996-1999.

PLAY PRODUCED

March On Milwaukee: A Memoir of the Open Housing Protests.  University of Wisconsin Waukesha.  April 2007.  A second production by the Northside Milwaukee YMCA, September 2007. Also produced at Messmer High School, November 2007.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED

  • “What Writing Looks Like.”  Bylines 2008 Calendar.
  • “March On Milwaukee.” Wisconsin Magazine of History.  Summer 2007.
  • “When Civil Rights Were on the Rise,” (memoir essay). The Humanist. November-December 2006.
  • “East of Lookout Pass,” (memoir essay). The Rambler. September / October 2006.
  • “Civil Rights Movement Kept Alive at the King Center.” Milwaukee JournalSentinel. February 12, 2006.
  • “Voting Rights, But First Mrs. Abernathy’s Chicken.” Focus. Spring 2006.
  • “Navigating the Mainstream: Metaphors and Multi-Cultural Literature.” MELUS. Spring 2006.
  • “Grown Deep:  The Mississippi as a Site of Conflict in Southern Literature”. Conflict in Southern Literature. Ed. Ben Robertson. Troy University Press, 2006.  Reprinted Edward Mellen Press, 2007.
  • “Revising Short Fiction”.  Pedagogy Papers. Associated Writing Programs, 2002.
  • “Making the Transition from Fiction to Poetry in a Multi-Genre Introduction to Creative Writing Course”. Pedagogy Papers. Associated Writing Programs,2001.
  • Articles on Sandra Cisneros, Joyce Carol Oates and Mary Oliver in the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Vol. I, The Authors. Indianapolis:University of Indiana Press, 2001.
  • “Teaching, Learning, and Distance Education in Women’s Studies”. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources 19.1 (Fall 1997): 14-16.
  • “Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters, or A Woman's Place is in her own Fiction" in Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays ed. by Julie Brown.  New York: Garland, 1995. Paperback edition, 2000.  Reprinted in a collection of critical essays published electronically by Gale Research Press.
  • Review of three books of poetry by Ellen Kort.  Wisconsin Academy Review 41.2 (Spring 1995): 50-51.
  • “A Farm Under a Lake: What’s Happened to Huck's `Territory'”.  Mid-America 23(1994): 30-38.
  • “Sisters in a Quest—Sister Carrie and A Thousand Acres: The Search for Identity in Gendered Territory”.  Midwestern Miscellany 22 (1994): 18-29.
  • Articles on Nikki Giovanni, John Killens, Haki Madhubuti, Claude McKay, Louise Meriwether, and Gloria Naylor in the Encyclopedia of African Americans.  New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993.
  • “The Midwestern Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates” The Midwestern Miscellany 18 (January 1991): 34-44. Reprinted in a collection of critical essays published electronically by Gale Research Press.

POEMS AND STORIES PUBLISHED since 1997

  • “Promises.”  Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets 2008 Calendar. 
  • “Wealth of the World.” Out of Line. 2007.
  • “Your Daughter, Eve’s Daughter” and “What Now, Eve?” Poetry Midwest. Late Summer 2007.
  • “Gull,” (poem). Sea Stories , January 2007.
  • “Imbalance” and “The son comes home.  Alive.” Nimrod. Spring 2006. The first of these two poems was also nominated by the editors of Nimrod for inclusion in an annual national anthology Best New Poets.
  • "Breaking Camp," (poem)in the fall 2006 issue of the Apple Valley Review
  • “Every Fish Has Her Form,” (poem).  Buffalo Carp. 2006.
  • “Elk.”  The Binnacle.  Fall 2005.
  • “Alabama Bound”.  Out of Line.  2005: 169.
  • “Wind Fall”. Wisconsin Trails. October 2004: 34.
  • “To California Where Rhymes Fail.” Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America, edited by Virgil Suarez and Ryan Van Cleave.  Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. 163.
  • “Estuarian Politics,” “Figuring Out the World,” and “Cities of Brotherly Love.” Political Anthology. Pedestal Magazine.
  • “At the Chippewa Flowage” and “Wetland Weaving”. Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine 7.2(Fall 2003): 66; 85. (issued January 2004).
  • “The Marriage of River and Banks”.  Rhapsoidia 5(Winter 2004): 28-32.
  • “Tense”.  The Chaffin Journal (Fall 2003):50.
  • “Parts”.  The Kerf (May 2003):12.
  • “Tidal Turns”. Wavelength 6(Fall/Winter 2002-2003):29.
  • “Field Guide”. DMQ Review.  <www.dmqreview.com> November 2002.
  • “Seascape”.  Lotus Blooms Journal. August 2003.  Won honorable mention in this on-line traditional forms contest.
  • “Souvenirs”. Cenotaph Pocket Editions 6(Fall 2002).
  • “Rivers and Tears”. Concrete Wolf 1.5(Spring 2002): 61.
  • “At the Chippewa Flowage”. Mid-America Poetry Review 3.2(Autumn 2002):98.
  • “To Be Sure”. Ilya’s Honey 7.2(Summer 2001): 42.
  • “Oh, For Your Voice”.  2002 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Calendar: 38.
  • “Islands”.  Nantucket: A Collection. New York: White Fish Press, 2001: 149. This poem was originally published in the Northern Reader 9 (September/October 1994): 12.
  • “Final Sounding of the Last Century”, “Lake Superior,” and “Fishing Alone”. Wavelength 3(Fall 2001): 32-34.
  • News, Weather and Sports, a compact disc recorded with The Sparks, a group of five poets.  Released April 2000.
  • “For a Child on Her Own”.  Wisconsin Academy Review 46.4(Fall 2000): 42.
  • “Mothers and Rivers”. Comstock Review 14.1(Spring 2000): 73.
  • “After the Fall”.  2001 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Calendar: 96.
  • “Swimmers”. Cotyledon 15 (April 2000): 6.
  • “Watch Yourself”.  Cotyledon 13 (Summer 1999).
  • “First-Class Passenger”. MM Review (Summer 1999).
  • “Only Crows”.  2000 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Calendar: 25.
  • “Women in Byzantium”.  The Sulphur River Literary Review 13.1 (Spring 1997): 25.
  • “Bulldozing the Hill”. Writing for Our Lives 6.1(Summer 1997): 62.
  • “Arizona for Christmas” (travel narrative). The Eclectic Journal 7 (Winter 1997-8): 5-6.
  • “Black Hawk”.  The Blue Mesa Review 9 (1997): 178. Reprinted as the frontispiece of an essay by Jean Strandness in Mid-America, 2000.
  • “Jogging National Avenue”. Frontiers 2 (Fall 1997): 12.
  • “Dual Citizenship”. Advocate 11.4(August/September, 1997): 31.
  • “Labor Day”.  The 1997 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Calendar: 85.

STORIES AND POEMS PUBLISHED before 1997

In the Coffeehouse Poetry Anthology, SisterSong, Earth’s Daughters, Hodge Podge Poetry, Lucid Stone, BookLovers, Greenprints, Mostly Maine, Wisconsin Poets at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Second Glance, Writer’s Journal, Northern Reader, Office Number One, Espresso Poets, Malcontent, Perceptions, Exit 13, The Cool Traveler, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets calendars, Haiku Quarterly, Futureworks Poetry, Wisconsin Words and Eotu.

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • “Multiple Convergences: A Paper, A Course and a Play.”  UW Colleges Colloquium, Marshfield, Wisconsin, May 2007.
  • “Teaching Opportunities in the Two-Year College.”  Associated Writing Program. Atlanta, Georgia, March 2007.
  • “Will the Real Black Hawk Please Stand Up?”  Midwest Modern Language Association.  Chicago, November 2006.
  • “Restoring Comedy to the Headwaters.” Midwest Modern Language Association Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 2005.  Also presented at the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan, May, 2006.
  • “Grown Deep:  The Mississippi as a Site of Conflict in Southern Literature.” Conflict in Southern Literature Conference.  Troy State University. Montgomery, Alabama, September,2004.
  • “Navigating North of St. Louis: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the Upper Mississippi River.”  Midwest Modern Language Association.  St. Louis, Missouri, November 2004.
  • “Navigating the Mainstream.”  Critical Connections, a conference sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Institute on Race and Ethnicity.  Madison, Wisconsin, February 27, 2004.
  • “Metaphors for Multi-Culturalism.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Minneapolis, November 2002.
  • “Revising Short Fiction.”  Associated Writing Programs round table discussion presentation. New Orleans, March 2002. This paper was published in AWP’s second volume of Pedagogy Papers.
  • “Approaches to Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literature,” part of a round table Discussion I organized for the Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English in Baltimore, November 2001.  I recruited the other discussion leaders, two other UW-Colleges English Department members and a colleague from Pennsylvania.
  • “Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literature:  A Metaphoric Approach.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the U.S. (MELUS) annual meeting. Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tennessee. March 2001.
  • “Making the Transition from Fiction to Poetry in a Multi-Genre Intro. To Creative Writing Course”. Associated Writing Programs round table discussion presentation. Palm Springs, April 2000 and published in AWP’s first annual volume of Pedagogy Papers.
  •  “Native American Literature, Story-telling and Social Justice”. Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the U.S. (MELUS) annual meeting. Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2000.
  • “Reconnecting with Dakota Myth: Susan Power’s Grass Dancer” at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2000.
  • “Women's Studies by Distance Education,” a presentation at the Annual Convention of the National Women's Studies Association, June, 1997, St.Louis, Missouri.  This was part of a panel presentation by the Chairs of the Women's Studies departments at five UW institutions. The other members of the panel, the chairs from UW-Whitewater, UW-
    Platteville, UW-Parkside and UW-Stevens Point talked about our plans for a collaborative major and seamless transfer program in Women's Studies within the UW System.
  • “Successful Peer Reviewing," a panel presentation that I organized and chaired, CCCC Annual Convention, March, 1996, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

WORKSHOPS PRESENTED

  • “The Daily Dozens: A Journaling Strategy.” Wisconsin Regional Writers
    Association meeting, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, September 2005.  Also
    presented for the Chapter One Writers Group, Waukesha, Wisconsin, June
    2006.
  • “Writing Poetry in Response to Nature”. June 2005. Sitka Center for Art and
    Ecology, near Lincoln City, Oregon.
  • “Spring Poetry Workshop”. Sponsored by the Waukesha Poetry People and held at the University of Wisconsin Waukesha, March, 2004.
  • “Writing Poems in Response to Nature”. University of Wisconsin-Waukesha University Summer Camp for Middle School Students. UW-Waukesha Field Station, June 2004 and June 2002.
  • “One, Two, Three, Poetry”. Great Lakes Writers Workshop. Alverno College, June 2000.
  • “You Can Write a Poem in Fifty Minutes, OR at Least Begin”.  Fifty Minutes Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin – Waukesha, April 1998.  This presentation was repeated at UW – Fond du Lac, May 1998.

POETRY READINGS

Irish Cultural and Heritage Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; UW-Milwaukee Art History Gallery; ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; UW-Waukesha Visions and Voices Lecture Series; Brookfield,Wisconsin Public Library, UW-Washington County; Cedarburg, WI public Library; Borders Bookstore, Mequon, Wisconsin; Audubon Court Bookshop, Mequon, Wisconsin; Canterbury Booksellers, Madison, Wisconsin; Jitterz Coffee House, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin; Midwest Poetry Festival, East Lansing, Michigan; UW-Marinette; University of North Texas Conference on Linguistics and Literature; Woodland Pattern Book Center,Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Brookfield, Wisconsin; University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Conference; Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters annual meeting; Wisconsin Words Poetry reading, Brown Deer, Wisconsin.

WRITER’S RESIDENCIES

  • Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Otis, Oregon. November 2002—January 2003.
  • Ragdale Foundation. Lake Forest, Illinois.  April 2003.
  
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