Literature

Miriam Wallace

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Miriam Wallace Directory Tue, 07/04/2023 - 05:15

Area of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Writing

Miriam L. Wallace is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at ��ý-Springfield, and Professor of English. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College (BA) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (MA/PhD) in Literature. As a proud liberal arts graduate, she advocates for the value and impact of academic study, art making and performance, public presentations, and study abroadâ¿¿noting their impact on self-confidence, intellectual curiosity, and personal and professional growth.

She has written extensively on late eighteenth-century British writers who used fiction to advocate for political reformâ¿¿most notably in Revolutionary Subjects in the English â¿¿Jacobinâ¿¿ Novel (2009) (which was supported by an NEH College Teacher Fellowship). More recent work explores Romantic-era public speaking as depicted in satirical prints, literature, and popular cultureâ¿¿particularly by those formerly excluded from rhetorical training by virtue of class, sex, gender, race, educational level, or disabilities. She was Principle Investigator for an NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant to build a new â¿¿concentrationâ¿¿ in Health, Culture and Societies from 2021-2022 with colleagues in Epidemiology, Anthropology, History, and Physiology/Medicine. She continues as co-editor of the â¿¿Transits: Literature, Thought, and Culture 1650-1850â¿¿ series with Bucknell University Press with Dr. Mona Narain. Since January 2023 she has been involved in organizing and speaking about academic freedom and the importance of public universities as equity engines, resisting efforts to diminish or limit humanistic exploration and voices. Dr. Wallace is Co-PI with Dr. Emily Todd of an NEH Spotlight on Humanities grant on the humanities in an A.I. world for 2024-2025.

Office Location

1 University Plaza, MS UHB 3000

Research

Literature, particularly in English; Eighteenth-century studies and Romanticism; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Public Speech, history of; Satire, political and cultural

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Administration

Phone Number

217-206-7444

Publications

Books: Teaching the Eighteenth-Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement (2023 essay collection), with Kate Parker; Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel (2009); Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment: British Novels from 1750-1832 (2009 essay collection); Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: Essays on His Life and Work (essay collection), with A. A. Markley.

English and Modern Languages

mwall29@uis.edu

Teaching

English, Literature, British literature & culture Enlightenment & Romanticism; Health Humanities, Disability Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Women Writers

Editorial Boards

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850, Bucknell University Press, with Dr. Mona Narain

Dean

Professor

Area of Specialization

Humanities & Liberal Arts; Academic Freedom; educational gag orders; Literature and Politics; Women's and Gender issues; Higher education academic administration; Eighteenth Century and 1790s British literature and culture; Satirical Prints; Romantic-era novel; Virginia Woolf; feminist pedagogies.

Akash Belsare

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Akash Belsare Directory Sat, 08/20/2022 - 05:15

Area of Expertise

Office Location

UHB 3050

English and Modern Languages

Phone Number

217-206-7436

abels3@uis.edu

Assistant Prof.

Area of Specialization

Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Literatures, Comparative Race Studies, Critical Animal Studies

Lan Dong

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Area of Expertise

Lan Dong is the Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. She served as Chair of the Department English and Modern Languages (2017-2019), Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2021-2022), and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (2022-2023). She was the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellow in 2015 and worked on faculty development initiatives, faculty and staff handbooks, student petitions, and international student advising. She was a Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service Faculty Fellow from 2020 to 2022 and conducted research on accessibility, inclusive pedagogy, and open educational resources.

Awards

Spencer Award for excellence in public and academic community service (2025)
Diversity and Inclusion Award (2024)
Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Award (2019)
Faculty Excellence Award for career-long achievements in teaching and scholarship (2018)
Pearson Faculty Award for teaching excellence (2012)
University Scholar (2012)
Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2011)

Office Location

UHB 3050

English and Modern Languages

Phone Number

217-206-8334

Publications

Books

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters (since 2020)

"Girlhood Reimagined: Malaka Gharib's Graphic Memoirs." Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, 2024.
"Girl Gamers and Digital Activism in Doctorow and Wang's In Real Life." Co-authored with Tena L. Helton. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 77, no. 2, 2023.
"Multilingual and Multicultural Childhood: Robin Ha's Almost American Girl." Journal of Literary Multilingualism, vol. 1, no. 2, 2023. Comics Studies Society Article Prize shortlist 2025
"(Un)Masking a Chinese American Superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The Shadow Hero." Beyond the Icon: Asian North American Graphic Narratives, edited by Eleanor Ty, Ohio State University Press, 2022. Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize 2023
"Mapping Social Differences in the Virtual Classroom: Inclusive Multimodal Texts and Learner-Centered Design." A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing across the Humanities, edited by Vuslat Katsanis and Kristin Coffey, Vernon Press, 2022.
"History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior." Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, edited by Nahir I. Otano Gracia and Daniel Armenti, University of Wales Press, 2022.
"Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature." Asian American Literature in Transition: 1965-1996, edited by Asha Nadkarni and Cathy Schlund-Vials, Cambridge University Press, 2021. The American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022
"Drawing Childhood and Politics: Malik Sajad's Munnu A Boy from Kashmir." Studies in Comics, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
"Drawing Histories, Documenting Experiences: Clement Baloup's Vietnamese Memories." Inks: The Journal of The Comics Studies Society, vol. 5, no. 3, 2021.
"Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints." Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Oxford University Press, 2020.

ldong4@uis.edu

Teaching

Asian American literature and culture; children's and young adult literature; comics, graphic narratives, & graphic medicine; women writers; world literature

Professor

Heather Bailey

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Area of Expertise

Heather Bailey has a Ph.D. in modern European history from the University of Minnesota and has been teaching modern European and Russian History courses at UIS since 2002. Her research focuses on the intellectual, cultural, and diplomatic relations between France and Russia in the nineteenth century. She has published extensively on negative attitudes about Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in western European discourses. Currently she is writing a book on Anton Berezowski's attempt to assassinate Emperor Alexander II in 1867, in the broader context of criminal justice systems, radicalism, and political terror in France and Russia. It will also explore French and Russian interpretations of the eventâ¿¿s significance both in the immediate aftermath and in the decades leading up to World War I.

Publications

Books:

The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy: France and Russia, 1848-1870 (Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell UP, 2020).

Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Authenticity: The Reception of Ernest Renanâ¿¿s â¿¿Life of Jesusâ¿¿ in Russia (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

Articles:

â¿¿Eastern Orthodox Christianity,â¿¿ Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe, eds. Anthony J. Steinhoff and Jeffrey T. Zalar, 15-34 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024).

â¿¿Anti-Russian-Orthodox Discourses in the Trial of Anton Berezowski,â¿¿Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 6, no. 2 (2023): 159-80..

â¿¿â¿¿The churches that call themselves orthodoxâ¿¿: Nomenclature for Russian Orthodoxy in Nineteenth-Century France,â¿¿ Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 2, no. 2 (2019): 149-77.

â¿¿Roman Catholic Polemicists, Russian Orthodox Publicists, and the Tsar-Pope Myth in France, 1842-1862,â¿¿ Canadian-American Slavic Studies 53 (2019): 263â¿¿285.

â¿¿A Russian Spectacle in Paris.â¿¿ St. Vladimirâ¿¿s Theological Quarterly 61, no. 2 (2017).

â¿¿Russian Interpretations of Ernest Renanâ¿¿s Life of Jesus.â¿¿ Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth: Essays in Honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou, 147-55. Slavica Publishers, 2017.

Office Location

UHB 3061

History

Phone Number

217-206-7189

hbail2@uis.edu

Professor

Area of Specialization

Eastern Orthodoxy, Russian Orthodox Church, Modern European History, Franco-Russian Relations