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(773) 442-5710
Tim Libretti
Timothy
R
Libretti
Acting Associate Dean
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5823
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 218 American Literature: Beginnings -1865
ENGL 219 American Literature: 1865-Present
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 357 Land, Labor, and Literature
ENGL 369 American Realism
ENGL 371 Studies in Women's Literature
ENGL 381 African-American Literature
ENGL 382 Chicana/o Literature
ENGL 410 Literary Method and Practice
ENGL 430 Studies in Literary Criticism
ENGL 448D Hawthorne and Melville
ENGL 449M Studies in the American Novel
ENGL 449N Ethnic Literatures
ENGL 468 US Literary Modernism and Its Other
WGS 301E The Radical Feminist Imagination
Research Interests
US Literature, Working-Class Literature, Multi-Ethnic Literature, Marxism
Education

PhD  English, University of Michigan, 1995
MA   English, University of Michigan, 1991
BA    English summa cum laude, Cornell University, 1989

 

Selected Publications

Books
The Making of U.S. Warking-Class Literature and Consciousness: The Nations, Genders, and Sexualities of U.S. Proletarian Literature from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press).

Articles and Chapters
"A Proletarian Book of Laughter and Remembering: The Cry and the Dedication and the Inter/National Class Struggle" in Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan, ed. Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao, University Press of America, 2016.

"Dis-Alienating the Neighborhood: The Representation of Work and Community in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," in Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson, Steven M. Emmanuel. North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2016.

"Beyond the Innocence of Globalization: The Abiding Necessity of Carlos Bulosan's Anti-Imperialist Imagination."  Kritika Kultura, no. 23 (Summer 2014). On-line.

"'Verticality is such a risky enterprise': Class Epistemologies and the Critique of Upward Movility in Colson Whitehead's The Intiutisionist," in Class and Culture in Contemporary Crime Fiction, ed. Julie H. Kim. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014, pp. 201-224.

"'A Broader and Wiser Revolution': Refiguring Chicago Nationalist Politics in Latin Amercan Consciousness in Post-Movement Chicana/o Literature" in Imagined Transnationalism: Latina/o Literature, Culture and Identity, eds. Francisco Lomelí, Marc Priewe, and  Kevin Concannon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 137-155.

"Modernism and Politics" in Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005, pp. 176-180.
 

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Office Hours
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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Voglesonger measures water quality parameters at Gompers Park.
Kenneth
M.
Voglesonger
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Earth Science
College of Arts and Sciences
Other Academic Areas
(773) 442-6053
Expertise
Aqueous Geochemistry, Geochemistry of Life in Extreme Environments, Environmental Geology
Courses Taught
ESCI-123: Environmental Geology
ESCI-109W: Muddy Waters: Chicago's Environmental Geology
ESCI-307: Climate Change: Evidence, Causes, Effects
ESCI-306: Writing Intensive Program: Earth Materials
ESCI-311: Mineralogy & Petrology I
ESCI-327: Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry
ZHON-194: Honors Introduction to the Sciences
Research Interests
Aqueous Geochemistry, Geochemistry of Life in Extreme Environments, Environmental Geology
Education

Ph.D. Arizona State University

B.S. State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Office Hours
N/A
Main Campus
Amanda A. Dykema-Engblade
Amanda
A.
Dykema-Engblade
Associate Professor, Interim Associate CAS Dean
Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Social Psychology/Small Group Performance and Decision Making, and Psychology of Food.
Courses Taught
General psychology
Social Psychology
Social Psychology Lab
Psychology of Food
Service Learning
Research Interests
Transactive Memory Systems; Impression formation as a function of diet and food type (e.g., “healthy” versus “unhealthy”)
Education

M.A. and Ph.D. - Loyola University, Chicago

B.S. - Grand Valley State University

Selected Publications

Sánchez-Johnsen, L., Dykema-Engblade, A., Rosas, C., Calderon, L.,Rademaker, A., Nava, M., & Hassan, C. (2022). Mexican and Puerto Rican Men’s Preferences Regarding a Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Body Image Intervention, Nutrients (Special Issue: Cardiometabolic Health in Relation to Diet and Physical Activity: Experimental and Clinical Evidence), 14(21). 

Sánchez-Johnsen, L., Dykema-Engblade, A., Nava, M., Rademaker, A., & Xie, H. (2019). Body Image, Physical Activity and Cultural Variables among Latino Men. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action.

Craven, M., Keefer, L., Rademaker, A., Dykema-Engblade, A., & Sánchez-Johnsen, L. (2018). Social Support for Exercise as a Predictor of Weight and Physical Activity Status among Puerto Rican and Mexican Men: Results from the Latino Men’s Health Initiative. American Journal of Men’s Health.

Sanchez-Johnson, L., Craven, M., Nava, M., Alonso, A. Dykema-Engblade, A., Rademaker, A., & Xie, H. (2017). Cultural Variables Underlying Obesity in Latino Men: Design, Rational, and Participant Characteristics from the Latino Men’s Health Initiative. Journal of Community Health (pg 1-13).

Tindale, R.S., Smith, C.M., Dykema-Engblade, A., Kluwe, K. (2012).  Good and bad group performance: Same process - different outcomes.  Submitted to Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (GPIR): Special Issue in Tribute to Jim Davis.

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Office Hours
By appointment.
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David Nissim-Sabat, M.Ed.
David
Nissim-Sabat
Director of Pre-Professional Advising
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Pre-Professional Advising (pre-health & pre-law)
Grade Appeals for the College of Arts and Sciences
Education

M.Ed. - Depaul University
BA - Purdue University

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Office Hours
Appointments are available in person or via Zoom using the link below.
Bruce A. Mace
Bruce A.
Mace
Office Support Specialist
College of Arts and Sciences

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Office Hours
M-F 8:30am - 4:30pm
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Peter
Goldman
Administrative Assistant
College of Arts and Sciences
Education

BA NEIU 2007

Background

Art

Northeastern Illinois University
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Office Hours
Monday through Friday: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Debra
Williams
M.P.A.
Student and Faculty Program Support Specialist
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
College of Arts and Sciences liaison for faculty advising, graduation issues, and enrollment services. Course overload approvals, General Education and Improving Human Relations approvals and waivers, Merit Tuition Scholarship student contact, late registration, and University Core Curriculum committee member.
Education

Master of Public Administration, M.P.A.
Management and Information Systems
University of Illinois, Chicago

Design Analysis, Certificate
The Art Institute of Chicago

Business Administration, B.S.
Illinois State University

Background

Ms. Williams has extensive business experience and has held positions such as staff systems analyst and team leader in the financial services sector.

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Office Hours
By appointment
Shanna Griffus
Shanna
Griffus
Program Assistant
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
-Program Assistant for the College of Arts and Sciences
-Key support to the CAS Dean
-Coordinating logistics and activities for college initiatives and programs
Education

MS - Buffalo State University

BFAAE in Art Education - School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Office Hours
Monday through Friday: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.