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3/9/2009

UW-Rock County Faculty Members Publish Book, Essay

Janesville – Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert, UW-Rock County assistant professor of English, is the author of the book Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Heinert has a doctorate in American literature from Marquette University and has been part of the UW-Rock County faculty since 2006.
Heinert analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz and Beloved in her book. Published by the Taylor & Francis Group of Routledge Publishing, the book presents readers with new ways of understanding Morrison’s novels in terms of race and genre and shows how Morrison shifts from conventional forms to a more unusual approach that allows interpretation by the reader.
John Pruitt, Ph.D., UW-Rock County assistant professor of English, has an essay featured in the book Making the Stage: Essays on the Changing Concept of Theatre, Drama and Performance. Pruitt has a doctorate in English from Ohio University and has been at UW-Rock County since 2006.
The book, edited by Ann C. Hall and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in September 2008, examines the theatre in an increasingly technological and isolated culture. Pruitt’s essay, “Parlor Tricks: Dramatized Conduct Literature and the Performance of Eighteenth-Century Domesticity,” examines how eighteenth-century conduct literature that aimed to mold people to certain moral standards was transformed into drama.