University of Wisconsin-River Falls

 

 

Wisconsin English Journal

at UW-River Falls

 

Wisconsin English Journal has been edited for most of its nearly fifty-year run from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. 

 

This page serves as a homepage for past issues of the journal, editorial information, and more.


 

Sample Issues of WEJ

Click on the link below to view a sample issue of WEJ.  These files are in .pdf formal, requiring the Adobe Acrobat reader.  If you like what you read, please subscribe!

·      Sample Issue #1:Fall 1999

·      Sample Issue #2: Fall 2001

·      Sample Issue #3:  Spring 2000

·      Sample Issue #4: Spring 2002

·      Classic Issue:  WEJ #1 (1959) and Indexes for Volumes 1-20


Present and Past Editors of WEJ at UWRF

 

Ruth Wood

Ruth Wood is Professor of English at UW-River Falls, current editor of WEJ, and a scholar of literature, literary theory, and English Education.  Active in CEE as well as in WCTELA, Ruth has taught and supervised the student teaching of many graduates of UW-RF.  Since 2004, Dr. Wood has been assisted by Dr. David Beard.

 

Nicholas Karolides

Nick Karolides is Professor of English at UW-River Falls.  He is also editor and author of several books about censorship and about reader-response theory:. 

q      100 banned books : censorship histories of world literature (New York : Checkmark Books, 1999)

q      Censored books : critical viewpoints (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993)

q      Censored books II : critical viewpoints, 1985-2000 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002)

q      Reader response in secondary and college classrooms (Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum, 2000)

q      Literature suppressed on political grounds (New York : Facts on File, 1998)

q      Reader response in elementary classrooms : quest and discovery (Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1997)

q      Celebrating censored books (Racine, Wis. : Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English, 1985)

q      Reader response in the classroom : evoking and interpreting meaning in literature (New York : Longman, 1992)

He has also introduced several generations of English teachers to Reader-Response theory through his work in the Education program at UWRF and through his many publications.

 

Francis Chisholm

The first editor of WEJ, Dr. Chisholm was nationally recognized for his work in Semantics.  He was present at the formative meetings of the CCC, arguing persuasively for the place of semantics in what became the Communications movement (integrating the teaching of oral and written communication in first-year courses at colleges and universities). 


Tables of Contents of Past Issues of WEJ

Click on the links below to view the tables of contents of past issues of WEJ.  These files are in .pdf formal, requiring the Adobe Acrobat reader.

 
Volume 1-10

Volume 1 WEJ #1 (1959) and Indexes for Volumes 1-20

Volume Two:  October, 1959

January, 1960

April, 1960

Volume Three: October, 1960

February, 1961

April, 1961

Volume Four:  October, 1961

February, 1962

April, 1962

Volume Five:  October, 1962

February, 1963

April, 1963

Volume Six:  October, 1963

January, 1964

April, 1964

Volume Seven:  October, 1964

January, 1965

April, 1965

Volume Eight:  October, 1965

January, 1966

April, 1966

Volume Nine:  October, 1966

January, 1967

April, 1967

Volume Ten:  October, 1967

January, 1968

April, 1968

 

Volume 11-20

Volume 11:  October, 1968

January, 1969

April, 1969

Volume 12:  October, 1969

January, 1970

April, 1970

Volume 13:  October, 1970

January, 1971

April, 1971

Volume 14:  October, 1971

January, 1972

April, 1972

Volume 15:  October, 1972

January, 1973

April, 1973

Volume 16:  October, 1973

January, 1974

April, 1974

Volume 17:  October, 1974

January, 1975

April, 1975

Volume 18:  October, 1975

January, 1976

April, 1976

Volume 19: October, 1976

January, 1977

April, 1977

Volume 20:  October, 1977

January, 1978

April, 1978

 

Volume 21-30

Volume 21, October, 1978

January, 1979

April, 1979

Volume 22, October ,1979
January, 1980

April, 1980

Volume 23, October, 1980

January, 1981

April, 1981

Volume 24, October, 1981

January, 1982

April, 1982

Volume 25, October, 1982

January, 1983

April, 1983

Volume 26, October, 1983

January, 1984

April, 1984

Volume 27, October, 1984

January, 1985

April, 1985

Volume 28, October, 1985

January, 1986

April, 1986

Volume 29, October, 1986

January, 1987

April, 1987

Volume 30, October, 1987

January, 1988

April, 1988

 

Volume 31-40

 

Volume 41+

 

Volume 41, Fall 1999 (Full Issue)

Volume 42, Spring 2000 (Full Issue)

Volume 43, Fall 2001 (Full Issue)

Volume 44, Spring 2002 (Full Issue)

Volume 45, Spring 2004 (Full Issue)

Volume 45, Fall 2004 (Full Issue)


Submission Information

Wisconsin English Journal accepts submissions from teachers, scholars, and students of all areas of English Language Arts.  Submission dates are set by editor Ruth Wood;  please send all inquiries to Professor Wood at ruthann.p.wood@uwrf.edu.


Subscription Information

Subscriptions to WEJ are included in membership in the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English Language Arts.  For more information on WCTELA, visit http://facstaff.uww.edu/wctela/ .

 

 

 

 

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