9/20/2010
GRETCHEN T.
LEGLER
Curriculum
Vitae
Current
Academic Position
Division of Humanities
(207) 778-7182
BFA Program in Creative Writing
FAX (207) 778-7452
Promotion to Full Professor 2006
Awarded Tenure 2003
Promotion to Associate Professor 2001
Hired as Assistant Professor 2000
Previous
Academic Positions
Department of Creative Writing and Literary
Arts, MFA
Program. 1994-2000
Education
Ph.D. English,
Thesis: "Toward A Postmodern Pastoral:
Contemporary Women Writers' Revisions of the Natural World"
Minor in Feminist Studies, University of
M.A. Creative Writing,
Thesis: "Naked Heart" (a collection of
twelve traditional short stories)
B.A. Cum Laude. Majors in Political Science
and
Journalism.
CREATIVE
WORK
Books
On The
Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo
Station
All The
Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman's Notebook. Booklength nonfiction. Seattle, Seal Press,
1995
Articles/Stories/Essays/Art
“Consider the
Acorn.” Essay under consideration at Orion magazine.
“The
Gardener.” Essay under consideration by Susan
Tomlinson (Prof. of Geology at
“The
One-Inch Window.” Writing exercise in Now
Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction from
today’s Best
Writers and Teachers. Sherry Ellis, Ed. Tarcher, 2009
“Acquainted
with the Night.” Let There Be Night:
Testimony on Behalf of the Dark. Paul Bogard, ed.
Introduction
to South, by Ernest Shackleton.
Reprinted by Barnes & Noble.
Twenty
entries. Home Ground: Language for An
American Landscape. Barry Lopez, ed.
“Moments
of Being: An Antarctic Quintet.” Writing
True: The Art and Craft of
Creative Nonfiction. Sondra Perl and Mimi Schwartz.
“The
Blue Inside the
“Nacreous
Clouds.”
“Moments
of Being: an
Antarctic Quintet.” Reprinted in Summer
Experience Anthology.
“Walking.”
Going Alone: Women’s Adventures in the
Wild. Susan Fox
“Fishergirl.”
Father Nature: Fathers As Guides to
the Natural World. Stan Tag and Paul Piper, eds.
“Gabimichigami.”
Sisters of the Earth, second
edition.
“Moments of
Being: An Antarctic Quintet.” The
Georgia Review. Winter 2002
"Fishergirl." His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress:
Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers. Catherine Reid and Holly
Iglesias, eds.
"Out-takes."
Under Northern Lights:
Writers and Artists View the Alaskan
Landscape.
Frank Soos and Kesler Woodwards, eds.
"Pole." Orion.
Winter 2000
"Southpole"
and "Sounds." The
Women's Review of Books. November, 1999
“Grouse.”
"Lake One,
Lake Two, Lake Three,
"All The
Powerful Invisible Things." American
Nature Writing 1999.
"Mushrooms,"
"Plumtree," and
"Gabimichigami." Gifts of the Wild.
"Gooseberry
Marsh Part Two."
"The
Blue." The Antarctic Sun Times.
McMurdo Station,
"Gooseberry
Marsh Part Two." The 1998
Pushcart Prize XXII: Best of the Small Presses.
"Gooseberry
Marsh Part Two." American
Nature Writing 1997.
"Gooseberry
Marsh Part
Two." Horizons: Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Winter
1997: 6
"Gooseberry
Marsh Part
Two." Bugle. 13.3 (Summer 1996): 97-99
"Gooseberry
Marsh Part Two." Orion.
15.1 (Winter 1996): 29-33
"Garden."
A Glimpse of Green: Women Writing on Gardens.
"Wolf." Intermountain
Woman. June/July 1996: 66-70
"Cold."
"Fishergirl."
A Different Angle.
"Wolf." Another
Wilderness: New Outdoor
Writing by Women. Susan Fox
"Gabimichigami"
and "Gooseberry
Marsh."
"Solstice"
(short story). Grain 20th
Anniversary
"Border
Water." The 1992-1993 Pushcart
Prize XVII: Best of the Small Presses. Bill Henderson, ed.
"Border
Water." Uncommon Waters: Women
Write About Fishing. Holly Morris, ed.
"Border
Water" and "Wildflowers."
"Juan
Mina" (short story). The House on
Via Gombito: Writing By North American
Women
Abroad.
C.W. Truesdale and Madelon Sprengnether, eds.
Rivers
Press, 1990
Creative Readings/Presentations
Visiting
Writer Series. Southern
Visiting
Writers Series. SUNY Oneonta.
Visiting
Writers Series.
Visiting
Writers Series.
Friends of
Schoodic Association Public Lecture. “What
Wind Does to Snow”: A Writer’s Antarctic Journey.”
“Puerto
Penasco.” The Word.
Granary Restaurant.
Visiting
Writers Series.
“Live
From Prairie Lights.”
Iowa Public Radio reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore.
Salt Lake
City Gay and
Brushfire
Books reading at
Women and
Children First
bookstore reading.
Toadstool
Bookstore reading.
Visiting
Writers Series.
Publication
reading with
Polar explorer Anne Bancroft at the
KFAI
Radio.
Visiting
Writers Series.
LGBT Queer
Radio interview.
Amazon
Books bookstore
reading.
Art Shanty
Reading on
Booklaunch
party and reading
for On the Ice. Jay/Niles Public Library.
“Moments
of Being: An
Antarctic Quintet,” and other works.
Visiting
Writers Series. “Out-takes.”
Gold Leaf
Institute,
“Northern
Heart.” 14th
Annual Nordica Celebration of the Arts.
Visiting
Writers Series.
The
Bookstore,
Community
of Kodiak.
Women's
History Month event.
Reading of
Antarctic work with Norman Vaughn, an
expedition member with Admiral Richard Byrd when Byrd flew the first
aircraft to
the South Pole. Cyrano's Bookstore,
University
of
KBBI
Public Radio. Homer,
AK. Reading of creative work and Interview about my trip to
Bunnell
Street Gallery, Homer, AK, April 10, 1998
"Making
Literature From
Landscape: Notes on the Creative Process."
Words for
the Earth: Annual
Earth Day Reading.
Women's
Community
Cooperative Tea Salon.
Talk.
Collaborative
Performance:
"All The Powerful Invisible Things" essay performed with Sue Campbell
(accompanist on dulcimer), and "A Little Forceful Persuasion: Some
Notes
on Dangerous Women.” Benefit reading for R.A.W. (Radical Arts for
Women).
"
"Garden."
Interview
and
Interview
and
Publication
Readings for All
The Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman's Notebook: Elliott
Bay Books,
Seattle, January 12, 1996; Amazon Books, Minneapolis, MN, January 4,
1996;
University of Alaska Fairbanks, December 8, 1995; Border's Books,
Anchorage,
AK, December 3, 1995; Cyrano's Books, Anchorage, AK, November 12, 1995;
University of Alaska Anchorage, November 11, 1995; Cups Café,
Homer, AK,
November 10, 1995
Writer's
Harvest National
Benefit Reading for Hunger. "Beautiful Fish" and "First
Snow."
Interview
and
Public
readings and book
signings for A Different Angle at Cyrano's bookstore,
SCHOLARSHIP
Articles
and Essays
All of the
following publications appeared in peer reviewed or edited journals and
anthologies.
"I Am A
Transparent
Eyeball: The Politics of Vision in American Nature Writing." in Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 216. Jeffrey Hunter, ed. Thomson/Gale Group
hardcover
edition (pages 29-33). 2006.
“The Sky, The Earth, The Sea, The
Soul.” In Eco-Man:
New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature. Mark Allister, ed.
"Toward a
Postmodern
Pastoral: The Erotic Landscape in the Work of Gretel Ehrlich."
Reprinted
in The First Decade of Ecocriticism from ISLE: Charting the Edges.
"I Am A
Transparent
Eyeball: The Politics of Vision in American Nature Writing."
"Who May
Contest for
What the Body of Nature Will Be?: Body Politics in American
Nature
Writing." Writing and the Environment:
Ecocriticism
& Literature. Richard Kerridge,
ed.
"Ecofeminist
Literary
Criticism." EcoFeminism: Women, Nature and Culture. Karen
Warren,
ed.
"Hunting:
A Woman's
Perspective." Living With Contradictions: Controversies in
Feminist Social Ethics. Alison Jaggar,
ed.
"Toward a
Postmodern
Pastoral: The Erotic Landscape in the Work of Gretel Ehrlich."
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and
the Environment, 1.2 (Fall 1993): 45-56.
"(Re)eroticizing
Human
Relationships With the Natural World: Native American and Anglo Women
Writers'
(Re)visions." Studies in the Humanities, 19.2 (December 1992):
183-
194.
"Brautigan's
Waters" (Critical essay on teaching nature writing). The CEA Critic
54.1 (Fall 1991): 67-69.
Reviews
Cold:
Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places (Will Streever). Book Review. Orion
Magazine.
Sept/Oct 2009.
The
Entire Earth and Sky: Views on
Leaving
Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist (Eva Saulitus). Book review. Orion
Magazine.
Nov/Dec 2008.
Big
Joni
Seager's Earth
Follies: Making Feminist Sense of the Environmental Crisis. Women's
Studies. 25 (Fall 1996): 537-539.
"Karen
Knowles's Celebrating
the Land: Women's Nature Writing 1850-1991.
Western
American Literature. 28.3 (Fall 1993):
254-255.
"Lori
Anderson's Cultivating
Excess." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the
Environment, 1.1 (Spring 1993):
190-192.
"North
Writers: A
Strong Woods Collection." American Nature Writing Newsletter
4.2
(Fall 1992): 9.
Conferences/Presentations/Papers/Lectures
International
and National
Presenter:
“Gender on Ice: Antarctic Women’s
Narratives.” Antarctic Visions: Cultural Perspectives on the
Southern
Continent.
Presenter:
“Let There Be Night.” Association for
the Study of Literature and Environment biennial conference.
Respondent:
“Queering the Ecobiographical Subject.” Association
for the Study of
Literature and Environment biennial conference.
Presenter:
“XX Marks the Spot: Women
and Travel Writing.” Associated
Writing Programs annual conference.
Presenter
and Panel Organizer/Moderator for “We Will
Be Citizens: The Insistent Voice of Lesbian Nonfiction.” Paper
titled “Sappho
In Antarctica.” Associated Writing Programs annual
conference.
Presenter:
“The Writer in
Presenter:
“Back in Soviet Times: Food, Cooking, and
Talk in the Transition from Soviet to Modern
Presenter:
“Fishergirl.” Panel: “You Don’t Get Credit
for Playing: When Sports Occasions Memoir.”
Presenter:
“Visual Proofs.” Panel: “Writing from
Presenter/Moderator:
“Recent Nature Writing” panel. Association
for the Study of Literature and Environment
biennial conference.
Presenter:
“
Panel
Member: American
Association of Colleges and Universities annual conference. Part of
UMF
EXCEL (Excellence through Engaged and Connected Learning) panel. A
teacher’s
perspective on using laptop computers in the Composition classroom.
Presenter/Panel
Organizer: "Gender on Ice: Women
in the Frozen South." Panel: "Pole to Pole: Images of Women in the
Presenter:
"The Blue" and "South
Pole." Panel: “
Chair and
Presenter: "Out-takes." Panel: “Original
Nature Writing.” Association for the Study of Literature and
Environment
biennial conference.
Chair and
Presenter: "I Am A Transparent Eyeball:
The Politics of Vision in American Nature Writing." Panel: “Annie
Dillard.”
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment biennial
conference.
Presenter/Discussant:
"Narrative Theory in
Eco-Criticism Roundtable." Western
American Literature conference.
Moderator:
Recent Women Nature Writers Panel. Association
for the Study of Literature and the Environment biennial
conference. Fort Collins, CO. June 9-11, 1995.
Presenter:
"Who May Contest for What the Body of
Nature Will Be?: Body Politics in American Nature Writing." Association
for the Study of Literature and the Environment biennial
conference. Fort
Collins, CO. June 9-11, 1995.
Regional
Attendee:
Attendee/Organizer:
“Wielding Words:” Maine Women’s Studies
Association annual conference.
Attendee: O.C.
Tanner Symposium.
The Search for a Common Language: Environmental Writing and Education.
Attendee:
Presenter:
"By the Time
You're Toast, It's Way Past Time to Leave: Playing With Language as a
Means of
Survival in
Discussant:
Presenter:
"The Body in
the Landscape: Voicing the Erotic in Environmental Literature." Panel:
"Erotic Wilderness: The Environment Which Breeds Desire."
Presenter:
"Ecocritical
Constructions of Nature as a Speaking Subject." Soundings: A
Conference
on American Life, Literature and Interpretation. University of
Co-Organizer
and Discussant:
"Rereading/Rewriting
Nature,"
Presenter:
"Toward A
Postmodern Pastoral: The Erotic landscape in the Work of Gretel
Ehrlich."
Presenter:
"Re-vising
the West in Literature: The Erotic Landscape in the Work of Gretel
Ehrlich." Coalition for Western Women's History.
Presenter:
"Emancipatory Strategies in Native American and Anglo Women's Nature
Writing."
Plenary
Presenter:
"Border Water," a creative non-fiction essay presented as feminist
nature writing at a plenary session of the Women and Nature/The
Nature of
Women Conference. Vermillion,
Local
Public
Lecture. “Michel de
Montaigne.”
Presenter:
"Space,
Place & Sex," a forum on art and gendered environments.
Presenter:
"Memoir-The
Art & Politics of Telling the Truth."
Presenter:
"Truth
Serum: Writing the Stories of Our Gay and Lesbian Lives."
Presenter/Discussant:
Moderator:
Discussant:
Presenter/Discussant:
"Mothers and Daughters: Generations of Women Writing." With poet
Linda McCarriston as part of Women's
History Month at the
Presenter/Discussant:
"Hidden Stories of Women in Literary History." Women's History
Month at Elmendorf Air Force Base,
Craft
Lecture: "Fact as
Fiction/Fiction as Fact: Telling the Truth in Creative Nonfiction." Visiting
Writer's Series.
Sermon:
"The Gospel of
Nature: What We Might Learn from the Wild," at
Presenter:
"Lesbian
Literature: An Historical Review." In Search Of: New Visions for
Gays,
Lesbians and Bisexuals community conference,
DISSERTATION AND MASTER’S DEGREE THESIS
WORK
Ph.D. Dissertation (1994
"Toward A
Postmodern
Pastoral: Contemporary Women Writers' Revisions of the Natural World"
is
an investigation of how nature and human relationships with the natural
world
are represented in American literary texts of the 19th and 20th
century.
In
addition to theoretical
and critical work, my dissertation also included my own nature
writing—a way of
engaging autobiographical criticism--putting my own life at the center
of my
theoretical work.
Master's Thesis (1991
"Naked
Heart" is a
collection of twelve traditional short stories completed to fulfill the
requirements of the Master of Arts Degree in English with an Emphasis
in
Creative Writing at the
RECOGNITION
OF CREATIVE AND SCHOLARLY WORK
National
/ International Honors and Awards
Winner:
Association for the Study of Literature and
Environment award in environmental creative writing for On the Ice:
An
Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station Antarctica. 2007.
Finalist:
Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for
Lesbian Nonfiction for On the Ice. 2006.
Graywolf
Press New Nonfiction Award for On the Ice.
Visiting
Scholar:
Grantee:
National Science Foundation Office of Polar
Programs Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Fellowship. August,
1997-
January, 1998.
Pushcart
Prize for essay "Gooseberry Marsh."
1998.
Pushcart
Prize for essay "Border
Water." 1992-1993.
Associated
Writing Programs Intro Journal Award
for nonfiction. 1991.
Writing
Residencies: Norcroft (
Other Honors and Awards
Sabbatical
leave from
Alaska
Arts Council Career
Opportunity Grant for travel
to
UAA
Teaching Excellence
Program Award for Outstanding Teaching. Nominee.
Chancellor's
Award for
Excellence for Outstanding Teaching. Nominee.
Chancellor's
Award for
Excellence for Outstanding Group Achievement for work with other co-chairs in the UAA
Program in Women's Studies. Spring 2000.
Selected
as a 1999-2000 Alaska
Humanities Forum Speakers Bureau speaker. Speakers traveled around
the
state by invitation from community groups, bringing to life the Forum's
mission
to "use the methods and wisdom of the humanities to promote the civic,
intellectual and cultural life of all Alaskans." My presentations were:
"The Story of Your Life: Memoir," "Memoir: The Art &
Politics of Telling the Truth," and "What Wind Does to Snow: A
Writer's Antarctic Journey."
Special
Sabbatical Leave from
UAA Faculty
Development
Fund Grant. April, 1998. A $3,500 grant to fund further research
and
creative activity related to my trip to
Alaska
Arts Council Career
Opportunity Grant for travel
to
University
of
Associated
Writing Programs Intro
Journal Award for nonfiction, 1991. Winning essays published in Indiana
Review.
National
Book Reviews (Selected list):
On the
Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo
Station
All The
Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman's
Notebook: New York Times Book
Review,
Kirkus Reviews (starred review), Library Journal, Publishers Weekly,
Booklist,
Los Angeles Times, The Bloomsbury Review, Feminist Bookstore News,
American
Bookseller, Outdoor Writers Association of America. “An awesome
vision…..a
spare yet vivid style.”
Grants (Selected List):
Faculty
Develop Fund /
Department Grant. Awarded
funds from
Faculty
Develop Fund / Department
Grant.
Awarded funds from University of Maine
at Farmington Faculty Development Committee and the Department of
Humanities to
travel to two conferences in 2009: The Associated Writing Programs
annual
conference in Chicago (April) and the Association for the Study of
Literature
and Environment conference in Victoria, B.C. (June).
Faculty
Develop Fund /
Department Grant. Awarded
funds from University of
Maine at Farmington Faculty Development Committee and the
Department of
Humanities to travel to the 2008 Associated Writing Programs annual
conference
in New York City (April).
Faculty
Develop Fund/
Department Grant. Awarded
funds from
Faculty
Develop Fund /
Department of Humanities Grant.
Awarded funds from University of Maine at
Farmington Faculty Development
Committee and Department of Humanities to travel to two conferences in
2005: ASLE
Conference in Eugene, OR, (June), and the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies conference in Salt
Lake City,
Utah (November).
Faculty
Develop Fund. Awarded funds
from the
Faculty
Develop Fund. Awarded funds
from the
Faculty
Develop Fund. Awarded funds
from the
Provost’s
Office Grant for
Research and Travel. Awarded
$1,000 from UMF Provost’s office for travel to Scott Polar
Research Institute in
EXCEL
Mini Grants: This grant money
was made
available through a special UMF technology initiative to encourage use
of
digital and other technology in the classroom.
Video Essay Project: Awarded $1,000 to train
myself and to hire a student assistant to help facilitate a project in
ENG 312,
Advanced Creative Nonfiction, where students took essays and
transformed them
into video essays, using sound, image, movement and other elements that
video
allows. Used digital video cameras and made extensive use of
UMF’s digital
video editing equipment. November 2001.
Faculty Webpage
project: Awarded $600 to create a faculty
website with links to my courses. Included Omnipage software. Summer
2002.
Radio Essay Project I: Awarded $1,000 to buy a
mini-disc recorder, facilitate project development, and hire a student
assistant to help train Advanced Nonfiction Workshop students in
digital sound
recording and editing. Used Work-Study funds to hire a student
assistant.
November 2002.
Radio Essay Project II. Awarded another $600 to
purchase a second mini-disc recorder for a larger Radio Essay Project
that was
again part of my Advanced Nonfiction Workshop. Used Work Study Funds to
hire a
student assistant. April 2003.
Service
Learning Grant: Awarded $500
from the UMF
Office of Service Learning to develop and teach an English Composition
course
that included a service learning component. Spring 2002.
Interviews and Articles (selected list)
Southeast
Review Online. October 10,
2009 Interview
with Brandy Wilson.
http://southeastreview.org/2009/10/gretchen-legler.htmlInterview
promoting reading.
WERU
radio.
"And You
Think That
We're Cold. . . " The
"Legler
Gets Anything
But a Cold Reception." UMF Mainestream (student paper). Arts
&
Entertainment.
"UAA
Community Profile:
Spotlight on Gretchen Legler, Creative Writing Department Professor." Northern
Light (student paper).
"Professor
gears up for
journey to snowy South." Northern Light.
"Local
writer shoots
for the moon, lands at South Pole."
Interview
about Antarctic
trip. KRUA Radio. UAA's campus radio station. 88.1 FM.
"Legler
Freezes."
"Honored
by National
Science Foundation, CWLA's Gretchen Legler to head to
"UAA
Prof's book
published." Northern Light.
"Fishing
for Words: UAA
Professor Weaves Her Love of Nature With Personal Revelation Into
Fresh,
Intimate Stories."
TEACHING
Beginning
Creative Nonfiction.
Lower-division workshop emphasizing close
attention to student work and close reading and analysis of varieties
of
nonfiction prose. Department of Humanities. Fall 2000-Present.
Advanced
Creative Nonfiction. Upper-division
undergraduate workshop emphasizing
close attention to student work and close reading and analysis of
varieties of
nonfiction prose. I have added technological elements to this course,
including
the creation of “video essays,” and “radio
essays.” Department of Humanities.
Fall 2000-Present.
Composition.
Course for first-year college
students emphasizing basic narrative and
organizational structures, generating techniques, revision and research
skills
for writing inside and outside of the college setting. Department of
Humanities.
Fall 2000-Present.
First
Year
Seminar. “Thinking
Green: Expanding
Your Environmental Awareness.” This course introduces students to
a variety of
different ways of raising their environmental consciousness, including
field
trips to local sites, readings in environmental issues, and a community
project
focused on environmental problems. Fall 2008. Fall 2009.
Seminar
in Creative Writing. A
"capstone" course for BFA majors in
which they move toward completion of work on a major writing project.
Department of Humanities. Spring 2001-present.
Literary
Nonfiction. A 200-level
literature course focusing on varied forms of nonfiction
writing including the memoir, the nonfiction novel, the personal essay
and
literary journalism. This is a course I developed and continue to
refine.
Topics and issues have included Women’s
Writing About Place, Varieties of Nonfiction Prose, the Graphic Memoir,
and the
Lost Origins of the Essay. Department
of Humanities. Fall 2001-present every other year.
British
Texts and Contexts. This
200-level required course for majors in English
and Creative Writing covered territory from the Romantic Era to the 20th
century. Fall 2009.
Gay
& Lesbian Literature.
This new 200-level course had to my knowledge never
been taught as such at UMF before Spring 2009. The class is a brief
survey of
gay & lesbian literature, film and cultural history touching on
different
genres and historical periods. Spring 2009. Winter Term 2010.
Nature
Writing: A Field Course. This
course is equivalent to ENG 212, the
beginning nonfiction workshop, but is open to all majors. The focus is
the
creation of an illustrated nature journal. The course takes place as
much as
possible in the outdoors, and includes hiking, canoeing, kayaking and
other
outdoor adventures, in addition to a 5-day field trip the
Introduction to Women’s and Gender
Studies. A 200-level course
meant to
introduce students to the issues and academic approaches of
Women’s and Gender
Studies. I have taught this course as a team-taught endeavor and by
myself. In
the Fall of 2006 this course included an ambitious “Act to Change
the World”
project that linked students in the two WST 101 sections to a community
project
spearheaded by a local doctor, which sought to raise funds for an
ambulance for
the Maria Louisa Ortiz health clinic in the
Exchange
Professor/Writing Practice and Home Reading: Taught these two courses to
fourth and fifth year students studying to be teachers of English at
the Komi
Pedagogical Institute in Syktyvkar, Russia, as part of University
of Maine
at Farmington teaching exchange program. Spring 2004.
LIA:
Explorations in Learning. A
ten week first –year seminar designed to
introduce students to the rigors and joys of college life. Fall 2002.
Summer
Experience. An intensive
one-week summer program for incoming students designed to
introduce students to the processes and rewards of academic life. June
2002.
June 2003.
Honors
Program. Technology and the Soul:
Living in the Electronic Age. Seminar-style course focused on reading
broadly
and discussing issues related to living in the digital age. Spring 2002.
Experimental
Linked Courses. In Fall 2001
I linked my English Composition course
with History Professor Allison Hepler’s LIA 100, forming a
learning community
that was built around the use of laptop computers and other digital
technology
in the classroom.
In Fall
2002, 2003, 2005,
and 2006 Professor Hepler and I linked courses again, this time English
Composition and US History I. We shared the same books for both
classes, and
linked writing assignments. I attended the History class two days a
week.
In Fall
2008 I linked my
First Year Seminar course “Thinking Grees: Expanding Your
Environmental Consciousness”
with Prof. Tom Higgin’s Drawing I: Drawing in the Natural World.
Beginning
Composition with Computers.
This course is part of UMF’s EXCEL
project--one of three linked learning communities in which each student
was
issued a laptop computer. My composition course was linked with
Professor
Allison Hepler’s LIA 101. The curriculum for the dual course was
built around
encouraging students to think critically about their relationship to
technology. Department of Humanities. Fall 2001.
Independent/Directed
Study.
Literary
Journalism (Spring
2001, Jeremiah Hackett)
Advanced
Nonfiction Writing
(Spring 2001, Kathryn Hill)
Advanced
Nonfiction Writing
(Spring 2001, Ellen B.)
Novel
Writing (Fall 2002,
Mina Mathews)
Advanced
Nonfiction (Fall
2002,
Creative
Writing Teaching
Apprenticeship (Fall 2002, Erin Sproul)
Creative
Writing Teaching
Apprenticeship (Spring 2003, Melissa Clark)
Composition
Teaching
Apprenticeship (Fall 2003, Heather Jordan)
Nature
Writing/Appalachian
Trail Journal (Fall 2003, Jasper Walsh)
Honors
Project: Oral
Histories of
Advanced
Nonfiction: The
Booklength Memoir (Winter 2005, Ally Day)
Beginning
Nonfiction: Travel
Writing/China (Spring 2005, Mark Rice)
Advanced
Nonfiction/Nature
Writing (May Term 2005, Kim Meyer)
Creative
Writing Teaching
Apprenticeship (Fall 2005,
Radio
Essays/Marathon (Fall
2005, James Doucette)
Creative
Writing Teaching
Apprenticeship (Spring 2006, Aaron Flye)
Advanced
Nonfiction: Travel
Writing (Winter 2006, Jay Delahanty)
Advanced
Nonfiction: Travel
Writing/China (Spring, 2006,
Ecofeminism
(Spring 2006,
Prema Long)
Feminist
Pedagogy (Winter
Term 2007, Bethany Jewett)
Women’s
Nature Writing.
(Summer 2008, Lee Cart)
Advanced
Nonfiction Writing:
Travel Writing. (Fall, 2008, Trevor Spangle)
Advanced
Nonfiction Writing:
Advanced
Nonfiction Writing:
Memoir (Spring 2010, Dory Diaz)
Undergraduate
Advising. My undergraduate
advisee load averages about 20. I
advise students on schedule and career planning, personal problems,
academic success
issues, and graduate school applications. In
the past several years I have been
privileged to advise several students in their application to the
Wilson
Scholarship fund, part of UMF’s undergraduate research fund
effort. Winning
students have included Lee Cart, Trevor Spangle and David Bersell. I
also
regularly writer letters for students who are applying to jobs and
graduate
schools.
Other Teaching
Nonfiction
Professor. Southern
Workshops and Community Education
Lenten
Studies Writing and
Arts Workshop.
Old South Congregational Church.
Goddard Masters
Degree in Individualized
Studies Summer Residency.
Nonfiction workshop on Writing About Place.
“Downeast
Writer’s
Workshop.”
Workshop emphasizing the connection between
creative writing and self-exploration.
"Flexing
the Writing
Muscle: Exercises to Stay in Shape."
"Funding
the Writing
Life."
Whittenberger
Summer Writing
Project:
Writing and the Wild. A summer writing institute for secondary school
students.
Presentation
of my Web Site
on Antarctica to
Anchorage
School District
Young Writer's Conference
workshop, in conjunction with the UAA Department of Creative Writing
and Literary Arts.
Alaska
Outdoor Writing
Workshops offered through the Alaska Nature Writing Institute.
Summer
workshops meant to help beginning to advanced writers develop skills
related to
writing about the natural world. Summer 1995-Summer 1998.
"The Plot Thickens: Keys to a Dramatic Story or
Narrative."
"Journaling:
He
Said/She Said."
"The Art
of the
Journal."
“Authors
and Editors: The
Editing Process."
"Creative
Writing
Skills for Business Writing." Workshop conducted at
the Alaska Small Business Conference.
"The First
Time
Ever." A creative writing workshop at the Unity and Diversity
Community
Conference.
Previous
Teaching Experience
Form and
Theory: Varieties
of Nonfiction Prose
Form and
Theory: Nature
Writing
Introduction
to Creative
Writing: Nature Writing
Introduction
to Women's
Studies
Analysis
of Nonfiction Prose
The Art of
the Memoir
Topics in
Nonfiction Prose:
Nature Writing
Topics in
Nonfiction Prose:
The Writer's Life
Introduction
to Creative
Nonfiction
Graduate
Workshop in
Creative Nonfiction
The Short
Story
Undergraduate
Workshop in
Creative Nonfiction
Writing
and Gender
Graduate
Thesis Advising
Undergraduate
Thesis
Advising
Writing
About Art
Writing
About Literature
American
Nature Writing
Grammar
for Creative Writers
Feminist
Expository Writing
Writing
for the Sciences
Introduction
to Women
Writers
Introduction
to Literature
Women's
Short Stories
Introduction
to Fiction
Writing
Writing
Lab Tutor
Intermediate
Expository
Writing
Introduction
to Creative
Writing.
Introductory
Expository
Writing
SERVICE
Department
and University Committees
Curriculum
and Planning
Committee. Fall 2008-Present.
Academic
Standards
Committee. Summer 2005-Winter 2007.
Women's
Studies Council. Fall
2000-Winter 2007.
Library
Committee. Fall
2001-2005.
Humanities
Department Peer
Evaluation Committee. 2003-Present.
Sabbatical
Leave Committee.
Fall 2001. Fall 2003.
Sexual
Harassment Committee.
Spring 2001.
Search
Committees
Women’s
and Gender
Studies/Composition Search Committee. Fall 2006.
BFA
Program Poetry Search.
2004-2005.
Social
Sciences Sociology
Search Committee. 2004-2005.
American
Literature Search
Committee. Fall 2000-Spring 2001.
Other
Service
Convocation
Speaker. September,
2006.
Organizer:
Nordica
Celebration of Women and the Arts. An annual performance in
UMF’s Nordica
Auditorium featuring dance, music, readings and other arts, performed
by
students, faculty and members of the community. 2002. 2003. 2005. 2006.
Interim
Program Director:
BFA Program in Creative Writing. Spring 2005.
Coordinator:
BFA Program
Visiting Writers Series. Fall 2004-Fall 2006.
Coordinator:
BFA Program
Website. Fall 2006-Present.
Presenter:
Upward Bound
Career Fair. Careers in Writing. July, 2005. UMF.
Honors
Council. Fall
2002-Spring 2003
Co-preparer:
Outcomes
Evaluation and Report for BFA Program in Creative Writing. Spring 2002.
Reader/Evaluator:
UMF
Writing Placement Essays. June 2002.
Selection
Committee: Apropos.
UMF’s magazine of student writing from the Humanities. Summer
2002.
Selection
Committee: Voices.
UMF’s magazine of student writing from first-year Composition.
Spring 2002.
Safe Zone
Task Force. This
task force, made up of students, faculty and staff, is working to help
make the
UMF campus a “Safe Zone” where differences of all kinds
(including race, sexual
identity, etc.) will be not only tolerated, but celebrated. Spring 2001.
Volunteer:
Center for Human
Development "Gearing up for
Presenter:
Humanities
Department Open Houses. I have spoken to prospective students and their
parents
about the Creative Writing Program. Fall 2002. Fall 2003. Fall 2004.
Volunteer:
Humanities
Department Pre-registration for incoming first-year students. I have
participated in this every fall since 2001.
Professional Service
Board of
Trustees
Executive
Committee. Association for
the Study
of Literature and Environment. 2007-2010 (an elected position).
Editorial
Board for ISLE:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 1996
--Present.
Editorial
Advisory Board for
Panel
Member: National Science Foundation Artists
and Writers Program Selection Panel. 2000. 2001.
Reader for
Environmental
History, a scholarly journal published by the Forest History
Society and
the American Society for Environmental History. 1998--Present.
Reader for
Organization
and Environment, a scholarly journal from Sage Periodicals Press.
1997--Present.
Reader for
Mosaic, a
scholarly journal that stresses cross-national and interdisciplinary
scholarship. 2002--Present.
Reader
Advisory Board/Manuscript
Reader:
Reader/Peer
Review:
Pearson/Longman Publishing. The Truth of the Matter: A Step-by-Step
Guide to
Writing Outstanding Creative Nonfiction. 2005.
Reader/Peer
Review:
University Press of
Reader/Peer
Review:
Peer
Review: Reviewed file
for tenure candidate at
Peer
Review: Reviewed file
for tenure candidate at Colby College. 2008.
Peer
Review: Reviewed file
for tenure candidate at
Peer
Review: Reviewed file
for tenure candidate at St. Lawrence University. 2005.
Peer
Review: Reviewed file
for tenure candidate at Colby College. 2004.
Judge:
Association for the
Study of Literature and Environment Award for Environmental
Creative Writing.
2009.
Judge: Publishing
Triangle Gay and Lesbian Nonfiction Awards. 2007.
Judge:
Judge:
Judge: Antarctic
Sun
Times. Nonfiction contest. Fall 2003.
Judge:
Regional
Representative: Northwest
Regional Representative for the National Women's Studies Association .
Summer
1999-Spring 2000.
Reader/Evaluator:
Northeast
Council on Study Abroad faculty applications for teaching in the NCSA
London
program. Winter 1997.
Contributing
Editor Association
for the Study of Literature and the Environment Bibliography. 1994.
1995.
Editorial
Board: Hurricane
Alice, a feminist quarterly.
Jay-Niles
Library Board.
Fall 2009-Present.
Founder:
Left Bank of the
Writer in
Residence:
Board
Member:
Board
Member: SAVES (Sexual
Assault Victim Emergency Services). A Farmington-based non-profit
organization
aimed at improving community response to domestic violence. 2001-2004.
Co-Organizer:
Superbowl
Sunday Ski for Women Fundraiser, in conjunction with the
Professional Enhancement
Sabbatical
Leave (one year).
Spring 2007 through Fall 2008.
Russian
101, 102, 201, 102.
These language courses prepared me for participating in UMF’s
teaching exchange
program with the Pedagogical Institute in
Trainee:
Week-long training
in Blackboard computer classroom software and other technological and
pedagogical skills related to using laptop computers as part of
UMF’s EXCEL
program.
Visiting
Scholar: One-month
residency as visiting scholar at
Writing
Residencies
(previously noted): Norcroft (
Feminist
Theory (WS 460): I
enrolled in this new course at the
Sabbatical
Leave (from
Previous Service /
Program
Chair/Directorship
Co-chair:
Women's Studies
Program,
Committee/Task
Force Work
Chair:
Women's Studies
Curriculum Committee,
Member/Project
Director:
Self Study and Outcomes Assessment Committee for Department of Creative
Writing
and Literary Arts. Spring 1998-Spring 2000.
Member:
University Committee
to Develop a Multicultural Studies Minor. Spring 1998-Spring 2000.
Founder:
Interdisciplinary
Feminist Studies Reading Group. A group of
Faculty
Advisor: The Family,
UAA's Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Transgender and Straight
Community Service in
Founding
Member: GLSTN
Co-Founder:
Alaska Nature
Writing Institute. The Alaska Nature Writing Institute is a non-profit
organization that promotes appreciation and conservation of
President
and Board Member:
R.A.W. (Radical Arts for Women). A new nonprofit funding group devoted
to
promoting feminist art in
Volunteer:
Judge:
statewide
contest. March,
2000.
Judge:
Homer Council on the
Arts and Homer News
Volunteer:
Habitat For
Humanity Women's House, an all-women built house in
Organizer:
"Celebration
Unplugged: Back To Our Roots--A Celebration of Women and Creativity." A community event including singing, dancing
and literary readings sponsored by R.A.W. (Radical Arts for Women).
Other Service-Related and Administrative
Activity
Administrative
Assistant:
Center for Advanced Feminist Studies Four-Year Rockefeller Foundation
Grant:
Theorizing Diversity. Organized final conference.
PREVIOUS NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
Freelance
magazine and
newspaper writer. 1985-Present.
Reporter.
Reporter. Agweek
Magazine,
Editorial
Assistant.
Reporter/Copy
Editor.
Associated Press,
Government
Correspondent.
MEMBERSHIPS
Association
for the Study of Literature and the
Environment
Modern
Language Association
National
Women's Studies Association