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CURRICULUM VITAE DAVID S. FALDET Professor of English English Department Luther College Decorah, Iowa 52101

DEGREES: Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1986 M.A., University of Washington, 1981 B.A., Luther College 1979

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Professor of English, Luther College, 2002- Associate Professor of English, Luther College, 1996 -2002 Assistant Professor of English, Luther College, 1989-96 Assistant Professor of English, College of Idaho, 1986-89 Luther College Instructor of English, 1984-85 Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa, 1982-84 Teaching Assistant, Luther College, 1979

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Environmental writing and literature Rhetoric Media and media writing Creative and expository writing Victorian literature and culture Interdisciplinary learning Regional history

LEAVES: Sabbatical 2012-2013 academic year Sabbatical 2003-2004 academic year Sabbatical, fall semester 1996 and January term 1997

HONORS/AWARDS: Dean’s Office special sabbatical grant, 2012-2013 Lutheran Academy of Scholars, Harvard University, Summer 2008 Jones Professor of Humanities, Luther College 2007-2009 Ylvisaker Faculty Development Award 1998 Paideia Sabbatical Supplement Award 1996, 2003, 2012 Joyce Foundation grant 1994 Ada Louisa Ballard Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of Iowa Graduate College: Humanities, 1985-86 Helen Fairall Scholarship, University of Iowa Department of English, 1981-82 Danforth Graduate Fellowship, The Danforth Foundation, 1979-83

GENERAL PUBLICATIONS:

Article, “Chicago Norske Klub,” in Vesterheim, Summer 2015 Article, “Apology and ‘Letter from Birmingham’: Excellence in Civic Engagement,” in The Quest for Excellence: Selected Papers from the Seventeenth Annual Conference (2011) of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, eds. Dustin Gish, Christopher Costas, and J. Scott Lee, University Press of America Article, "The Arts and Crafts Movement, Norwegian Nationalism, and Complementary Identity in Chicago: 1889-1917," in Norwegian-American Essays, Vol. 14, Spring 2014 Book notice for Bark River Chronicles, in Annals of Iowa, Vol. 72, Spring 2013 Essay, “Running Into Relatives,” in Heartland Portrait: Stories from the Rural Midwest ed. Robert Wolf, Free River Press, 2009 Articles on local history, Decorah Journal and Decorah Public Opinion, 2007-2009 Book, Oneota Flow: The Upper Iowa River and Its People, University of Iowa Press, April 2009 Article, “The River at the Heart of Morris’s Ecological Thought,” Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, University of Toronto Press, 2007 Article, “What Would William Morris Make of Iowa?” in William Morris Society of America Newsletter, Winter 2006 Article, “What Would William Morris Make of Iowa?” in Wapsipinicon Almanac, No. 11 Article, “Laxey Mill: Ruskin’s Parallel to Merton Abbey,” in The Journal of the William Morris Society, Autumn 2000, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 37-43 Article, (co-written with Jacqueline Wilkie) “The Staying Power of a Little-Known Novella: Ann Petry’s ‘In Darkness and Confusion,’” in Tradition and Innovation: Selected Plenary and Panel Papers from the Third Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, eds. Scott Lee and Allen Speight, New York: University Press of America: 1999, pp. 135-140 Article, "An Index of their Maker: Morris's Labour in A Book of Verse and the Kelmscott Poems by the Way," in Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Fall 1996 Article, "High-Minded Yankees: Transcendentalism and Winneshiek County's First Decade," in Utopian Visions of Work and Community, ed. Jay Semel and Annie Tremmel Wilcox, University of Iowa, 1996 Book review of The Art of Restraint: English Poetry From Hardy to Larkin in Rocky Mountain Review, 1992, Vol. 46, Nos. 1-2, pp. 84-85 Book review of Yeats and the Visual Arts, in Rocky Mountain Review, Spring 1988, Vol. 42, Nos. 1-2, pp. 88-89 Dissertation, Visual Art and the Poetics of Rossetti, Morris and Yeats, May 1986 Article, "To See and To Be Shown: Dennis Tedlock's `The Beginning,'" North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 1982, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 22-35

POETRY “Wild Horses,” “Skrubben,” and “Transformation,” in drafthorse, Summer 2015 “Windbreak,” in Agora Spring 2015 Vol. 27, No. 2 “Men Were Elks,” in Prairie Schooner, Spring 2015 “Northerns,” in Cortland Review, Issue 65 “Violation” and “What I Hate About the Dead,” in The 2River View, Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 2014 “Tilt,” in R.KV.R.Y, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 2014 (accompanied by blog, “Phantom Limbs”) “Dad’s Radio,” in Midwestern Gothic, Issue 11, Winter 2014 (accompanied by interview) “Easter at Flamingo,” in Saw Palm, Vol. 8, Spring 2014 “Salt,” in Ruminate Magazine, Issue 30, Winter 2013-2014 “Get Well Flowers,” in Shot Glass Online Journal of Short Poetry, Issue 11, September 2013 “Menage” (“Dante,” “Proserpine,” and “Hades”) in Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Winter 2014 "The Horizon Empties," in Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis, Issue 25, Summer 2014 “Little Bean,” in Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer 2013 “Underpainting,” in Ekphrasis, Vol. 6, Spring/Summer 2013

2 “Watching the Pulse,” in Spiritus: Journal of Christian Spirituality, Spring 2013 "If You Miss the Sign for Davlia," in Rocky Mountain Review, 1994, Vol. 48, No. 1 "Noah's Raven," in Mid-American Review, Summer 1986, Vol. 6, No. 2, p. 34

LUTHER COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS: “A War Waged in Daily Choices,” in Agora Fall 2013, Vol. 26, No. 1 “A River Education,” in Agora Fall 2010, Vol. 22, No. 2 “Field Notices,” biweekly nature notes in College Chips, Sept. 2007-May 2009 “The Smell of Rain,” in Agora Spring 2009, Vol. 21, No. 2 "People in Nature: Respecting Our Place," in Agora Spring 2003, Vol. 15, No. 3 pp. 39-47 with Rachel Faldet, “Nottingham Transitions,” in Agora Fall 2001, Vol. 14, No. 1 pp. 2-3 “Postville and Paideia I,” in Agora, Winter 2001, Vol. 13, No. 2. pp. 15-16 “Luther College English Career Database and Alumni Contacts,” (with Jessica Johnson) June 2000 “Reflections on Two Lilly Conferences,” in Agora, Spring 2000, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 39-40 “Jesus of Nazareth,” in Agora, Winter 2000, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 33-35 “Taking the Upper Iowa,” in Agora, Fall 1999, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 13-20 “Don’t Quit Reading Your Bible,” in Agora, Winter 1999, Vol.11, No.2, pp. 16-18 Paideia I Reader, co-edited with Jacqueline Wilkie Fall 1998, Spring 1999 “The College and the River” in Agora, Fall 1997/Spring 1998, Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2, pp. 45-50 Article, "High-Minded Yankees: Transcendentalism and Winneshiek County's First Decade," in Agora Fall 1995, pp. 23-28 A Response to Linda Schearing's "On Monsters and Morality: Frankenstein and His Children" in Agora: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Discourse, Fall 1991 "Of Readiness and Rhetoric in Bacon's Advancement of Learning," A Humanist's Legacy: Essays in Honor of John Christian Bale, ed. Dennis Jones, Luther College, May 1990, pp. 26-33 A Response to John Whelan's "Art History and the Education of the American Eye," in Agora: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Discourse, Fall 1989

GENERAL PRESENTATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: “Looking In and Out of Elisabeth Koren’s Pantry,” Iowa’s Culinary Heritage lecture series, March 2015 “Porter’s Upper Iowa Re-Viewed,” Porter House lecture series, February 2015 “Bert Porter’s Upper Iowa,” Porter House lecture series, March 2014 featured poet, ArtHaus Poetry Slam, Decorah, IA March 2014 “Why Preserve Country Schools?” Iowa Country School Conference, Decorah, IA, October 2013 “A River Runs Through It: Writing Natural History,” Iowa Historic Preservation Conference, April 2012 “Transformed by the Journey: The Story of Luther College,” invited paper presented at LECNA/Concordia University Texas symposium on Legacy and Leadership, Austin, Texas, October 2011 “Norwegian Acculturation and the Upper Iowa Environment,” banquet talk, NAHA-Norway conference, June 2011 “Ancestral Patriotism: William Morris, Jane Addams, and Norwegian-American Arts and Crafts,” paper presented for NAHA-Norway biennial conference: “Migrant Journeys: The Norwegian- American Experience in a Multicultural Context.” Luther College, June 2011 “’Apology’ and ‘Letter from Birmingham’: Excellence in Civic Engagement,” paper presented for “The Quest for Excellence: Liberal Arts and Core Texts,” The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) Seventeenth Annual Conference, New Haven, CT, April 2011 “What Elisabeth Koren Saw,” presentation to Decorah chapter American Scandinavian Foundation, January 2011 “17th of May Reflections: Acculturation on the Ecotone,” Spring Grove, MN Sons of Norway, May 2010 Iowa history presentation, partners in education project, South Winneshiek high school, April 2010

3 “The Oneota Valley’s Norwegian Heritage,” Symra, September 2009 “Embracing Our Rivers,” keynote address at Iowa Rivers Revival, Webster City, IA, May 2, 2009 "Oneota Flow: A Deep History of Birds and People on the Mississippi Flyway," illustrated talk/reading at Audubon society meetings in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Moline, Cedar Falls, and at Lime Creek Nature Center in Mason City Book readings at Luther College, Simpson College, Loras College, Decorah and Riceville public libraries “William Morris and Victorian Medievalism,” Luther College Women’s Club, October 2007 “Revisiting the Garden: Fruit and Sexual Expression in the Work of William Morris,” Morris and Gender session sponsored by William Morris Society, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 29, 2006 “Cultivating the Dialogue Between Texts: Cabeza de Vaca and More,” April 8, 2006, Substance, Judgment, and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education, Association for Core Texts and Courses Twelfth Annual Conference “Winneshieks, Decorahs, and Other Residents of the Upper Iowa in the 1840s,” Decorah Geneological Association Annual Meeting, February 11, 2006 “’The Land They Were Made For’: Morris, Jane Addams and Norwegian-American Craft,” July 8, 2005, Royal Holloway College: University of London, Morris in the 21st Century Conference: The Fiftieth Anniversary Conference of the William Morris Society Invited speaker, "Impressionism and the Aesthetics of Pollution" symposium, held in conjunction with exhibition "Turner, Whistler, Monet: Impressionist Visions" at Art Gallery of Ontario, June 18- 19, 2004 Invited respondent, "A Literary View: Patricia Hampl's verbal essay on the Upper Mississippi River," MPR broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN, June 3, 2004 “English as a Foreign Language: Decorah’s English Colony of the 1870s,” presentation at Decorah High School local history day, February 2005 "Lutherans and Friends: Missionary Legacies of Some Notable Women," presentation to Decorah ELCA group, September 2003, Luther College Women’s Club, January 2006, and Decorah Coterie Club, February 2006 "They Weren't All Norwegians: Decorah's Contributions to the Civil War," presentation at Vesterheim Museum, June 2003 Discussion leader and planner, “Reconsidering Rivers” book discussion series, Decorah Public Library, September-October 2002 “Wildness and Barbarism: The Thames and Morris’ Environmentalist Aesthetics,” March 16, 2002, University of Toronto, address to the Biennial Conference of the William Morris Society of Canada “Eden and Turtle Island: Coevolutionary Beginnings,” poster presented at Notre Dame conference “Ecology, Theology and Judeo-Christian Environmental Ethics,” February 21-24, 2002. “The River at the Heart of Morris’s Ecological Thought,” Morris 2000 Conference, University of Toronto, June 2000 “The Staying Power of a Little-Known Novella: Ann Petry’s ‘In Darkness and Confusion,” (with Jacqueline Wilkie), Association for Core Texts and Courses Conference, Philadelphia, April 1997 “Strange World: the Early Historical Period of Northeast Iowa,” Allamakee County Historical Society, Winneshiek County Geneological Society, August and December 1998 "Carrie McNair and Decorah's Dramatic Summer of 1861," Retired Educators Association of Decorah, monthly meeting of January 1997, and Civil War Roundtable, spring 1998 “Elizabeth Koren,” Winneshiek County Geneological Society, November 1997 "William Morris," for montly meeting of Luther College Women's Club, 1996 “Dickens’ Utopian Vision,” Sioux City Public Library, November 1995, presentation in Utopian Visions series

4 "High-Minded Yankees: Transcendentalism and Winneshiek County's First Decades," presentation at "Building Utopia in the Midwest: the Nineteenth Century View" conference at Vesterheim museum, April 1995 Curator, "Reviving a Better Past: the Arts and Crafts Movement in England, America, and Norway" exhibit at Hauge Gallery, Vesterheim Museum, March-October 1995 With W. Bunge wrote, received and administered grant for $25,000 from NEH as part of consortium of Midwest colleges. Special project to organize spring 1995 conference "Building Utopia in the Midwest: the 19th Century View," and to prepare associated exhibit at Vesterheim Museum Discussion leader and planner, A Thousand Acres: An Iowa Tragedy, Decorah Public Library, April 1993 Discussion leader, "Passages" reading series, Charles City Public Library, October-November 1992 "Reconsidering Arnold's `Dover Beach,'" ICTELA Conference, Decorah, Iowa, October 1992 "Honors Programs," ICTELA Conference, Des Moines, Iowa, October 1991 "Art, Nature, and the Fantasy Theme of Socialist Utopia: Working Class Rhetoric in William Morris's Lectures and Essays," Annual Conference of the Victorians Institute, High Point, North Carolina, October 1991 Discussion leader, "Voices and Visions" poetry series, Charles City Public Library, October-November 1990 Speaker, "William Morris and Iceland," for monthly meeting of Symra, 1990 Chair, "William Morris and the Power of Fantasy," William Morris Society Meeting, MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., December 1989 Speaker, “Victorian Vision: the Changing World,” President’s Lecture, College of Idaho, spring 1989 "The World in Arnold's ‘Dover Beach,’" Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, October 1989 Served on organizing board of Lutheran Social Services of Idaho; wrote and received start-up grant of $30,000 from Wheatridge Foundation, 1988-89 Consultant, Idaho Humanities Council, developing high school study unit on theme of small town life Speaker and discussion leader, "Let's Talk About It" series sponsored by NEH and Idaho State Library, 1988-89 "Seeking the Ideal Book: Morris's Kelmscott Press and W.B. Yeats's Cuala Press," William Morris Society Meeting, MLA Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 1988 Participant, NEH Summer Institute, "Culture and Society in Victorian Britain," Yale Center for British Art, 1988 Wrote, received and administered grants from GTE and the Idaho Humanities Council for 1987-88 lecture series: "Promethean Fire: Human Values and Computer Technology" "Music and Motive in Rosseti's Poetry and Painting," Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, October 1987 "Orientations Toward Power: Victor Frankenstein as Scientist," Society for Values in Higher Education Annual Meeting, August 1987 Chair, "Writing Across the Curriculum," Midwest Writing Centers Conference, April 1984 "Gertrude Stein's Working Class Grammar," ICTE Conference, October 1983

LUTHER COLLEGE PRESENTATIONS “White Settler Violence and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Winnebago” Faculty Research Symposium, October 2013 “Anne Lamott: Word by Word,” panel presentation, Luther College Writers Festival, September 2013 Advent chapel, November 2011 nonfiction reading, Lutheran Festival of Writing, Luther College, October 2010 panelist, “A Sense of Place, “ Lutheran Festival of Writing, Luther College, October 2010 “A River Education,” fall convocation address, Luther College, August 2010 Native American Heritage chapel, November 2008, February 2011, November 2013 Ash Wednesday chapel, February 2008 Earth Day chapel talk, April 2003 "People in Nature: Respecting Our Place," Paideia Text and Issues public lecture, March 2003 “Jesus of Nazareth,” chapel talk, 1999

5 “Keep Reading Your Bible,” chapel talk, October 1998 “Great Expectations: Education for Community,” orientation days plenary address, August 1998 Hunger Week chapel talk, fall 1997 “Reading and Revision,” presentation to Sigma Tau Delta induction ceremony, March 1997 Martin Luther King day chapel talk, January 1996 “Truths that Separate,” chapel talk, September 1994 “A House on Sand,” chapel talk, January 1993 “To Practice Virtue,” chapel talk, November 1992 “Laws of Sacrifice,” chapel talk, spring 1991 “Who Will Care for the Body of Christ?” chapel talk, September 1991 “Radio Waves” chapel talk, November 1990

LUTHER COLLEGE FACULTY SERVICE Main Building Renovation Committee 2014- Paideia Program Director fall 2010 Co-director, Luther College Study Centre, Nottingham, England, 2015-16, 2000-01, 1993-94 Paideia Program Review Committee 2009-2010 English Department Chair 2006-2009 Sesquiecentennial Planning Committee 2006-2009 Mission Statement Committee 2006-2007 Paideia I (First-year core course) Planning Committee, 2005-2007, 2010-2012, 2013-15 Appointment, Tenure, and Promotion Committee 2004-2007, 2011-2015 ATP representative to College Council 2004-2007 Academic Program Committee 2002-2003 Curriculum Subcommittee of APC 2002-2003 APC representative to College Council 2002-2003 Environmental Studies Committee 2002-2005 Human Subjects Review Board 2001-2003 Faculty representative to Luther College Board of Regents 1997-2000 Curriculum Review Committee 1996-1999 Paideia I Co-Planner 1997-1998, 2007-2009 English Department Curriculum Review Committee, summer 1998 Lilly Conference representative, 1996, 1998 Convenor, Old Teachers’ Group 1994-1996 Faculty Council 1995-1996 Faculty Affairs Committee, 1995-96 ACTC Diversity, Democracy, and Liberal Learning, summer 1995 institute delegate/participant, Williams College NCUR faculty representative, 1995, 2000, 2002 Honors Committee, 1990-1993. 1994-1995 Honors Committee Chair, 1991-1992, 1994-1995 Honors Director, 1994-1995 Committee for Archives Mission Statement, 1992 Humanties and Fine Arts Division Secretary 1990-1991 Peace Prize Forum Committee, 1990-1991, 1994-1995 Chips (college newspaper) faculty adviser 1989-93, 2006-2012, 2013-2015 Paideia Planning Committee, summer 1990, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 Adviser to campus Amnesty International chapter 1989-1993 Adviser to Oneota Review, 1985, 2005, 2006, 2015

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WITH THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS Seth Ansorge, summer 1996, 1997 (developing views of Native Americans in Decorah newspapers) Joy Wotherspoon, summer 2001 (the missionary dimension of Winnebago schooling)

6 Gwen Rudy, summer 2003 (women’s roles in local agriculture: chickens and eggs) Katie Blobaum, summer 2004 (political orientation of Decorah newspapers) Jill Kambs, summer 2006 (images of the body and consumption in D.G. Rossetti) Cate Anderson, summer 2012 (Winnebago history and ethnic cleansing)

COMMUNITY SERVICE President, East Side School Development Committee 2004-2007 Good Shepherd Church Council Secretary 2002-3 Co-chair, school bond initiative, Fall 1999 Co-chair, school sales tax initiative, Spring 1999 Chair, FEWSS (Friends of East and West Side Schools) 1997-2000 Member, Decorah Board of Adjustment 1991-1993, 1998-2000 Good Shepherd choir, 1991-2006 Sunday School teacher, Good Shepherd Church, 1990-96, 1999-2000

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION: William Morris Society