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Curriculum vitae PATRICIA FOSTER

Business Address

Department of English University of Iowa 308 EPB Iowa City, Iowa 52242 319-335-0474; 319-339-4389 (home) e-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Higher Education

Ph.D. English, Florida State University, May 1993. M.F.A. Creative Writing, The Iowa Writers' Workshop, May 1986. M.F.A. Visual Art, U.C.L.A., December 1980. B.A. Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Lambuth College.

Professional and Academic Positions

Professor University of Iowa Department of English/MFA Program in Nonfiction Iowa City, IA 52242 2006-2009

Associate Professor University of Iowa Department of English/MFA Program in Nonfiction Iowa City, IA 52242 2000 – 2005

Assistant Professor University of Iowa Department of English/MFA Program in Nonfiction Iowa City, IA 52242 1994-1999

Associate Professor Goddard College MFA Program in Creative Writing Montpelier, VT 1993-94

Honors and Awards

Pushcart Prize Nomination, “Fog,” The Sun, December 2013, Issue 456 Carl Klaus Teaching Award, University of Iowa, 2013 Notable Essay, 2013, “The Red Chair” (The Best American Essays, edited by Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin) Pushcart Prize Nomination, “Broken Parts,” Antioch Review, 2012 Pushcart Prize Nomination, “The Red Chair,” Southern Humanities Review, 2012 Breeden Scholar-in-Residence, Auburn University, Fall, 2012 Writing Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, July 2011. Writing Fellowship, Hambidge Center for the Arts, August, 2010. Notable Essay: 2010: “Sick of Smart,” (The Best American Essays, edited by Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin). Notable Essay: 2008, “The Girl Most Likely to Succeed” (The Best American Essays, edited by Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin). Notable Essay: 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1996, 1995 in The Best American Essays. Nomination for Outstanding Graduate Mentor for the Humanities, 2007. Iowa Arts & Humanities Initiative Award, 2007, University of Iowa Pushcart Prize nomination, 2004 “What Needs to be Needed” (essay) Pushcart Prize nomination, 2004 “I’ll Be Watching You” (short story) Dean’s Scholar Award, 2003 University of Iowa Hoepfner Award, Southern Humanities Review; essay award for "Hopscotch Girl," 1996. Minnesota Voices Project Competition Award for nonfiction manuscript, 1994 PEN/Jerard Fund Award, Women's Nonfiction, 1993 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, George Mason University, 1993. Ph.D Comprehensives passed with Distinction, Florida State University, 1992 Kingsbury Fellowship, Florida State University, 1992 Yaddo Fellowship, 1989-90 Lake Effect Fiction Contest, First Place, 1990.

Memberships

Associated Writing Programs MLA

TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Teaching Assignments Enrollment Evaluations

Fall 2013 CDA (on leave) Spring 2013 8N: 120 Advanced Nonfiction 15 13 Spring 2013 8N: 262 Graduate Readings Course 7 5 Fall, 2012 7130 Graduate Workshop, Auburn Univ. 11 10 Spring 2012 8N: 262 Graduate Readings Course 14 14 Fall 2011 8N: 120 Advanced Essay Workshop 9 6 Fall 2011 8N: 350 Graduate Essay Workshop 15 13 Spring 2011 WS:170 Writing Fiction 12 11 Spring 2011 08: 038 Intro to the Essay 21 Spring 2011 8N: 120 Advanced Nonfiction 14 14 Fall 2010 8N: 350 Graduate Workshop 11 10 Spring 2010 08: 038 Introduction to the Essay 21 19 Spring 2010 08: 98 Honors Proseminar 15 14 Spring 2010 8N: 355 Graduate Workshop 9 1

Fall 2009 8N: 350 Graduate Workshop 12 12 (course overload in Spring 2010) Spring 2009 8N: 120 Advanced Nonfiction 17 17 8N: 350 Grad Workshop 9 9

Fall 2008 8N: 130 Readings in Nonfiction 6 5 8N: 262 Grad. Readings in Nonfiction 17 15

Spring 2008 8N: 350:001 Essay Workshop 12 10 8N: 080 Undergrad Nonfiction 13 187: 199 International Studies Senior Project 1

Fall 2007 Visiting Writer at University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL

Spring 2007 8N: 262 Readings in Nonfiction: Memoir, 11 9 Memory, & Trauma 8N: 130 Forms of Nonfiction 17 17

Fall 2006 Medical Leave

Spring 2006 8N: 355: Forms of Nonfiction 10 9 8N: 120: Advanced Nonfiction 18 17

Fall 2005 8N: 130 Forms of Nonfiction 10 9

Spring 2005 8N:250 Forms of Nonfiction 14 11

Fall 2004 8N: 355 Nonfiction Writing Workshop 11 9 8N: 120 Advanced Nonfiction 15 13

Spring 2004 8N: 250 Forms of Nonfiction 10 8 8N: 130 Forms of Nonfiction 12 11

Students Supervised:

Degree objective Student name Years Outcome

Ph. D candidates Steve McNutt 2013-14 In Progress Priscilla McKinley 2004-06 Degree granted Mary Beth Pope 2003-04 Degree granted Holly Welker (ch) 1998-01 Degree granted Carol Tyx 1998-00 Degree granted Dan Roche 1997-98 Degree granted

MFA candidates Amy Bernhard (ch) 2011-2014 In progress Suzanne Cody (ch) 2011-2014 In progress Catina Bacote (ch) 2011-2014 In progress Elliott Krauss 2011-2014 In progress Zaina Arafat 2010-2013 Degree granted Laurel Fantauzzo 2010-2013 Degree granted Ariel Lewiton 2010-2013 Degree granted Mieke Eerkens 2010-2013 Degree granted Alea Adigweme 2009-2012 Degree granted Mark Lindquist (ch) 2009-2012 Degree granted Jillian Polaski(ch) 2009-2012 Degree granted Stephanie Griest(ch) 2009-2012 Degree granted Rebecca Epstein 2009-2012 In progress Nancy Newkirk 2009-2011 Degree granted Jenny Davis 2009-2011 Degree granted Rachel Yoder 2009-2011 Degree granted Amy Scott 2009-2011 Degree granted Annie Nilsson (ch) 2009-2011 Degree granted L. Van Wassenhov(ch) 07-2010 Degree granted Maris Venia (ch) 2007-2010 Degree granted Michael Potter (ch) 2007-2010 In progress Tim Denevi 2007-2010 Degree granted Janet Hendrickson 2007-2010 Degree granted Erik Habecker (ch) 2007-2010 In progress Jennifer Cheng (ch) 2006-09 Degree granted Dani Bojanski 2006-09 Degree granted Joshua Casteel(ch) 2006-09 Degree granted Maggie McKnight 2005-08 Degree granted Nicolas Kowalczyk(ch) 05- 08 Degree granted Alex Sheshunoff (ch) 2005-08 Degree granted Colleen Kinder 2005-08 Degree granted Katherine Jamieson 2005-08 Degree granted Nathan McKeen (ch) 2006-07 Degree granted Janani Sreenivisan 2006-07 Degree granted Jessica Van Eerden 2006-07 Degree granted Rossina Liu 2006-07 Degree granted Steve McNutt 006-07 Degree granted Brian Goede 2006-07 Degree granted Angela Autry (ch) 2005-06 Degree granted John Bresland 2005-06 Degree granted Ben Otto 2005-06 Degree granted Andrew Douglas (ch) 2004-05 Degree granted Michael Clark 2004-05 Degree granted Yiyun Li (ch) 2003-05 Degree granted Linda Heal (ch) 2003-05 Degree granted Angela Balcita 2004-05 Degree granted Bonnie Rough 2004-05 Degree granted

English Honors Emily Malony 2009 Second reader Tien Nguyen 2009 Degree granted Amanda Pirog 2009 Degree granted Amy Domeyer 2008 Degree granted Alanna Taylor 2005 Degree granted

International Studies Thesis Shajia Ahmad 2008 Degree granted

SCHOLARSHIP

Publications or Creative Works – Books

Understanding the Essay, co-edited with Jeff Porter ( Broadview Books, July, 2012). This is an anthology of close readings of works by famous essayists (Montaigne, Hazlitt, Baldwin, Orwell, Woolf, Didion, David Foster-Wallace, and others) by well known writers of the essay. A critical introduction provides the kind of historical and stylistic overview of the essay in its evolution from the baroque to the lyric that will alert students to the connections between tradition, and as T. S. Eliot once put it, individual talent.

Girl from Soldier Creek (novel), winner of the 2010 Fred Bonnie Award for the Novel (River City Publishing); excerpted in Stories from the Blue Moon Café, edited by Sonny Brewer (MacAdam/Cage, 2008). Paperback published, Oct, 2012; after conflict with publisher, rights were returned to the author, December, 2012. Just Beneath My Skin (University of Georgia Press; October, 2004), a book of lyrical essays exploring Foster’s autobiography as well as the genre of autobiography. The book asserts a necessary confrontation with the self in the context of culture, place and history. Starred Kirkus Review.

All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter (University of Alabama Press; September 2000). Parts of this book won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award as well as an Old Gold Fellowship from the University of Iowa.

The Healing Circle: Narratives of Recovery (Dutton, April 1998); co-edited with Mary Swander, Distinguished Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Sister To Sister (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1996). ed; Foster wrote a substantial introduction and an essay for this collection. Contributors include bell hooks, Joy Williams, Joy Harjo, Lucy Grealy, and sixteen other writers. Reviewed New York Times Book Review; Vogue.

Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul; ed. (New York: Anchor/ Doubleday, May 1994.) Foster edited the book and wrote the introduction. Contributors include: Naomi Wolf, Janet Burroway, Doris Grumbach, Margaret Atwood, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Connie Porter, Linda Hogan, Lucy Grealy, and others. Selected as a QPB paperback (1995); published by Rowohlt Verlag in Germany and Meulenhoff in Holland (1995); published by Circulo De Livro in Brazil (1999). Chosen by the National Writer's Voice Project as part of a national series: THE BODY IN QUESTION (grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, 1995). Chosen by The Center: Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center as a stage production, May 21-30, 1999.

Fiction and Literary Nonfiction

“Fog,” The Sun, December 2013, Issue 456, p 24- 27 “Contingencies,” Antioch Review, Fall 2013, Vol 71 #4, p 666 - 678 “The New World,” The Examined Life, Vol 2, #2, Spring 2013, p 129 - 133 “About Last Night,” forthcoming in Florida Review “In Transit,” The Sun, January 2013, issue 445, p16 - 20 Guest Edited Southern Humanities Review: The Cultural Memoir (with essay-introduction), spring 2013, special issue. Book Review, Island of Bones, Joy Castro, in Great Plains Quarterly, Summer 2013, Vol 33, #3, pg 198. “Inside,” Ploughshares (special nonfiction issue edited by Patricia Hampl), May, 2012, Vol. 38, # 2 & 3, pg 49-61 “Broken Parts,” Antioch Review, Spring, 2012, Vol. 70, #2, pg 208-219 “Broken Parts,” excerpted in Utne Reader, July/August, 2012. “The Red Chair,” Southern Humanities Review, 2012, pg 315-324 “I Love Your Sunhat,” New Ohio Review, winter issue, 2011 “The Orig,” Kestrel, Spring, Issue 24, 2010, pg 108 – 120. “The Velvet Cage,” MARY magazine online, February 2010. “You Girls,” Fourth Genre, Spring issue, 2011. “Legacy,” and “Vertical Drop” in Enacting Pleasure (Seagull Books, London), edited by Peggy Davis, NYU Law School, 2010. “Invasion,” Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Fiction Competition, 2010 “Sick of Smart,” Florida Review, Notable Essay for 2010 (Best American Essays, Robert Atwan), Vot 34.1, Summer 2009. “A Meeting in the Garden,” Antioch Review, Vol 67 #2, Spring 2009. “The Narcotic Couch: A Politics of Nonbeing,” Arts & Letters, Issue 21, Spring 2009; pg 108- 114. “The Accomplice,” Arts & Letters, 2008, Issue 20, pg 136- 146 “Bullies,” New Ohio Review, #4, Fall, 2008, pg 62-74.. “Circling,” Organica (Fall, 2008). “Night Driving,” Florida Review, Spring 2008, Vol 33.1, pg 28 – 39. “The Visit, 1949” Southern Humanities Review, Spring 2008, Vol. 42, #2, pg 170-184, “Self Portrait,” River Styx, Fall 2007. “Food Wars,” Antioch Review, Fall 2007, Vol 65, Number 4, pg 728- 743 “The Deserters,” Missouri Review, Vol XXIX, #4, pg 22-34, 2007 “The Girl Most Likely to Succeed,” Southern Review, Writing in the South XVII, pg 27-37, 2007. “The Best Place on Earth,” Glimmer Train; Issue 65, Winter, 2007. “Liberation,” Glimmer Train, Issue 63, Summer 2007 “Sideswiped,” Antioch Review, Special Issue: Memoirs True and False, Fall 2006, pg 810-816 “Last Place on Earth,” Massachusetts Review, Special Issue: The Messy Self, Summer 2006, pg 279-287. “The New Loneliness,” Connecticut Review, Spring 2007 “The Middle Row,” Arts & Letters, Issue 17, Spring 2007, pg 142-149. “Legacy,” (forthcoming) anthology devoted to The Birth of Pleasure, Carol Gilligan “Class Day,” Southern Humanities Review, Summer 2006, pg 136- 147 “Stripping the Memoir,” review essay, The Iowa Review, 2005, pg 172-175 “What Needs to be Needed,” Shenandoah, winter, 2004, pg 152 – 163; chosen as a Notable Essay (Best American Essays 2005). “I’ll be Watching You,” The Antioch Review, summer 2004, pg 549 - 565 “Double Heartbeat,” Southern Humanities Review, summer 2004, pg 246- 258 “A Different Voice,” Arts & Science Magazine, University of Iowa, fall 2004, pg 28-29 “What Planet Are You From?” The Florida Review, spring 2004, pg 28 - 38 “By the Sea,” Pedagogy, Duke University Press; spring 2004, pg 295 - 299 “The Rock Pile in the Swamp,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol 79, 2003, pg 534-547; chosen as Notable Essay (Best American Essays, 2004) “Girl from Soldier Creek,” in Stories From the Blue Moon Cafe, 2002 (McAdam/Cage), pg 75- 88 “My Savage Mind: Steps Toward an Autobiography,” translated into Italian for web magazine, Sagarana Riviste Letteraria, 2002 “Skin,” Shenandoah, Winter 2001, pg 31-45 “The Intelligent Heart,” Fourth Genre, 2001, pg 175-177 “My Savage Mind: Steps Toward an Autobiography,” Southern Humanities Review, Summer 2001, pg 256-265, chosen as Notable Essay of 2002 by Robert Atwan (Best American Essay) “Goody-Goody Girls,” Ohio Review, Fall 2001, pg 36-46; Notable Essay of 2000 (Best American Essays) “The Last Essay on Southern Identity,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2000, pg 585-600 “The Way Smart People Do,” Fourth Genre, Spring, 2001, pg 73-85 "The New Royalists," Southern Humanities Review, Fall, 1999, chosen as Notable Essay of 1999 by Robert Atwan (Best American Essays), pg 221-231 "Little Shelters of Repair," Prairie Schooner, Fall, 1998, pg 61-69 (and 26 other essays and short stories – to be provided if needed).

Grants

External: Alabama Voices, Alabama Arts & Humanities, 2004-2005 Alabama Voices, Alabama Arts & Humanities, 2001-2002 Alabama Voices, Alabama Arts & Humanities, 2000-2001 Alabama Voices, Alabama Arts & Humanities, 1998-1999

Florida Arts Council Writing Award, 1994-1995

Internal: Stanley International Travel Grant, 2011, Australia Stanley International Travel Grant, 2008-09 to Philippines for a reading and presentation of contemporary memoir. Stanley International Travel Grant, 2002, England SPAH Grant, 1998, $4000 Old Gold Fellowship, 1998, $5000 Old Gold Fellowship, 1996, $5000 Iowa Summer Research Grant, 1995, $5000

Anthologies

Essay exercise in Now Write, edited by Sherry Ellis (Tarcher/Penguin), February 2010. “The Last Place on Earth,” in The Messy Self, edited by Jennifer Rosner (Paradigm Publishers, 2007). Pg 65-71. “The Intelligent Heart,” in Fourth Genre Anthology (2004), pg 68-70 “What We Do For the Place,” in The Remembered Gate (University of Alabama Press, 2002), edited by Jay Lamar and Jeanie Thompson, pg 18-34 “Outside the Hive,” in Bearing Life: Women’s Writings on Childlessness, edited by Rochelle Ratner (The Feminist Press, 2000), pg 91-101 “Little Red Cap,” in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An Anthology of Women Writers on Fairy Tales (Anchor/Doubleday, 1998), edited by Kate Bernheimer “Dilemmas of Invisibility,” 20th Anniversary Anthology, The Cream City Review, 1996 “Victory,” in Alabama Bound (Livingston University Press, 1995) “Artificial History,” in Impact: Writings Inspired by Artist Colonies (ACTS Institute, 1994)

CDs/ Radio University of Iowa Radio Interview: Understanding the Essay, February 22, 2013. So, Is It Done? Navigating the Revision Process: Methods, Questions, Interviews, and Exercises to guide writers to their best work. Hosted by Janet Burroway, 2005.

Published Reviews of Scholarship

Composition Studies 41.2, Fall 2013, Understanding the Essay, reviewed by Madeline Walker, University of Victoria, pg 130-132. The Georgia Review, Spring 2006, Andrea Hollander Budy, 2 pages. Fourth Genre, Fall 2005, Wendy Rawlings, 182-85 ForeWord Magazine, January/February 2005, Lara Williams, 2 pages Booklist, Sept 1, 2004, Janet St. John, 1 page Publishers Weekly, August 23, 2004, 1 page Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 2004 (starred review), 1 page First Draft, Fall 2004, Julie Kaetz, 2 pages Alabama Review, October 2002, Margaret Ripley Wolfe, 1 ½ pages Fourth Genre, Fall 2001, Sue William Silverman, 247-249 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 31, 2000, Diane Roberts, 1 page Tallahassee Democrat, December 3, 2000, Mary Jane Ryals, 1 page Mobile Press Register, October 2000, Sue Walker, 1 page Kirkus Reviews, October 2000, 1 page. Ploughshares, Winter 1995-96, Kathryn Rhett, 2 pages Vogue, Fall 1996, Kennedy Fraser New York Times Book Review, Fall 1995 Women’s Review of Books, November 1994, Leora Tanenbaum, pg 14-15/ Mademoiselle, Fall 1994, Meg Wolitzer, 192-94 Chronicle of Higher Education (Melange), Fall 1994, ½ page The Birmingham News, 1994, ½ page Iowa City Press Citizen, 1994, ½ page Kirkus Reviews, 1994 TV interviews in Birmingham and Atlanta, 1994

Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations:

University of Dubuque Dept. of English Essay Presentation, Reading, Course lecture May 2, 2013

NonfictioNow Conference Melbourne, Australia November 2012 Panel: “First Person Conflicted” (my flight to Australia was canceled; Claire Sponsler read my paper for the panel)

Auburn Women’s Studies Program “Smart Girls: Women & Risk” Presentation/Lecture November, 2012.

Auburn University Literary Festival Conference Presentation: “A Writer’s Ambition” Workshops: “A Day in the Life” Essay Structure; Traveling Home: The Promise & the Peril” October, 2012

University of Missouri Video-conference presentation: The Essays of Joan Didion Oct 9, 2012

Mt. Mercy College Cedar Rapids, IA Presentation & Reading March, 2012

Keynote Address Auburn University Literary Festival Auburn, Alabama October 7-8, 2011

RMIT, Australia Presentation: “Third World America” Melbourne, Australia August, 2011

University of Wollongong Presentation: “The Shapeliness of the Essay” Wollongong, Australia August, 2011

AWP Conference, 2011 Panel participant: “To Wave or Not to Wave: Writing the Female Body Across Generations” Washington, D.C. Feb 2-5 (my flight was canceled due to the blizzard and I could not make my panel).

American Literary Festival Singapore Management University Singapore Reading: “Skin” from Just beneath My Skin, Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore, River Valley High School Panel Presentation: Boundaries and Borders, Singapore Management University Sept 27, 2010 – Oct 1, 2010

NonfictioNow Conference, November 2010 Iowa City, IA 52240 Panel Chair: “Three Women Sack Rome: the Female Essayist (panel will include Marilyn Abildskov, Marcia Aldrich and Patricia Foster, chair).

AWP Conference, April 2010 Denver, CO Panel Chair: Smart Girls II: The Ambition Game (panel includes Dorothy Allison, Xu Xi, Sue Silverman, Karen McElmurray, Patricia Foster, chair)

AWP Conference, February 2009 Chicago, IL Panel Chair: “Smart Girls: The Ambition Game” (panel included Dorothy Allison, Rosellen Brown, Sue Silverman, Karen McElmurray, Patricia Foster, chair)

Contemporary Publishing Panel “Nonfiction and the Market” University of South Alabama Nov 29, 2007

NonfictionNow Conference “The Political Essay and Literary Quandary” (first presentation) “The Literary Anthology” (second presentation) University of Iowa Iowa City, IA Nov 1-3, 2007

Dean’s Leadership Council Dept of Arts & Sciences University of South Alabama Mobile, Alabama 36608 Keynote Address: Smart Girls: A New Paradigm Oct17, 2007

Georgia College and State University Midlledgeville, Georgia Reading from Just Beneath My Skin Graduate/undergraduate master’s class February 20-22, 2006 NonfictioNow Conference “Sideswiped” – The Nonfiction Story: Ruptured & Revised University of Iowa Iowa City, IA Nov 10-12, 2005

Creative Writing Speaker Series Penn State, Erie Erie, Pennsylvania Reading from Just Beneath My Skin October 27, 2005

Sigma Tau Delta Conference Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington, Illinois “The Ambition Crisis” (keynote address and reading from Just Beneath My Skin October 1, 2005

Spirit of Women Conference “Minding the Body/Imagining Health” (keynote speaker) – storytelling and recovery in patient narratives. Nashville, Tennessee June 24, 2005

Montevallo Writers Conference (featured reader from Just Beneath My Skin) Montevallo College Montevallo, Alabama April, 2005

Florida Literary Arts Conference “Other Words” Panel Chair, Memoir: Craft and Critique Featured reader: Just Beneath My Skin Tallahassee, Florida March 4-5, 2005

Spelman College Featured reader to English Dept: Just Beneath My Skin Presentation: “Revision in Writing” Atlanta, GA January 2004

AWP Conference, Chicago “The Cultural Memoir” Chicago, IL March 2004

Saturday Scholar “Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography as Self-Discovery” University of Iowa Iowa City, IA October, 2002

2001 Oxford Conference for the Book University of Mississippi Oxford, Mississippi “Writing Our Southern Mothers” March 2001

Fourth Annual Alabama Writers Symposium Alabama Southern Community College Monroeville, AL 36461 Reading from All the Lost Girls Introduction to Sena Naslund’s Ahab’s Wife May, 2001

Visiting Writer/Readings:

University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri – Spring, 2013, Course presentation Prairie Lights Reading, February 14, 2013, Iowa City, IA Gnu’s Room, Auburn, Alabama, Presentation of Auburn University Writing Dept., Sept 6, 2012 RMIT, Melbourne, Australia – forthcoming readings at RMIT and other universities in Australia, August 2011. Presbyterian College, March 10, 2009 University of South Alabama, Nov 28, 2007 (reading) NonfictioNow Conference: Readings from Georgia Press, Nov, 2007 University of Iowa Art Museum, April 2007 Utah State University, 2008 (forthcoming) University of South Alabama Visiting Writer, fall 2007 (current semester) Georgia College and State University, Spring 2006 Illinois Wesleyan University, Fall 2005 Penn State, Erie, Fall 2005 Northern Michigan University, Summer, 2005 University of Tampa, Spring 2005 Bevill State Community College, Spring 2002 Mt. Mercy College, Fall 2001 Alabama Humanities Foundation Summer Institute, Summer 2001; University of Alabama at Huntsville. The University of Alabama, Spring 2001 The University of Central Arkansas, Spring 2001 The University of Tampa, Spring 2001 Eastern Mennonite University, Spring 2001 The University of South Alabama, Spring 2001 The University of West Florida, Spring 2001 Hope College, Spring 1999 The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Spring 1999 University of Nebraska, Omaha, Fall 1996 Northeast College, Fall 1996 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Fall 1996 Morehead State University, Spring1996.

INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT

Visiting Writer to RMIT and University of Wollongong, Australia, August, 2011. IWP grant to Beijing and Yinchuan, China, July 2011. Lecture/reading, Silliman University, Philippines; this event was canceled due to illness. Creativity Workshop: Prague (memoir) – summer 2008. Creativity Workshop: Florence, Italy (fiction); Barcelona, Spain (memoir), summer, 2007. Exchange professor, Paul Valery University, Montpellier, France, January – June 2003. Invited lecture, Lucca, Italy, Sagarana School, summer, 2000

SERVICE

Executive Committee, MFA Program in Nonfiction: Admissions/Financial Aid, Nonfiction Writing Program, 1994-2014 Stanley Review Committee, 2013. NWP Task Force for NonfictioNow, Australia, 2012. Stanley Review Committee, 2012 Review Committee, AHI grants, 2009 Undergraduate Creative Writing Track Steering Committee, 2008-2012 Tenure Review Committee, Chris Cokinos, Utah State University, Fall, 2007 Search Committee, 2004-05 – Assistant Professor, Nonfiction Search Chair, MFA Program in Nonfiction, 2004 Admissions Committee, MFA Program in Nonfiction, 1994-2009 Graduate Steering Committee, 1999-2004 Visiting Writers’ Series: I directed this series from 1994-2003, a process involving identifying visitors, coordinating workshops, lectures, Q& A’s, reviewing manuscripts for submission to Master’s Workshops, and overseeing teaching arrangements Reader, University of Alabama Press, 2002 Board of Student Publications, Inc. 1994-97 Writing Conference, National Federation for the Blind Review Board

Kudzu Review (Literary Magazine) Review Board, 2013-14

Graduate Writing Awards, 2006-07 University of Missouri Dept of English Columbia, Missouri

The Leeway Foundation Juror of 1998 Awards for Women Writers of Nonfiction Philadelphia, PA 19109

Iowa Review Essay Contest Juror, 2005

Work in Progress

“First Person Conflicted: Writing and Ambition – essays “The New World” – cultural memoir