BRONWEN R. TATE
#410–6038 Birney Ave. (503) 758-6264 (cell) Vancouver, BC [email protected] V6s 0L4 Canada www.bronwentate.com
EDUCATION
2014 Ph.D., Stanford University, Comparative Literature
2006 M.F.A., Brown University Literary Arts: Poetry
2003 A.B. with Honors, Brown University, Comparative Literature: Literary Translation
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor of Teaching, University of British Columbia, Creative Writing Program, July 2020–
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Director of Writing, Marlboro College, 2019–2020
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, Marlboro College, 2017–2020
Thinking Matters Fellow, Stanford Introductory Studies, Stanford University, 2014–2017
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Creative Writing, 20th Century North American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, The Ethics of Reading, Transnational Literary Studies, Literature and the Environment, Gender Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Poetry Book
2021 The Silk the Moths Ignore, 2019 Hillary Gravendyk Prize National Winner, I Inlandia Institute, forthcoming Spring 2021. * Finalist or semi-finalist for 8 previous awards, including University of Akron Poetry Prize 2019 Finalist, Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition 2019 Honorable Mention (Selected by Judge Brenda Hillman)
Poetry Chapbooks
2019 Mitten: Scraps & Patterns (Dusie Press) 2016 Vesper Vigil (above/ground press) 2011 If a Thermometer (dancing girl press) 2010 The Loss Letters (Dusie Press)
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2009 Scaffolding: My Proust Vocabulary (Dusie Press) 2008 Like the Native Tongue the Vanquished (Cannibal Books) 2007 Souvenirs (Dusie Press)
Selected Recent Creative Publications
About Place: “By Gift, Purchase, Capture, or Inheritance” Bennington Review: “A Sickness Does Not Resemble” Denver Quarterly: “Acacia Street of Apparitions,” “News Known Sooner Abroad” Grist: “Cloister of Habits,” (forthcoming) Matchbook Magazine: “For Respite,” “For Curiosity,” “To Guide the Knife,” “To Return to the Body” Mississippi Review: “Evoke the Forest Where a Lair is Hid” (forthcoming) The Rumpus: “And so the Same Event Spreads Opposing Branches,” “The Beauty of Beings Unlike That of Objects,” “Empty Measure in Music” Sixth Finch: “To Relinquish the Story” Textsound Journal: “Ghazal for Orlando,” “Nightwood Ghazal,” “Pantoum for Hurston” Tinfish: “Moon Without Possible Approach” (forthcoming) TYPO: “Eliminate the Distance” the tiny: “For What Fingers Touch,” “To Acknowledge Damage,” “To See What’s There”
Scholarship
2018 “‘The Narrative No Longer Just Contains It Involves,’: Frank Stanford’s Collective Visions,” Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford. Ed. Aidan Ryan. Foundlings Press, August 2018.
2016 “The Day and the Life: Gender and the Quotidian in Long Poems by Bernadette Mayer and Lyn Hejinian,” Journal of Modern Literature 40.1 (Fall 2016), 42-64.
2012 “Lyric Sequence” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Roland Greene et al., 4th ed., Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2012: 834-835.
2012 “Poetry and Cubism,” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Roland Greene et al., 4th ed., Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2012: 321-322.
Pedagogy
Forthcoming "Guided Creative Writing Imitations as Entry to Modernist Women's Writing," MLA Options for Teaching Volume Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English, ed. Janine Utell Journal
Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation, Poetry Editor 2007-2008, Managing Editor 2008-2011
Works in Progress
Large as Life: The Scale of Post-1945 American Poetry (manuscript in preparation)
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“Reading Affect in Harryette Mullen’s S*PeRM**K*T” (accepted pending revisions with Contemporary Literature)
“Lorine Niedecker and the Encounter with Haiku” (article in revision)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2020 New Poets of Native Nations Women’s Scholarship, Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference 2019 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont Fellowship (Residency Award) 2019 Marlboro Faculty Professional Development Grant 2014 Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2014 (declined) 2013 Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Digital Humanities Fellowship, “Critical Traffic: A Literary Use Map” 2013 Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center 2011 Stanford DARE (Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence) Fellowship 2010 Stanford University Annual Oskison Writing Competition Award for Outstanding Papers by American Indian Students 2006 Brown University Francis Mason Harris ’26 Prize for Best Manuscript by a Woman
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Creative Writing Program, University of British Columbia
Optional-Residency MFA Courses Advanced Writing of Poetry, Fall 2020 Advanced Writing of Creative Non-Fiction, Fall 2020
Marlboro College
Creative Writing Courses Art as Inquiry: Writing Lyric Essays and Poems that Ask Questions, Spring 2020 How Poems Get Made: Intermediate and Advanced Poetry Workshop, Fall 2019 “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live”: Workshop in Short Narrative, Fall 2019 Creative Writing Explorations: Memory, Observation, Research, Invention. Material, Spring 2019 Global Literary Responses to Environmental Crisis: A Multi-Genre Workshop, Spring 2018 “Poetry is Not a Luxury,”: Reading and Writing Poems that Matter, Fall 2018 Narratology and Narrative Craft, Fall 2017
Interdisciplinary Project-Based Courses Writing and the Teaching of Writing, Spring 2020 Prison Story Project Performance (w. Jean O’Hara, Theater), Spring 2019 New Paradigms for Humanistic Inquiry. (w. Amer Latif, Religious Studies), Spring 2018) Cultivating a Daily Practice (Pop-up Course), November 2017
Interdisciplinary Writing Seminars
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Folklore in Literature and Pop Culture (Writing Seminar), Spring 2019 To Instruct and Delight: Theories and Practices of Reading (Writing Seminar), Fall 2018 Work/Life, Exploring Labor in America (Writing Seminar), Spring 2018 Food, Language, Culture (Writing Seminar), Fall 2017
Selected Tutorials Directed Creative Focus Workshop, Fall 2019 Narrative and Interactivity, Fall 2019 Life Writing in Poetry and Prose, Spring 2019 Advanced Fiction Workshop, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020 Reading and Writing Fantasy Fiction, Fall 2018 Exploring Gender Nonconformity in Creative Nonfiction, Fall 2018 Female-Authored Memoir and Personal Essay, Spring 2018 Fictions of Domestic Space, Spring 2018 Advanced Poetry Workshop, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020 Queering Peter Pan, Fall 2017, Spring 2018
Plans Sponsored Anna Morrissey, Freer Together: Exploring Freedom and Relationality through Faulkner, Spinoza, and Poetry, Spring 2020, Primary Sponsor. Adeel Sultan, Conflict and Compromise: A Theatrical and Literary Exploration of Muslim Perspectives in the US, Spring 2020, Secondary Sponsor. Jan Raphael Cornel, Proust, Poetry, and the Narrative Work of Friendships, Spring 2020, Secondary Sponsor. Roan Lee-Plunket, The Shape of Darkness: An Exploration of Science Fiction and Horror, Spring 2020, Primary Sponsor. Lydia Nuhfer, Plants of Concentration: Plant Classification in Human Context, Spring 2020, Secondary Sponsor. Nick Creel, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Interactive Electronic Literature: Creative, Analytic, and Technological Exploration of an Emergent Genre, Spring 2020, Secondary Sponsor. Sarah Sidney, The Books of Teenagers, Spring 2020, Primary Sponsor. Brooke Evans, As I Left: Recollections & Reflections, Fall 2019, Primary Sponsor. Kristen Thompson, A Landscape of Interactions: Sustainable Land Use from Farm to Forest to Fiction, Spring 2019, Secondary Sponsor. Daniel Medeiros, Carnivore Ecology through Study and Story, Spring 2019, Secondary Sponsor. Benjamin Foster, Piety, Laughter, and Tragedy: Reimagining Dialogism, Fall 2018. Secondary Sponsor. Hannah McGowan, On Closeness: Explorations of Intimacy through Narrative, Sculpture, and Translation, Spring 2018. Primary Sponsor. Noah Strauss-Jenkins, Tumbling: Existential Experience Through Word, Ink, Image, Spring 2018. Secondary Sponsor. Sam Amber, Lacking, Spring 2018. Secondary Sponsor. Lucas Wooden, Glycolalia, Fall 2017. Primary Sponsor. Christopher Ashley, Worlds of Storytelling, Fall 2017. Secondary Sponsor.
Stanford University You Are Here: Writing in the Age of Environmental Crisis (Sophomore Seminar), Spring 2017
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Food Talks: The Language of Food (w. Dan Jurafsky and Yoshiko Matsumoto), Spring 2017 World of Words (w. Elaine Treharne and Sarah Ogilve), Winter 2016 Stories Everywhere (w. Adam Johnson and Blakey Vermeule), Spring 2015, 2016, Fall 2016 Folklore and Literature in Russia and Beyond (w. Gabriella Safran), Winter 2015 Technological Visions of Utopia (w. Eric Roberts), Fall 2014 Women of Modernism, Fall 2010 The Rhetoric of Food, 2 sections per term, Winter 2009, Spring 2009
As Teaching Assistant Memory, History, and the Contemporary Novel, Fall 2010, Amir Eshel Poetry, Poems, Worlds, Fall 2009, Roland Greene What is Literature?, Fall 2008, David Palumbo-Liu
Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies 20th Century Art, Culture, and Aesthetics, Summer 2014 Intensive Middle School Expository Writing, Summer 2013 Intensive Expository Writing, Singapore, Spring 2010
Borough of Manhattan Community College English Composition, 2 sections for per term, Fall 2006, Spring 2007
Laboratory Institute of Merchandising Composition I, 2 sections, Spring 2007 Professional Communications, Spring 2007 Writing Topics: Ethics, Fall 2006
Brown University Workshops in Creative Writing: Poetry I, Spring 2006 Workshops in Creative Writing: Poetry II, Fall 2005
Brown Summer Studies Program Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction, Summer 2006
The Wall Street Institute of Bologna, Italy Teacher of English as a Second Language, 2003-2004
SELECTED PUBLIC READINGS
2019 New Orleans Poetry Festival 2018 Unnameable Books Grand Opening, Amherst, Massachusetts 2018 Open Mouth Reading Series, Fayetteville, Arkansas
PRESENTATIONS
2020 Poetics of Climate Change Panel, New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, Postponed due to Covid. 2020 Prose/Poetics: Writers on the Line Between Prose and Poem Panel, New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA, Postponed due to Covid.
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2020 “Teaching Evidentiary Poetics Through C.D. Wright’s One Big Self,” Teaching Documentary Poetics, NEMLA, Boston MA 2020 “Tell It Slant: Poetry and Truth-Telling,” Truth-Telling: Experimental Forms in Essay and Poetry, a Reading and Discussion, NEMLA, Boston, MA 2019 “Lorine Niedecker’s Haiku Experiments,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans 2019 Prison Story Project Performance and Conversation, Marlboro, VT 2018 “Probable Garden: A Reading and Discussion of Poems,” Stanford DARE@10 Homecoming Conference, Palo Alto, CA 2018 Panel Participant, “‘Like a Song of Hog Blood’: New Directions in Frank Stanford Scholarship, Frank Stanford Literary Festival, Fayetteville, AR 2016 “Affect, Subjectivity, and Tone in Harryette Mullen’s S*PeRM**K*T,” Reading Poetry, Reading Race, ALA Conference, San Francisco, CA 2015 “Brevity Effects in the Poetry of Robert Creeley,” PAMLA Conference, Portland, OR 2015 “‘A Huge Unruly Text That Grapples Ravenously with Everything Under the Sun’: Reading the Long Impossible Poem,” ACLA Conference, Seattle, WA 2013 “American Haiku in the Post-War Period,” Tuesday Talk Series, Stanford Humanities Center 2013 “Landscapes and Maps: Scale and Representation in Elizabeth Bishop’s Ekphrastic Poems,” Stanford Workshop in Poetics, Respondent: Jesse Nathan 2012 “‘This Is the Mathematics / I’m the Mother and the Poet’: Domestic Labor and Intellectual Work in Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day,” PAMLA Conference, Seattle, WA 2011 “Anglophone Haiku in the Post-War Period: Reactions, Responses, Adaptations,” Stanford Workshop in Poetics, Respondent: Phoebe Putnam 2008 “Metaphor in Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror,” Hermes International Comparative Literature Conference, London, UK. June 2008 2008 “Questioning the Book in Edmond Jabès,” ACLA Conference, Long Beach, CA
CONFERENCES AND EVENTS ORGANIZED
2019 “Rural Experimentalisms: Correspondence, Friendship, and the Pastoral,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA
2015 “Minimalisms, Maximalisms, Modes: Formal Scale and Poetic Attention,” ACLA Conference Seminar, Seattle, WA, Seminar Co-organizer: Lucy Alford
2010 “Shock and Introspection,” Graduate Student Conference
2009 “Avatars: Personae, Heteronyms, Pseudonyms,” Graduate Student Conference
2009 Bilingual Reading and Discussion of Translation and Contemporary Mexican Poetry by Coral Bracho and translator Forrest Gander
PROFESSIONAL AND LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES
MARLBORO COLLEGE
Curriculum Committee, 2018-- Assessment Task Force, 2018--
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Town Meeting Scholarship Committee, 2019-- English Committee, Chair, 2018-2019 Re-Imagining Marlboro Task Force, Summer 2018 Spiritual Life Committee, 2017-2018 Literature Search Committee, 2017-2018 English Committee, 2017-2018
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Course Coordinator Stories Everywhere, Spring 2016 Technology Coordinator World of Words, Winter 2016 Folklore and Literature from Russia and Beyond, Winter 2015
LANGUAGES
French and Italian, near-native fluency Spanish and German, reading knowledge