Curriculum Vitae-1
Ann Elizabeth Hostetler [email protected] Associate Professor Department of English 109 Carter Road Goshen College Goshen, IN 46526 Goshen, IN 46526 Phone: 574-535-7469 (w) 574-537-9270 (h) Fax: 574-535-7293 (w) 574-537-0567 (h) E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1996 Dissertation: “ Telling the Story of the Past: History, Identity, and Community in the Fiction of Walter Scott, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Silko.” Advisors: Peter Conn, Farah Griffin, David DeLaura
M.A. The Pennsylvania State University, 1982 Thesis: “The Novel as Maturation Myth: A Study of Jane Eyre and David Copperfield” Advisor: Robert Lougy
A.B. Kenyon College, 1976 Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TEACHING Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana Associate Professor, Department of English, 2000-present Assistant Professor, 1998-2000
Courses taught include American Literature Survey, African American Literature, Contemporary African American Literature and Film; Major Author Seminar on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison; Major Author seminar on D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, American Indian Literature; British Literature 1800-present; Contemporary Poetry, Creative Writing (Introduction to Creative Writing; Advanced Writing: Poetry; Advanced Writing: Creative Nonfiction); Expository Writing; Humanities 420: Literature and Art; Humanities 321: Literature and Music; Introduction to Literary Interpretation; Literature and Writing (topics include "Writing About America," "Communities in Fiction," "Introduction to American Poetry," “Literary Journeys,” “Imagining Community,” Honors section); Expository Writing; Women in Literature: Women and Nature, Women's Studies: Women and the Media.
Supervised student teachers in English Secondary Education, 1999-2000.
Advisor to Broadside, student poetry publication.
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin English Teacher (10th, 11th and 12th grades), Upper School, 1993-1998
Sponsor of Echo, the creative arts magazine, 1993-97; Sponsor of The Charter, school newspaper, 1997-98.
Trained as S.E.E.D. leader and led faculty development group in multi-cultural education from 1994-98.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lecturer, English Department, 1991-92
Courses taught include Black Women Writers (400-level); Ethnic Diversity: Women Writers (200-level); American Indian Novel (300-level), American Indian Short Fiction (200-level)
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lecturer, English Department, 1990
Taught British Literature Survey from 1800 to the Present
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Teaching Fellow, 1982-1989, intermittent (During three of these years I was awarded dissertation or research fellowships)
Courses taught include Black and White Women Writers in Dialogue, Victorian Novel, Gothic and Fantasy Fiction, Literature and Medicine. With Professor Wendy Steiner taught Interpretation, with Professor Dan Malamud (biochemistry) taught an honors seminar in Literature and Science
Research Assistant for Professor Wendy Steiner (Spring 1984, Spring 1986)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Teaching Fellow, 1979-81; Edwin Earle Sparks Fellow 1981-82
Courses taught include English 10 and English 20, Composition and Argumentation. Directed the Writing Center during the spring of 1981; served as a Writing Center Tutor
Research Assistant for Professor Robert Hudspeth on his edition of Margaret Fuller’s Letters
PUBLISHING Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Director of Publicity, 1978-79
Doubleday & Company, New York, New York Copywriter, Editorial Reader, Publicity Department 1976-78
HONORS, GRANTS, AWARDS
Goshen College Faculty Research Awards, annually from 1999-2003 C. Henry Smith Peace Lectureship, 2002-2003 Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002 Women's Studies Research Award, Goshen College, Spring 2002 Multicultural Education Office Course Enrichment Grant, Goshen College, 2001-2002; 2002-2003 Women’s Studies Award for Faculty Research, Goshen College, Spring 2001, Spring 2002 Turner Dissertation Prize Nominee, University of Pennsylvania, 1996 Outstanding Educator Recognition, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, 1995 Wisconsin Arts Board Development Grant, 1993-94 for Poetry Academy of American Poets William Carlos Williams Award (Honorable mention, judged by W. S. Merwin, 1989) (Third Place, judged by James Merrill, 1988) African American Studies Curriculum Development Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1988. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1987-88 Dean’s Fellowship, 1986-87 Distinction, Ph.D. Field Exams, 1985 Distinction, Ph.D. Oral Exams, 1983 Distinction, M.A. Exam, 1982 Edwin Earle Sparks Fellowship, 1981-82 Phi Beta Kappa, 1976
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PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
A Cappella: Poetry in Mennonite Voices , editor. University of Iowa Press, 2003.
Empty Room with Light: Poems. Telford, PA: Pandora Press U. S. (Dreamseeker Books), 2002.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
African American Writers and The New York Times Book Review, 1970-2000. With Linda F. Selzer, The Pennsylvania State University. We are in conversation with the University of Mississippi Press about this project.
American Poetry and Peacemaking, from Whitman to the Present. Edited collection focusing on poets whose work involves intentional strategies for reconciliation.
Retelling American Histories: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Silko. I have had one offer of publication, but am looking further.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Entries on Elizabeth Alexander, Nella Larsen, Quicksand, Passing, Jean Toomer for The Feminist Encyclopedia of African American Literature, edited by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, forthcoming from Greenwood Press.
"Toni Morrison as Teacher: An Interview." Forthcoming In Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (pending final approval from Ms. Morrison). Interview conducted April 2001 in Princeton, NJ.
“Julia Kasdorf and John Ruth: The Poetics of Place and the Virtual Community of Mennonite Poetry.” The Measure of My Days, ed. John Sharp. Forthcoming from Cascadia Publishing in October 2004.
"Three Women Poets and the Beginnings of Mennonite Poetry n the U.S.: Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr, Jane Rohrer, Jean Janzen." Mennonite Quarterly Review (October 2003) 77.4, 521-546.
“Food as Sacrament in the Poetry of Jane Kenyon.” Bright Unequivocal Eye: Poems, Papers, and Remembrances from the First Jane Kenyon Conference. Ed. Bert Hornback. New York: Peter Lang publishing, 2000, 105-114.
“The Unofficial Voice: The Poetics of Cultural Identity and Contemporary U. S. Mennonite Poetry.” Mennonite Quarterly Review (October 1998) 72.4, 511-528. Rpt. In Migrant Muses: Mennonite(s) Writing in the U. S., ed. John Roth and Ervin Beck, Mennonite Historical Society, Goshen, IN, 31-48.
“The Aesthetics of Race and Gender in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand. PMLA (January 1990) 105.1, 35-46.
“Emerson and the Visual Arts: Private Response and Public Posture.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (Autumn 1987) 34.3, 121-136.
“Where Was God When Naomi Died?” (As Ann Hostetler Smucker.) Christian Living (July 1983), 8-10.
REVIEWS
3 Review Essay on J. Martin Favor, Authentic Blackness, McKay Jenkins, The South in Black and White, and Crispin Sartwell, Act Like You Know for Mississippi Quarterly (in preparation)
Review of Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American. Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Fall 2003.
Review of Julia Kasdorf's The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life. Mennonite Life. June 2002.
Review of Sarah Klassen’s Dangerous Elements and Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love for The Mennonite Quarterly Review (January 2001). Rpt. What Mennonites Are Thinking 2001. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2002.
Review essay on The Taken by Naomi Reimer, The Gladys Elegies by Barbara Nickel, and Siolence, an anthology of poetry by women on violence. The Mennonite Quarterly Review (May 2000).
Review of Susan Firer’s The Underground Communion Rail. Cream City Review (Fall 1993) 17.2, 305- 309.
Review of Adrian Louis’s Among the Dog Eaters. Cream City Review (Fall 1993) 17.2, 305-309.
INTERVIEWS (Given)
“A Cappella Anthology Draws on Many Voices in Mennonite Poetry.” An interview with Rachel Lapp. Goshen College Bulletin, December 2003. Volume 88, no. 4.
"The Eight-Year Road of a Poet-Scholar: An Interview with Ann Hostetler." By Raylene Hinz-Penner. Mennonite Life. December 2002. Volume 57, no. 4.
POEMS
“Priestess of Love.” In Are You Experienced?: Baby Boom Poets at Midlife. Ed. Pamela Gemin and Paula Sergi, University of Iowa Press, 2003.
“Priestess of Love” also won Honorable Mention in the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Contest of the Society for Midwestern Literature.
"Imaginary Housekeeping "Male Chorus" "Prayer Watch" "Stigmata" "Transfiguration" In Mennonite Life. December 2002. Volume 57, no. 4.
“Apparition,” Dreamseeker magazine, Fall 2001.
“Thumbelina,” The Aurorean, Fall 2001; rpt. Dreamseeker magazine, Fall 2001.
“Female Ancestor,” The Mid-America Poetry Review, Spring 2001.
“Imperfect Servant,” The Mennonite, April 3, 2001; rpt.
“Insomnia” “The Walnut Tree” Kairos: Arts and Letters From the Mennonite Church, Summer 1999.
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“The Iconoclast,” The Mennonite, April 6, 1999, 2.13, 4.
“Family Portrait,” The Mennonite, December 8, 1998, 1.39, 5.
“Spareribs.” In Greeting the Dawn: An Anthology of New Mennonite Writing, ed. Steven Yutzy. Goshen, IN: Pinchpenny Press, 1998.
“The Guest” “Errand” Porcupine: A Literary Arts Magazine (Summer 1997) 2.1, 18-19.
“Daniel Hoffman’s Graduate Poetry Workshop” “Listening to My Students Read” “Painting With My Daughter” (rpt.), “Marriage With Children” (rpt.) The Philomathean Society Anthology in Honor of Daniel Hoffman. University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
“Resisting Geometry.” The American Scholar (Winter 1996), 65.1, 88-89.
“Sunday Evening in Bird-in-Hand” “Walking to the Pond” Espresso Poetry. Ed Doris Gendelman. Milwaukee, WI: Audubon Court Books.
“Improvisations.” Cream City Review (Fall 1993) 17.2, 171.
“The Properties of Objects.” Mankato Poetry Review (May 1993), 9.
“Looking at Pictures With My Mother.” Mothering (Spring 1991) 59, 33.
“Marriage With Children.” Mothering, (Fall 1990) 57, 116.
“Painting With My Daughter.” The American Scholar (January 1990) 59.1, 66.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES
"Mennonites, Indians, Poetry and Peace: Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr and the Southern Cheyenne." C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture. Given at Bluffton College, March 25, 2003, Goshen College, March 26, 2003, The Cheyenne Cultural Center (Clinton, O.K.), March 30, Bethel College (Ks), April 1, 2003.
"A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry." Panel organizer and participant. Associated Writing Programs annual conference. February 28, 2003. Similar presentations were given at SSML at Central Michigan University in May 2003 and at the Midwestern CCCL at Bluffton College in October 2003.
"Three Mennonite Women Poets." Mennonite/s Writing: An International Conference, Goshen College, October 26, 2002.
"Faith and Learning in an Anabaptist Perspective." Plenary Panel Presentation. CCCU Campus-Based Faculty Development Conference. Gordon College. May 31, 2002.
"The Ethics of Imagination in the Short Fiction of Sherman Alexie." "Teaching in the Dark: The Study of African American Literature at a Small Midwestern College." Papers presented at M.E.L.U.S. (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States) Annual Conference at Washington State University, April 12-14, 2002.
5 “Christian Scholarship . . . with Whom?” Plenary Panel, Calvin College Conference on Christianity and Scholarship. Grand Rapids, MI. September 29, 2001.
“Mennonite Poetry: The Invention of a Literary Tradition.” M.E.L.U.S. (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States) Annual Conference. Knoxville, TN. March 2, 2001.
“Coming Into Voice: Three Mennonite Women Poets and the 20th Century Creation of an Ethnic Literary Tradition.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY, February 24, 2001.
“Bearing the Word: Storytelling and Slavery in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved.” AALCS 2000 Conference. University of Utah. Salt Lake City. October 2000.
“Toni Morrison and The New York Times Book Review: The Construction of a Literary Persona, 1970- 1999.” AALCS 11th annual meeting at ALA meeting in Long Beach, CA, May 2000.
“The Absolute Value of the Image in Jane Kenyon’s Late Poetry.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. March 24, 2000.
“Looking Through Women: Race Through Gender in Jean Toomer’s Cane.” Presented at the AALCS session at the American Literature Association meetings in Baltimore, MD, May 28, 1999.
“Picturing Family: Constructing Identity in Mennonite Sunday School Curriculum.” With Beth Martin Birky. Mennonites and the Family: Vision and Reality. Conference at Goshen College, Goshen, IN. 16 October, 1999.
“Defining the Mennonite Poet: Faith or Ethnicity?” Plenary session lecture. Mennonite(s) Writing in the U.S. Conference, Goshen College, Goshen, IN 10 October 1997.
“Toni Morrison and The New York Times Book Review.” NEMLA, Toronto, March 1993.
“Black and White Women Novelists in Dialogue.” American Literature Association, Miami, Florida, November, 1988.
SELECTED POETRY READINGS:
Kelly Writer’s House, University of Pennsylvania, November 2004.
Manchester College Writers’ Series, Spring 2004.
Goshen College, Celebration for A Cappella, with poets from the anthology, January 13, 2004.
Barnes and Noble, Mishawaka, IN, January 10, 2004.
Barnes and Noble, Lancaster, PA, December 13, 2003
Webster’s Books, State College, PA, December 11, 2003
First Mennonite Church, Indianapolis, IN, August 17, 2003
Barnes and Noble, Carmel, IN, August 16, 2003
"A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry." AWP. Baltimore, MD. February 28-March 1, 2003.
Poetry Reading with Di Brandt. Goshen College. January 10, 2003.
6 Oregon Extension of Houghton College. Guest Professor and Poet. December 4-8, 2002
Plenary Reading of Poems (with Todd David and Julia Kasdorf) at "Mennonite/s Writing: An International Conference," Goshen College, October 24, 2002.
"Empty Room with Light." Poetry Reading. Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and the Midwest Poetry Festival, Michigan State University, May 9, 2002.
Poetry Reading. Messiah College. January 2002.
"Open Studio." WNIT-TV. October 15, 2000.
"Ordinary Mysteries: A Conversation in Poetry." Poetry Reading with Todd Davis. February 8, 2000. Afternoon Sabbatical program of Goshen College.
SERVICE:
GOSHEN COLLEGE Planning Committee for "Mennonite/s Writing: An International Conference (2002)" Strategic Planning Committee 2001 to present Integrated Arts Committee 2000 to present Humanities Course Development Task Force 2000-2001 Women’s Studies Advisory Council 1999-present
IN THE PROFESSION AT LARGE Poetry Contest Judge: Taylor University, fall 2003; Manchester College, spring 2003, spring 2004. Conference for Christianity and Literature, Book Award Committee Chair, 2003. Conference for Christianity and Literature, Book Award Committee, 2002. Mennonite Quarterly Review, Board of Editors, 1998-present Mennonite Historical Society. Board Member. 1999-present. Cincinnati Mennonite Arts Weekend, Board Member 1995-1999. Trained as a group leader by the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project; Leader of S.E.E.D. faculty Development group at the University School of Milwaukee from 1993-1996
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Academy of American Poets African American Literature and Culture Society American Literature Association Associated Writing Programs Conference for Christianity and Literature MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States) Mennonite Historical Society, Elected Board Member 1999-present. Modern Language Association Poets and Writers Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Toni Morrison Society
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