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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 2 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. 4 “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
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