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Evelyn I. Funda Evelyn I. Funda College of Humanities and Social Sciences [email protected] Utah State University (435) 797-3653 (office) 0700 Old Main Hill (435) 760-9703 (cell) Logan, UT 84322-0700 EDUCATION: Ph.D, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1994. (American Literature, Secondary Areas: Western American Literature and Folklore. Language: Czech) M.A., Boise State University, 1986 (English Education) B.A., Boise State University, 1984 English (Secondary Ed. emphasis / History minor) PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS: Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2016-Present Director, Mountain West Center for Regional Studies (CHaSS) 2016-Present Professor of English, Utah State University 2015-Present (Specializing in Willa Cather, American Literature 1865-1945, Western American memoir, and Agrarian Literature and Culture) Acting Department Head, English (February-March) 2020 Associate Professor of English, Utah State University 2001-2015 Assistant Professor of English, Utah State University 1995-2001 Instructor & Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1989-1995 English Teacher, Kofa High School, Yuma, Arizona 1986-1989 PUBLICATIONS: Book (Peer-Reviewed): Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. • Reviewed in The New York Times Sunday Supplement, Prairie Schooner, Shelf Awareness, Midwest Book Review, Kirkus, Booklist, Western American Literature, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Lifewriting Annual, Kosmos: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal. • Winner of Evans Handcart Award for Biography, 2014. Textbook: Farm: A Multimodal Reader. 3rd Edition. (Forthcoming). Textbook co-authored and edited with Joyce Kinkead and Lynne McNeill. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2020. (Two previous editions published by Fountainhead Press, 2014 and 2016). Peer-Reviewed Monograph in a Series: Mary Clearman Blew. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University. Western Writers Series, #172. 2006. Funda -- 2 Reading Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University. Western Writers Series, Studies of Western American Classics, #137. 1999. Scholarship In Progress: Willa Cather and the Czechs. Monograph. Interdisciplinary examination of Cather’s lifelong engagement with Czech history, culture, and people. Refereed Publications: “’New World’ Visions and Homegrown Art: National Authenticity in Works of Cather and Antonín Dvořák.” Modern Fiction Studies. 65.2 (Summer 2019): 264-284. (Available at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/727401/pdf ). “Rekindled Fires and My Ántonia: The Bohemian Immigrant Novels of 1918.” New Scholarship on My Ántonia, Special Issue of Willa Cather Review. 61.1 (Spring-Summer 2018): 5-15. “’Our Toni’/Our Willa: Laying Claims in the First Czech Translation of My Ántonia. In the Country of Lost Borders: New Critical Essays on My Ántonia. Stéphanie Durrans, editor. Paris. France: University Press of Paris-Ouest Nanterre, "Intercalaires” Series. 2017, 163- 183. “Willa Cather.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Eds. Jackson R. Bryer and Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/american-literature. “’The Crowning Flight of Egotism’: Willa Cather, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Cult of Celebrity.” Willa Cather Newsletter & Review 55.2 (Fall 2011): 25-30. “Picturing Their Ántonia(s): Czech Folk Artist Mikoláš Aleš and the Illustration Partnership of W.T. Benda and Willa Cather.” Willa Cather: A Writer’s World. Cather Studies 8. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 353-378. (Available at https://cather.unl.edu/scholarship/catherstudies/8/cs008.funda ) “Undergraduate Research Fellows and Faculty Mentors in Literary Studies.” Co-authored with Christine F. Cooper-Rompato, Scarlet Fronk, Joyce Kinkead, and Amanda Marinello. In Undergraduate Research in/and English Studies. Ed. Laurie Grobman and Joyce Kinkead. Urbana, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English Press, 2010. 143-161. “Willa Cather.” Chapter in Student Encyclopedia of Great American Writers, Volume III. Robert C. Evans, volume editor. Pat Gantt, Series Editor. New York: Facts on File, 2010, 27-46. Funda -- 3 “’With Scalpel and Microscope in Hand’: The Influence of Professor Lucius Sherman’s Nineteenth Century Literary Pedagogy on Willa Cather’s Developing Aesthetic.” Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 29 (2005): 289-324. “Predicting Cather: Using “Peter” and “The Opinions, Tastes, and Fancies of Wm Cather, M.D. as Introduction.” Co-author, Susan Andersen. Teaching Cather 4.2 (Spring 2004): 4-12. “A Chorus of Gossips: Mistaking Invasion for Intimacy in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady.” Narrative 7.1 (January 1999): 89-113. (Available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107171) “Telling a Community’s Story: The Epiphanies of Willa Cather’s Shadows on the Rock.” Religion and Literature 30.1 (Spring 1998): 53-83. “‘The Breath Vibrating Behind It’: Intimacy in the Storytelling of Ántonia Shimerda.” Western American Literature 29.3 (November 1994): 195-216. (Available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/43021345 ) “‘Neighbour Rosicky:’ Ever-Widening Time.” Nebraska English Journal, (Special Issue on Teaching Cather) 37.1 (Fall 1991): 51-62. Reprints of Critical Essays: “‘Neighbour Rosicky:’ Ever-Widening Time.” Reprint. Short Story Criticism: Literary Criticism. 207 (January 2015): 133-138. “A Chorus of Gossips: Mistaking Invasion for Intimacy in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady.” Reprinted in Willa Cather: Critical Insights. Nicholas Birns, editor. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2012. 156-193. “Predicting Cather: Using ‘Peter’ and the 1888 Confession Album as Introduction.” Co-authored with Susan Andersen. Reprinted in Teaching the Works of Willa Cather. Steven B. Shively & Virgil Albertini, eds. Maryville, Missouri: Green Tower Press, 2009. 205-227. “New World Epiphany Stories: Transformation and Community-Building in Shadows on the Rock.” Reprint of Religion and Literature essay. Willa Cather and the Culture of Belief. John J. Murphy, ed. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2002. 168-201. Other Recent, Selected Publications (not peer-reviewed): “My Ántonia and Czech Mushroom Folklore.” Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literary Miscellany. Issue 2 (2019): 1-10. “Kolaches, Kin, Cather and Culture.” Utah State Magazine, Spring 2019, 77-79. “My Two Ántonias.” Willa Cather Review. 60.3 (Winter 2018): 29. Funda -- 4 Co-Author with Tracy Tucker, Willa Cather Foundation Director. “The Song of the Lark High School Curriculum in Celebration of the Novel’s Centennial.” Online at www.willacather.org. January, 2015. Contributor and Consultant to At Willa Cather’s Tables: The Cather Foundation Cookbook, edited by Ann Romines. Red Cloud, Nebraska: The Willa Cather Foundation & Allen Press, 2011. “A Bohemian Depiction of Cather’s ‘Russian’ Wolf Story.” Teaching Cather. 9.1 (Fall 2008): 11. “The Turkish Lady.” Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. (Winter 2008, 62). Creative Nonfiction & Poetry: Creative Nonfiction: “Loosestrife.” Prairie Schooner 82.3 (Fall 2008): 132-147. “Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 13.2 (Summer 2006): 233-245. “Wild Oats.” Under the Sun. Summer 2005: 182-204. “Belongings.” Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West. Linda Hasselstrom, Nancy Curtis, and Gaydell Collier, eds. New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co, May 2004. 274-276. Reprints of Creative Writing: “Sage: Into the Golden Idaho Myth.” Excerpt from Weeds posted on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments. Online journal. http://www.terrain.org/2016/nonfiction/sage-into-the-golden-idaho-myth/, April 24, 2016. “Homestead Hardship: A History of the American Family Farm.” Excerpt from Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament. Posted on Mother Earth News, Online edition. September 2015. http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/self-reliance/family-farm- ze0z1509zbay.aspx Poems: “PreSage.” Green Hills Literary Lantern, 13 (2002): 211-212. “Abundant Harvests.” South Dakota Review. 39.3 (Fall 2001): 23-25. Invited Keynotes, Presentations and Plenaries: “Interpreting Family Artifacts to Write Family History.” Two-part writers’ workshop. Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Accepted. Forthcoming October 14-16, 2021. Funda -- 5 Invited Commencement Speaker. InTech Collegiate High School. Logan, Utah. May 21, 2019. Invited Guest Speaker (via Skype). Graduate Seminar on Autobiography. Dr. Linda Karell. Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. February 6, 2019. “Negotiating a Hyphenated Identity: Bohemian Immigrants in America, 1880-1930.” (Invited Plenary Speaker). 63rd Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference. Red Cloud, Nebraska: May 31-June 2, 2018. Invited Guest Speaker (via Skype). English Senior Seminar. Dr. Joshua Doležal. Central College, Pella, Iowa. March 1, 2018. “Farming is the New Sexy.” TEDxUSU. Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall, Utah State University, October 29, 2014. “Dodder: A Rural Education.” Keynote. Passports and Passages: Writing as a Bridge between High School, College and the World. College of Southern Idaho Writing Symposium, Hailey, Idaho, May 1, 2015. “Mysterious Artifacts: Memoir Writing in a Rural Setting.” Workshop during Passports and Passages: Writing as a Bridge between High School, College and the World. College of Southern Idaho Writing Symposium, Hailey, Idaho, May 1, 2015. “Bohemia’s Cather and Czech Translations.”
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