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.

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“’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.

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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.” Plenary. Cather in Europe/Europe in Cather. International Symposium, Rome, Italy, June 12-14, 2014.

“’New World’ Visions and a Homegrown Art: National Authenticity in Works of Willa Cather and Antonín Dvořák.” Plenary. Willa Cather International Seminar, Flagstaff, Arizona, June, 2013.

“Willa Cather, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Cult of Celebrity.” Invited Plenary. 56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, “Willa Cather and Her Popular Culture,” Red Cloud, Nebraska, April 29-30, 2011.

Selected Awards & Honors:

Honorable Mention for the 2020 David D. Anderson Award for Outstanding Essay in Midwestern Literary Studies (Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature) for “’New World’ Visions and Homegrown Art: National Authenticity in Works of Willa Cather and Antonín Dvořák,” published in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 65.2 (Summer 2019): 264-284.

College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Giraffe Award Nominee (with Karin DeJonge-Kannan and Cathy Bullock for workshops on Lecturer promotion process), 2020.

College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Researcher of the Year, 2015.

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David W. & Beatrice C. Evans Handcart Award for Biography about the Interior West Written by an Emerging Author. Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament, USU Mountain West Center, 2014.

Susan J. Rosowski Award for Outstanding Teaching and Creative Mentoring in Western American Literature, Western Literature Association, 2014.

USU Department of English, Researcher of the Year, 2014.

Utah State University Graduate Mentor of the Year, 2014.

USU Department of English Outstanding Graduate Mentor, 2013.

USU Department of English Faculty Service Award, 2012.

Honorable Mention/Second Place for the Frederick Manfred Award for Creative Writing, “Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament” (creative nonfiction essay). Western Literature Association, October, 2004.

Teacher of the Year Award. Utah State University’s Department of English. 2000-2001.

Scholarly Conference Presentations:

“People of a Very Superior Type: Willa Cather's Portrayal of the Bohemian-American Character.” Presentation at Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International Meeting, Lincoln, NE, October 15-19, 2019.

“Do Owls Always Hoot in Graveyards?”: The Soldiers’s Soundscape in Cather’s One of Ours. Western Literature Association, Estes Park, September 18-21, 2019.

“Annotating Ántonia at 100: Cultural Perspective on the Mushrooms from ‘Some Deep Bohemian Forest.’” Western Literature Association, St. Louis, MO: October 24-27, 2018.

“’Cherished Rewards’: The Remarkable Correspondence between American Novelist Willa Cather and Czech President Tomáš Masaryk.” Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Sciences, 29th World Congress Commemorating the Centennial of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Prague, Czech Republic, July 10-12, 2018.

“Nasty and Nice: Women in in Božena Němcová’s Babička and Willa Cather’s Fiction.” Western Literature Association, Minneapolis, MN, October 25-28, 2017.

“Pictures of Two Worlds: A Czech Historian’s Secular Pilgrimage to Willa Cather Sites.” Western Literature Association, Reno, Nevada, October 14, 2015.

“’Our Toni’/Our Willa: Czech Translations of Willa Cather, 1919-1947.” Willa Cather Symposium: “Cather in Europe/Europe and Cather.” Rome, Italy, June 12-14, 2014. Funda -- 7

“’Blazing with Things She Could Not Say’: Literal and Cultural Translation in My Ántonia.” Western Literature Association Conference, Berkeley, CA, October 2013.

“’A Farm Abounds With Poisons’: The Silent Spring Comes to A Thousand Acres.” Western Literature Association Conference, Missoula, MT, October 2011.

“The Correspondence of Willa Cather and the Czech Philosopher-President Tomáš Masaryk,” The 13th International Cather Seminar in Northampton, MA, June 2011.

Teaching Willa Cather, Panelist. 13th International Cather Seminar, Northampton, MA, June 2011.

“The Bohemian Immigrant Novels of 1918: ‘There Were Two.’” Western Literature Association Conference, Prescott, Arizona, October 2010.

“Willa Cather and the Ethos of Czech Farming.” Western Literature Association Conference, Spearfish, South Dakota. October 2009.

“Spotting Michaelangelo’s David at the Farmer’s Market: The American Farm as Cultural Construct.” Western Lit Association Conference, Boulder, Colorado. October 3, 2008.

“What to Expect During a Thesis or Dissertation Defense.” Graduate Professional Development Panel. Western Literature Association Conference, Boulder, Colorado. October 3, 2008. “Opportunities for Graduates to Publish.” Professional Development for Graduate Students Panel. Western Lit Association, Tacoma, Washington. October 19, 2007.

“Benda, My Ántonia and Czech Folk Artist Mikoláš Aleš.” Willa Cather International Seminar, Paris/Provence, France, June 2007.

“’The Threat to the Common Herd’: Monsters in Mary Clearman Blew’s Writing.” Western Literature Association. Boise, Idaho, October 26, 2006.

“Competing Landscapes in the Autobiographical Works of Mary Clearman Blew.” Association for the Study of Literature & Environment. Eugene, OR. June 22, 2005.

“Cather’s ‘Coming, Aphrodite!,” The ‘Divine’ Sarah Bernhardt, and the Quest for Artistic Success.” Western Literature Association. Banff, Canada, October 15, 1998.

“Willa Cather Reading Professor Lucius Sherman’s Analytics of Literature.” Western Literature Association. Albuquerque, NM, October 17, 1997.

“Before the Curtain Rises: A Sense of Audience in Willa Cather’s Earliest Publications.” Western Literature Association. Lincoln, NE, October 5, 1996.

“‘The Power of Their Tongues’: Mistaking Invasion for Intimacy in Cather’s A Lost Lady.” Western Literature Association. Vancouver, British Columbia. October 12, 1995. Funda -- 8

“‘The Fierce Flame-Like Beauty’: Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Nebraska.” Invited Paper Presentation. Willa Cather’s University Days, A Centennial Celebration, 1895-1995. Lincoln, NE. April 8, 1995.

“‘The Breath Vibrating Behind It’: Intimacy in the Storytelling of Ántonia Shimerda.” Western Literature Association. Wichita, KS. October 9, 1993.

“Shadows on the Rock: Storytelling and the Construction of Community.” Fifth International Willa Cather Seminar. Hastings/Red Cloud, Nebraska. June 25, 1993.

“The Quests and Visions of Cather Women.” Commentator’s Response. Fourth Conference of The Coalition for Women's History, "Suspect Terrain, Surveying the Women's West." Lincoln, Nebraska. July 24, 1992.

“Tree Mythologies: Perceptions of Sin and Sexual Love in Cather’s O Pioneers!” Western Literature Association Conference. Estes Park, Colorado. October 3, 1991.

“‘All a Fairy Tale:’ Fred Ottenburg’s Distressed Damsel Assumptions in Cather’s The Song of the Lark.” EGSA Spring Conference. Lincoln, Nebraska. March 8, 1991.

Creative Nonfiction Readings, Workshops, and Panel Participation:

Panelist. “Graduate Student Professionalization: Managing and Maintaining a Writing Schedule,” Western Literature Association meeting, Victoria, Canada, November 8, 2014.

Reading, Weeds.2014 USU Research Week Faculty Author Exhibition, April 9, 2014.

Reading, Weeds.Salt Lake City Library’s “City Arts Program,” Jan 22, 2014.

Roundtable Panelist. “The Creative Writer in the English Department,” Western Literature Association Conference. Prescott, Arizona, October 2010.

Panelist and Co-chair with WAL editor Melody Graulich. “Narrative Scholarship? Cultural Memoir?: What Do We Call the New Western Creative Nonfiction--And Why Does it Matter?” Western Lit Association Conference, Spearfish, South Dakota. October 2009.

Workshop Teacher. “Writing Family History from Artifacts.” Brigham City Museum Gallery. September 19, 2009. (Funded by Utah Humanities Council).

Reading and Workshop. Western Wyoming Community College. Rock Springs, Wyoming. Co- sponsored by the Arlene and Louise Wesswick Lecture Series in the Humanities and Education and WWCC’s “Speaking of the West” series. Workshop on writing from family artifacts and a free and open public reading from Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament. March 2009.

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“’Plant Dimes, Harvest Dollars’ and Other Lies from Idaho Sagebrush Country.” (creative nonfiction). Western Literature Association, Tacoma, Washington. October 19, 2007.

Gribner Workshop for Creative Nonfiction Book Manuscript. Prague Summer Program. Prague, Czech Republic. July 1-14, 2007. Invited Participant (competitive application) Manuscript: Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament.

“Wild Oats.” Helicon West Creative Writing. USU. Dec. 17, 2006.

“Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament.” Women Speak Out: A Celebration of Women’s History Month. Utah State University. March 21, 2005.

“Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament.” Western Literature Association. Big Sky, MT. September 30, 2004. (awarded honorable mention/second place for Frederick Manfred Award for Creative Writing).

“Belongings.” USU Dept. of English Speakers Series, A Creative Writing Sampler. September 15, 2004.

“Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament.” Art of Gender in Everyday Life: A Multidisciplinary Conference. Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, March 5-6, 2004.

Media: Interview with UPR’s Access Utah on the centennial since the publication of Cather’s My Ántonia (with Steven B. Shively). October 18, 2018.

Biography in Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Cenage Learning. Volume 361. June, 2014.

Interview on UPR’s Access Utah about Farm: A Multimodal Reader. Interviewed with co-editors Kinkead and McNeill, April 29, 2014. http://upr.org/post/farm-multi-modal-reader- tuesdays-access-utah.

“The Last Acres Lost.” Feature on Weeds in Liberalis. Spring 2014, 9.

“USU Professors Collaborate on New Textbook.” Coverage on publication of Farm: A Multimodal Reader. Cache Magazine, Jan 31, 2014.

Interview with UPR’s Access Utah about Weeds, http://www.upr.org/post/farm-daughters-lament- wednesdays-access-utah August 6, 2013.

Interview with UPR’s Access Utah about “December Nights” celebration of Willa Cather’s birthday. Interviewed with program co-director Steven Shively. December 5, 2012. http://upr.org/post/cather-fans-unite-enthusiasts-gather-celebration-influential-author-0.

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Profiles in USU Research Calendar, July 2010, and “Cache Profile” in Cache Valley Magazine, February, 2008.

“Daughters of the Soil: A Book Group Study Guide of Women’s Writing About Agriculture.” Utah Humanities Council. Funded by UHC’s Albert J. Colton Research Fellowship for Work of National or International Significance, 2008.

Essay Reviews and Reviews:

“2019 Contributions to Cather Studies.” Essay Review of Becoming Willa Cather by Daryl Palmer and Cather Among the Moderns by Janis Stout. Forthcoming in American Literary Realism, 2020.

“Sweep Out the Ashes: A Novel” by Mary Clearman Blew. Forthcoming Western American Literature, 2020.

A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography. Kayann Short. Salt Lake City: Torrey House Press, 2013. Western American Literature. 49.2 (Summer 2014): 232-234.

“Down on the Farm: Memoirs and Nonfiction About American Agriculture.” Essay Review. Western American Literature, 46.2 (Summer 2011): 180-193.

Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World, editor, Janis P. Stout. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004, and The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather, editor, Marilee Lindemann. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Western American Literature. 41.4 (Winter 2007): 462-464.

Writing Her Own Life, Imogene Welch, Western Rural Schoolteacher by Mary Clearman Blew and When Montana and I Were Young, A Frontier Childhood, by Margaret Bell, edited and with an introduction by Mary Clearman Blew. Western American Literature. 40.1 (Spring 2005), 98-101.

Medicine by Amy Gerstler. Western American Literature. 34.4. (Winter 2002): 392-392.

“Lighting Out for a New (Old) Territory: Studying Willa Cather’s Southern Heritage.” (Essay Review). Review. 23 (2001): 199-221.

Language and Gender in American Fiction, Howells, James, Wharton, and Cather. Elsa Nettels. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. American Literary Realism. 30.3 (Spring 1998): 87-88.

Redefining the American Dream, The Novels of Willa Cather. Sally Peltier Harvey.Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses. 1995. Great Plains Quarterly. 15.4 (Fall 1995): 275-276.

The Home Plot: Women, Writing and Domestic Ritual. Ann Romines. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. 1992. Great Plains Quarterly. 14 (Spring 1994): 142. Funda -- 11

Homesteading Women, An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950. Julie Jones-Eddy. New York: Twayne Publishers. 1992. Great Plains Quarterly. 14 (Winter 1994): 51.

Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940. Deborah Fink. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1992. and Land in Her Own Name: Women as Homesteaders in North Dakota. H. Elaine Lindgren. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. 1991. Great Plains Quarterly. 13 (Spring 1993): 137-138.

After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. Conrad E. Ostwalt, Jr. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press. 1990. Philosophy and Literature. 17 (April, 1993): 182-184.

TEACHING

Utah State University 1995-Present Representative Classes taught since tenure in 2001 (asterisk designates course taught more than once): Undergraduate Various American Period courses, including Twentieth Graduate: Century American Lit*, Lit of Progressive Era*, American Lit and Culture: The American Farm Modernism*, The Twenties and Thirties, Women’s Western Memoir American Literary Realism * Women’s Western Literature, Fiction American Literary History/Survey courses, (1865- Women’s Western Literature (graduate and Present)* & II (Colonial-1865)* undergraduate)* American Lit and Culture: The American Farm “New West” Fiction Western American Literature Authors: Willa Cather Women’s Western Memoir History of American Autobiography* Studies in Prose: History of the American Novel* American Women Writers from 1890-1925* Authors: Cather, Wharton, Gilman Authors: Willa Cather*

Master’s Thesis Committees Ongoing since 1995 Served/serving on nearly 70 committees (67 since tenure); chaired/chairing more than 20 committees (List of students in appendix, available upon request)

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committees Ongoing since 2006 Chaired Honors Theses: Cambri McDonald (2012-2014); Amanda Marinello (2006-07) Served as Committee Member: Anna Bullock (2012-2013)

Supervising Internships & Directed Study Utah State University 1996-2007 Directed more than 24 students in Undergraduate Teaching Fellowships, Masters’ Level Teaching Internships, Undergraduate Research Fellowships, or the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Book Review Fellowships (names of students available upon request)

Instructor & Grad. Teaching Asst. Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln 1989-1995 Funda -- 12

Teaching Great Plains Lit; Women's Lit; and beginning and Intermediate Composition

Secondary English Teacher Kofa High School, Yuma, Arizona 1986-1989

Outreach Education & Other Public Presentations:

Writer/Narrator, American Festival Chorus and Orchestra’s Concert “One Voice: A Suffrage Celebration,” held in conjunction with USU’s Year of Woman Initiative, September 27, 2019.

Director & Workshop Teacher, Mountain West Center–Evans Awards Writers’ Workshop for Auto/Biography. Salt Lake City, October 26, 2019. Also taught workshop “Interpreting Family Artifacts while Writing Auto/Biography.” Lake City, October 26, 2019.

Co-Director with Susan R. Grayzel, “We Remember Them” Roadshow: Pop-Up Museum of Family Artifacts from World War I Era. Nov 10, 2018. Utah State University, Logan, Utah, March 26, 2019.

Event Director, “Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes: Kicking Off a Yearlong Celebration of Women’s Suffrage and Voting Rights.” Women’s Suffrage Open Mic Event in conjunction with 2019 Tanner Symposium, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, March 26, 2019.

Co-Leader and Organizing Committee Member. Celebrating 100 years of My Ántonia. “Be a Pioneer” Community Reads Program at Logan City’s Public Library. October 17, 2018.

USU Honors Book Lab Co-Teacher. My Ántonia. January-February, 2018.

Guest at Local Book Clubs reading Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament. Logan, Utah. Feb 13, 2015; June 20, 2015; July 23, 2015.

“Demystifying the Thesis or Dissertation Defense” Graduate Student Research Training Series, USU Office of Research and Graduate Studies, January 16, 2014.

Co-Director with Steven Shively for “December Nights with Willa Cather: A Celebration of Cather’s 139th Birthday with Seasonal Music and Readings.” Logan, Utah. Community Outreach event with more than 100 in attendance, sponsored by the Willa Cather Foundation as part of their effort to hold Cather birthday celebrations around the country. December 7, 2012.

Program Scholar & Book Discussion Leader for the memoir The Language of Baklava by Diane Abu-Jaber. “Let’s Talk About It” Reading Program in Idaho funded by the Idaho Commission for Libraries and the Idaho Humanities Council. Larsen Sant Public Library, Preston, Idaho, February 24, 2010.

“Dirty Girls: Western Women Work the Land.” Co-Producer and Writer of an episode of UPR’s Synecdoche, featuring dramatizations of works by Mary Clearman Blew, Willa Cather, Funda -- 13

Elinor Pruitt Stewart, and Judy Blunt. Taped in front of a live audience at the Kent Concert Hall, November 27, 2006, and broadcast on Utah Public Radio December 5, 2006. (funded in part by Utah Humanities Council).

Book Discussion Leader, USU’s Department of English Book Club. January 2006. Writing Her Own Life, Imogene Welch, Rural Western Schoolteacher, by Mary Clearman Blew, January 24, 2006 (Partially Funded by Utah Humanities Council).

Reading of and introduction to Willa Cather’s “The Fear that Walks by Noonday.” “Poe in the Dark.” Sigma Tau Delta Annual Event. October 2004.

Teacher & Guest Lecturer. Summer Citizens Program. Taught these one week courses for six years. Utah State University. 1999-2004. Topics: “Agricultural Humanities: How Art and Literature Portray Farming in the 1930s,” (August 2004); “Literature and Culture of the 1920,” (August 2003); “American Women" in the Nineteenth Century: Art, Literature, History, Physiology, and Psychology,” (July 2002); “Short Stories in Early Western American Literature,” (June 2001); “Bad Women in Western Fiction,” (June 2000); “Willa Cather,” (June 1999). Lecturer & Discussion Leader, speaking on Cather’s My Ántonia in the “Women of the Frontier” Reading Discussion Series.” Brigham City Library, Brigham City, Utah. Funded by Utah Humanities Council. Oct. 1, 1998.

SERVICE:

National Service:

President, Evans Advisory Board (in Mountain West Center, USU) 2016-Present

Board Member, Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International 2018-Present

Chair, Rosowski Teaching and Mentor Award Selection Committee 2016-2018

Elected Member of Executive Council, Western Literature Association. 2007-2010 Focusing on the needs of the student membership, I served as a chair/judge for two student awards, (2008-2009), faculty panelist on annual student professional development panel (2007 & 2008), and lead writer of the WLA website content for graduate students (2009).

Member of Editorial Board, Western American Literature. 2007-2013

Book Review Editor, Western American Literature 1997-2004 In addition to soliciting & editing essay reviews and short reviews, I wrote the grant to fund the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Book Review Fellow position for graduate students; supervised the training and work of Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Book Review Fellows.

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USU USU Graduate Mentor Selection Committee 2018 UPRPC University Physical Resources and Planning Committee 2017-Present USU Safety Committee 2016-2018 USU Space Management Committee 2016-Present USU Emergency Preparedness Focus Group 2019

College of Humanities and Social Sciences committees: Hiring Committee, USU History (North American West) 2016-2017 Hiring Committee, USU History, Arrington Endowed Chair 2018-2018 CHaSS Graduate Council 2011-2013 Juror for Evans Biography & Handcart Prize Awards 2011-2013, 2015-2017 Screening Committee for Hubbard Scholarship 2008 Interview Team for Undergraduate Research Fellowships 2006 College of HASS Curriculum Committee 2003

Departmental Administration: Director of Graduate Studies, English Department 2011-2014 Advised approximately 100 graduate students in 5 different programs with full administrative responsibilities for graduate students and instructors. Advising, budgeting, recruiting, tracking alumni, monitoring degree progress, maintaining social media to track alumni, and coordinating various professionalization workshops. Maintain graduate student blog.

Graduate Professional Development Coordinator, English Department 2004-2011 • Editor and Writer of In Media Res, an online annual newsletter promoting a culture of professional development among English graduate student; topics: writing a curriculum vitae, attending conferences, opportunities for publishing, writing a Application Statement of Intent, etc.). By Spring 2011, the issues had been downloaded more than 7,500 times. • Coordinator of graduate professional development workshops (workshops on subjects including writing a CV, graduate applications, attending conferences); • Co-Faculty Advisor of SAGE (Student Association for Graduates in English, 2009-2011) and the 2006 & 2008 Intermountain Graduate Conferences (Logan, Utah). The 2008 meeting attracted more than 60 graduate students from 17 states and 2 foreign countries.

American Studies Curriculum Chair 2009-2014 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English 2003 Academic Advisor for American Studies (Grad & Undergrad) 1996-1997

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USU P&T Committee Work: Promotion and Tenure Committees Ongoing since 2002 *Asterisk indicates faculty member was successfully tenured and/or promoted.

Jayme Walters (Social Work; Member Christopher Gonzalez (Member, P&T 2020) 2017)* Christopher Gonzalez (English; Chair; Keith Grant-Davie (Member, PAC, 2017)* PAC, 2020) Steven Shively (Member, PAC, 2017) Keri Holt (English; Member; PAC, 2020) Brian Champagne (JCOM; P&T, Member Ryan Moeller (English; Member PAC, 2016)* 2020) Russ Beck (Lecturer: Member 2015)* Patrick Mason (History; Member; PAC, Susan Andersen (Lecturer; Chair 2011- 2019) 2012)* Colleen O’Neill (History; Member; PAC, Nate Straight (USU-Brigham City 2018) Campus; Chair, 2009-2014)* Rebecca Walton (English; Member; PAC; Kerin Holt (2009-2014; Chair for 2010- 2019) 2011; Chair of PAC, 2016-Present)* Chris Meier (Department of Sociology, Christine Cooper-Rompato (2009)* Social Work, and Anthropology; P&T John Engler (lecturer; 2010)* 2018-2020) Steve Shively (2007-2011)* Kacy Lundstrum (USU Libraries; PAC Chris Cokinos (2003-2008)* 2017) Jennifer Sinor (2005-2006)* Patrick Mason (History; Member, P&T, Andrea Tinnemeyer (2002-2004)* 2019)* Pallavi Rastogi (2003-2004)* Seth Archer (History; Member, P&T, Michael Sowder (2003-2004)* 2018-2020)

Department Committees (Utah State University): Department’s Advisory Coordination Committee 2009-2014 Various Hiring Committees: for English Ed, Literature, American Studies, History & TPPC faculty, Lecturers, and WAL Editor and Managing Editor 1996-Present Chair of Graduate Advisory Committee 2011-2014 Graduate Advisory Committee 2004-2014 Chair of American Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2009-2014 Chair of Literary Studies Curriculum Committee 2004-2007 Member of Curriculum committees (American Studies, Literary Studies, Creative Writing) : 1995-present Task Force for Creative Writing Position 2000 Scholarship Awards Committee Spring 1998 & 2003 Travel Committee 1996-1998 Academic

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OTHER Grants:

Nebraska Cather Collaborative Grant. “Willa Cather and the Nebraska Czechs” to fund residency research at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Special Collections. $2,000. Summer 2020 (Postponed due to COVID-19).

CHaSS Travel Grant for attending “Cather in Europe/Europe in Cather” International Seminar and presenting paper on Czech translations. Rome, Italy, June 12-14, 2014, $1000.

Mountain West Center for Regional Studies. MWC Small Grant for Research (to do research on Cather in Prague, Czech Republic). May 31-June 11, 2014, $2000.

CHaSS Travel Grant for “The Correspondence of Willa Cather and the Czech Philosopher- President Tomáš Masaryk,” Paper Proposal Accepted for The 13th International Cather Seminar in Northampton, MA, June 2011, $1000.

John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Research Endowment, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, for Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament, 2008, $2300.

John Woods Grant. Prague Summer Program, Gribner Writer’s Workshop for Creative Nonfiction Book Manuscript, Prague, Czech Republic, July 1-July 14, 2007, $1000.

Albert J. Colton Research Fellowship for Work of National or International Significance, Utah Humanities Council, for “Women in Agriculture: A Cultural Memoir.” 2005-2006. $3500.

HASS Associate to Full Career Development Grant. One Course Buyout. Funded 2006.

WGRI Travel Grant, for Participation in Willa Cather International Seminar (France) & Gribner Manuscript Workshop, Prague Summer Program (Czech Republic) 2007. $1000.

Consulting on Student Grants: Cambri McDonald (Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities grant, funded, 2012); Matt Lavin (Charles Redd Center Grant for Thesis Development, funded 2005); Liz Stephens (Charles Redd Center Grant for Thesis Development, Funded 2006); IGC (Charles Redd Center for Public Programing, Dusty Wiser, co-author, not funded 2006); Amanda Marinello (Undergraduate Research & Creative Opportunities, Funded 2006).

Women & Gender Studies Incentive Grant for Course Development. USU Women’s Studies Program. (course: Women’s Western Fiction). Fall 2000. (Funded $500).

“Playing Across the Footlights: The Intimacy of Performance Art in Willa Cather’s Dramatic Reviews, 1893-1915.” New Faculty Research Grant (competitive), Utah State University, Awarded for Academic Year 1996-1997. (Funded $11,959.00).

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Consulting & Professional Experience:

Mental Health First Aid Training Certificate. National Council for Behavioral Health, Eight-hour workshop providing methods to help people experience mental health problems. Logan, UT, March 16, 2018. Certificate valid 2018-2021.

External Reviewer of Promotion File. Associate Professor Lisa Knopp, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Sept. 2013.

Manuscript Reviewer for University of Oklahoma University Press, Two unpublished book manuscripts (2011, 2014).

External Reviewer of Promotion and Tenure File. Assistant Professor Andrew Smith, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. June 2009.

Curriculum Consultant for Dixie State College. Baccalaureate Degree in English, Spring, 2006.

Manuscript Reviewer for three anthologies. The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 11. 12th Ed. (2007, McGraw-Hill, George Perkins, editor), Anthology of the American Short Story (2006, James Nagel, Houghton Mifflin), and Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture. (1998, Longman, Lorraine Anderson, Scott Slovic, & John P. O’Grady, eds.)

Manuscript Referee for Journals. Willa Cather Review (ongoing since 2017); American Review of Canadian Studies (2014); Western American Literature, (1996-2013;); American Literary Realism (2010), Twentieth Century Literature, (2001-2004); Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, (2003); Great Plains Quarterly, (1994-2000); Cather Studies, (ongoing since 1995). Willa Cather Newsletter and Review (2010).

Professional Memberships: Western Literature Association (1990-Present); Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences (2016-Present); Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial & Educational Foundation (1990-Present); Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (2018-Present); Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International (2017-Present); Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (2005- 2008; 2012-2015); University of Nebraska, Lincoln Cather Colloquium (Fall 1990-2005); American Literature Association (1996-1998); National Council of Teachers of English (1982-1989); Arizona Education Association (1986-1989); National Education Association (1986-1989); Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (1984-1986).

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Appendix

Summary: Since 1995, I have served or am serving on close to 70 master’s committees (59 since tenure); chaired/chairing 24 committees; Of the 39 students I’ve been able to keep track of: • 16 have sought or completed advanced degrees or additional graduate degrees (13 of those went on to PhD programs) • 26 are still employed in education with 21 of them employed in higher education and 5 in public school education; 7 are in tenure-track jobs • 4 work for non-profit organizations • 5 work in private industry • 2 are in freelance writing • 1 is CEO of a Health Care System with three locations • 1 is author of 5 Young Adult novels

Graduated: • Brooke LeFevre (History; 2020; member) • Tiffany Smith (graduated Dec 2018; member) • Keith Buswell (graduated 2018; member) • Shelly Halling (graduated 2015; member) • Mathias Fuelling (2016; member, History Department) • John Brumbaugh (2016; member, History Department) • Mary Ann Widerburg (graduated 2014; member) • Kristen Hutchings (graduated 2014; member) • Amber Bowden (graduated 2014; member)) • Rosa Thornley (graduated 2013; chair; adjunct at USU) • Joshua Anderson (graduated 2013; member; in PhD program at Ohio State) • Russ Winn (graduated 2012; chair; adjunct at USU) • Bonnie Moore (graduated 2011; chair; lecturer at USU) • Tyler Nickl (graduated 2011; member; in PhD program at Nevada) • Brad Gibbons (graduated 2011; chair, Mountain Crest High School5) • Matthew Maughan (graduated 2011; chair, works for LDS Services) • Lynley Sharp (graduated 2010; member; High school teacher in Mississippi) • Rebecca James (graduated 2011; member) • Becky Young (graduated 2011; chair) • Adam Floyd (graduated 2011; member) • Pamela Pierce (graduated 2010; chair, received MS in Library Science at Indiana, works for non- profit in Washington DC) • Melinda Rich (graduated 2010; member; Instructor Stevens-Henager College) • Carolyn Toone (graduated 2010; member; Instructor at Weber State University) • Maure Smith (graduated 2010; member, Assistant Director of the LGBT Education and Support Services Program at University of Oregon) • Amanda Bemer (PhD; graduated 2010; member, Assistant Professor of English specializing in Professional Communication at Southwest Minnesota State University) Funda -- 19

• Jacoba Mendelkow (graduated 2009; chair, Marketing and Communications Specialist at New Dawn Technologies) • Jackie Harris (graduated 2007; chair; in PhD program at Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln) • Sarah Sisson (graduated 2008, member) • Katie Stout (graduated 2008; member; faculty in Vermont) • B. J. Rowe (graduated 2007; member; Faculty in Religious Education at BYU-Idaho) • Brady Edwards (graduated 2007; chair; in PhD program U-Nevada, Reno) • Liz Stephens (graduated 2007; chair; graduated from PhD program at Ohio University; published thesis with Nebraska Press: The Days Are Gods, Instructor Glendale Community College) • Astrid Melchart (active since 2006; member) • Sarah Stoeckl Siobhan (graduated 2006; member; PhD from U of Oregon in 2012; writer for Microsoft in Seattle) • Matt Lavin (graduated 2006; chair; PhD from U of Iowa, 2012; Post-Doc at Nebraska; Faculty and Associate Program Coordinator for Humanities for 21st Century Program at job at St. Lawrence U) • Robb Kunz (graduated 2006; chair; MFA from U-Idaho; lecturer at USU) • Dustin Crawford (graduated 2006; chair; currently lecturer at USU) • Anna Guiffre (graduated 2007; chair; Special Events Manager at non-profit: Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America) • Jordy Jensky (graduated 2007; member; Junior Database Administrator at LEMO SA, San Francisco ) • Melissa Bowles (2006; member; Library Science Degree at University of Illinois; Faculty and Instruction and Assessment Coordinator of Research U-Wyoming Library) • Megan Inclan (graduated 2006; member) • Michele Welch (graduated 2006; member) • Cassie Hemstrom (Boise State University student; 2004-2005; Faculty at University of Nevada, Reno) • Jessica Gezon (graduated 2005; member; freelance writer and editor) • Brooke Ann Smith (graduated 2005; member) • Steven Harrison (graduated 2004; member; PhD from Idaho State University, 2012) • Sarah Hulme (graduated 2005; member; USU lecturer) • Tamara Paxton (graduated 2004; member) • Rebecca Keeley (2002; member) • Charity Lund (2003; member) • Valerie Young (graduated 2004; member; teacher in St. Johns, Arizona) • Susan Andersen (graduated 2004; chair; currently Senior Lecturer at USU) • Jessica Pace (graduated 2003; chair; National Software Trainer at Weidner and Company, Provo Utah) • Melissa Davis (graduated 2003; member) • Ronda Knudsen (graduated 2003; member) • Rachel Rich (graduated 2003; member) • Alan Barlow (graduated 2002; member; CEO of Seneca Nation Health System, Irving, New York) • John Engler (graduated 2003; member; currently Senior Lecturer at USU) • Jason Williams (graduated 2003; member; PhD from U of New Hampshire, 2009; Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho) Funda -- 20

• Nicole Grotepas (graduated; 2003; chair; author of five books of Young Adult Science Fiction) • Natalie Menderink Barfus (graduated 2003; member) • Kelly Thompson (graduated 2001; member) • Allison Feinhauer (graduated 2001; chair; USU adjunct and English teacher at Mountain Crest High School) • Brooke Bigelow (graduated 2001; chair; freelance writer in Medford, Oregon) • Rosanna Walker (graduated: 1999; chair; completed PhD. program at U of Oregon; currently faculty at Lane Community College) • Steve Geisler (graduated in Spring 1998; member; Vice Principal at Centerville Junior High, Utah) • Joe Staples (graduated in 1998; member; completed PhD. program at Univ. of Arizona; Senior Information Architect at Prowess Consulting, Salt Lake City) • Wes Mantooth (chair, graduated in 1997; completed PhD. at George Washington; Associate Professor at Lake Washington Institute of Technology) • Linda Ladette-Smith (graduated 1997; member)

Supervising Internships and Research Fellowships USU 1996-Present Directed more than 24 students in Undergraduate Teaching Fellowships, Undergraduate Research Fellowships, Masters’ Level Teaching Internships, and the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Book Review Fellowships

Cambri McDonald (Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2012-2013) Bonnie Moore (Undergraduate Teaching Fellow in American Literary History I, 2008) Jacoba Mendelkow (Teaching Internship in American Literary History I, 2007) Chris Lee (Teaching Internship in American Literary History I, 2007) Sarah Stoeckl (Teaching Internship in Studies in Nonfiction Prose-Autobiography, 2006) Amanda Marinello (Undergrad Research Fellow, 2006-2007) Brady Edwards (Teaching Internship in American Literary History I, 2006) Susan Biddulph (Undergrad Teaching Fellow in American Literary History I, 2006) Matt Lavin (Teaching Internships in Period Studies course, 2005) Sarah Linford (Art Intern for Western American Literature, 2004) Susan Andersen (American Authors: Cather, 2004) Susan Andersen & Darcy Minter (instructors, American Lit History II, 2004) Brooke Ann Smith (Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Fellow, 2003-2004) Anna Guiffre (Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Fellow, 2002-2003) Matt Stiffler (Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Fellow, 2001-2002) Carey Emmons (Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Fellow, 2001) Interns for WAL (one semester internships): Michaela Köenig, Megan Goates, Kelly Thompson, Carey Emmons, Erin Edwards, Terry Brown, Brooke Bigelow, Barbara Cook, Valerie Young (1997-2001)