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) Tate 2 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) Tate 3 “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 Tate 4 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 Tate 5 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