BRONWEN R. TATE Marlboro College, Box A (503) 758-6264 (cell) 2582 South Rd. (802) 258-9243 (office) Marlboro, VT 05344 [email protected] 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 Director of Writing, Marlboro College, July 2019-- Assistant Professor of Writing and Literature, Marlboro College, August 2017-- ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Thinking Matters Fellow, Stanford Introductory Studies, Stanford University, 2014-2017 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Creative Writing, 20th Century American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, The Ethics of Reading, Transnational Literary Studies, Literature and the Environment, Gender Studies PUBLICATIONS 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) 2009 Scaffolding: My Proust Vocabulary (Dusie Press) 2008 Like the Native Tongue the Vanquished (Cannibal Books) 2007 Souvenirs (Dusie Press) 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. Tate 2 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 Selected Creative Publications 1111: “Drops of Gold the Heat Collected There,” “Voice More Clairvoyant Than Himself” About Place: “By Gift, Purchase, Capture, or Inheritance” Bennington Review: “A Sickness Does Not Resemble” Common-Place: Poetic Research Feature: “All You Have to Do” Denver Quarterly: “Acacia Street of Apparitions,” “News Known Sooner Abroad,” “The Best of Our Memories Rest Outside Ourselves” and “As One Who Has Seen the Sun Before Him Upon Beginning a Race” Encyclopedia Vol II, F-K: Entry for “Holy” How 2: “Prosphora” and “Epitaphion” Lit: “The Guest” and “Windows” Mississippi Review: “Evoke the Forest Where a Lair is Hid” Octopus: “As When a Singer Reaches the Highest Note,” “The Small Phrase Began to Appear” Sixth Finch: “To Relinquish the Story” Textsound Journal: “Ghazal for Orlando,” “Nightwood Ghazal,” “Pantoum for Hurston” TYPO: “Eliminate the Distance,” “Beeswax,” “Airplane,” and “Stoplight” the tiny: “For What Fingers Touch,” “To Acknowledge Damage,” “To See What’s There” Journal Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation, Poetry Editor 2007-2008, Managing Editor 2008-2011 Works in Progress The Silk the Moths Ignore (full-length poetry collection in submission) *Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition 2019 Honorable Mention (Selected by Judge Brenda Hillman) *Lost Roads Press 2018 Brigham Award Finalist *Octopus Books Open Reading Period 2017 Finalist *Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition 2017 Finalist Tate 3 *Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize 2017 Semi-Finalist *Ahsahta Books Sawtooth Poetry Prize 2017 Finalist *Noemi Press Book Award 2016 Semi-Finalist Large as Life: The Scale of Post-1945 American Poetry (manuscript in preparation) “Reading Affect in Harryette Mullen’s S*PeRM**K*T” (article under review with Contemporary Literature) “Lorine Niedecker and the Encounter with Haiku” (article under review with Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature) FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 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 Marlboro College Courses Taught “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live”: Workshop in Short Narrative, Fall 2019 How Poems Get Made: Intermediate and Advanced Poetry Workshop, Fall 2019 Creative Writing Explorations: Memory, Observation, Research, Invention, Material, Spring 2019 Folklore in Literature and Pop Culture (Writing Seminar), Spring 2019 Prison Story Project Performance (w. Jean O’Hara, Theater), Spring 2019 “Poetry is Not a Luxury,”: Reading and Writing Poems that Matter, Fall 2018 To Instruct and Delight: Theories and Practices of Reading (Writing Seminar), Fall 2018 Work/Life, Exploring Labor in America (Writing Seminar), Spring 2018 Global Literary Responses to Environmental Crisis: A Multi-Genre Workshop. Spring 2018 New Paradigms for Humanistic Inquiry. (w. Amer Latif, Religious Studies), Spring 2018) Food, Language, Culture (Writing Seminar), Fall 2017 Narratology and Narrative Craft. Fall 2017 Cultivating a Daily Practice (Pop-up Course), November 2017 Tutorials Directed Life Writing in Poetry and Prose, Spring 2019 Tate 4 Interactive Literature, Spring 2019 Advanced Fiction Workshop, Spring 2019 Situating Fantasy, Fall 2018 Monsters on the Prowl: Piety & Laughter, Fall 2018 Reading and Writing Fantasy Fiction, Fall 2018 Advanced Fiction Workshop, Fall 2018 Exploring Gender Nonconformity in Creative Nonfiction, Fall 2018 Female-Authored Memoir and Personal Essay, Spring 2018 Advanced English Grammar, Spring 2018 Fictions of Domestic Space, Spring 2018 Advanced Poetry Workshop, Fall 2017, Spring 2018 Narrative Plan Writing Workshop, Fall 2018, Spring 2018 Queering Peter Pan, Fall 2017, Spring 2018 Playwriting Private Intensive, Fall 2017 Narrative Plan Writing Private Intensive, Fall 2017 Plans Directed 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 World of Words (w. Elaine Treharne and Sarah Ogilve), Winter 2016 Stories Everywhere (w. Adam Johnson and Blakey Vermeule), Spring 2015, Spring 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 Tate 5 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 The College of New Rochelle Translating Experience into Essay, Fall 2006 Brown University Workshops in Creative Writing: Poetry I, Spring 2006 Workshops in Creative Writing: Poetry II, Fall 2005 Brown Summer Studies Program Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction, Summer 2006 The Wall Street Institute of Bologna, Italy Teacher of English as a Second Language, 2003-2004 SELECTED PUBLIC READINGS 2019 New Orleans Poetry Festival 2018 Stanford DARE@10 2018 Unnameable Books Grand Opening, Amherst, Massachusetts 2018 Open Mouth Reading Series, Fayetteville, Arkansas PRESENTATIONS 2019 “Lorine Niedecker’s Haiku Experiments,” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans 2018 “Probable Garden: A Reading and Discussion of Poems,” Stanford DARE@10 Homecoming Conference, Palo Alto, CA 2018 Panel Participant, “‘Like a Song of Hog Blood’: New Directions in Frank Stanford Scholarship, Frank Stanford Literary Festival, Fayetteville, AR 2016 “Affect, Subjectivity, and Tone in Harryette Mullen’s S*PeRM**K*T,” Reading Poetry, Reading Race, ALA Conference, San Francisco, CA 2015 “Brevity Effects in the Poetry of Robert Creeley,” PAMLA Conference, Portland, OR 2015 “‘A Huge Unruly Text That Grapples Ravenously with Everything Under the Sun’: Reading the Long Impossible Poem,” ACLA Conference, Seattle, WA 2013