RESEARCH INTERESTS

20th century American literature, poetry, poetics, modernism, philosophies of language, creative writing, women’s cultural history, Persian poetry, comparative literatures, 20th century American art

 
HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION

• Student Affairs Officer, Graduate Programs Manager and Academic Counselor, Department of English, University of California, Davis, 1998-2004
• Senior Manager, Federal Employment Programs, Office of Financial Aid, University of Minnesota, 1985-1991
  
  

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Graduate Student Researcher, Davis Humanities Institute, University of California, Davis, 2004-2008
• Arts Education Program Writer, Mondavi Performing Arts Center, Arts Education Program, Artsmarts, Davis, CA, 1999-2006.  http://www.mondaviarts.org/education/
• Instructor in Charge, Program in Composition and Communications, University of Minnesota, 1993-1997
              Writing Practice 1
              Critical Reading and Writing for Management
              Writing for the Arts
              Writing about Literature
• Instructor in Charge, English Department, University of Minnesota, 1992-1993                 
              Introduction to Modern Poetry
              Introduction to Poetry
              Introduction to Literature
• Faculty, English Department, Hamline University, MN, 1995, 1997
              College Writing

 
PUBLICATIONS

• “Modernisms, Pure English and Poetry: Laura (Riding) Jackson’s ‘Linguistic Ultimate,’” Traverses. Ed. Sandrine Sorlin. (Presses Universitaires du Languedoc et de la Méditerranée). Forthcoming. (collection article)
• “The Rhetoric of Renunciation,” book article under consideration for publication, Girl Interruped.  Ed. Jennifer Rich, Hofstra University.
• “Forugh Farrokhzad,” Companion to 20^th-Century World Poetry, Ed. R. Victoria Arana, Facts on File, Inc., 2007.
• “Nima Yushij,” Companion to 20^th-Century World Poetry, Ed. R. Victoria Arana, Facts on File, Inc., 2007.
• “Laura (Riding) Jackson,” Encyclopedia of American Literature, Ed. Jay Parini, Oxford University Press, 2003.
• “Mina Loy,” Encyclopedia of American Literature, Ed. Jay Parini, Oxford University Press, 2003.
• “Sandra McPherson,” Contemporary American Women Poets, Greenwood Press, 2002.
• Contributor, Burning Bright: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, Ed. Patricia Hampl (NY: Ballantine Books, 1995). Recommendations for Islamic poetry selections.
• “Laura (Riding) Jackson: The “I” Thing,” Focus on Robert Graves and his Contemporaries  vol. 2 no. 4, Fall 1995 (University of Maryland’s European Division and Nene College, Northampton, UK)

Creative writing, critical essays, and artwork have also appeared in The Agassiz Review, The New Art Examiner, Magazine of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Minnesota Daily, The Lake Street Review, Jaw Magazine, ArtPolice, Berlitz, Una/Duessa, Loonfeather, Minnesota Women’s Press, Sacramento Poetry Now, Aufgabe.

PRESENTATIONS

• “’The Linguistic Ultimate’: Laura (Riding) Jackson’s Way to Language,” Inventive Linguistics Interdisciplinary International Conference: literature/linguistics/history of ideas, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, France, March 2009
• “Literata-turned-Linguist Laura (Riding) Jackson’s Way to Language,” Heidegger in America seminar, 40^th Annual Conference, Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, February 2009
• “’Come, words, away!’: Laura Riding’s Second Life in Language,” Lifting Belly Higher, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2008 (invited but unable to attend due to family emergency; paper listed on Vectors ThoughMesh website)
• “Divine Desire in the Poetry of Rabi’a and Rumi,” Rumi 2000 Global Conference, California State University, San Bernardino, October 2000
• “Islamic and Sufi Poetry,” English 188: Spirituality in Contemporary American Poetry, Professor Sandra McPherson, University of California, Davis, May 2000
  
• “Translated Love: The Poetry of the Sufi Saint Rabi’a,” Women and the Art of Literary Translation, M/MLA Convention, Chicago, November 1997 (paper delivered by panel chair)
• “The Erotics of Refusal; Transcendental Love in the Poetry of the Sufi Saint Rabi’a,” The Feminine Mystic: A Trilogy of Aberrant Transcendence, National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Skidmore College, June 1996
• “The Value of Emotions in the Lives of Artists: Nima Yushij’s Notes from the Underground,” Centennial Panel on Nima Yushij: His Life, His Works, His Legacy, Middle East Studies Association 29^th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, December 1995
• “The “Mental Habits” of Schoolmen: Reading 14^th Century Poetry through Erwin Panofsky,” The Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies, Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, June 1995
• Chair, “Political Economy of the Middle East,” Fulbright Association of Minnesota Conference: The Middle East in Minnesota, May 1995
• Poetry Reading, “Women’s Voices in Dialogue,” Region 4 Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, Madison, Wisconsin, April 1993

AWARDS & SERVICE

• Northeast MLA Conference Travel Grant, February 2009
• Consortium for Women and Research Travel Grant, 2009
• Miller Travel Grant (Montpellier, France), 2009
  
• Editorial Board Member, Reconfigurations journal, 2008-present
• UCD Department of English Summer Research grant, Spring 2008
• UCD Department of English Block Grant research trip funding, Spring 2007
• Ethel O. Gardner P.E.O. Scholarship, 2006-2007
  
• 2003-2004 Staff Assembly Scholarship, University of California, Davis
• Board of Directors, Critique: Journal of Critical Studies of the Middle East, Ed. Eric Hooglund, Georgetown University, 1994-1997
• Board of Directors, Friends School of Minnesota, St Paul, Convener and co-chair, Strategic Planning; Chair, Building Search Committee, 1995-1997
• Travel Award, Department of English, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, December 1995
• Newberry Library Travel Award, Center for Renaissance Studies, Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, June 1995
• CIC Traveling Scholar, Persian-Turkish Consortium, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Fellowship, University of Michigan, Summer 1994