PUGSLEY CENTER 301, BOX 2218

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
BROOKINGS, SD 57007
(605) 691-3714 * CHRISTINE.STEWART@SDSTATE.EDU

Christine Stewart
(publish under Christine Stewart-Nuñez)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English with a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Lincoln, NE. Creative dissertation: Syllables Rising. May 2007. Director: Professor Hilda Raz.
M.A. in English. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. Critical thesis: Rooted in The Waste Land: Poetic
Sensibility and Strategy in Carolyn Forché’s The Angel of History. May 2000. Directors: Dr. Susan McCabe and Dr.
Helen Thompson.
B.A. (summa cum laude) in English with a minor in writing and a 7-12 grade teaching endorsement.
University of Northern Iowa. Cedar Falls, IA. December 1995. National Student Exchange: University of
Montana, 1993-1994.

SPECIALIZATIONS

Creative writing studies (poetry and creative nonfiction) Composition studies

Modern and contemporary American poetry Women’s literature

PUBLICATIONS

Books of Poetry
Bluewords Greening. Caldwell, NJ: Terrapin Books. 2016. Print.
Untrussed. Albuquerque, NM: U of New Mexico P. 2016. Print.
Keeping Them Alive. Cincinnati, OH: WordTech Editions. 2011. Print.
Postcard on Parchment. Huntington, WV: ABZ, 2008. Print. Winner: ABZ First Book Prize, selected by David
Baker.

Chapbooks of Poetry
Snow, Salt, Honey. Northfield, MN: Red Dragonfly Press, 2012. Print.
Unbound & Branded. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2006. Print.
The Love of Unreal Things. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2005. Print.

Refereed Edited Collections—Scholarship and Creative Works

Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens. Ed. Dr. Carole Levin, Associate Ed. Dr. Christine Stewart-Nuñez. New
York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. Print.
Action, Influence, Voice: Contemporary South Dakota Women. Eds. Dr. Meredith Redlin, Dr. Christine Stewart-
Nuñez, and Dr. Julie Barst. Brookings, SD: South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, 2015. Print.

Refereed Articles and Chapters: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

“Sought-After Sophistications: Crafting a Curatorial Stance in the Creative Writing and Composition Classrooms.”
Co-written with Dr. Rochelle L. Harris. Creative Composition: Inspiration and Techniques for Writing Instruction. Eds. Lori A.
May and Danita Berg. London: Multilingual Matters. 2015: 59-76. Print.

“Women Shaping Their World: An Honors Colloquium.” Co-written with Dr. Julie Barst and Dr. Julie Lane.
Honors in Practice 2012): 8. 63-78. Print.

Anthologized Work
Two poems in Perfect Dragonfly: A Commonplace Book of Poems Celebrating A Decade and a Half of Printing and
Publishing at Red Dragonfly Press. Ed. Scott King. Northfield, MN: Red Dragonfly Press, 2011: 290-291. Print.
Thirteen poems in A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry. Ed. Patrick Hicks. Sioux Falls, SD:
Center for Western Studies, 2010: 199-215. Print.

Public Art

“The Passage of Wind and Water: A Collaborative Choral Poem.” Coordinated the submission process,
wrote additional original text, and arranged this multi-voiced poem performed for The Passage of Wind and
Water Sculpture Project. Rapid City, SD. June 2014.
“Honors.” Occasional poem commissioned by Dean Tim Nichols for the naming of the Barbara B. and Van
D. Honors College. SDSU, September 2013.

Book Reviews
“A Review of Barbara Duffey’s Simple Machines.” Forthcoming, Tarpaulin Sky Review.
“Darkened Rooms of Summer: A Review of Jared Carter’s New and Selected Poems.” Tipton Poetry Journal 2016:
30. 66-68. Web/print.
“Meadowlark: A Novel by Dawn Wink.” Great Plains Review Spring 2015: 224-225. Print.
“Marge Saiser’s Losing the Ring in the River: a Review.” Paddlefish 2014: 125-127. Print.
“Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet by Twyla M. Hanson and Linda M. Hasselstrom.” Paddlefish 2013: 170-174. Print.
“Cradling Monsoons by Sarah McKinstry-Brown.” Paddlefish 2012: 137-139. Print.
“All Your Messages Have Been Erased by Vivian Shipley.” Paddlefish 2011: 167-170. Print.
“Three New Offerings from Red Dragonfly Press.” Paddlefish 2010: 187-190. Print.
“What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward.” Red Rock Review 2008: 129-131. Print.
“Lamb by Frannie Lindsay.” Prairie Schooner 2008: 82.2. 174-177. Print.
“Resistance Fantasies by Diane Thiel.” Prairie Schooner 2006: 80.4. 188-192. Print.
“Horses and the Human Soul by Judith Barrington.” Prairie Schooner 2006: 80.4: 192-195. Print.
“Dog Angel by Jesse Lee Kercheval.” Prairie Schooner 2006: 80.4: 195-199. Print.
“Year of the Snake by Lee Ann Roripaugh.” Prairie Schooner 2005: 79.3. 185-188. Print.

Creative Nonfiction and Essays in Literary Magazines

“Once Upon a Tower.” So to Speak. Finalist for the 2015-2016 Nonfiction Contest. Judge: Barbara Hurd.
Print.

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“A Study of Nuns, Light, and (Eventually) Love.” 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction. Summer 2015: 3:1. 24-
30. Web.
“Culinary Alchemy.” poemmemoirstory. 2015: 14. 85-90. Print.
“Disordered.” Winner of the Lyric Essay Contest of The Lindenwood Review. Spring 2014: 95-102. Print.
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Marriage and Marble.” Blue Lyra Review. January 2014: 3.1. Web.
“Filaments of Prayer.” North American Review. Winter 2013: 298.1. 40-43. Print.
“Toward Intimate Spaces.” Watershed Review. Spring 2013. Web.
“Hike to the Black Madonna.” Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review. Fall 2012: 62.1. Web.
“Beyond Sound.” The Pinch. Fall 2012: 18-22. Print.
“New Lens.” (Photo essay collaboration with Terrance D. Stewart.) Shadowbox. Winter 2011. Web.
“Writer of Calendars.” North Dakota Quarterly. Spring/Summer 2012: 133-138. Print.
“An Archeology for Secrets.” Briar Cliff Review 2011. 14-18. Print. Winner of the Fifteenth Annual Creative
Nonfiction Contest. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Listed as a “Notable Essay,” Best American Essays
2012.
“Kitchen Salsa.” LUMINA. 2011: 10. 65-67. Print.
“The Work of Hands.” South Dakota Review 2009: 47.4: 80-87. Print.

Writing Related Articles

“Ted Kooser: A Poet of Connection.” Invited guest blog, South Dakota Humanities Council. August 2016.
“About ‘Filaments of Prayer.’” Invited guest blog, North American Review. December 13, 2013.
“For Ted.” The Midwest Quarterly. Tribute to Ted Kooser. 2005: 46.4. 422-424. Print.

Individuals Poems Published

“Viriditas.” The Missouri Review. Sept 5, 2016. Web.

“The Key.” Indian River Review. 2016: 42-43. Print.
“Thirteen Ways of Understanding Blueword.” Indian River Review. 2016: 44-45. Print.
“How Such Constraints Unbind.” Adanna Literary Journal Spring 2016: 47. Print.
“Visual Thinking Strategies.” Adanna Literary Journal Spring 2016: 48. Print.
“Gladiolus.” All We Can Hold: A Collection of Poetry on Motherhood. Eds: Gregory, Elise and Emily Gwinn. Sage
Hill Press, 2016. 199. Print.
“The Queen Bee Speaks.” All We Can Hold: A Collection of Poetry on Motherhood. Eds: Gregory, Elise and Emily
Gwinn. Sage Hill Press, 2016. 197. Print.
“Art of the Body.” Baltimore Review Winter 2016” 224. Second-place winner, “writing about the body” theme.
“Against Melancholy (As Hildegard Defines It). Mom Egg Review April 2016: 14. Print.
“Boy at Rest, After Julie Zick’s Lithograph Girl at Rest.” Rogue Agent: October 1, 2015. Invited submission and
nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Web.
“Naming.” Cold Mountain Review. Spring 2015: 43.2. 55. Print.

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“Granadas: Katherine to Her Daughter.” Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens. Ed. Carole Levin and Associate
Ed., Christine Stewart-Nuñez. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. 161. Print.
“Of Books and Bijou.” Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens. Ed. Carole Levin and Associate Ed., Christine
Stewart-Nuñez. Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. 159. Print.
“Hildegard’s Metaphors Explain My Miscarriage.” Dappled Things: a quarterly of ideas, art, & faith. Easter 2015:
10.2. 43. Print.
“Sheer Communication.” Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal @ Washington College 2015: 1. 17. Print.
“Women Defending With Bow and Crossbow.” Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal @ Washington College
2015: 1.18. Print.
“Epiphany.” North Dakota Quarterly. Spring 2013: 80.2. 105. Print. (Printed 2015).
“Baby Waiting.” CHEST: American College of Chest Physicians 2014: 182. Print.
“Muscle Memory.” The Louisiana Review. 2014: 12. 9. Print.
“Beginning.” Memory, Echo, Words: The 2014 Scurfpea Publishing Anthology Ed. Norma C. Wilson. Scurfpea
Publishing: Sioux Falls, SD. 2014. 122. Print.
“Perception.” Memory, Echo, Words: The 2014 Scurfpea Publishing Anthology Ed. Norma C. Wilson. Scurfpea
Publishing: Sioux Falls, SD. 2014. 123. Print.
“Pseudocyesis: Katharine of Aragon Speaks." Memory, Echo, Words: The 2014 Scurfpea Publishing Anthology Ed.
Norma C. Wilson. Scurfpea Publishing: Sioux Falls, SD. 2014. 124. Print.
“Axel Jump.” Clackamas Literary Review 2014: 89. Print
“Love Birds.” Clackamas Literary Review 2014: 91. Print
“Each Night, His Other Life.” Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books. Ed. Bryan D. Dietrich and Marta
Ferguson. Minor Arcana P: Seattle: WA, 2014: 33. Print.
“Wonder Woman Relaxes.” Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books. Ed. Bryan D. Dietrich and Marta
Ferguson. Minor Arcana P: Seattle: WA, 2014: 43. Print.
“When My OB/GYN Says He Doesn’t Understand Poetry.” The Fertile Source. December 17, 2013. Web.
“Fluidity.” The Fertile Source. December 17, 2013. Web.
“First Bases.” Cimarron Review. Fall 2013: 81. Print.
“Bhoireann, A Stony Place.” Cimarron Review. Fall 2013: 80. Print.
“Opulent.” Atlanta Review. Fall/Winter 2013. 48. Print.
“Cinquain Garland, India.” Atlanta Review. Fall/Winter 2013. 49-50. Print.
“We Pour So Much into the Making.” October 1, 2013: 15.4. Web.
“Wind-Shifted City.” burntdistrict. Summer 2013: 2.2. 37. Print.
“Struck.” burntdistrict. 2.2 Summer 2013: 2.2. 38-39. Print.
“Gridiron.” The Evansville Review. 2013: 23. 69. Print.
“Variation of Crane.” Crab Orchard Review. Summer/Fall 2013:18.2. 144. Print.
“Not Yet.” Eclipse. 2013. 88. Print.
“Crush.” Natural Bridge. Spring 2013: 29. 96-97. Print.
“Didactic.” Natural Bridge. Spring 2013: 29. 94-95. Print.
“The Holding.” The Sheepshead Review Spring 2013: 35.2. 122-3. Print.

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“Dimensional Shift.” The Sheepshead Review Spring 2013: 35.2. 133. Print.
“Bodhisattva of the Clean Sink.” Fox Cry Review 2013. 26. Print.
“Wonder Woman Shops at Kroger’s.” Sierra Nevada Review Spring 2013. 73. Print.
“For Liz, Who Loved to Square Dance.” Sierra Nevada Review Spring 2013. 74. Print.
“All My Engineering.” New Plains Review Spring 2013. 20. Print.
“Abecedarian to Unbind.” The Portland Review. April 2013. Web.
“Lighting.” The Mom Egg 2012: 10. 36. Print.
“Guilt.” The Cape Rock Fall 2012. 37. Print.
“Breakfast for Supper.” American Life in Poetry; Ed. Ted Kooser. Syndicated column. #387. August 20, 2012.
“Epilepsy Haiku.” The Connecticut Review (Spring 2012): 95. Print.
“The Artist Paints the Sunset.” The Connecticut Review Spring 2012. 96. Print.
“Dichotomies of a Photograph Suggesting Depression.” The Connecticut Review Spring 2012. 97. Print.
“Tentative.” Adanna Literary Journal 2012. 72-73. Print.
“I Love You, But.” South Dakota Review Winter 2011. 10-11. Print.
“In the Year After Your Mother's Death,” South Dakota Review Winter 2011. 12. Print.
“Making Room.” South Dakota Review Winter 2011. 13-14. Print.
“Bathed.” Adanna Literary Journal 2011. 62. Print.
“Just Friends.” Adanna Literary Journal 2011. 63. Print.
“Ode to the Beet.” Paddlefish 2011: 5. 144. Print.
“Amnesia, Lover.” Paddlefish 2011: 5. 145. Print.
“My Language of Love is Not Polish.” Paddlefish 2011: 5. 146. Print.
“Buddha Laugh.” Tipton Poetry Journal Summer 2010. 28. Print.
“An Apology to Stay a Greater Loss, with Demi.” Sugar House Review 2010: 12. 63. Print.
“Honeymoon at Miguel’s Beach Paradise.” Flyway: Journal of Writing and the Environment 2010: 12.3. 27. Print.
“Art Lessons.” Valparaiso Poetry Review 2010: 11.2. Web.
“Exposure.” Chickenpinata: A Journal of Poetry 2010: 5. Web.
“Convergence.” American Life in Poetry; Ed. Ted Kooser. Syndicated column #249. 27 Dec. 2009.
“Convergence.” Briar Cliff Review 2009: 21. 51. Print
“Inside the Spin.” The Iguana Review Fall/Winter 2009: 13. Print.
“As Above, So Below. Awakening Consciousness Magazine. 12. Dec 2009. Web.
“Ode at Twenty-One Weeks.” Atlanta Review 2009: 16.1. 14. Print.
“Contemplating Conception, I Write About the Weather.” Prairie Schooner 2009: 83.4. 25. Print.
“Dreaming Iowa.” Prairie Schooner Prairie Schooner 2009: 83.4. 23. Print.
“Meditation on the Smallest Bone in the Body.” Prairie Schooner 2009: 83.4. 26. Print.
“Taurus-Cancer Compatibility.” Prairie Schooner 2009: 83.4. 24. Print.
“Defense.” Paddlefish 2009: 3. 123. Print.

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“What She’d Say.” Paddlefish 2009: 3. 122. Print.
“In Praise of a Pregnant Body.” Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women 2009: 25.2. 70. Print.
“Nursing.” The Evansville Review 2008: 18. 137. Print.
“Breaking.” Prairie Schooner 2008: 82.1. 96-98. Print. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Changes to Daphne.” Prairie Schooner 2008: 82.1. 95. Print.
“Fear at the Black Sea Bus Station.” Prairie Schooner 2008: 82.1. 91. Print.
“Green Silk.” Prairie Schooner 2008: 82.1. 92. Print.
“On History at the Cistern.” Prairie Schooner 2008: 82.1. 90. Print.
“On Memory.” Prairie Schooner 2008: 82.1. 93-94. Print.
“Praise Song.” ABZ: A Poetry Magazine 2008: 3. 40-41. Print.
“Whirl.” ABZ: A Poetry Magazine 2008: 3. 38-39. Print.
“First Sacrifice.” English Journal 2008: 97.3. 119. Print.
“The Meeting.” English Journal 2008: 97.3. 119. Print.
“Women’s Day at the Bath.” North American Review 2007: 292.3-4. 7. Print.
“Lost.” Rattle 2007: 13.2. 70. Print.
“Market Before the Holiday.” Cimarron Review 2007: 161. 19. Print.
“Laying Out the Rug.” Spoon River Poetry Review 2007: 32.1. 101-102. Print.
“Power.” The South Carolina Review 2006: 39.1. 201. Print.
“Directions from Selcuk Bey’s Wife.” Red Rock Review 2006: 19. 69. Print.
“Postcard on Parchment.” Clackamas Literary Review 2006: 2010. 89. Print.
“Revision on the Mediterranean Coast.” Poetry East 2006: 56. 66. Print.
“Snake Gaze.” So to Speak: A feminist journal of language and art 2006: 51.1. 37-38. Print.
“Land of Ur.” The Antigonish Review 2005: 141/142. 82. Print.
“Inhabited 6,000 Years.” The Cape Rock 2005: 36.2. 33. Print.
“Parting Words.” Flint Hills Review 2005: 10. 159-160. Print.
“This Poem, Too, a Monument.” The Midwest Quarterly 2005: 46.4. 394. Print.
“Late Letters.” Arts & Letters 2005: 13. 78-81. Print.
“Government Hospital.” Limestone Review 2005: 30. Print.
“Phantom.” Limestone Review 2005: 29. Print.
“At First.” The Sycamore Review 2005: 17.1. 36. Print.
“Your Death.” Passages North 2005: 26.1. 88. Print.
“Postscript for My Sister.” The Texas Review 2004: 25.3/4. 148. Print.
“The Sign Read Elephant Booking.” Poet Lore 2004: 99.3/4. 37. Print.
“Wake.” Paterson Literary Review 2004: 33. 62. Print.
“Thin Lines.” Colere: A Journal of Cultural Exploration. 2004: 4. 26-28. Print.
“Continuation.” Green Hills Literary Lantern 2004: 15. 137. Print.

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“Parable.” Green Hills Literary Lantern 2004: 15. 136. Print.
“Finding Poems in a Turkish Village.” Nassau Review 2004: 8.5. 29. Print. Award: Best Poem
“Blueberry Pancakes.” South Dakota Review 41.4 (2003): 35. Print.
“Cruithne, and Something We’ve Yet to Name.” South Dakota Review 2003: 41.1. 36. Print.
“Ritual.” The Mid-American Poetry Review 2003: 4.2. 62. Print.
“Sestina of Restraint.” Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women 2003: 21.2. 64. Print.
“The Sublet Room.” The Comstock Review 2003: 17.1. 75. Print.
“Running on Kinsley Plantation.” Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature & Art 2002: 24.2. 35. Print.
“First News from Istanbul.” Borderlands 2001: 17. 111. Print.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS FOR RESEARCH & CREATIVE WORK

Griffith Award Grant. College of Arts & Sciences, South Dakota State University. $1,500. 2016.
Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry and creative nonfiction: 2015, 2013, 2008, 2004
South Dakota Humanities Council Grant. SDSU. $1,000. 2015.
Griffith Award Grant. College of Arts & Sciences, South Dakota State University. $1,200. 2013.
Scholar of the Year, College of Arts & Sciences, SDSU, 2012.
Fellowship. South Dakota Art Museum Faculty Scholar Program. Course release. “Imageword: A South
Dakota Ekphrasis.” Spring 2012.
Research Travel Grant, $3200.00, SDSU, 2012.
Griffith Award Grant. College of Arts & Sciences, SDSU. $1,000. 2012.
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE. Residency: July 10-July 22, 2011.
South Dakota Humanities Council Grant. $1,000. 2010.
Research/Scholarship Support Fund. SDSU. $3,600. 2008.
Griffith Award Grant. College of Arts & Sciences, SDSU. $2,000. 2008.
Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award for Excellence in or Contributions to Research.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). 2008.
Weldon Kees Scholarship. Dorianne Laux, Professor. Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference. 2007.
Presidential Fellowship. UNL. $16,500.00. 2006-2007.
Stuff Dissertation Fellowship. English Department, UNL. 2006-2007.
P.E.O. Scholar Award. $10,000.00. 2006-2007.
Weldon Kees Scholarship. Stephen Dunn, Instructor. Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference. 2005.
Karen Dunning Women’s Studies Award for Creative Activity/Scholarship. UNL. 2005.
Franklin & Orinda Johnson Fellowship. UNL. $2500.00. 2005-2006.
Academy of American Poets Prize. UNL. 2003.
Othmer Fellowship. UNL. $7500.00/year. 2002-2005.
Wilber Gaffney Travel Awards. UNL. 2003-2005.

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Academic Grant. Arizona State University. 2000.
Graduate Tuition Scholarship. ASU. 1998-2000.
Faculty Women’s Association Feminist Research Scholarship. English Department Nominee. ASU. 1999.

TEACHING AWARDS

Honors Faculty Student Recognition, Honors College. Two thesis projects. SDSU. May 2016.
Honors Faculty Student Recognition, Honors College. Three thesis projects. SDSU. May 2015.
Honors Faculty Award for Creativity, Honors College. SDSU. February 2014.
Honors Faculty Student Recognition, Honors College. One thesis project. SDSU. May 2012.
College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. UNL. 2007.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship. UNL. 2002-2007.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship. ASU. 1999-2000.

NATIONAL & REGIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Writing Poetry From Pain: Phenomena of the Body.” The Examined Life Conference: Iowa Carver College
of Medicine. Iowa City, IA. October 2016.
“Free Verse Isn’t Free: Teaching Punctuation with Poetry.” South Dakota Council of Teachers of English.
Sioux Falls, SD. September 2015.
“Building a Writing Group.” North American Review Bicentennial Creative Writing and Literature Conference.
Cedar Falls, IA. June 2015.
“Crossed Domains: Emerging Medical Minds and Creativity.” Panel moderator. The Examined Life
Conference. Iowa City, IA. April 2014.
“Reading, Writing, and Teaching Poetry.” South Dakota Council of Teachers of English. Oacoma, SD.
February 2012.
“Visser Wrote It, But.” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Mankato, MN. October 2011.
“Creative Writing and Academic Research: Kinship in the Archives.” Conference on College Composition
and Communication (CCCC). Atlanta, GA. April 2011.
“Teaching/Traveling Abroad.” South Dakota Education Association Conference. Brookings, SD. April 2011.
“What Do Writers Do All Day? Articulating Our Work in the Profession.” Associated Writers and Writing
Conference (AWP). Washington, D.C. February 2011.
“Writing as a Western Feminist in Turkey.” Red River Women’s Studies Conference. Grand Forks, ND.
October 2010.
“The Sister Arts: Toward a Feminist Ekphrasis.” AWP. Chicago, IL. February 2009.
“Women Write Resistance: Anthology as Activism.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA).
Cincinnati, OH. June 2008.
“Theorizing Class from the Body: My Ghost Body.” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Little Rock,
AR. October 2007.
“Dangerous Poetic Moves: The Rhetorics of Resisting Violence.” NWSA. St. Charles, IL. June 2007.
“Critical Anger: Moving from Venting to Invention.” CCCC. Chicago, IL. March 2006.

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“Negotiating Difference as a Poet.” No Limits! Women’s Studies Conference. Omaha, NE. March 2006.
“Anger and Agency.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Houghton, MI. October 2005.
“Poetry and Research.” No Limits! Women’s Studies Conference. Kearney, NE. March 2005.
“Feminist Foremother(?): Women’s Poetic Responses to Whitman.” AWP. Vancouver, BC. April 2005.
“Women of Vision(s): Female Mystics and Social Activism.” NWSA. Orlando, FL. June 2005.
“Theorizing our Working Class Bodies: Implications for Teaching and Learning.” Rocky Mountain Modern
Languages Association (MLA). Co-presented with Whitney Douglas. Denver, CO. October 2004.
“Revising Community via Feminist Pedagogy in the Composition Classroom.” Midwest MLA Conference.
Chicago IL. November 2003.
“The Body Electric and Its Disciples: Feminist Responses to Whitman.” Central New York Conference on
Language and Literature. Cortland, NY. October 2003.
“Seeing and Being Seen: Image and Experience as Tools for Change.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference.
Columbus, OH. October 2003.
“Shrinking Space Toward Intimacy: Implications of Community for the Lesbian Literature Class.” NWSA.
Co-presented with Dr. Barbara DiBernard. New Orleans, LA. June 2003.
“Using Place as Invention.” AWP. Baltimore, MD. February 2003.
“A Project of Witness: Polyphony, Montage and Fragmentation in Carolyn Forché’s The Angel of History.”
Northeast MLA. Buffalo, NY. April 2000.
“The Effects of ‘Girling’ the Girl: Butler’s Normative Dimension in Wakoski’s Poetry.” Southwest Literature
Symposium. ASU. March 1999.

LOCAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Woman Working from Women: A Poetry Ekphrasis.” Artist Talk. South Dakota Art Museum, November
2106.
“Applying Writing Practice to the Sciences.” Guest Lecture for the Bio-Micro Graduate Association.
November 2016.
“Text in Public Spaces.” Invited talk, Great Plains Writers Conference. Brookings, SD. March 2015.
“Poetry as Pause.” Invited talk, TEDxBrookings, SD. October 4, 2014.
“Cultivating Creativity.” Invited lecture, Brookings Art Council. Brookings, SD. September 2014.
“Cultural Critique via Poetry.” Guest speaker in Dr. Sharon Smith’s Advanced Composition course. SDSU.
February 2010.
“Writing Postcard on Parchment.” Guest speaker in Mike Haug’s Introduction to Literature. SDSU. October
2009.
“Presenting Turkey.” Guest speaker. International Coffee Series. SDSU. October 2009.
“Poland’s Food and Environmental Work.” Guest speaker in Dr. Shelly Brandenburger’s Food, People, and
the Environment class. SDSU. October 2009.
Portrait of Turkey workshop. Guest speaker. South Dakota World Affairs Council, Sioux Falls, SD. April
2009.
“Writing Postcard on Parchment.” Guest speaker in Dr. Chuck Woodard’s American Poetry course. SDSU.
Spring 2008.

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“Writing Unbound & Branded.” Guest speaker in Dr. Jen Tiernan’s Women in the Media course. SDSU. Spring
2008.
“Writing Unbound & Branded.” Guest speaker in Dr. Julia Schleck’s Literature course. UNL. March 2007.
“Catherine of Siena’s Life.” Guest speaker in Dr. Steve Lahey’s Religion course. UNL. March 2006.
“Critical Reading in the Poetry Workshop.” Pedagogy Conference presenter. UNL. October 2005.
“Creating, Revising, Defending a Text: Pressing Workshop Issues.” Pedagogy Conference presenter. UNL.
October 2004.
GLBT Teach-in. Presenter, two sessions. UNL. February 2004.
“Building Community in Composition 150.” Pedagogy Conference presenter. UNL. September 2003.
“Perspectives: Research.” and Creative Writing panelist. “Celebrating Critical and Creative Writing,”
University of Northern Iowa. March 1995.

READINGS, TALKS, WORKSHOPS

Poetry Reading and Artist Talk. Northern Plains Arts Council. Watertown, SD. November 2016.
Workshop and Poetry Reading. Invited Visiting Writer, Mt. Marty College, Yankton, SD. November 2016.
“Poetry Reading: Untrussed & Bluewords Greening.” Briggs Archives, SDSU. October 2016.
“Poetry Reading: New Work by Christine Stewart-Nuñez.” Invited reading by students of Sigma Tau Delta.
Dakota State University, Madison, SD. October 2016.
“Woman Working from Women: A Poetry Ekphrasis.” South Dakota Festival of Books. Brookings, SD.
September 2016.
“Simple Machines, Untrussed: A Dual Reading.” South Dakota Festival of Books. Brookings, SD. September
2016.
“Free Verse Isn’t Free: The Logics of the Line.” South Dakota Festival of Books. Brookings, SD. September
2016.
“One Writer’s Life.” Creating Spaces Keynote Address, Southwest Minnesota State University. April 2016.
“Three poems in Memory, Echo, Words.” South Dakota Festival of Books. Deadwood, SD. September 2015.
“Action, Influence, and Voice: Contemporary South Dakota Women.” South Dakota Festival of Books.
Deadwood, SD. September 2015.
“Fruits of the Group: Reading Memoirs.” North American Review Bicentennial Creative Writing and Literature
Conference. Cedar Falls, IA. June 2015.
Workshop: “Building a Writing Group.” South Dakota Festival of Books. Sioux Falls, SD. September 2014.
Invited Reading/Presentation. Colorado State University, Colorado Springs. April 2014.
Creative Nonfiction Reading. “Disordered: A Lyric Essay about Mothering a Child with Acquired Epileptic
Aphasia. The Examined Life Conference. Iowa City, IA. April 2014.
Poetry Reading: Food for the Mind. Briggs Archives, SDSU. April 2014.
Poetry Reading. Dunn Bros. Coffee Shop. Sioux Falls, SD. November 2013.
Poetry Reading, “Savoring” Marshall Area Fine Arts Center, Marshall, MN, November 2013.
Creative Nonfiction Reading. John R. Milton Conference, University of South Dakota. Vermillion, SD.
November 2013.

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“South Dakota: A Literary Renaissance?” Invited roundtable presenter. John R. Milton Conference,
University of South Dakota. Vermillion, SD. November 2013.
Poetry Presentation, “Meditations on Medieval Women: Poems from Life and Art.” Mary Martin
McClaughlin Speaker, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. October
2013.
Workshop: The Passage of Wind and Water. Main Street Square, Rapid City, SD. September 2013.
Reading/Presentations: “Writing Motherhood: The Messy and the Miraculous.” and “Poetry Café.” South
Dakota Festival of Books. Deadwood, SD. September 2013.
Reading and Panel Moderator: “Threatened Loss: Memoirs of Miscarriage and Stillbirth.” Women’s Studies
Program Conference: Women and Health. March 2013.
Reading/Presentation: “Desire, Discipline, and Decadence: Poetry Practice and Themes.” South Dakota
Festival of Books. Deadwood, SD. September 2012.
Poetry Reading. Crescent Moon Coffee Shop. Lincoln, NE. March 2012.
Poetry Reading. John R. Milton Conference, University of South Dakota. Vermillion, SD. October 2011.
Readings: “Desire, Discipline, and Decadence: Poetry Practice and Themes” and “A Harvest of Words.” Also
conducted a writer’s support seminar and workshop. South Dakota Festival of Books. Deadwood, SD.
October 2011.
Poetry Reading, Keeping Them Alive. Brookings Public Library. Brookings, SD. September 2011.
Poetry Reading, Keeping Them Alive. Feature Speaker, South Dakota State Fair. Huron, SD. September 2011.
Poetry Reading, Keeping Them Alive. Beaverdale Books. Des Moines, IA. April 2001.
Poetry Reading, Keeping Them Alive. Augustana College. Sioux Falls, SD. April 2011.
Poetry Reading, Keeping Them Alive. South Dakota State University. March 2011.
Creative Nonfiction Reading, “An Archeology of Secrets.” Great Plains Writers’ Conference, SDSU. March
2011.
Poetry Reading. Southwest Minnesota State University Visiting Writers Series. Marshall, MN. March 2011.
Poetry Reading. Western Kentucky University Visiting Writers Series. Bowling Green, KY. February 2011.
Creative Nonfiction Reading, “Writer of Calendars.” Marshall Festival: A Celebration of Rural Writing and
Culture. Marshall, MN. October 2010.
“The Devil’s in the Details” and “A Harvest of Words.” Reading, Writer’s support seminar, and book signing.
South Dakota Festival of Books. Sioux Falls, SD. September 2010.
Poetry Reading. Taproot Reading Series. Minneapolis, MN. April 2010.
Poetry Reading. Guest Writer Series. Briar Cliff University. Sioux City, IA. March 2010.
Reading and workshop. Yankton Federal Prison. Yankton, SD. February 2010.
Exhibit of poem. “Peonies with Beginning and Ending with a Line from Sappho.” 3P Installation (Poets,
Painters, Pavilion) at The Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, SD. Exhibit: November 2009- February 2010.
Reading: 30 January 2010.
Creative Nonfiction Reading. “Hike to the Black Madonna.” John R. Milton Conference, University of South
Dakota (USD). Vermillion, SD. October 2009.
Reading. Faculty Recognition Ceremony. SDSU. February 2009.
Poetry reading. “Sexuality in the City: Poetry Style.” Campus Women’s Coalition. SDSU. December 2008.

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Poetry reading. “Postcard on Parchment.” University of Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls, SD. October 2008.
Reading and book signing. “Travel and Poetry.” South Dakota Festival of Books. Sioux Falls, SD. September
2008.
Oak Lake Writers’ Retreat. Mentor Writer. Brookings, SD. July 2008.
Poetry reading. “Postcard on Parchment.” NWSA. Cincinnati, OH. June 2008.
Reading and lecture. “Telling Our Travel Stories.” Women & Giving Seminar. SDSU. May 2008.
Keynote Poetry Reading. “Postcard on Parchment.” Great Plains Writers’ Conference. SDSU. March 2008.
Creative Nonfiction Reading. “The Work of Hands.” Visiting Writer Series. Central Michigan University. Mt.
Pleasant, MI. March 2008.
Poetry Reading. “Writing Women’s History.” Women’s History Month. SDSU. March 2008.
Visiting Guest Writer. Southwest Minnesota State University. Marshall, MN. March 2008.
Poetry reading. “Reading the Body.” Vermillion Literary Project Festival. USD. Vermillion, SD. February
2008.
Poetry reading. “Postcard on Parchment.” John R. Milton Conference. USD. Vermillion, SD. October 2007.
Chaparral Poetry Group. Clinic facilitator. Lincoln, NE. August 2007.
P.E.O. Scholar Reading. Nebraska P.E.O. Convention. June 2007.
“Catherine of Siena—The Love of Unreal Things.” Keynote Speaker. Queens & Power Conference. UNL.
March 2006.
Nebraska Federation of Women’s Club. Workshop facilitator. November 2006.
Chaparral Poetry Group. Craft presentation. Lincoln, NE. June 2006.
Poetry reading. “Response to Anne Lindberg’s “air/mass”. Sheldon Art Gallery. UNL. February 2005.
Poetry reading. National Writing Project ceremony. UNL. April 2005.
Poetry Reading. Crescent Moon Coffee Shop. Lincoln, NE. May 2005.
Poetry Reading. Barnes and Noble. West Des Moines, IA. October 2004.
Poetry Reading. “Covering.” NWSA. Milwaukee, WI. June 2004.
Poetry Reading. Crescent Moon Coffee Shop. Lincoln, NE. April 2003.

PROFESSORSHIP

2007-Present. Associate Professor, Department of English, South Dakota State University

Creative Writing: Teaching two versions of introductory creative writing, one two-hundred level course that
emphasizes rhetoric and research in two genres and an upper-level course that offers instruction in poetry,
fiction, and creative nonfiction. Teaching Writing Poetry and Writing Creative Nonfiction, both at the
undergraduate and graduate levels, in which students explore the forms and constraints of the genres in
depth. Taught Special Topics Courses: Creative Writing: Practice and Pedagogy (online graduate course
designed for middle school and high school teachers) and Writing Place and Travel.
Writing: Taught Advanced Composition at the two-hundred level—a inquiry based course that drew on
research and analysis. Teaching Professional & Technical Writing at the graduate level; this course draws a
range of students, from English to Engineering and Architecture to Plant Science, and teaches a generalized
rhetorical capacity that helps students adapt to new workplace writing situations.

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Literature: Teaching literature courses at the introductory levels that emphasize the understanding of
contemporary and canonical literature texts in their social and historical contexts. Courses include Poetry
Revisionaries, Introduction to Literature (Honors), Women in Literature (delivered online and face-to-face),
and Introduction to English Studies.
Honors: Teaching special topics colloquiums, such as The Work of Creativity and Ways of Healing, that
focus on the intersections of personal and scholarly knowledge-making and the practices for transformational
work across disciplines.
Women’s and Gender Studies: Taught an introductory, interdisciplinary course (historical, cultural, literary,
political, economic, sociological and other approaches) that explored how societies have defined gender roles
and how gender identities intersect with racial, sexual, class, and national identities. Also taught the Women’s
Studies Capstone designed for women’s studies minors to synthesize their work in women’s studies by
conducting research, completing an activism project, and presenting their learning to the public.
Service-Learning: Teaching a fourth-credit option in writing courses that integrates a service-learning
component. Also teaching a one-credit stand alone class designed give English Education students leadership
development opportunities.
Study Abroad: Co-taught, with Dr. Karl Schmidt, “Rural Traditions and Sustainability,” in southern Poland.
May 10-24, 2009.

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2002-2007. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Composition: Designed and taught first-year writing sequence courses, Writing: Rhetoric as Inquiry and
Writing: Rhetoric and Argument, that emphasized rhetorical analysis of texts, primary and secondary research,
and composing in multiple genres.
Creative Writing: Designed and taught Writing of Poetry, an introduction, which
focused on writing processes, rhetorical reading, and responding to peer texts.
Literature: Designed and taught Introduction to Literature and Women in Popular Culture; both courses
emphasized close readings of texts across genres and the analysis of texts in their cultural contexts.

2001-2002. Adjunct Instructor. Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, AZ

Composition: Designed and taught six sections of first-year composition that emphasized learning the writing
process, integrating research, and writing for different purposes.

2001-2002. Teacher. Arizona Agribusiness and Equine Center. Phoenix, AZ

Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Grade English: Designed and taught an integrated language arts curriculum for
this charter high school.

2000-2001. Teacher. Tempe High School, Tempe, AZ

Ninth Grade Language Arts and Yearbook: Designed and taught an integrated language arts curriculum for
this urban high school as well as advised and taught a Yearbook production class.

1999-2000. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Arizona State University

Composition: Designed and taught first-year writing courses that emphasized writing in the public sphere,
writing to persuade, and rhetorical analysis.

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Service-learning: Trained, guided, and supported ASU students in tutoring school-age children for the South
Mountain Service Learning Program.
Writing Center Tutor: Assisted undergraduate and graduate students with various composing strategies for
writing projects across the curriculum.

1996-1998. Teacher. Tarsus American College, Tarsus, Turkey

Composition, Literature, Linguistics, and Creative Writing: Designed curricula for and taught ninth, tenth,
eleventh, and twelfth grade courses in English for this private high school on the south-central coastline of
Turkey.

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE

2009-2010. Interim Coordinator of Women’s Studies

SDSU. Supervised the use and distribution of program budget; successfully petitioned for the introductory
course to satisfy a general education requirement; planned and conducted a feminist pedagogy reading group;
increased visibility of Women’s Studies through a website revision, ad campaign, and successful
programming; supervised the successful cross-listing of three new Women’s Studies courses; planned,
organized, and supervised a subcommittee for the campus-wide Women of Distinction Award and Tea;
coordinated Women’s History Month/Spring programming which included one national speaker, three
scholarly lectures, several films, and a panel of female faculty from SDSU science departments; conducted
four meetings of the Women’s Studies Advisory Council; and implemented a new Brown Bag Series to create
an informal space for campus and community members to engage in feminist discourse and explore women’s
issues. Also taught the Introduction to Women’s Studies course and supervised a capstone/independent
study.

2007-Present. Coordinator of Creative Writing

SDSU. Organized meetings to review and expand creative writing curriculum; successfully submitted
paperwork to add a new creative writing course; advised the student literary journal, Oakwood; helped
coordinate South Dakota State University’s annual Great Plains Writers’ Conference each year (Director,
2009); administrated the budget, streamlined contest organization, and integrated a service learning
component for the Jerome Norgren state-wide poetry contest.

2005. American Life in Poetry

Assistant to Ted Kooser, Former Poet Laureate of the United States, for the American Life in Poetry. UNL.
Researched and selected poems for a nationally syndicated newspaper column; ghost-wrote several
introductions; and attended weekly meetings with Professor Kooser. Funded by The Poetry Foundation.

2005. Associate Coordinator of Composition

Organized and implemented TA training orientation; planned and organized ongoing workshops; consulted
with other teachers on the teaching of writing; reviewed teaching materials and textbooks; attended weekly
staff and policy meetings; revised and edited the TA Handbook; wrote grants for and organized the visits of
guest scholars; and facilitated composition colloquium. UNL.

2003-2004. Editorial Assistant, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

Editorial Assistant to Dr. Robert Brooke for the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (CCCC, NCTE) monograph
series. UNL. Worked with Dr. Brooke to offer significant developmental advice for manuscripts; tracked

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correspondence; researched and queryed potential authors; compiled reports; organized meetings for the
editorial board; and updated the website.

1994-1995. Associate Features Editor, Northern Iowan

Campus newspaper. University of Northern Iowa.
Wrote articles; took photographs; designed page layout; edited section; attended weekly editorial board
meetings and collaboratively wrote editorials; and worked with Features Editor to cover every aspect of the
section’s design.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Attendee/participant: Riverteeth Creative Nonfiction Conference. Ashland, OH. June 4-6, 2016.
Summer Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Symposium. August 10, 2015.
Bridges: Building a Supportive Community (SDSU). October 20, 2015.
AL-Cloud Technology Seminar—Advanced Cohort. Faculty Development: SDSU. June 4-6, 2012.
“The Art of the Sentence, the Art of the Paragraph.” Priscilla Long, Instructor. Taos Summer Writers’
Conference. Taos, NM. July 11-17, 2010.
“Alternative Forms of Creative Nonfiction.” Dr. Robert Root, Instructor. The Loft Literary Center.
Minneapolis, MN. June 14-18, 2010.
AL-Cloud Technology Seminar. Faculty Development: SDSU. June 21-25, 2010.
Feminist Pedagogy Reading Group. Co-facilitator, Faculty Development: SDSU. Spring 2010
Windbreak House Writing Retreat. Director Linda M. Hasselstrom. Windbreak House. Hermosa, SD.
August 2008.
Service-Learning Seminar. Faculty Development: SDSU. May 2008.
Preparing Future Faculty Fellow. Professional Development Seminar (Summer 2005); Mentorship at
Creighton University, Dr. Timothy Austin
(Fall 2005).
Teaching Inquiry Group. UNL. Member of a research team studying how to improve the teaching of
first-year writing, 2004-2005.
Reader and book review contributor for Prairie Schooner, national literary quarterly. UNL. August 2004-
2007.
Reader for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series in Poetry. UNL. 2005-2007.
National Writing Project—Nebraska. Participant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Summer 2004.
Teaching Internship. Co-taught The Rhetoric of Women Writers with Dr. Joy Ritchie. UNL. Spring
2004.

ACADEMIC SERVICE
Archives and Special Collections Subcommittee. Member. SDSU, 2015-present.
Invited manuscript reviewer of “Peddler at the Door” by Sheila Nickerson for the University of Alaska
Press. December 2015.
South Dakota State Poetry Society, board member, 2012-present. Edited and designed the society’s
journal, Pasque Petals, 2014-present.
Manuscript reviewer for Spark Wheel Press, Omaha, NE, 2014.

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Faculty Mentorship Program, 2013-2015.
Women’s Studies Advisory Council. SDSU. 2007-present. Projects: Brown Bag Series. Co-edited
Action, Influence, Voice: Contemporary South Dakota Women.
Campus Master Planning and Design Committee. SDSU. 2009-2013.
Invited manuscript reviewer of “Pufflings” by Ram Papish for the University of Alaska Press. March
2012.
Invited manuscript reviewer of “Kayak Girl” by Monica Devine and “The Puddles Grew Together” by
Lisa Kljaich for the University of Alaska Press. July/August, 2011.
Jerome Norgren Poetry Prize, Director and Judge. State-wide poetry contest for middle and high
school students. SDSU. 2007-present.
Oakwood, Faculty Advisor. SDSU’s student literary and art magazine. 2007-2012.
First Lady’s Literary Circle Facilitator. SDSU Honors College, Fall 2010.
Office of International Affairs. Theme Semester: Turkey, planning committee participant. 2010.
Diversity Enhancement Council. SDSU. 2009-2010.
Great Plains Writers’ Conference, Director. Regional conference celebrating writers and writing on the
Great Plains. SDSU. 2009.
Faculty Search Committee. Department of Journalism and Mass Communications. SDSU. 2009.
Faculty Search Committee, Department of English. SDSU. 2007-2008 and 2011-2012.
Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference. Volunteer. 2003-2007.
English Graduate Student Association Vice-President, UNL. 2005-2006.
English Graduate Student Association Representative. UNL. 2004-2005.
Pedagogy Conference. English Department, UNL. Coordinator, 2004. Planning committee member,
2003.
Women’s Studies No Limits! Conference: Women’s and Gender Studies Department. UNL. Volunteer,
2004. Planning committee member, 2007.
No-Name Reading Series. UNL. Committee member, 2003-2004.
Gender Equality Association. Political change volunteer. University of Northern Iowa, 1992-1993.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
Academy of American Poets
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Modern Language Association (MLA)

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