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I teach and
do research on women's writing and
diaries, survivors' literature, autobiography, memoir, literary theory,
and American literature.
To learn more
about my professional career,
please click on
"My Scholarly Journey"--a personal essay.
Minnesota State University
Home page
Department
of English Home page
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Links:
"An
Autocritical Conversation"
by Suzanne
Bunkers, Helen Buss, and Brenda Daly
"What I've Learned by Studying Diaries"
Teresa Pitman's essay,
"Keeping a Journal" in
Today's Parent Magazine
I took this
photograph of the tombstone at the gravesite of Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886.
She is buried
in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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More Links:
Ch. 1 of Good Earth, Black Soil (published in
1981)
Luxembourg: The Grand Duchy (2005) pdf
(large file)
Click
to read my essay, "Reflections
of Luxembourg in the Midwestern U.S."
Clairefontaine Abbey and Chapel
(on border of Luxembourg and Belgium)
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I have edited
Diaries of Girls and Women: a Midwestern American Sampler (2001),
"All Will Yet Be Well": The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen,
1873-1952 (1993), and The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854-1863
(1991). I am the author of In Search of Susanna (1996), the
co-author of Good Earth, Black Soil (1981), the co-editor with
Cynthia A. Huff of Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's
Diaries (1996), and the co-editor of Out of Chaos:
reflections of
a college president and his contemporaries on Vietnam-era unrest in
Mankato and its relevance today
(2006).
For details, click on
Books Published
and
curriculum vitae
or use the links at the left.
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Congratulations to
the 2008 College Grads! MacKenzie, Kelly and Rachel blow out the
graduation candle. |
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Above: the valley as viewed from the top of Bourscheid Castle near Feulen,
Luxembourg. If you would like to read my essay
about Luxembourgers' immigration to the United States, click on this
link:
Luxembourg |
Above: View
of Luxembourg City's Grund (Photo by Suzanne Bunkers)
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Make a virtual
visit to
Granville, Iowa
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The Home of
Black Soil
Fact Sheet:
Granville, Iowa
Tombstones in St. Joseph Cemetery in
Granville |
Above: my favorite
photograph of the ruins of the Roman Forum, taken after walking through
the ruins on that trip. (Photo by Suzanne Bunkers)
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Below: the
labyrinth of Ravenna
The Wisdom of
Prevention
Deal with the
difficult,
While it is still easy.
Solve large problems
When they are still small.
Preventing large problems
By taking small steps
Is easier than solving them.
Therefore, the Tao person
Anticipates and lives wisely.
By small actions
Accomplishing great things.
-- Tao 67
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Some years ago, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg commissioned a sculpture
that stands outside the United Nations Building in New York City.
The purpose of the sculpture is to promote world peace. In 1994,
Suzanne and Rachel Bunkers visited the United Nations and saw the "No War" sculpture.
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Above: KiKiDee, Emily,
Lucy |
Above: Statue of
Our Lady of Consolation in the parish church of Waldbredimus, Luxembourg |
