SCHOLARLY and CREATIVE WORK
(updated September 2007):
BOOK-LENGTH PUBLICATIONS:
Out of Chaos: Reflections of a University President and his Contemporaries on Vietnam-era Unrest in Mankato and its Relevance Today by James F. Nickerson. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers and Ann R. Fee. Mankato: Minnesota State University Foundation, 2006.
Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
Sarah Gillespie: A Midwestern Farm Girl's Diary. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2000.
In Search of Susanna: an Auto/biography. Singular Lives Series in American Autobiography. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.
Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Annual Proceedings: World of Thought Resident Scholar Series. Ed. Christy Steele and Suzanne Bunkers. Mankato: Mankato State University, 1994, 1995, 1996. [In-house university publications.
"All Will Yet Be Well": The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1952. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993.
The Diary of Caroline Seabury. 1854-1863. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers. Madison: U Wisconsin P, 1991.
Guidebook for Teaching Assistants in English. Ed. Suzanne Bunkers, Keith Sell, and Tammy Bracken. Mankato, MN: Mankato State University, 1989. [In-house university publication]
Good Earth, Black Soil. Co-authored with Frank W. Klein. Winona, MN: St. Mary's College Press, 1981.
Katherine Anne Porter: a Reassessment. Ph.D. Dissertation. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1980.
SELECTED ARTICLES, ESSAYS, CHAPTERS:
“Diaries and Diarists.” Teaching Life Writing Texts. MLA Options for Teaching Series. Ed. Craig Howes and Miriam Fuchs. New York: Modern Language Association (in press for fall 2007 publication).
“O Mary, Where Are Thou?” Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader. Ed. John Gaterud and Abbey Gaterud. Janesville: Blueroad Press, 2007. 110-126.
"Doing Your Own Life Writing." In Educators as Writers: Publishing for Personal and Professional Development. Ed. Carol Smallwood. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006. 186-189.
"Keeping a Writer's Diary." In Educators as Writers: Publishing for Personal and Professional Development. Ed. Carol Smallwood. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006. 15-19.
"MLA Style: Its Origins and Evolution." In Educators as Writers: Publishing for Personal and Professional Development. Ed. Carol Smallwood. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006. 111-114.
"Chronology of the Vietnam conflict, 1964-1975." In James Nickerson, Out of Chaos: reflections of a college president and his contemporaries on Vietnam-era unrest in Mankato and its relevance today. Mankato: MSU, Mankato Foundation, 2006. 1-29.
"A new ceremony for reconciliation: the Mahkato education day project." Co-authored with Sheryl Dowlin and Bruce Dowlin. New Standpoints: the practical magazine for teachers of English [New Standpoints: Le magazine pratique et professionnel des enseignants d'anglais de collège et de lycée]. Paris: Editions Nathan, 30 (January 2007). 24-26
"Thinking about memoir as autobiography." Lifenarrative.net. February 2006.
"Dorothy Parker: Feminist and Social Critic." In The Critical Waltz: Essays on the Work of Dorothy Parker. Ed. Rhonda S. Pettit. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2005). 152-65.
"The Epistolary Novel." New Standpoints: the Practical Magazine for Teachers of English (New Standpoints: Le magazine pratique et professionnel des enseignants d'anglais de collège et de lycée). Paris: Speakeasy Publications. 2005. 27-30.
“July 7, 2005, and Beyond.” Luxembourg News of America, September 2005. 6-7.
“Travels in Luxembourg.” The Diarist’s Journal. Volume 4. Ed. Hollie Rose. January 2004. 24‑38.
Teachers of English (New Standpoints: Le magazine pratique et professionnel des enseignants d'anglais de collège et de lycé)e. Paris: Speakeasy Publications 5.19 (January 2004). 25‑27; 54-55.
"Diary Resources for Teachers.” New Standpoints: the Practical Magazine for Teachers of English (New Standpoints: Le magazine pratique et professionnel des enseignants d'anglais de collège et de lycée). Paris: Speakeasy Publications 5.19 (January 2004). 54‑55.
“Whose Diary is It, Anyway? Issues of Agency, Authority, Ownership.” a/b: Auto/biography Studies: Special Issue: Private Lives/Public Texts: Women’s Literary Diaries and Journals 17.1 (Summer 2002): 11-27.
“Foreword.” Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs Series. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2000.
“Suzy’s Diary.” Adolescent Diaries: Writings by Chinese and American Students. Ed. Sun Jianqiu. Beijing: UIBE Press, 2000. 276-364.
“Reflections of Luxembourg in Rural Midwestern American Life.” Bulletin Linguistique et Ethnologique de l’Institut Grand-Ducal (29: 12-31), 1999.
"Susanna Simmerl Youngblut: A Case Study of a Luxembourg Immigrant's Life." Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Genealogy and Heraldry. Ed. Jean-Claude Muller. Luxembourg City, 1999.
“Illegitimacy and Intercultural Lifewriting.” a/b: Auto/biography Studies 12.2 (Fall 1997):188-202.
"Diaries and Dysfunctional Families: The Case of Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie Huftalen." Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1996. 220-235.
"Mothers, Daughters, and Diaries: Literacy, Relationship, and Cultural Context." Co-authored with Judy Nolte Temple. Nineteenth-American Women and Literacy. Ed. Catherine Hobbs. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. 197-216.
"'I Am Outraged Womanhood': Dorothy Parker as Feminist and Social Critic." American Women Humorists: Critical Essays. Ed. Linda A. Morris. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. 327-340.
"In Search of Susanna: A Study of One Immigrant's Experience." The Palimpsest 74.4 (Winter 1993): 188-196.
"Faithful Friends: Diaries and the Dynamics of Women's Friendships." Communication and Women's Friendships: Parallels and Intersections in Literature and Life. Ed. JoAnna S. Mink and Janet D. Ward. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993. 9-26.
"What Do Women Really Mean?: Thoughts on Women's Diaries and Lives." The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism. Ed. Olivia Frey, Frances Zauhar, and Diane Freedman. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. 207-221
. "Introduction: Keeping a Diary." The Goldfinch: A Magazine of History for Children 14. 1 (Fall 1992): 4-5. State Historical Society of Iowa, 2-3.
"'We Are Not the Cleavers': Images of Nontraditional Families in Children's Literature." The Lion and the Unicorn 16.1 (June 1992): 115-133.
"Subjectivity and Self-Reflexivity in the Study of Women's Diaries as Autobiography." a/b: Auto/biography Studies 5.2 (Fall 1990): 114-123.
“Diaries: Public and Private Records of Women’s Lives.” Legacy 7 (Fall 1990): 17- 26.
"Renewal and Freshman Composition." Faculty Development: A Regional, Collaborative Bush Foundation Newsletter 3.3 (Spring 1990), 6.
“Midwestern Diaries and Journals: What Women Were (Not) Saying in the Late 1800s.” Studies in Autobiography. Ed. James Olney. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 190-210.
"Reading and Interpreting the Letters of Fannie Reed." Sister to Sister. Ed. Janis L. Pallister. Washington, D.C.: Turn-of-the-Century Women, 1988. 43-52.
“‘Faithful Friend’: Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Women’s Unpublished Diaries.” Women’s Studies International Forum 10.1 (1987): 7-17.
“Reading and Interpreting Unpublished Diaries by Nineteenth-Century Women.” a/b: Auto/biography Studies 2.2 (Summer 1986): 15-18.
“Integrating the Reading and Writing Processes: Considerations for Teachers.” Minnesota English Journal 16.1 (Fall 1985): 23-27.
"Why are These Women Laughing? The Power and Politics of Women's Humor." Studies in American Humor 4. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1985): 82-93.
"Strong Women Grow from Black Soil." Plainswoman, 8.5 (January 1985): 4-6.
Personal essays in The Gathering Post: Monthly Magazine of the Minnesota River Valley, from June 1982 through January 1984. Titles: “Re-examination of Women in Myth,” “Why are These Women Laughing?”, “Our Mothers, Ourselves,” “Writing as Meaningful Work,” “Women’s Stories: the Root of All,” “Read On,” “My Sister, My Friend,” “Envisioning a Feminist Future,” “Looking Back Lovingly,” “Autumn Memories,” and “Settling In.”
Poems: “From ‘The Requiem’” and “Dream in First-Person Narrative.” Willow Avenue Review, Summer 1983: 33, 37.
“Dear Diary.” Prairie Women’s Journal 1.4 (Spring/Summer 1983): 3.
"In Search of Susanna: Matrilinear Heritage." Iowa Woman 3.3 (Summer 1982): 41-45.
Poem: “Easter Sunday.” Iowa Woman 2.2 (Spring 1982): 29.
"Honoring Our Foremothers: Four Generations of Strong Iowa Women." Iowa Woman 1.4 (July/August 1980): 7-13.
“Integrating the ESL Reader into the American College Classroom.” Reading Horizons 20.4 (Summer 1980): 115-116.
“Critical-Creative Reading.” An Instructor’s Book for Developmental Reading. Ed. Bernard Schmidt. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University. 1975. 33-38.
Poem, “The Portable Narcisssist.” Bloodroot, Spring 1975, 55-56.
“Women Poets: Current Courses in Literature, Grades 11 and 12.” Iowa English Bulletin Yearbook 24.3 (November 1974): 29-33.
Poem, “Bloodshot.” The Common Woman, Winter 1973, 48.
BOOK REVIEWS, 1980-2006:
Review of Victorian America: A Family Record from the Heartland by Margaret Baker Graham. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Journal 16:3 (Fall 2004): 215‑17.
Approximately fifty additional book reviews in juried scholarly journals and non-juried magazines, including the following: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, a/b: Auto/biography Studies, Minnesota History, The Annals of Iowa, The Journal of Reading, Reading Horizons, Journal of American Ethnic History, Great Plains Quarterly, Iowa Woman, The Minneapolis Trivune, The Corresponder, and others. Specific details are available upon request.