GRANTS, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS:
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RECENT GRANTS **May 2004 $4,000 Recipient of MSU Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Research Mini-Grant ** May 2004 Selection as Participant in Seward Distance Learning Workshop **2004 $12,000 Recipient of Research Incentive Award: College of Arts and Humanities, MSU **2003 $15,000 Recipient of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) Center for Teaching and Learning: "Learning that Lasts" Grant for the project, "Moving Towards Respect" **2003 $12,000 Recipient of Research Incentive Award: College of Arts and Humanities, MSU
Recent conference papers, speeches, and workshops: Weekend Seminar. “My Story, Your Story, Our Stories.” Family Seminar, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Center for Teaching and Learning, January 2006. Public reading. “Thinking about Memoir.” Good Thunder Reading Series, at Minnesota State University, January 2006. Participant in Roundtable Discussion. “Teaching Practices, Holocaust Education, and the Minnesota Teaching Standards.” Symposium on the Memory and Teaching of the Holocaust. Hennepin Technical College, September 2005. “Ethical Issues in the Study of Diaries.” Invited Seminar for Doctoral Students, University of East London Centre for Narrative Research, May 2005. “Memory, Memoir and Survivors’ Stories.” Invited Autocritical Presentation, University of East London Centre for Narrative Research, April 2005. "Living to Tell the Tale: Women's Narratives of Survival." Paper, Women and the Holocaust Conference, May 2005. "'Moving Towards Respect': a Diversity in Education Project." Paper, International Association of Intercultural Education, April 2005. "Women of Inspiration: Studying Auto/biography and Diaries." University of Arizona Women's Studies Capstone Presentation. Tucson, February 2005. "Survival in Multiple Worlds: Narratives by Survivors of World War II." Paper, Fourth International Auto/biography Association Conference. Hong Kong, March 2004. “Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative in the Writing Classroom.” Suzanne Bunkers, Emily Kretschmer, Kristina Lilleberg, and Kate Dayton. MnSCU Conference on Writing, MSU, Mankato, September 30 - October 1, 2004 "Apparitions of Mary and the Goddess Tradition." Workshop, 25th Annual Women and Spirituality Conference. Minnesota State University, October 2003. "Survivors’ Stories." Invited Paper, "Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster" International Symposium, Muenster, Germany, May 2003. (continued below) |
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"Using Diaries as Archival Sources." Invited Presentation. Midwest Archivists
Association. Kansas City, April 2003. "Studying and Editing Diaries in the Iowa Women’s Archives." Invited Paper, Iowa Women's Archives (IWA) Tenth Anniversary Symposium entitled "Making Women's History." Iowa City, University of Iowa Library, November 2002. "Diaries of Women and Girls: Programs and Preservation." Invited Speech, Wisconsin Library Association Convention, October 2002. "The Life of a Country School Teacher." Invited Speech, McGee Country School Reunion/Coffin's Grove Fest, Manchester, Iowa, August 2002. Lecture and Book-signing: Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler . Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, March 2002.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS, 1978-1995:
"Susanna and Me: Writing Autobiography." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1995.
"Illegitimacy and Identity." Invited Lecture at the Conference of the European Genealogical Society, 1994.
"Susanna: A Case Study of One Immigrant's Life." Invited Lecture, The 21st International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, 1994.
"First Person Plural: Women's Life Stories." Paper, International Symposium on Autobiography, Hofstra University, 1994.
"Teaching Critical Thinking in the Literary Theory Classroom." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1993.
"The Role of a Center for Faculty Development in Values Assessment." Presenter at Conference of Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, 1993.
"Teaching Diversity." Paper, National Council of Teachers of English Midwestern Conference, 1993.
"Teaching Multicultural Literature." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1992.
"Household Words: The Functions of the Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1992.
"Recent Developments in Theory of Autobiography." Invited Lecture, Marquette University, 1992.
"Issues in the Preparation of an Edition of the Diary of Caroline Seabury." Paper, Northern Great Plains History Conference, 1991.
"Subjectivity and Self-Reflexivity in the Study of Women's Diaries as Autobiography." Paper, International Symposium on "The Subject of Autobiography." Portland, Maine, November, 1989.
"The Dual Role of Women's Diaries Along the Midwestern Frontier." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1989.
"Women's Diaries as a Form of Autobiography: Intersections of Class, Race, Gender Identity." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1988.
"Freedom and Constraint in Unpublished Midwestern Diaries." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1988.
"What Do Women Really Mean? Speculating About Meaning in Coded Texts." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1987.
"Encoding/Decoding: Issues in the Study of Women's 'Private' Writings" Forum. Panel Chair, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1987.
"Identity Issues in the Study of Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Women's Unpublished Diaries, Journals, and Memoirs." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1987.
"Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Women's Diaries and the Formation of Gender Identity." Paper, Women's Culture in the Great Plains Symposium, 1987.
"Gender/Genre Connections in the Diaries of Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Women." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1986.
"'Faithful Friend': Nineteenth-Century American Women's Unpublished Diaries." Paper, Northern Great Plains History Conference, 1986.
"An Appraisal of Prairie Women: Images in Canadian and American Fiction." Panelist, Northern Great Plains History Conference, 1986.
"The Aesthetics and Politics of Women's Humor." Paper, Popular Culture Association Convention, 1986.
"Midwestern Diaries and Journals: What Women Were (Not) Saying in the 1880's." Invited Lecture, International Symposium on Autobiography and Autobiography Studies, 1985.
"Exploring the Academic Culture: Students, Faculty, and Administrators as Partners." Panelist, Minnesota Women in Higher Education, 1985.
"Narrational Strategies in the Civil War Diaries of Emily C. Quiner and Caroline Seabury." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1984.
"Women's Autobiography" Session. Panel Chair, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1984.
"Rediscovering Women in American History and Life." Presenter at Workshop in the Series, "A New Look at Our Past: Women's History in Community Museums," sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society, 1984.
"Women Writers of the 1880's." Panel Chair, Modern Language Association Convention, 1983.
"Incorporating the Goddess into Our Lives." Paper, Women and Spirituality Conference, 1983.
"Writing Our Story: Learning About Our Matrilinear Heritage." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1983.
"A Changed Perspective: Women's Autobiographies, Journals and Diaries as Literature." Paper, Minnesota Council of Teachers of English Conference, 1983.
"Willa Cather's My Antonia and Josephine Donovan's Black Soil: Two Views of the Midwestern Woman as Homesteader." Paper, National Council of Teachers of English Convention, 1982.
"Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary: The Values of Self-Reflexive Writing." Paper, Virginia Woolf Conference, 1982.
"Using and Evaluating Peer Tutoring" Session. Panel Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1982.
"Stories for the Seventh Generation" Contest. Panelist and Judge, Minnesota Humanities Commission, 1982.
"Images of the Older Woman in May Sarton's Journal of a Solitude." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1981.
"Women and Writing: A Roundtable Discussion." Panelist, Great Lakes Women's Studies Association Conference, 1981.
"Recording Oral History Workshops." Presenter, sponsored by Fairmont and Le Sueur, MN, Community Education Programs. 1981.
"The Re-entry Student in the Off-campus and Continuing Education Setting." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1980.
"Women and Writing: Attitudes, Problems, Solutions." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1980.
"Humor in Women's Popular Literature, Music, and Cartoons." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1980.
"Josephine Donovan's Black Soil: Re-discovering the Work of a Midwestern Writer." Paper, Midcontinent American Studies Association Conference, 1980.
"Images From the Heartland: Photographic and Cinemagraphic Images of the Midwest." Panel Chair, Midcontinent American Studies Association Conference, 1980.
"Female Humor." Special Session Chair. Modern Language Association Convention, 1979.
"Children's Literature" Section. Discussant, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1979.
"Bringing Women's Studies to Re-entry Women." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1979.
"Images of Women and Nature in Sarah Orne Jewett's Fiction." Paper, National Women's Studies Association Conference, 1979.
"Dorothy Parker: Feminist and Social Critic." Paper, Modern Language Association Convention, 1978.
"Woman-identified Woman in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs." Paper, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, 1978.