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Education, Employment, Memberships:

B.A., Psychology, San Diego State University

Graduate Work in Psychology, University of Chicago

Graduate Work in Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

M.A., Creative Writing and Literature, Syracuse University

Ph.D., English Literature, Syracuse University

Professor of English and Women's Studies, State Univ. College, Oneonta, NY, 1970 - 2005.

Founding Co-editor of Phoebe: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory, and Aesthetics, based at SUNY Oneonta (1988-92)

Member: National Writers Union, Poets and Writers, Association for the Study of Literature & Environment

 

Conferences Organized and Directed:

"Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and Environmental Writing in America," SUNY Oneonta, July 1994

"Sharp Eyes II: Multicultural Perspectives on Environmental Writing" (The Burroughs Nature Writing Symposia), SUNY Oneonta, June 1996

 

Awards:

Cornelia C. Ward Fellowship in Creative Writing, Syracuse University, 1967

NDEA Fellowship in Literature, Syracuse University, 1968-70

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1975

SUNY Faculty Research Grants in the Fine Arts, 1975, 1978, for work on novel

Walter B. Ford Grant for study of naturalist writers

Walter B. Ford Grant for readings in Women's Studies

National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1987

NEH Summer Seminars:

"New Directions in Literary Interpretation," J. Hillis Miller, Yale University, 1974;

"The Russian Novel," University of Virginia, 1977;

"Fictions of Romantic Irony," Lilian Furst, Stanford University, 1985;

"Gothic in the Ile de France," with Prof. Stephen Murray of Columbia University, conducted in Paris, 1993

O. Henry Award short story, "The Very Pineapple," included in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, 1991. 

Walter B. Ford Grant, "A British Mill Owner and Child Labor Laws," 1993 (for a novel)

Faculty Award, 3rd Annual Undergraduate Women's Conference, April 1996

9th Place, Story "Naked Fiction" contest, for "The River," summer 1996

Faculty Creative Arts Grant for work in France on Gray Face, a novel about Gislebertus, the great 12th century sculptor, July and August 1998

 

Published Fiction:

"Monserrate," Story Yearbook of Discover, 1968. New York: Four Winds Press, 1968.

"Lapidary: Love's Stone Soup," North American Review, 262, Summer 1977.

"Gaiety and Dreaming," Ms., August 1977.

"A Goose's Egg," Syzygy 4: Short Fiction and Sketches, Spring 1979.

"Carmen the Bird Girl," Dark Horse, Summer 1980.

"Temporary Refuge" (published as "A Moment of Refuge"). Woman's World, April 1981.

"The Swan's Eye" (pub. as "A Man Around the House"). Woman's World, May 1981.

"Emergency," Mss. (edited by John Gardner & L.M. Rosenberg). Fall/Winter 1981.

"Whatever Happened to Abstract Expressionism?" Mss. Fall/Winter 1982.

Fish. Oneonta, New York: Serpent & Eagle Press, 1984. (short story chapbook)

Condor and Hummingbird. (novel) Navarro, Ca: Wild Trees Press (Alice Walker, publisher), 1986.

Condor and Hummingbird, British edition, London: The Women's Press, 1987.

"Dostoevsky's Azure Watch Chain," Long Pond Review, 10, 1986.

"Fish," reprinted in Yellow Silk, Spring 1987. Also reprinted in Field Guide to Outdoor Erotica (Moscow Idaho: Solstice Press, 1988).

"Sky Come," in Field Guide to Outdoor Erotica (Solstice Press, 1988).

"The Very Pineapple," The Georgia Review, Spring/Summer 1990.

"The Very Pineapple," reprinted in Prize Stories 1991: The O. Henry Awards (NY: Doubleday, 1991).

"Goat's Milk," Ms. (May/June 1992).

"The Virgin of the Rocks and the Mechanical Fat Lady," (Ms., Nov/Dec 1994).

"The Birthday Present," Good Housekeeping (August 1995)

"Winds to End the Drought," Writing From the Catskills and A Little Beyond, (Treadwell, NY: Bright Hill Press, 1997).

"The Virgin of the Rocks," Reprinted in Storming Heaven's Gate: An Anthology of Spiritual Writing by Women, ed. by Amber Coverdale Sumrall and Patrice Vecchione (NY: Dell/Plume, 1997)

"Goat's Milk" reprinted in Intimate Nature, an anthology on women and animals, edited by Linda Hogan, et al. NY: Fawcett, 1998 (this story called "compelling" in Kirkus Review of the book)

 

Other Fiction:

Fire in the Moon , unpublished short fiction collection.

Touching Earth, completed novel in search of a publisher.

Gray Face, novel in progress about the 12th century sculptor of Autun, Burgundy.

The Cry of the Children, novel in progress about a 19th century British owner's struggle to improve child labor laws.

 

Published Nonfiction:

"I Need a Little Language." Virginia Woolf Quarterly, 1 (1972).

"Sexism and the Creative Writing Class," New Writers, 2, 1975.

"England's Merry, Militant Suffragists," Ms., November 1978.

"Intimate Immensity: A Monet Pilgrimage." North American Review, Fall 1979.

"Creative Breakthtrough: Sequence and the Blade of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Women's Language and Style, ed. by Edmund Epstein (Akron: Univ. of Akron Press, 1979). Reprinted in Virginia Woolf: Critical Assessments, vol IV, edited by Eleanor McNees, (East Sussex, England: Helm Information, 1994).

"Virginia Woolf and the Voices of Silence," Language and Style, Spring 1980.

"Scriveners Forlorn: Dicken's Nemo and Melville's Bartleby." Dicken's Studies Newsletter, 11 (1980).

"Loon Voice: Lying Words and Speaking World in Atwod's Surfacing," in Margaret Atwood: Reflection and Reality (Edinburg Texas: Pan American Univ. Press, 1987).

"That Vermeer Sky," on Vermeer and Delft, North American Review, Fall 1990.

"The Poetry of Rita Dove," Masterpieces of African American Literature (Riverside, Ca: The Salem Press, 1992).

"Creating Spaces, Creating Worlds: Marjorie Bradley Kellog," Ms., November/December 1995.

"Rachel Carson," Masterpieces of Literature for Young People (Riverside, Ca: The Salem Press, 1996).

"John Burroughs," Encyclopedia of the Essay (London, 1997).

"Ethics, Action and Institutions," ASLE Notes, summer 1997 (Ass'n for Study and Literature and Environment)

Introducion to "Ecofeminism/Ecocriticism" issue of Phoebe, a SUNY Women's Studies journal, Spring 1997.

Essays on Frederick Busch, Grace Paley, and Merrill Joan Gerber for Dictionary of Literary Biography, Short Fiction Series, vol II, eds. Gwen Crane and Patrick Meanor, 1999

"'The Book Laid Upon the Landscape': Virginia Woolf and Nature Writing," in Beyond Nature Writing, edited by Karla Armbruster and Kathy Wallace, 1999.

Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing (editor), Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

The Art of Seeing Things: Essays by John Burroughs (Editor), Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001).

 

Recent Conference Papers and Readings:

"Women Nature Writers," Nature Writing Celebration, Pratt Museum, Prattsville, NY, May 16, 1998

Fiction Reading, 5th International Conference on the Short Story, University of New Orleans, June 28-30, 1998

"Romantic Irony in Grace Paley's Short Fiction," 5th International Conference on the Short Story, University of New Orleans, June 28-30, 1998

"'The Book Laid Upon the Landscape': An Ecofeminist Feminist Reading of Virginia Woolf," Conference on Literature and the Environment, Bath Spa University, Bath, England, July 3-5, 1998

"They Dream of Bears," fiction reading from Touching Earth, at Conference on Literature and Environment, Bath Spa University, July 3, 1998.

Write to me at walkercz@oneonta.edu