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CURRICULUM VITAE
Fleda Brown
Professor
Department of English
EDUCATION:
B.A.
(English)
M.A. (English),
Ph.D.
Dissertation: The
EMPLOYMENT:
1995-present
1991-
1994
1986-1990 University of
1979-1985 University of
1976-1978 University of
1970-1975 Springdale High School,
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2001- Poet Laureate of the State of
General
University Research Grant, 2003, $6000, for work on a book of poems.
William
Allen Creative Nonfiction Award,
First Annual Philip Levine Poetry
Prize winner,
2001 Winner in Poetry of The Porter
Fund Literary Prize,
to
“a writer with a strong
substantial body of work.”
Kestrel Writing Contest, national winner
for “
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies,
Full salary for one year, for a poetry project involving
secondary schools
in
Finalist, National Poetry Series,
for The Devil’s Child
Verna Emery Poetry Prize, for Do
Not Peel the Birches (Purdue University Press, 1993),
chosen by Gerald Stern.
Great Lakes Colleges Association
New Writers Award for Fishing With Blood (Purdue
University Press, 1988), as best
first volume of poetry submitted by presses.
“Fishing With Blood”: Concerto for
Soprano and Orchestra, composed by Kevin Putz,
performed at Eastman School of Music,
Fishing With Blood as text; won the American Society of Composers
and Publishers
(ASCAP) national award and the Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) national
award
for the best composition by a composer under the age of 30. Compositions (by
the same
composer) based on others of my poems were performed in 1995 at Yale School
of
Music in their series “New Music New Haven.”
James Wright Prize, (poetry)Mid-American Review, Vol. XI, 1992.
Nominated for The Pushcart Prize:
Best Poems in Magazines and Journals, eighteen poems,
1999, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1987.
Delaware Arts Council Individual
Artist’s Fellowship, 1986. $4000, to support creative work.
President’s Award, 1985. National
Marine Education Association. Given for outstanding
contribution to marine education, for my work as editor of the Association’s
journal.
Joseph P. Slomovich Memorial Award,
Cedar Rock (poetry), 1981.
Phi Beta Kappa,
PUBLICATIONS :
BOOKS
AND MONOGRAPHS
The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their
Lives (poems) Carnegie
Mellon University Press,
2004
Breathing In, Breathing Out (poems).
The Devil’s Child (poems).
National Poetry Series Contest).
The Earliest House, a Yarrow chapbook issue devoted to my work. Ed. Harry Humes,
Kutztown
Do Not Peel the Birches (poems).
The Eleusinian Mysteries MS (poems and images: limited edition
artbook), with Norman
Sasowsky.
Fishing With Blood (poems).
Critical Essays on D. H. Lawrence, in the series, Critical Essays
on Modern British Literature,
Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1988. Co-edited with Dennis Jackson.
INDIVIDUAL POEMS PUBLISHED SINCE
1995:
“The Explanation,”
Lake Effect, 8 (Spring 2004), 22-23.
“A Few
Lines from Rehoboth Beach,” rpt. Across State Lines:
in Poetry,
“I Return
to
Arctos Press, 2003, 14.
“You Must
Perform the Egg Dance,” Poet Lore, 98 (Fall/Winter 2003):
75
“Water Rising,”
The Southern Review, 39 (Summer 2003): 469-70.
“Road to
Damascas,” Cortland Review, 19 (February 2002): on-line journal
publication.
“Language,” and “I Write the Same
Poem Over and Over,” West Branch, 50 (Spring 2002): 52-55.
“Highway 5,” Poetry,
153 (May 2002): 82-83, reprinted as the featured poem for 6/21 in Poetry
Daily, an on-line magazine
“
“Beside
the Juniata,” “The Chinchorro Mummies,” Alaska Quarterly Review, 19
(Spr/Summer
2002: 156-58.
“Sestina
For Elvis,” Arts and Letters, 5 (Spring 2001): 134-35.
“Elvis
Reads the Story of the Woman at the Well,” “Civil Defense,” Artful Dodge
38-39: 141-
42.
“I Imagine My Death: A Love Poem,”
“The Jerry Springer Show of Poems,” Quarterly West
(Fall/Winter
2001-2002): 66-68.
“The
Original Sun Recording,” “Shaking Hands With Nixon,” Crab Orchard Review,
6
(Fall/Winter 2000): 35-36.
“Knowledge,” poem written as text
for music in celebration of the 300th anniversary of
during their 2001 European tour.
“Your Body,”
The Georgia Review, 54 (Fall 2000): 481.
“Deer,”
“Hell’s Canyon,” The Mystic River Review, Aug. 2000 (www.acarts.org/Mystic).
“Passing
Samantha Around,” The Courtland Review, 12 (www.cortlandreview.com).
“Samantha
Quits Growing,” “Country Music,” Shenandoah, 50 (Summer 2000):38-39.
“I Write My
Mother a Poem,” The Southern Review, 36 (Winter 2000): 4-5.
“Impatiens,”
“The King-Sized Bed,” Michigan Quarterly Review, 39 (Winter
2000): 114-115.
“Graceland” (a series of 13 poems, plus introduction),
Kestrel, 14 (Fall 1999): 18-35
“Television News:
Arkansas, 1957, “The Jungle Room at Graceland,” The Crab Orchard
Review, 5 (Fall-Winter 1999): 108-110.
“Southern Man
Like Elvis,” Beliot Poetry Journal, 50 (Fall 1999): 20.
“Industrial
Teflon Comes into Domestic Use,” Poetry (Feb. 2000): 250.
“Why We
Plan to Move,” The
“
“Diapers,”
“Toast,” West Branch, 44 (1999): 84-85. “Elvis
Reads ‘The Wild Swans at Coole,’”
Poetry,
CLXXIII (Feb. 1999): 292.
“I Visit
the Twenty-Four-Hour Coin-Op Church of Elvis,” The Iowa Review, 29
(1999): 55.
“Amy and Brian,” The Southern
Review, 34 (Spring1998): 230-34.
“Elvis Aron and Jesse Garon,” West
Branch, 42 (1998): 108.
“The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their
Lives,” “The Death of Gladys Presley,” The Iowa
Review, 27 (Winter 1997): 184-85.
“Elvis Acts as His Own Pallbearer,”
Yarrow, 20 (Fall/Winter 1997-98): 8.
“Elvis Goes
to the Army,” “Mary Rose Quotes James Joyce on the Cliffs at Bray,” The
Iowa
Review, 27 (Winter 1997): 184-85.
“For the Inauguration of William
Jefferson Clinton,” Shenandoah, 47 (Winter 1997): 126.
“Elvis Sings Gospel,” The Georgia
Review, 51 (Summer 1997): 226.
“Seven Poems,” West Branch, 39-40 (1996): 45-54.
“Ghost Stories,” West Branch,
41 (1997): 75.
“News,” Ariel, 28 (April
1997): 35.
“The Hare and the Tortoise,” Ariel
(July 1997): 61.
“The
Pupil,” Poetry, 168 (May 1996): 87.
“Monarchs,”
“Wild Raspberries,” Poetry, 168 (June 1996): 144-45.
“New
Year,” West Branch, 38 (1996): 43.
“Wren,”
The Midwest Quarterly, 37 (Summer 1996): 409.
“Dogs,”
“Moon Landing,” Yarrow, 17 (Fall/Winter 1995-96):7-9.
“Somewhere,”
“Rumors of Changes Circulate on Penguins,” “Chicken Bone,” Prairie Schooner,
7 (Winter 1996):55-59.
“Hyperspace,”
Southern Review, 33 (Winter 1997): 24-25.
“River,”
Midwest Quarterly, 37 (Winter 1996):169-70.
“Fishpond,” (6 poems), Iowa Review, 25 (Winter 1995): 111-115.
“Finches,” Ariel,
26 (October 1995): 149.
“Bus Stop,”American Poetry Review,
November\December 1995: 25.
“The Fox and the Grapes,” “Dog in
the Manger,” Poet Lore, 89 (Winter 1994-95): 44-45.
“Eleusinian Mystery Poems,” (11
poems, with monotypes by Norman Sasowsky) Kestrel, 5
(Spring 1995): 42-69.
“Ginny Dolls,” West Branch, 37 (1995): 41.
“Postcard,”
American Literary Review, 6 (Fall 1995): 22.
“Rain,” “The
Three Wishes,” Pembroke, Spring 1995.
Poems before 1995 published in New
Virginia Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Georgia
Review, Mid-American Review, Southern Humanities Review, American Literary
Review,
Beloit Poetry Review, Negative Capability, Brigham Young University
Studies, Midwest Quarterly,
Indiana Review, Poet Lore, Yarrow, Croton Review, and others.
Poems reprinted in Anhinga Anthology
, forthcoming Winter 2004, Across State Lines:
America’s Fifty States as Represented in Poetry, 2003, by the American
Poetry and Literacy
Project; The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002; Strongly Spent: 50 years
of Shenandoah Poetry;
2003; All Shook Up: Collected Poems about Elvis, Will Clemens, ed.
University of Arkansas
Press, 2001; Writing Poems, 4th ed., Robert Wallace and
Michelle Boisseau, eds. Harpercollins,
1995; Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry,
Palm Springs, CA:
Monitor Book Co., 1985, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1996; The Sporting Life,
ed. Buchwald and Roston
(Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions), 1987; The Runner’s Literary Companion,
Robert Battista,
ed., Breakaway Books, 1994; The World’s Best Poetry/ Poem Finder,
www.rothpoem.com,
1998; Poetry Daily, www.poems.com, 1998; New
American Zeen (on-line journal, VT), May
1996.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Essays,
Reviews, and Bibliographies:
“Anatomy
of a Seizure,”
“Letter
to a Young Poet,”
“Changing
My Name,” Prairie Schooner, 76(Spring 2002):
41-49.
“Walls
Six Feet Thick,” Arts and Letters, 6 (Fall 2001):
147-159.
“Writing
Elvis’s Life: How Poetry and Facts Learn to Get Along,” The National Andrean
3(Sept. 2001): 44-49.
“Hiking
With Amy,” River Teeth: A Journal of Non-fiction Narrative, 2 (Fall
2000): 150-61.
“Temples
of the Holy Ghost,” Shenandoah, 46 (Winter 1996): 118-29. (Review
essay)
“Reconciliation
and Optimism in Twain’s ‘Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts,” College
Language Association Journal 35 (Sept. 1991):57-71.
“Life
in the Boxcar,” in The Confidence Woman, ed. Eve Shelnutt, Longstreet
Press, 1991:333-49.
“Three
Poems: Writing Toward the Center,” essay in The Writing Room: Keys to Fiction
and
Poetry, ed. Eve Shelnutt (Marietta,
GA: Longstreet Press, 1989): 279-90.
“Lyric
Tragedy by R. P. Draper,” D. H. Lawrence Review 19 (Spring 1987): 74‑76.
(Review)
“A
Sermon Without Exegesis: The Achievement of Stasis
in The Rise of Silas Lapham,” The
Journal of Narrative Technique 16 (Spring 1986):
131-47.
“The
Newspaper in the Composition Classroom,” (with Dennis Jackson) Teaching
Writing 9
(Fall 1986): 12-25.
“The
Pastoral Journey in A Modern Instance,” Colby Library Quarterly
21 (March 1985): 34-4.
“Juanita
Casey,” in The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Contemporary British Novelists,
ed.
Jay Halio, (Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli
Clark, 1983): 213-218.
“Jennifer
Johnston,” in The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Contemporary British
Novelists,
ed. Jay Halio, (Columbia,
S.C.: Bruccoli Clark, 1983): 445-451.
“Journalism
as Art: Annotated Bibliography,” (with D. David Sloan
and James R. Bennett),
Style 16 (Fall
1982): 466-487. I coordinated and edited this bibliography.
“The Style of Political Discourse: Annotated Bibliography
II,”(with Dennis Jackson and E. A.
Nickerson), Style
16 (Winter 1982): 101-158.
“Doctoral
Dissertations and Masters Theses on D. H. Lawrence: Bibliographical Addenda,”
The D. H. Lawrence Review
10 (Fall, 1977): 299-308.
.
Editorial Positions Held:
Editor-in-Chief, The Newsletter
of the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America, twice-yearly,
Spring 1981-1985
Associate
Managing Editor, The Irish Renaissance Annual, Edited by Zack Bowen,
published
by
Editorial
consultant, Current: the Journal of Marine Education, 1985‑87.
Editor,
Current: the Journal of Marine Education (a
28-32 page quarterly, international,
professional publication, funded by the National Marine Education Association
and by
Sea Grant, the Center for Environmental Education, and the College of Education,
University of Delaware), Fall 1982-Spring 85.
Managing Editor, Current,
Fall 1981-Summer 1982.
Assistant Editor, Current, Spring 1980-Summer 1982.
Editor,
teachers, published by the
Selected List of Poetry
Swathmore
College (PA), Washington and Lee University (VA), Allegheny (PA) College,
Lebanon Valley (PA) College, Siena College (NY), Pittsburg State University
(KS), City Bookshop,
Philadelphia (PA), Fairmont College (WV) (Featured Poet at Kestrel Conference),
SUNY Brockport
(NY), Philadelphia (PA) Art Alliance, Kelly Writer’s House, University of
Pennsylvania, Kutztown
University (PA), Alma College (MI), Bucknell Poetry Festival (PA), Kennesaw
State College (GA)
(Featured poet at 20th Century Lit. Conference), Albion College
(MI), Kalamazoo College (MI), Hope
College (MI), Denison College (OH), Antioch College (OH), Wooster College
(OH), Arkansas Tech
University (AR), Ouichita Baptist University (AR), DeSales University (PA),
University of Tampa,
Florida State University, St. Peter’s College, Oxford (ENGLAND). Numerous
local readings not
separately listed.
Since 2001, many presentations,
poetry readings, and lectures for
organizations not separately listed here.
Panelist,
“Biography in Poems,” Associated Writing Programs Conference,
Moderator
and Panelist, “The Narrative Sequence,” Associated Writing Programs Conference
Lecture,
“Assessment in the Teaching of Poetry,” Conference on the Teaching of Writing,
Poet-in-Residence,
Lecture,
“Teaching Poetry in Secondary School,” for school districts in the state,
1999-2000.
Panelist,
Associated Writing Programs Conference Pedagogy Panel, 1996-99.
Poetry
Workshop for Indiana (PA) public schools, 1995.
Poetry
20, 1994
Lecture
and Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Lecture,
“Teaching Poetry in Secondary School,” In-service teachers’ meeting, St.
Mark’s High
School,
Lecture,
“Students and Teachers as Writers,” Center for Teaching Effectiveness,
Poetry
Reading and discussion, In-service meeting of Delaware High School English
teachers,
February 20, 1984, Dover High School,
Dover, Delaware.
Poetry
Reading and lecture, In-service meeting of Delaware High School English teachers,
March 16, 1984, Clayton Hall,
University of Delaware.
Presentation,
“Writing and Editing Skills,” a workshop for nurses at Wilmington Medical
Center,
Lecture,
“Editing the Organizational Newsletter,” a three-hour workshop sponsored
by
Continuing Education, University
of Delaware, Fall 1983, Spring 1984.
TEACHING (at
· E110, Critical
· E110 Honors, Critical
· E204, Great American Writers
· E206, Great English Writers
· E207, Introduction to Poetry
· E210, Short Story
· E304, Poetry Writing Workshop
· E313, Editing the Literary Magazine
· E380, Contemporary Women Poets
· EDD400, Supervision of Student
Teachers
· E404/604 Advanced Poetry Workshop
· E480, Seminar: American Realism
· E480, Seminar: Six Living Poets
· E481, Teaching English in Secondary
School
· E482, Seminar in Teaching English,
I
· E483, Seminar in Teaching English,
II
· Advanced Studies Program (a summer
program for high school students with high
SAT scores), Writing I, II (Summer, 1984; 1985)
· Introduction to Poetry Writing,
a nine-hour series of workshops, sponsored by
Continuing Education, Fall and Spring 1983-84.
· Intermediate Poetry Writing, a
nine-hour series of workshops, sponsored by
Continuing Education, Spring, 1984.
· Independent study project examples:
“Writing Project in Middle Schools” Graduate
Level Poetry Workshop, Education Project at Brandywine Zoo
· Dissertations: “Contemporary Women
Poets and Feminist Criticism” (Kathryn
Varnes, 1998), “Muriel Rukeyser’s Influence on Contemporary Women Poets”
(Colleen Webster, incomplete).
· for Antioch College (OH) Writer’s
Program, 3-credit independent study poetry
workshop, 1997.
SERVICE:
Director of Student Teaching for
the English Education Program, 2001-2003.
Coordinator, English
Education Program. Spokesperson for the program and coordinator of
preparation of accreditation materials, 2001.
Director,
Graduate Students Poetry in the Schools Program. Select, train, and place
graduate
students in secondary school
classrooms to conduct poetry workshops, in consultation
with classroom teachers.1996-present.
Director,
school students and their teachers,
lead workshop for teachers. 1998-present, now
known as the “Festival of
Words,” co-sponsored by the Delaware Writing Project,
the
Judge,
Panelist,
Literary Roundtable Panel on State and National (NEA) Projects,
of the Arts, October, 1995.
Coordinator,
English Education, University of Delaware, 1994-95.
Coordinator, Student Teaching, University of Delaware, 1989-1995 Responsibility
for
placement and supervision of all student teachers (20-30 each Spring)
and adjunct
University supervisors, establishing cooperative relationships
with high school teachers,
selecting Outstanding Student Teachers for Honors Day, and holding
yearly workshops
for potential English Education concentrators.
Participant,
Judge,
National Council of Teachers of English Annual Essay Contest for High School
Students,
1988,
1989.
Advisor,
Caesura, (
for poetry/ fiction reading, advertise for
submissions, arrange reading, 1983-94.
Committees:
Speakers
Committee of the English Department, 2001-2003.
Executive Committee of the English
Department, 1989-90, 1997-98.
English
Education Committee, 1987-present.
Undergraduate
Curriculum Review Committee, 1987-89, 1998-99.
English
Department Speakers Committee, 1994-95, 1997-98.
University
Education Coordinator’s Committee, 1994-95.
Professional
Memberships (more or less—some I pay dues regularly, some I don’t):
Phi
Beta Kappa
Phi
Delta Kappa
Associated
Writing Programs
American
Poetry Society
College
English Association
National Council of Teachers of English