bloomfields@unk.edu

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1988.

M.A. Ed. in English, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1979.

B.A. in Education, English and French majors, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1968, Cum Laude.

DISSERTATION:

My Blue and Gold Wyoming: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. 1988.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Western American Literature

American Literature

Multicultural Literature

Women's Literature

Creative Nonfiction

ACADEMIC CAREER:

Martin Distinguished Professor, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2005-2008.

Professor, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney,

Nebraska. 1997 to present.

Tenured Associate Professor, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska. 1992 to 1997.

Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska. 1988-1992.

Lecturer at University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska. 1979-1987.

English and French teacher, Axtell Community Schools, Axtell, Nebraska, 1968-1973. French: Grades 4-12; English: Grades 10 & 11.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Martin Distinguished Professorship 2005-2008

Plains Humanities Alliance Digital Research Fellowship 2008

Plains Humanities Alliance Fellowship Digital Research 2006-2007

Professional Development Leave Spring 2006

Leland Holdt/Security Mutual Distinguished Faculty Award for Superior Teaching, Research, and Service 2002

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Charter Member 2002

UNK Exceptional Performance Award 2001

Professional Development Leave, Spring 1999

Mari Sandoz Award. Nebraska Library Association, 1998. ["For Her Contribution to the Nebraska Literary World through Her Writing, Poetry, Literary Criticism and Film Consultation"]

University of Nebraska Graduate Fellow

Center for Great Plains Studies Fellow

Phi Eta Sigma (National Honorary Society) Honorary Member 1998

UNK Profiles in Excellence, 1998.

UNK Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award, 1996.

Pratt Heins Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995.

Crawford Award for Curriculum Development, 1995.

Mortar Board: Certificate for Outstanding Teaching, 1994.

UNK Deans' Award for Scholarship, 1993.

BOOK AWARDS

2006 Winner, Nebraska Book Awards for Nonfiction for Impertinences: Selected Editorials of Elia W. Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. [Nebraska Center for the Book].

2006 Winner, WILLA Literary Award for Nonfiction for Impertinences: Selected Editorials of Elia W. Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. [Women Writing the West Association].

2000 Top 25 List, Library Journal’s Notable Document List for The Prairie Mosaic. (Top 25 works for 2000--nine states represented; eleven international)

1998 Winner, Susan Koppelman Award for Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. [Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association, National Women's Studies Association]

1998 Finalist, Biography Award for Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works, Society of Midland Authors. [Formerly Chicago Cliff Dwellers Club]

AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORARIUMS ($151,423 total)

Plains Humanities Alliance Digital Research Fellowship 2008: $1,600

Plains Humanities Alliance Digital Research Fellowship 2006-2007: $6,500

Martin Distinguished Chair 2005-2008: $10,500.

Artists & Lecturers, et al. for Lakota Author Joseph Marshall III Speaker 2006: $7,500

UNK Research Service Council Mini-Grant 2005: $250.

UNK Research Council Summer Scholarly Activity 2004: $1,575.

Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, Keynote Address Honorarium, 2003: $1,000.

Leland Holdt/Security Mutual Distinguished Faculty Award, 2002: $5,000.

UNK Exceptional Performance Award 2001: $853.

UNK Research Council Mini-Grant 2001-2002: $1,480.

Technology Grant (Fiber-Interactive Telecommunications), 2001: $1,500.

UNK Research Council Summer Stipend, 2001: $1,016.

Center for Great Plains Studies Summer Fellowship, 1999: $5,000.

World Herald Foundation Grant, 1999: $50,000 to UNK for

publishing A Prairie Mosaic [co-writer].

UNK Research Council Grant, 1997-98: $1,464.

Western Literature Association Conference, 1996: $15,650

UNK's OTICA Teaching Award, 1996: $500 for Research Development

Pratt Heins Award for Teaching, 1995: $2,000.

UNK Research Council Summer Stipend, 1995: $4,625.

Crawford Award, 1995: $500 for Curriculum Development.

Nebraska Humanities Council Mini-Grant, 1995: $1,500 for publishing Wellsprings: Poems by Six Nebraska Poets.

Nebraska Humanities Council, 1995: $5,000 for 1995 Nebraska Literature Festival [co-chair and co-writer].

UNK Summer Fellowship, 1994: $3,000.

Center for Great Plains Studies Faculty Summer Fellowship, 1993: $5,000.

UNK Research Council Grant, 1993-1994: $1,750.

World Herald Foundation Grant, 1992: $35,000 to UNK for

publishing The Platte River [co-writer].

Nebraska Humanities Council Grant, 1992: $8,700 for Nebraska Literature Festival [chair of 1992 Festival held at UNK and co-writer].

Nebraska Arts Council Grant, 1992: $4,700 for Nebraska Literature Festival [co-writer and chair of 1992 Festival held at UNK].

UNK Research Council Grant, 1990-1991: $2,000.

Nebraska Humanities Council Summer Stipend, 1990: $3,000.

UNK Research Council Grant, 1989-1990: $5,000.

UNL Presidential Fellowship, 1987-1988: $8,000.

Maude Hammond Fling Fellowship for Dissertation Research,

1986: $750.

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

Adventures in the West: Stories Young Readers. Co-edited with Eric Melvin Reed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

From the Beginning: A Century of Excellence at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2005.

Impertinences: Selected Editorials of Elia W. Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Edited and with a Biography by Susanne George Bloomfield. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

“Absolutely No Manners”: On Having the Audacity to Write Biography. Monograph. Lincoln, NE: Mari Sandoz Heritage Society and the Center for Great Plains Studies, 2003.

A Presidential Visit. Eds. Susanne George-Bloomfield and Steve Rothenberger. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2002.

A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska's Land, Nature, and Culture. Eds. Steve Rothenberger and Susanne George-Bloomfield. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2000.

Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. Susanne K. George. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.

Wellsprings: Poems by Six Nebraska Poets. Ed. Susanne K. George. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1995.

The Platte River: An Atlas of the Big Bend Region. Eds. Allan Jenkins and Susanne K. George. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1993.

The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Susanne K. George. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Book Manuscripts in Process:

“Indian Hill Farm: A Story of the Great Plains.” In Process. One Chapter already published in Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace.

"Medora Van Hoffman de Mores: A Marquise in North Dakota.” A Biography. In Process.

SELECTED REVIEWS OF PUBLISHED BOOKS:

Selected Reviews of Impertinences:

Downs, C. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. American Literary Realism 39.2 (Winter 2007).

Lauters, Amy Mattson. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. American Journalism (Summer 2005).

Loomis, L. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Choice (December 2005).

Wolfe, Peter. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Nebraska History 86.4 (Winter 2005): 152.

Boylan, James. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Columbia Journalism Review (July/August 2005).

McCue, Mike. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Lanier Newsletter (Fall 2005).

Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Roundup Magazine 12.6 (August 2005).

Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Great Plains Quarterly 25/3 (Summer 2005).

Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Nebraska Life. 10.2 (March/April 2006): 53-54.

Selected Reviews of Prairie Mosaic:

Snyder, Vicki. " Rev. of A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska's Land, Culture, and Nature." Grassroots Nebraska December 2000: 4.

"Kearney Writers Did Themselves Proud." Rev. of A Prairie Mosaic. Omaha World-Herald 28 December 2000:12.

Selected Reviews of Kate M. Cleary:

Aronson, Marilyn A. Carlson. Rev. of Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. Nebraska History 78.4 (Winter 1997):206.

Berndt, Michael D. Rev. of Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. Western American Literature 32.4 (February 1998): 401-402.

Keetley, Dawn. Rev. of Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 16.2 (1999):206.

Selected Reviews of Adventures of the Woman Homesteader:

Billesbach, Ann. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Nebraska History 74.2 (Summer 1993).

Graulich, Melody. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 11.2 (1994): 174.

Hart, Sue. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Great Plains Quarterly 14.1 (1994).

Kirschke, James J. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Western American Literature 28.3. (1993).

Peterson, Catherine. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. English Westerners (United Kingdom) (Summer 1994).

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:

Literary Criticism:

“Elia Wilkinson Peattie.” Vintage Magazines.” Iola, WI: KP Books, 2005: 72-73.

“Kate Cleary.” Vintage Magazines.” Iola, WI: KP Books, 2005: 72-73.

“Children’s Literature” (with Susan Maher).Great Plains Encyclopedia. Ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

“Kate M. Cleary.” Great Plains Encyclopedia. Ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

“Elia W. Peattie.” Great Plains Encyclopedia. Ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

“Elinore Pruitt Stewart.” Great Plains Encyclopedia. Ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

"Kate M. Cleary." Women Building Chicago 1790-1990. Adele Hast and Rima Lunin Schultz, eds. University of Indiana Press, 2001. 170-173.

"'The Happiness and the Curse': Literary Views of the Nebraska Prairie." A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska's Land, Nature, and Culture. Eds. Steve Rothenberger and Susanne George-Bloomfield. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2000: 138-143.

"Solomon Butcher: Prairie Photographer." A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska's Land, Nature, and Culture. Eds. Steve Rothenberger and Susanne George-Bloomfield. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2000: 112-115.

"Kate M. Cleary." Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920. Vol. 221. Ed. Sharon Harris. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman: 2000: 52-60.

"'The Boy's Mother': Nineteenth-Century Drug Dependence in the Life of Kate M. Cleary." The Great Plains Quarterly. 20.1 (Winter 2000): 3-18.

“Neighbors: The Pioneer Poor in Popular Historic Fiction.” Platte Valley Review. 28.2 (Spring 2000): 53-65.

"The Prairie State: Root-Bound to Nebraska." Nebraska History. 80.1 (Spring 1999):17-20.

"'A Ornament to Sassiety': Elinore Pruitt Stewart and Kate M. Cleary, Nineteenth-Century Western Humorists." Over Here: A European Journal of American Culture (Nottingham Trent University, England). 17.2 (Winter 1997): 99-114.

"Elinore Pruitt Stewart: The Adventurous Woman Homesteader." By Grit and Grace: Women Who Shaped the Pioneer West. Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain, eds. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Press, 1997: 153-173.

"Native American Autobiography as Captivity Narrative." Heritage of the Great Plains. 30.1 (Spring/Summer 1997): 33-47.

"Introduction." Resource Guide to Six Nebraska Authors: Vol. II. Lincoln: Slow Tempo P, 1992.

"The Journeys of Elinore Pruitt Stewart." The Nebraska Humanist. Winter (1989): 32-37.

"A Patchwork of Friends: Female Community of Elinore Pruitt Stewart." Platte Valley Review. 17.1 (1989): 51-59.

Book Reviews:

“Oh, Give Me a Home: Western Contemplations.” Ann Ronald. Journal of the West.

“Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie.” Jim Hoy. Nebraska History (Winter 2006): 176.

“A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Culture.” George P. Horse Capture and Emil Her Many Horses, eds. Journal of the West (September 2006).

"Rural Voices: Place Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing." Robert E. Brooke, ed. Great Plains Quarterly. 24.3 (Summer 2004): 216.

“Great Plains Reader.” Diane D. Quantic and Jane P. Hafen, eds. Nebraska History. 84.4 (Winter 2003): 217-218.

“Eugene Field and His Age.” Lewis O. Saum. JHistory. February 2003.

“Shaping Our Mothers’ World: American Women’s Magazines.” Nancy A. Walker. JHistory. November 2002.

"Bone Deep in Landscape: Writing, Reading, and Place." Journal of the American West. 40.2 (Spring 2001): 110.

"Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck." Nebraska History 81.2 (Summer 2000): 85-86.

"Native American Perspectives on Literature and History." Journal of the American West. 37.1 (January 1998): 103.

"Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town." Journal of the West. 35.3 (July 1996): 112.

"From Mesa Verde to The Professor's House." Journal of the West. October 1995: 106.

"Women in Waiting in the Westard Movement." Nebraska History. 75.4 (Winter 1994): 313-14.

"Life into Art: Conversations with Seven Contemporary Biographers." Nebraska English and Language Arts Journal. 36 (Spring/Summer 1991): 80-81.

"Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919." Western American Literature. Fall 1991.

"Lizzie: The Letters of Elizabeth Chester Fisk." Western American Literature. 25.1 (1990): 60-61.

"Ghost Towns of Kansas." Annals of Iowa. 50 (Fall/1989-Winter/1990): 311.

"Hoofbeats and Society: Studies of Human-Horse Interactions." Great Plains Quarterly. 8.1 (1988): 52.

"Ghost Towns of Texas." Great Plains Quarterly. 8.3 (1988): 189.

Creative Nonfiction:

"Farm Auction." Times of Sorrow Times of Grace: Writing by Women of the Great Plains/High Plains. Eds. Marjorie Saiser, Greg Kosmicki, and Lisa Sandlin. Omaha, NE: Backwaters Press, 2002. 200-202.

"Exploring the Plains: Yesterday and Today." Leaning Into the Wind. Eds. Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, and Linda Hasslestrom. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997: 111-112.

Essays:

“Dude, That’s My Horse.” Desert Exposure. December 2005: A13-A14.

“2004 Nebraska Book Festival Warmly Received.” The NCB News 14.3 (Fall 2004): 4.

“Heritage of Family Stories.” Kearney Hub 11 June 2001:2A.

"Willa Cather and the People, A Sense of Identity (Part II)." Midwest Streams Trails & Tales. Autumn 1998: 38-41.

"Willa Cather and the Land, A Sense of Place (Part I)." Midwest Streams, Trails & Tales. April/May 1998: 29-35.

“Platte River Writers: Literature of the Big Bend Region.”

The Platte River: An Atlas of the Big Bend Region. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1993.80-82.

"Country School Legacy." The Platte River: An Atlas of the

Big Bend Region. Kearney: University of Nebraska at

Kearney, 1993. 75-79.

Poetry:

"Farm Wife." A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska's Land, Nature, and Culture. Eds. Steve Rothenberger and Susanne George Bloomfield. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2000: 217.

"Birth." Leaning Into the Wind. Eds. Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, and Linda Hasslestrom. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997: 13.

"Poster Girl." Leaning Into the Wind. Eds. Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, and Linda Hasslestrom. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997: 289.

"Gurney's Promise." Nebraska Poets Calendar (1996).

"Empty Pockets." The Platte River: An Atlas of the Big Bend Region." Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1993: 133.

"Frovin Rasmussen." Nebraska English Journal (1989).

"Farm Auction," "Arnold's," and "Empty Pockets." A Hard Row to Hoe: Working People Anthology . Ed. Art Cuelho. Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press, 1981: 18-19.

"Last Fling." Cattails and Meadowlarks: Poems from the Country. Greendale, WN: Reiman Publications, 1981: 68.

"Winter Chores." The Sandhills and Other Geographies. Ed. Mark Sanders, Ord, NE: Sandhills Press, 1980: 82-83.

"Follow Me." Skiing magazine. ca. 1970.

Fiction:

"The Key." Farm Wife News." Sept. 1981:20-21. [Honorable Mention Writing Contest: Short Story.]

Photography Published:

Desert Exposure

Paint Horse Journal

A Prairie Mosaic

University of Nebraska Press

Kearney Daily Hub

Midwest Streams, Trails, and Tales

Nebraska Humanities Council

EDITOR/CONSULTANT/PEER REVIEWER:

Editor. Platte Valley Review, 2000 to 2002

Manuscript Reviewer:

University of Nebraska Press

University of Kansas Press

University of Oklahoma Press

Great Plains Quarterly

Western American Literature

The Nebraska English Journal

Juror. Tom Lyon Award for Outstanding Book, Western Literature Association, 1999.

Editorial Board. Nebraska English Journal.

Consultant. The Homestead. Director, Steven Schecter. Heritage Films, California. In production.

Consultant. After the West Was Won. Director, Steven Schecter, Heritage Films, California. In production.

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES:

Panel Participant. “The Death of the Scholarly; or Why Academics are Moving Away from Traditional Scholarship in Favor of Creative Nonfiction.” 2007 Bedell NonfictioNow Conference. University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA. 2 November 2007.

Presented Paper. “On the Line.” Western Literature Association Conference. Tacoma, WA. 19 October 2007.

Panel Participant. “Writing Western Women’s Biographies: The Process, Challenges, Rewards.” Western Literature Association Conference. Tacoma, WA. 18 October 2007.

Roundtable. “New Research on the History of Omaha.” Missouri Valley History Conference. Omaha, NE. 12 March 2007.

Speaker. “Literary Tradition and the Woman Homesteader: Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Kate Cleary, and Elia Peattie.” Homesteading Reconsidered: 33^rd Interdisciplinary Symposium Center for Great Plains Studies. Lincoln, NE. 17 May 2007.

Roundtable Participant. "Fiction and History in Literary Biography: How Subject, Text, and Context are Addressed in the Life Stories of Western Women." With Mary Clearmnan Blew, Richard Etulain, and Sheri Browne. Western History Association. St. Louis, MO, 13 October 2006.

Presented Paper. “Indian Hill Farm: First Inhabitants.” Western Literature Association. Boise, ID. 27 October 2006.

Panel Chair. Western Literature Association. Boise, ID. 28 October 2006.

Featured Speaker. “How Much Has Really Changed: Elia Peattie and Nineteenth Century Journalism.” Nebraska Press Women Spring Convention. Lincoln, NE, 29 April 2006.

Workshop. "The Many Hats of the Biographer/Family Historian." Nebraska Press Women Spring Convention. Lincoln, NE, 29 April 2006.

Presented Paper. “The Family Farm: Endings.” Western Literature Association. Los Angeles, CA. 22 October 2005.

Featured Speaker. "The Many Hats of the Biographer/Family Historian." Nebraska Writers Guild. Kearney, NE, 15 October 2005.

Panelist and Judge. Cottey College Emerging Young Women Writers Symposium. Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Foundation. Red Cloud, NE. 12 April 2005.

Presented Paper: “Proving Up: Elia Peattie and the Populists.” Western Literature Association, Big Sky, Montana, 1 October 2004.

Presented Paper: “The Genteel Tradition Goes West: The Western Stories of Elia Peattie.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Fort Worth, TX, 27 September 2003.

Keynote Address: “’Absolutely No Manners’: On Having the Audacity To Write Biography.” Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Annual Conference, Chadron, NE, 10 April 2003.

Presented Paper: "’A Perfect Nuisance’: Elia Peattie and the New Woman.” Western Literature Association, Tucson, AZ, 12 October 2002.

Presented Paper: "Defining the West: Elia Peattie's Local Color Writing." Western Literature Association, Omaha, NE, 28 October 2001.

Participant: Tri-Valley Distance Education Consortium. Educational Service Unit #10, Kearney, NE. May 31-June 8, 2001.

Presented Paper: "Elia Peattie and the New Journalism." Western Literature Association, Oklahoma City, OK, 28 October 2000.

Summer Institute Lecturer: "Growing Up in the West: Housekeeping." Tough Paradise: The Literature of Idaho and the Intermountain West. University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 19 July 2000.

Panel Discussion: "Writing Memoir." (With Mary Clearman Blew and William Studebaker). Tough Paradise: The Literature of Idaho and the Intermountain West. University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 19 July 2000.

Presented Paper, "Elia Peattie: New Woman on the Omaha World-Herald." Popular Culture Association, 21 April 2000.

Seminar Speaker. "'Pardon My Impertinence': Elia Peattie, Frontier Journalist." Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln, NE, 22 March 2000.

Seminar Speaker, "Fragments of a Journey: Writing Family History," Landmark Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, October 1999.

Seminar Speaker, "The Publication Process: Peer Reviewing" Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln, NE, March 1999.

Panelist, "Tenure Issues: How to be a Researcher and Maintain Your Sanity." Honoring Women's Voices Women's Conference, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1999.

Presented Paper, “Lost in the Shuffle: Literary Tensions in the Works of Hamlin Garland, Elia Peattie, and Kate Cleary.” Western Literature Association Annual Conference, Banff, Canada, October, 1998.

Presented paper, "Nineteenth Century Drug Dependence in the Life and Literature of Kate M. Cleary," Center for Great Plains Studies Symposium, Lincoln, NE, April 1998.

Wharton/IRHE Executive Education Program, Pennsylvania State University. Philadelphia, PA, February 21-26, 1998.

Past President's Plenary Address, "Dancing with Our Skeletons: Some Reflections on Time." Western Literature Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, October 1997.

Symposium Committee and Session Chair, "Literatures of the Great Plains," Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln, NE, April 1997.

Conference Organizer and President, Western Literature Association Annual Conference, Lincoln, NE, October 1996.

Seminar Speaker, "Kate. M. Cleary: Pioneer Nebraska Writer and Humorist." Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln, NE, April 1996.

Presented paper, "The New Woman in the West: The Social Satire of Kate M. Cleary," Western Literature Association, Vancouver, Canada, October 1995.

Presented paper, "Elinore Pruitt Stewart and Kate M. Cleary: Western Humorists," Western Literature Association Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 1994.

Speaker, "Nebraska Pioneer Women Writers: Kate M. Cleary," Nebraska Literature Festival, Omaha, NE, September 1994.

Panelist, "Mari Sandoz's The Cattlemen," Nebraska Literature Festival, Omaha, NE, September 1994.

Moderator, "Popularity and Romance: The Price of Privilege," Midwest Women's Studies Association and Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, University of Nebraska at Kearney, March 1994.

Presented paper, "Native American Autobiography as Captivity Narrative," Western Literature Association Conference, Wichita, Kansas, October 1993.

Organized and moderated Panel, "Nebraska Poets," Western Literature Conference, Wichita, Kansas, October 1993.

Organized and moderated Poetry Reading "William Kloefkorn and Don Welch," Western Literature Conference, Wichita, Kansas, October 1993.

Visiting Lecturer, "The Experience of The Woman Homesteader," Rock Springs Community College, Rock Springs, WY, May 1993.

Seminar Speaker, “The Adventures of The Woman Homesteader.” Center for great Plains Studies Seminar Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, November 1992.

Presented paper, "Western Myths and Awakenings," Western Literature Conference, Reno, Nevada, October 1992.

Discussant, "Images of the Great Plains," American Encounters Symposium sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, April 1992.

Commentator, "Suspect Terrain: Surveying the Women's West," Coalition for Western Women's History 4th Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 1992.

Presented paper, “Neighbors: The Pioneer Poor in Periodical Fiction, 1880-1910,” Popular Culture Association Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, march 1992.

Presented paper, "Wolves at the Door: The Western Working Girl in the Fiction of Marianne Gauss," Western Literature Association Conference, Estes Park, Colorado, October 1991.

Panelist "Portraits of Nebraska: Willa Cather," Nebraska

Literature Festival, University of Nebraska at Omaha, September 1991.

Poetry Reading, Women's Studies Conference, Kearney State

College, March 1991.

Moderator, "Extra-Legal Activity and the Great Plains," Center for Great Plains Studies Symposium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 1991.

Presented paper, "Sentimental Spasms," Women's Studies

Conference, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1990.

Slide Presentation and Reading, "A Journey to Burntfork," at Western Literature Conference, Coeur d"Alene, Idaho, October 1989.

Presented paper, “A Patchwork of Friends: Female Community in the Works of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, “ Mari Sandoz Conference, Kearney State College, 1988.

Presented paper, “The Journey Theme in the Letters of The Woman Homesteader, “ Western Literature Association Conference, Eugene, Oregon, October 1988.

Presented paper, "The Epistolary Tradition of Letters of a Woman Homesteader." Western Literature Association Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1987.

READINGS:

“On the Line.” Nebraska Book Festival. Lincoln, NE. 27 October 2007.

“On the Line.” Western Literature Association. Tacoma, WA. 19 October 2007.

Impertinences. John H. Ames reading Series. Heritage Room: Bennett Martin Library. Lincoln. 16 March 2006.

Impertinences. Nebraska Book Festival. Lincoln, NE. 8 October 2005.

Impertinences. Exploration Lecture Series.University of Nebraska at Kearney. April 2005.

“Farm Auction.” Research and Region Seminar. Plains Humanities Alliance. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. January 2003.

“Coral Roses.” Reynolds Reading Series. University of Nebraska at Kearney. November 2002.

“Coral Roses.” Fort Kearny Writers Workshop. University of Nebraska at Kearney. July 2000.

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Western Literature Association

Society for the Study of American Women Writers