I taught my final class today. I'm retiring after 40 years in the college classroom and 35 at the same college. So I thought I'd report back after all these years--mission completed if not accomplished. My curriculum vitae (and that has to take a special place in the Academic Phrases Hall of Fame.
Curriculum Vitae
HANS
OSTROM
2018
Professor of African American Studies and English
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA 98416
TELEPHONE: 253-879-3372 (work)
ELECTRONIC MAIL: ostrom@pugetsound.edu
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Davis,1982
Dissertation:
“British Romantic Verse Satire”
DAI 44, no. 01A
(1982): 0177. Examination-areas:
18th century British literature; 19th
century British
literature;
modern British and American poetry.
M.A. in English,
University of California, Davis,1979
B.A. in English,
University of California, Davis, 1975
Academic
Employment
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington:
1983-present. Current appointment: Professor of African American Studies and
English
2008-2011: James Dolliver NEH Distinguished Teaching
Professor, English Department
Uppsala University, Sweden: Fulbright Senior Lecturer, 1994.
University of California, Davis: 1977-80; 1981-1983.
(Teaching assistant;lecturer; director of the Campus Writing Center.)
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 1980-81:
Visiting Lecturer in American Studies.
Subjects
Taught
Unless otherwise indicated, the courses have been taught
at the University of Puget Sound; courses are listed alphabetically.
African-American Literature (senior-level seminar)
American and Japanese Cultural Identity (emphasis on
literature and cinema), core-curriculum, senior-level course
American Literature: 19th century (graduate seminar,
Uppsala University)
American Literature and Culture (undergraduate survey
course, Gutenberg University)
Asian-American Literature (senior-level seminar)
British Literature: Survey, 1800-1950 (sophomore-level
survey-course)
Composition (first-year college
writing-and-rhetoric)—U.C. Davis, Johannes
Gutenberg
University
Creative Writing: Introductory and Advanced, Poetry and
Short Fiction (sophomore-and senior-level courses)
Critical Reading of Poetry (U.C. Davis) (sophomore-level
course for non-majors)
Detective Fiction (junior-level course, primarily for
majors)
First Year Seminar in Writing and Rhetoric
(core-curriculum)
Genre: Poetry (junior-level course—an overview of
Anglo-American lyric poetry and a study of prosody)
Harlem Renaissance, The (core-curriculum, senior-level
course)
History of Rhetoric (senior-level seminar)
Introduction to English Studies (sophomore-level course)
Playwriting
Twentieth-Century American Literature (senior-level
seminar)
William Wordsworth (junior-level seminar)
Writing and Gender (senior-level seminar blending
rhetorical theory,
feminist
theory, and literature)
Awards,
Fellowships, Honors
James Dolliver NEH Chair in Distinguished Teaching,
English Department University of Puget Sound, 2008-2011.
Dirk Andrew Phibbs Memorial Award, presented by the
University Enrichment Committee, University of Puget Sound, 2006.
President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of
Puget Sound, 2005.
Distinguished Professor, University of Puget Sound,
2000-present.
Burlington Northern Curriculum-Development Grant,
University of Puget Sound, Summer 1999.
John Lantz Fellowship, University of Puget Sound,
1996-97.
J. William Fulbright Fellowship for Senior Lecturers,
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 1994.
Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, University
of Puget Sound,1986 and 1989.
Alumni Association's Citation for Excellence, University
of California, Davis, 1989.
Invited Participant, Matsushita Seminar in Modern
American and Japanese Literature and Culture, 1989.
Martin Nelson Sabbatical Fellowship, 1987.
Teaching Award for Outstanding Graduate Students, U.C.
Davis, 1982.
Regents Fellowship, University of California, Davis,
1977-78.
Professional
Memberships and Listings
--Lifetime Member, Alumni Association, University of
California, Davis.
--Listed in the Directory of American Poets and Fiction
Writers and Contemporary Authors, volume 43, new series.
--Listed in the Poets & Writers directory (online).
Langston Hughes Society
National Book Critics Circle
PEN/American Center
Publications
Books
George
Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” in the Age of Pseudocracy.
Written with William Haltom. New York and London:
Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2018. In the Routledge Series on Rhetoric and
Composition.
Clear
a Place for Good: Poems 2006-2012. Tacoma: Congruent Angle
Press, 2012.
Without
One: A Novel. Tacoma: Congruent Angle Press and Amazon
Digital Services. ASIN: B00771XFF2
Honoring
Juanita: A Novel. Tacoma, Congruent Angle Press, 2010.
The
Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006. Indianapolis: Dog Ear
Publishing, 2006.
The
Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. 5
volumes, 2,010 pages. Edited with J.
David Macey. Westport and London:
Greenwood Press, 2005. I also contributed 61 entries to the encyclopedia. They
are listed below under Articles.
The
Subject Is Story: Essays for Writers and Readers.
Edited with Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton Cook/Heinemann, 2003. This
anthology for college students and teachers includes essays about narration in
nonfiction writing, narrative aspects of rhetoric, and related topics.
A
Langston Hughes Encyclopedia. Westport, Connecticut, and
London: Greenwood Press, 2002.
495pp. Sole author, except for 8
entries.
Metro:
Journeys in Creative Writing. (Lead Author.) Written with
Wendy Bishop and Katharine Haake. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2001. This
is a textbook for use in college creative-writing and advanced-composition
courses.
Subjects
Apprehended: Poems. Johnstown, Ohio: Pudding House Press, 2000.
Genre
and Writing: Issues, Arguments, and Alternatives.
Edited with Wendy Bishop.Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 1997. The book is composed ofessays on genre-theory
and on connections between writing-pedagogy and definitions of genre. I
contributed a chapter in addition to co-editing the book.
Colors
of a Different Horse. Edited with Wendy Bishop. Urbana, Illinois:National
Council of Teachers of English, 1994. The book is composed of essays about the
influence of rhetorical and literary theory on the teaching of creative
writing, especially in American colleges.
Langston
Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York:
Twayne/Macmillan, 1993.
Water's Night: Poems. With Wendy Bishop.
Grass Valley, California: Mariposite Press, 1994.
Lives
and Moments: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ft.
Worth: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1991. The book includes eighty stories, with
critical overviews, writing-assignments, and bibliographies.
Three
to Get Ready. Oakland: Cliffhanger Press, 1991. Novel.
Spectrum:
A Reader, co-edited. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1987.
Leigh
Hunt: A Reference Guide.
Written with Timothy J. Lulofs.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985. The
book is an annotated bibliography of secondary sources, including contemporary
reviews of Hunt’s work. 264pp.
The
Living Language: A Reader. Co-edited with Linda Morris and Linda
Young. New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
Articles and Chapters
(Selected)
“Hidden Purposes of Creative Writing: Self, Power, and
Knowledge,” in Teaching Creative Writing
in Higher Education: Anglo-American Perspectives, edited by Heather
Beck. London: Palgrave, 2012.
“The Audiences of Wendy Bishop’s Writing,” in Composing Ourselves As Writer-Teacher-Writers: Starting With Wendy
Bishop, edited by Patrick Bizzaro and Alys Culhane. New Jersey: Hampton
Press, 2011.
“Rudolph Fisher,” in Scribners’
Contemporary Authors Supplement XIX edited by Jay Parini (Detroit and New
York: Gale/Cengage, 2009), 65-80.
“Tutoring Creative Writers: Working One-to-One on Prose
and Poetry,” in Creative Approaches to
Writing Center Work, edited by Kevin Dvorak and Shanti Bruce. New Jersey:
Hampton Press, 2008, 147-158.
“Teaching The Ways
of White Folks,” in Teaching the Harlem
Renaissance, ed. Michael Soto. New York: Peter Lang, 2008, Part II, Chapter
13, 137-144.
“Langston Hughes,” in An
Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, edited by M. Keith Booker
(Westport: Greenwood Publishers, 2005).
“Masks of Revision,” in Acts of Revision. Edited by
Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton-Cook/Heinemann, 2004, pp. 28-37.
“Story, Stories, and You,” in The Subject is Story. Edited by Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton-Cook/Heinemann,
2003.
"Edward Moxon" and "Frank O’Connor
[Michael Francis O’Connor O’Donovan]" in the New Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004. See http://www.oup.co.uk/newdnb/
"Spiders, Flies, and Other Creatures of Reading’s
Brave New World," in The Subject is Reading, ed. Wendy Bishop.
Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 2000, 191-204. Co-written with Sarah
Sloane, Wade Williams, and Teresa Giffen.
"Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘The Fish,’" in a Reference Guide to American Literature,
ed. Thomas Riggs. Detroit: St. James
Press, 1999.
"Access: Writing in the Midst of Many
Cultures," in The Subject Is
Writing: Essays By Teachers and
Students, 2nd edition, ed. Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, N.H.:
Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 1999, 62-72.
"Langston Hughes’s ‘The Blues I’m Playing,’" in
a Reference Guide to Short Fiction, ed. Thomas Riggs. Detroit: St.
James Press, 1999, 770-771.
"’Carom Shots’: Re-conceptualizing Imitation and Its
Uses in Creative Writing Courses," in Teaching
Writing Creatively, ed. David Starkey. Portsmouth: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook,
1998, 164-172.
"Countee Cullen: How Teaching Rewrites the Genre of
`Writer,'" in Genre and Writing
(cited above under Books).
"Grammar ‘J’ as in Jazzing Around: The Role Play
Plays in Style," in Elements of
Alternate Style, Elements ed. Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, N.H.:
Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 1997.
"Letting the Boundaries Draw Themselves: What Theory
and Practice Have Been Trying to Tell Us,"
co-written with Wendy Bishop, Cream City
Review (volume 19, no. 2), Spring 1996.
"William Everson's `Earth Poetry' and the Progess
Toward Feminism," Essays In Honor of
William Everson, ed. Bill Hotchkiss. (Corvalis, Oregon: Castle Peak Editions,
1993.)
"Mary Morris: Riding the Iron Rooster" (profile
of American travel writer Mary Morris and discussion of her book, Wall to Wall), San Francisco Review of Books
16.3 (Fall 1991), p.3.
"Edward Moxon," Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Publishers I (DLB, volume
106) (Detroit and London: Gale Research Series, 1991).
"Prelude: A Program for College Freshmen In Writing
and Thinking," Washington English
Journal 8, no. 3 (Spring 1986), 22-27. Co-author.
"The Blue Review," in British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913.
Ed. Alvin Sullivan. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984, pp. 41-43. (The Blue Review was edited by John
Middleton Murry .)
"Samhain," in British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913. Ed. Alvin Sullivan. Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1984, pp. 376-379. (Samhain was edited by W.B.Yeats).
"The Mint," in British Literary Magazines: The Modern Age, 1914-1984. Ed. Alvin
Sullivan. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 264-267. (Edited by Geoffrey
Grigson, The Mint published writing
by W.H. Auden, Sean O’Casey, Graham Greene, Peter Taylor, and Simone Weil,
among others.)
"New Poetry," in British Literary Magazines: The Modern Age, 1914-1984. Ed. Alvin
Sullivan. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 284-286.
"The Disappearance of Tragedy in Meredith's
"Modern Love." Victorian
Newsletter 63 (Spring 1983): 26-30.
“Blake’s Tiriel and the Dramatization of Collapsed
Language.” Papers On Language and Literature Vol. 19, no. 2 (Spring 1983), 167-182.
"Pope's Epilogue to the Satires, 'Dialogue I'."
Explicator, 36:4 (1978), pp. 11-14.
Articles in The
Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature (5 volumes), edited
by Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey (see under Books above), listed by volume
number and page numbers.
“Ralph Abernathy,” I, 1-2; “Lewis Alexander,” I, 20-21;
“Jeffrey Richard Allen,” I, 23; “Regina M. Andrews,” I, 34-35; “William
Andrews,” I, 35-36; “Allen B. Ballard,” I, 78-79; “Melba Patillo Beals,” I,
100-101;”Barry Beckham,” I, 106-107; “Charlene A. Berry,” I, 116; “Michele
Andrea Bowen,” I, 171-172; “Jill Witherspoon Boyer,” I, 174; “Sharon
Bridgforth,” I, 178-179; “Theodore Browne,” I, 208-209; “Louré Bussey,” I,
221-222; “Ben Caldwell,” I, 230; “Civil War, The [American] [and African
American literature],” I, 235-237; “Frank B. Coffin,” I, 298; “Maud
Cuney-Hare,” I, 382; “Julie Dash,” II, 390-391; “Bridgett M. Davis,” II, 396;
“David Drake,” II, 448; “Drama” [African American], II, 448-453; “Erotica,” II,
505; “Federal Writers’ Project,” II, 531-532; “Patrice Gaines,” II, 605;
“Hattie Gossett,” II, 646-647; “Bill Gunn,” II, 683; “Abram Hill,” II, 767-768;
“Laurence Holder,” II, 783; “Elaine Jackson,” III, 829; “Mat Johnson,” III,
885; “Edward P. Jones,” III, 890-891; “Alain Locke,” III, 988-989; “Monifa
Love,” III, “Memphis, Tennessee [and African American Literature],” III,
1077-1078; “Gertrude Bustill Mossell,” III, 1130-1131; “Heather Neff,” III,
1190-1191; “Rob[ert] Lee Penny,” IV, 1272-1273; “Charles Perry,” IV, 1279-1280;
“Willis Richardson,” IV, 1399-1400; “Kimberla Lawson Roby,” IV, 1409;
“Signifying,” IV, 1477-1479; “John Steptoe,” IV, 1540-1541; “Natasha Tarpley,”
IV, 1563-1564; “Eisa Nefertari Ulen,” V, 1635-1636; “Olympia Vernon,” V,
1659-1660; “Persia Walker,” V, 1682; “Michele Faith Wallace,” V, 1683-1684;
“Afaa Michael Weaver,” V, 1703-1704; “Cheryl I. West,” V, 1714; “Edgar Nkosi
White,” V, 1726-1727; “Roy Wilkins,” V, 1737-1738; “John A. Williams,” V,
1746-1747; “World War I [and African American literature],” V, 1775-1778;
“World War II [and African American literature],” V, 1778-1781; “Charles H.
Wright,” V, 1782; “Charles S. Wright,” V, 1782-1783; “Andrew Young,” V,
1801-1802; “Shay Youngblood,” V, 1803-1804.
Poetry (Selected)
(Listed alphabetically by title of magazine, journal, or
book.)
Abbey, no.
99, “Stephen Spender,” “Story Problems”; no. 100, “Grief for the Number 10,” p.
80.
Acorn, The
#41 [El Dorado Writers’ Guild], 2004, “One Feather Shy,” “A Hod Carrier
Reflects,” “Wren,” “Bears Waking,” and “Squirrels,” pp. 8-12.
Arches (Alumni
Magazine, University of Puget Sound; Summer 2003), "Emily Dickinson and
Elvis Presley in Heaven" (invited reprint of the poem).
Art
of Music: A Collection of Writings, Volume II, The, ed. Liz
Axford (Del Mar: Piano Press, 2004), “Bobby’s Crop,” “The Lesson,” and
“Interior Departments.”
Art
Times (forthcoming 2005-2006), “Tour of a Painting.”
Aurorean,
The
(Winter 2003-2004), “Request” and “Can’t Complain,” p. 20.
Barbaric
Yawp Volume 7, no. 3 (September 2003), “Story Problems,”
p. 29.
Blind
Man’s Rainbow (Spring 2004), “Fingernails.”
Blue
Collar Review (Winter 2003-2004), “Hands of the Wind,” and
“Cheap Labor.”
Blueline
Volume XXV (2004), “Heat Stroke” and “The Son She Never Had,” pp. 148-149.
Bogg #74
(2004), “Weaponry Quatrain.”
Borderlines
34
(Anglo Welsh Poetry Society, Powys, Wales), Summer 2004, “Of the Valleys,” p.
39.
California
Quarterly (Summer 1980), "Sierra City, September."
Cape
Rock, The (October 2004), “Trees on a College Campus” and “The
Leopard and the City.”
Christianity
and Literature Vol. 53, no. 1 (Fall 2003), “Instrument of
Good Works #59” and “First Scrutiny.”
Cider
Press Review Volume 4/5 (2004), “Jack Benny and T.S. Eliot In
Heaven,” p. 38.
Coal
City Review (2004), “Christ and Camus In Heaven.”
Commonweal (October 10, 2003), “Orientation Meeting In
the Afterlife,” p. 10.
Connecticut
River Review (Fall 1985), "Of A Beaver's Other
Dam."
Crazyquilt
(Vol.
3, no. 3), September 1988, “Reconnaissance Pilot.”
Cream
City Review (Spring 1988), "Paid Mourner"
and "Sierra Nevada in March."
Creosote (2005?),
“Statement of Policies and Procedures.”
Cumberland
Poetry Review (Spring 1983, Spring 1986, Fall 1990, Spring
2004),"Young Woman on Old Skates," "The Coast Starlight,"
"In Pompeii," "Migratory Executives,” “The Reinvention of Light
in Sweden.”
Cutbank
(Fall 1985), "Tornado in the Pennsylvania Hills."
Dominion
Review (Spring 1989, No. 7), "Freudian Cowboys of the
Purple Sage," "Once I Saw A Sad Old God," and "Harmonica
River,” 1-3.
Edge City Review, The, #19 (Spring 2004), “Listless,” p.
43.
From
These Hills: An Anthology of California Writers,
ed. Judith Shears. Corvalis: Castle Peak Editions, 1991. "Six poems."
The
Galley Sail Review, Series 2, #39 (Vol. XII, No. 1),
Spring-Summer 1991, “Victory.”
Hadrosaur
Tales (#19, 2004), “Suburban Xanadu.”
Harvest
(Spring 1978), "Spider Killing" and "The Exiled Dead."
Hazmat
Review (2005), “Back Lot, Paramount Studios,” “Düsseldorf and
So Forth.”
Hidden
Oak
(Summer/Fall 2003), “Little Lyric” and “Listless.”
In
Tahoma’s Shadow: Poems From the City of Destiny, ed.
William Kupinse and Tammy Robacker (Tacoma: Exquisite Disarray, 2009), “A
Tacoma Sonnet,” p.93.
Inside
Poetry Out: An Introduction to Poetry, by John Hayden (Chicago:
Nelson/Hall, 1983), "Calm and Fear" and "Spider Killing."
Intro
10
(1979), "Sestina: Ellis Island/Amelia Earhart."
Iris
(Fall
1987), "Alicia's Affidavit" and "Funeral in Los Angeles."
Journal
of the American Medical Association [JAMA], January 2004,
“Morphine.”
Kersh
(College of the Redwoods, Crescent City, California), June 2004, “Moth
Anxiety.”
Kiss
Off: Poems to Set You Free, ed. Mary D. Esselman and Elizabeth Ash
Velez (New York: Warner Books, 2003), “Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in
Heaven” (invited reprint of the poem).
Krax
(England), forthcoming 2007, “Mum Is the Word” and “Memo to Citizens.”
Lantern
Review (Ireland), 2004, and “Boden: The Rudiments.”
Laurel
Review (Summer 1985), "In The Sierra."
Leading
Edge: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy #
47 (April 2004), “The Trafficiad,” p. 69.
Love's
Chance Magazine (Summer 2004), "Just Between You and
Me."
Lullwater
Review: A Journal for the Literary Arts Volume XIV, no. 1
(Winter 2003-2004), “Mum Is The Word,” p.13.
Medicinal
Purposes Vol. II, no. X (Midyear 2004), “St. Petersburg, Russia,”
p. 3.
Metro:
Journeys in Writing Creatively (see under Books above), “Of
Reading.”
Möbius
(forthcoming November 2003), "Interim Report" and "The Last
Place."
Nexus
Volume
39, Issue 1 (Fall/Winter 2004), “Environmental Policy,” p. 53.
New
Delta Review (Spring 1985), "The Collector."
Northern
Review (Vol. 1, no. 2, Fall 1987), "Kiruna: New Year's
Day."
Offerings
(fourth
quarter, 2003), “Cup,” p. 25.
Old
Red Kimono, The, Volume XXIII, (Spring 2004), “Her
Confession,” p. 47.
Opossum
Holler Tarot #672 [Spring 2003] (New Orleans, Louisiana),
“The Subject Is The Bicycle,”
Pablo
Lennis (Spring 2000), "Whether Report."
The
Panhandler (Fall 1986), “Night Bus In Frankfurt.”
Pennine
Platform [England] # 55 (May 2004), “God’s Predicament,”
“Interior Design,” “Monastery, Monserratt,” pp. 6-7; 13.
Perspectives:
A Journal of Reformed Thought [published at Hope College,
Michigan] (January 2004), “To War Again,” “Eligible,” p. 20; (February 2004),
“Skylights,” p. 18.
Plains
Poetry Journal (July 1986), "Sierra City: April,"
"By Water," and "Alicia's Ceremonies."
Ploughshares
(Spring
1992), "Sierra Nevada: Cold Work Moment."
Poetalk
(Summer 2003) [Bay Area Poets’s Coalition], “Childhood: Sierra Nevada,” (Autumn
2003), “Aftermath,” p. 11.
Poetry
Motel (2005), “Earth™.”
Poetry
Northwest (Spring 1987), "From Another Part of the
Forest."
Poetry
Nottingham [England] 58, no. 1(March/April 2004), “Söderfors,
Sweden” and “Not Walt Whitman,” pp. 22-23.
Pulsar
(Ligden Poetry Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England), “Self-Interview on the
Subject of God,” p. 23.
Rearview
Quarterly, Volume 2, issue 4 (Winter 2003-2004), “Fable: Noah and
Raven,” p. 17.
Red
Owl
(Spring 2004--#18), “Zen Ambulance”
Red
Rock Review (Spring 2001), "On Finally
Understanding the Notion of a Happy Hunting Ground" and "Panic
Attack."
Samsara, no.
11 (2004), “The Tasks of Grief” and “Grief and Kindness.”
Sierra
Journal (Spring 1978), "Climbing" (Spring 1990),
"Three Poems," (Spring 1996), "Child of the North Yuba River,”
(Spring 2003), “The Acquittal of Socrates” and “Deer in the Headlights.”
Sierra
Nevada College Review Volume 15 (Spring 2004), “Friendco,” p.
44.
Smiths
Knoll [England] #32 (Fall/Winter 2003-2004), “The Son She
Never Had.”
Something
Understood (BBC 4 radio program), August 17, 2008, “For
Librarians,” read by an actor.
South
Carolina Review (Fall 1985), "High School
Football."
South
Dakota Review (Fall 1984), "Winter Nocturne."
Sow’s Ear Poetry Journal Volume XII, no. 4(Winter 2004),
“Nose,” p. 22.
Spoon
River Quarterly, Vol. XVI, no. 1-2 [single issue],
“Balloonist’s Log, Final Entry” and “She’ll Be Driving Six White Horses.”
Sucarnochee
Review (Fall 1989), "Elvis Presley and Emily Dickinson in
Heaven."
Tacenda
(Fall/Winter 2003/2004), “Environmental Policy” and “Annual Report.”
13
Ways of Looking at a Poem, ed. Wendy Bishop (New York: Longman
Publishers, 2000). "Elvis Presley and Emily Dickinson in Heaven"
(invited reprint of the poem), "13 Ways of Looking at Wallace
Stevens," "Prepositions for the Waitress, "This Is The Gazelle Gazalle,"
"Fortuitous Twos."
Thorny
Locust 10, #4 (2002), “Morphine.”
Timber
Creek Review (Winter/Spring 2003), “Fox and You.”
Transcendent
Visions (Fall 2003), 'The Quiet Child."
Tulane
Review (Spring 2004), “Bobby’s Crop,” p. 71.
Washington
Post
(“Poet’s Choice” Column by Rita Dove), May 20, 2001, “Emily Dickinson and Elvis
Presley in Heaven” (invited reprint of the poem).
Wavelength #9
(Spring 2004), “Ludwig’s Dinosaur” and “The Cherubs, The Harbors,” pp. 19-20.
Willow
Springs # 53 (Winter 2004), “Bread and Bus: An Essay” [poem], p.
57.
Wisconsin
Review (Fall 1987), "The Day of Small Things,"
"Electrician," and "Composer in Exile."
Vortex
of the Macabre (Fall 2004), “Wickedness Tours,” and
“Official Correspondence.”
Xavier
Review 23, no. 2 (Fall 2003), “Jean Toomer,” p. 46.
Zillah
(Volume
3, Issue 2), Summer 2003, “Career.”
Short Fiction
Red: A Book: open-ended online
collection of short nonfiction, flash fiction, prose poems: http://redtalesbook.blogspot.com/
"Seven Fables For Teaching and Learning," in In Praise of Pedagogy: Poems and Stories, ed. Wendy Bishop and David
Starkey, with an introduction by Ken Autrey Portsmouth, Maine: Calendar Island
Books, 2000, 134-137.
"I Guard The White Rhino," Webster Review (Fall 1987).
"The Green Bird," Ploughshares (Fall 1986). Special issue edited by Madeline DeFrees
and Tess Gallagher.
"Trouble Reports," South Carolina Review (1990).
"Bluestone," Willow Springs 24 (Spring 1989).
"The Wife of the Ambassador," Whetstone 6 (1989). Reprinted in
WIND/Literary Journal, 1991.
Prizes for Poetry and Short Fiction
First prize, Warren Eyster Competition, New Delta Review, 1985. "The
Collector." (Poem).
Second Prize, Redbook
magazine's annual fiction contest, 1985 (announced in March 1986 issue).
"Hostage in Residence" (Short story).
Grand prize, Ina Coolbrith Memorial Awards (California),
1979. Judged by William Dickey. "Elegy for a Distant Relative."
(Poem).
First prize, Harvest Awards (University of Houston),
1978. Judged by Stephen Spender. "Spider Killing." (Poem).
Third Prize, Third Annual Art of Music Writing-Contest,
Sponsored by Piano Press (Del Mar, California), “Bobby’s Crop” (poem),
2003-2004.
Reviews (Selected)
Susan Koppelman, ed. Women's Friendships: A Collection of
Short Stories. Studies in Short Fiction
28, no. 2 (Spring 1991), 231-233.
Carol Bly, The Passionate, Accurate Story. Choice:
Current Reviews for College Libraries, March 1991.
William Pritchard, Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life,
Choice: Current Reviews for College Libraries, January 1991.
Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellyn Clarey, eds., Short Story
Theory At A Crossroads. Choice: Current Reviews for College Libraries, June
1990.
"Gluck's Vision of Text and Textuality" (review
of Reader by Robert Gluck), San Francisco Chronicle Review, March 4, 1990, p.
5.
"Bones, Triggers, Continuous Dreams: Books on
Creative Writing" (review-article on 12 books), Associated Writing
Programs Chronicle, 22, no. 6 (May 1990), p. 1 and ff.
George Lakoff and Mark Turner. More Than Cool Reason: A
Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Choice: Current Reviews for College Libraries,
February 1990.
R.S. Hughes, John Steinbeck: A Study of the Short
Fiction, Studies in Short Fiction, Volume 26, no. 1 (Winter 1989).
"Small-Town Doubts in the Vietnam Era," review
of Monoosook Valley by Elisabeth Hyde. San Francisco Chronicle Review, June 4,
1989, p. 8.
John O. Hayden, ed. William Wordsworth: Selected Prose.
New York: Penguin, 1988. Choice: Current Reviews for College Libraries (January
1989).
Philip F. Deaver, Silent Retreats. Winner of the 1987
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Choice: Current Reviews for College
Libraries (November 1988).
"The Price of Sibling Rivalry," review of Born
Brothers by Larry Woiwode, San Francisco Chronicle Review, September 18, 1988,
p. 7.
"Understated But Powerful Stories," review of
Indecent Dreams, by Arnost Lustig, "Books," San Francisco Chronicle,
June 1, 1988, p. E4.
"Families Fraying at the Core," review of
Valentino and Sagittarius, by Natalia Ginzburg, San Francisco Chronicle Review,
May 8, 1988, p. 6.
"A Mad Poet Who’s Not Going To Take It
Anymore," review of Easter Sunday, by Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle Review,
February 7, 1988, p. 3.
Francis Blessington, Lantskip: Poems, Choice: Current
Reviews for College Libraries (January 1988).
Harold Orel, Victorian Short Fiction, Newsletter of the
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (Volume 13, no. 2, Fall 1987).
George Hillocks, Jr., Research on Written Composition:
New Directions for Teaching, Washington English Journal (Spring 1987).
Anne Blainey, Immortal Boy: A Portrait of Leigh Hunt,
Victorian Studies Association Newsletter 37 (Ontario) (Spring 1986), 31-32.
Richard Beach and Lillian Bridwell, New Directions in
Composition Research, Washington English Journal 7, no. 3 (Spring 1985), 26.
Suzanne Ferguson, Critical Essays on Randall Jarrell,
American Poetry 2, no. 1 (Fall 1985), pp. 90-92.
Lehman and Berger, eds. James Merrill: Essays in
Criticism, American Poetry 1, no. 3 (Spring 1984), pp. 92-93.
Michael Allen, We Are Called Human: The Poetry of Richard
Hugo, American Poetry 1, no. 1 (Fall 1983), pp. 91-93.
William Everson, Earth Poetry: Selected Essays and
Interviews, Small Press Review (September 1980), p. 11.
Newspaper Column
Twice-monthly column on the literary arts, Tacoma News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington.
Sunday readership: 300,000. August 1990-November 1993. The column included
pieces on Antonia Fraser, P.D. James, Aristeo Brito, Robert Bly, Rita Dove,
John Haines, Gary Snyder, Charles Johnson, Itabari Njeri, Helen Washington,
Stuart Dybek, Sue Grafton, Philip Appleman, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Cristina
Garcia, Coleen McCullough, Terry Tempest Williams, and others. The column
combined author-profiles (based on interviews) with book reviews.
Conference-Presentations and Invited
Lectures, Etc. (Selected)
“Revisiting Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English
Language.’” With Professor William
Haltom. Pacific Northwest Political Science Association Conference, Spokane,
Washington, Fall 2010.
“Teaching George Orwell in Karl Rove’s World: ‘Politics and
the English Language’ in the 21st Century Classroom,” written and presented
with Professor William Haltom, Western Political Science Association
Conference, Vancouver B.C., March 21, 2008.
“Langston Hughes and the Poetry of a Dream Legally
Deferred,” Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Humboldt University,
Berlin, July 2007.
“Teaching Langston Hughes’s The Ways of White Folks,”
brief presentation for a Roundtable Discussion on “White Scholars, Black
Texts,” National Conference on Race and Pedagogy, University of Puget Sound,
September 15-16, 2006.
“Langston Hughes and the Politics of Rhetorical
Accessibility,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San
Francisco, 2004.
Moderator, panel on “Langston Hughes and the Critics,”
Let America Be America Again: An International Symposium on the Art, Life,
& Legacy of Langston Hughes, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas,
February 2002.
"`Imagination’ and Writing in the Disciplines,"
paper given at Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Minneapolis, March 2000.
"Keeping the Personal Ghost in the Machine of
Academic Writing," paper for panel on "Voices in Scholarly Writing:
Reflections and Complications," Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Phoenix, March 1997.
"American Literature Of The Region, For The Region, and By The
Region," lecture for seminar in American Studies, United States Embassy,
Stockholm, Sweden, April 1994.
"African-American Literature from Douglass to
Morrison: Some Key Challenges and Achievements," lecture at University of
Umeå, Sweden, sponsored by the Swedish Fulbright Commission, Spring 1994.
"Round Up The Usual Suspects: American Crime
Fiction," presentation to the English Society, Uppsala University, Sweden,
Spring 1994.
"Langston Hughes's Short Fiction: Against the
Modernist Grain," guest lecture in Professor Rolf Lundén's graduate
seminar in American literature, Uppsala University, Sweden, Spring 1994. A
revised version was presented at the 1995 MLA conference, Chicago.
"Reconsidering Genre-Boundaries," paper given
Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, 1993.
Co-designer and co-presenter, post-convention workshop on
the teaching of creative writing theory and practice, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Cincinnati (March 1992) and San Diego (March
1993).
"Surviving to Write and Writing to Survive: The
Complex Case of Langston Hughes," paper given at Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Cincinnati, March 1992.
"Designing a Writing Course,” paper for panel on
"A Case Study of a Successful Student Writer," National Council of
Teachers of English 81st annual convention, Seattle, November 1991.
"Film Criticism as Autobiography: James Baldwin's
The Devil Finds Work," paper given at Conference on College Composition
and Communication, Boston, March 1991.
Chair, panel on "American Literary Journalism,"
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Seattle, March 1989.
"Writing in the Pacific Northwest," colloquium
and reading (with Madeline De Frees and Joan Swift), St. Martin's College,
Lacey, Washington, Spring 1987.
Poetry Readings
(Selected)
Berkeley, California (KPFA Radio); Davis, California
(KDVS); Ragdale Artists Colony (Lake Forest, Illinois); "Across the
River" Reading Program (Oregon and Washington State Arts Commissions);
Tacoma Art Museum; "Distinguished Poets Series," directed by Laura
Jensen, funded by a Lila Wallace Foundation/Reader’s Digest grant, Tacoma,
1997; University of Puget Sound Faculty Club, 1998; Art Gallery, Pacific Lutheran
University, at the opening of “Apertures,” an exhibit featuring the
photo-collages of Betty Ragan and poems by Hans Ostrom, April 3, 2001; Lawrence
High School and Centennial Elementary School, Lawrence, Kansas (February 2002),
as part of an outreach program connected to “Let America Be America Again: An
International Symposium on the Art, Life, & Legacy of Langston Hughes,”
hosted by the University of Kansas; Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle (with
Bill Kupinse), Spring 2006; Peninsula Book Group, Gig Harbor, Washington, 2006;
Western Literature Association Conference, Tacoma, Washington, Fall 2007;
Daedalus Society, University of Puget Sound, April 2008; Tacoma Public Library,
reading in connection with the publication of In Tahoma’s Shadow: Poems From the City of Destiny, ed. William
Kupinse and Tammy Robacker (Tacoma: Exquisite Disarray, 2009); Poetry in Hard
Times, poetry reading at the Washington History Museum.
Miscellaneous Publications and Small Press
Community
Web Log: http://poetsmusings-muser.blogspot.com/ . This
features posts on poetry and on topics of general interest. I also post drafts
of poems, and I post poems by others (public domain) and comment on them. @ 900
posts as of October 2009.
“Diversity and the University of Puget Sound,” Advice to
New Students: 2008 Orientation, edited by the Prelude Committee, University of
Puget Sound, pp. 8-16. Subsequently printed online.
Archive
“Hans Ostrom Papers 1978-1992 [and ff.],” Department of
Special Collections, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305 SPEC-COLL CALL NUMBER 1) M1713. Includes incoming correspondence
from Associated Writing Programs/David
Fenza; Bishop, Wendy; Bly, Robert; Bryan, Sharon; Conoley, Gillian; Conroy,
John; Davies, John; DeFrees, Madeline; Dove, Rita; Gallagher, Tess; Hammer,
Andrea; Hayden, John; Hotchkiss, Bill; Hyde, Elisabeth; Mailer, Norman (to
Lloyd Van Brunt); Redbook Short Story Prize; Runciman, Lex; Shapiro, Karl;
Spender, Stephen; Thornberg, Newton; Van Arsdel, Rosemary; Wagner, Esther;
Wiley, Richard.
Administrative Experience and Contributions
to University Governance (Selected)
Faculty Member, ASUPS Media Board, 2012-present
Advisor, Writers’ Guild (student-run organization), circa
2005-2009
Catholic Campus Fellowship (student-run organization);
and Blues/Swing Dance Club (student-run), current.
Member, University’s Budget Task Force, 2008-2010.
Appointed by the President.
Member, Diversity Advisory Council and the Council’s
Committee on Curriculum andAdvising, 2008-2010
Chair, Department of English, 2004-2007.
Member, Faculty Senate, University of Puget Sound,
2006-2009 (elected position).
Chair, Faculty Senate, University of Puget Sound,
2001-2003 (elected position).
Co-Founder and Co-Director, African American Studies
Program, University of Puget Sound, 1995-2003.
Chair, Board of Trustees, Seabury School, Brown’s Point, Tacoma,
Washington, 1999-2000.
Member, President’s Committee on Diversity, 1990-91. The Committee was responsible for producing a
comprehensive strategic plan for diversity at the University of Puget
Sound. The report was presented to the
Board of Trustees in Spring 1991.
Co-designer and co-director of Prelude, a first-year
orientation program involving critical thinking (1985; 1986).
Founding Director of the Writing Center, University of
Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, 1984-86.
Assistant Director of Composition and Director of the
Campus Writing Center, U.C. Davis, Davis, California, 1982-83.
Member, Academic Standards Committee; Diversity
Committee; Library and Media (academic technology) Committee (various times),
University of Puget Sound.
Miscellaneous Professional Activities
Member (1990-present), Editorial Board (involves reading
of manuscripts), Writing on the Edge
(academic journal), published at the University of California, Davis;
manuscript reviewer for Journal of
Advanced Composition and College English (intermittent); proposal-reviewer,
stages I and II, for the national Conference on College Composition and
Communication (Minneapolis, 2000; San Antonio, 2004); invited outside-reviewer
in tenure-evaluations, Boise State University, Florida State University,
Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Loyola University, Miami
University (Florida), and others; manuscript reviewer for Boynton-Cook/Heinemann,
an academic publisher specializing in books about composition, rhetoric, and
pedagogy (Summer 1999); manuscript reviewer for a composition/rhetoric book
submitted to Utah State University Press (Spring 2003); proposal-reviewer for
an anthology of detective fiction, Oxford University Press; manuscript reviewer
for the Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), twice;
book-prospectus reviewer (composition text) for Cengage Learning/Wadsworth
Publishers.
Non-Academic Employment
(Alphabetically Listed)
Cafeteria Server and Dishwasher (U.C. Davis, 1973-75);
Carpenter’s Assistant, Summers, 1973-80; Editor (Office of the Auditor General,
California State Legislature, 1981-82); Grocery-Store Worker, Summer 1971;
Hod-Carrier and Mason’s Assistant, Summers (1973-80); Laborer, Gravel Pit
(Summers, 1971 & 1972); Resident Assistant, Dormitory, Sierra College
(1972); Sports Stringer/Freelancer (1971-73), weekly and daily newspapers
(reported scores, wrote news articles).
