Awards

2000 Bison Ambassadors Apple Polisher award.(Annual recognition “honoring outstanding faculty and staff members who work at NDSU.”)

1999 Lois Vogel Outstanding Teacher Award.

Projects, Fellowships, Other Teaching (a sampling)

My main teaching interest at the moment is a new advanced creative writing workshop, English 423, to be offered Fall 2006.

I also head up a project called Poetry on Wheels. Poems by students, teachers, and classic writers are posted on city buses all around the Fargo/Moorhead area. I hope to involve my creative writing students in this project increasingly.

Along with other senior lecturers in English, I'll soon be preparing for our new vertical writing curriculum, and teaching some new courses across the disciplines.

With several other department members, I've been working on a five-year study called The Blue Bread of Every Day: Reading Students Reading Poetry. I've never actually done this kind of research, which includes an online survey, but I've always been very curious about how students read poems, and why they respond as they do. It's really interesting to discover the earliest sources of their attitudes about poetry, including family and community influences.

I recently put together a website for the lecturers in English. It's not complete yet, but here's a sneak peek.

Older stuff:

Collaborative study of weblogs in the classroom with Kevin Brooks and Sybil Priebe. See The Comp Blog as well as an experimental creative blog called everything: a blog, which is similar to my webscrolls.

Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning Fellow. 2002-2003.

Peer Review of Teaching, 2002-2003.

North Dakota Governor's School, Creative Writing, 1992 and 2000-2005.

Writer's Link (Web Sites for Writers), creator and webmaster 1998-present. Newly focused and revised (and, I hope, better maintained!).

English 298, 398, and 498: Independent Studies in Creative Writing, 1994-2002.

English Honors Program creative manuscript advisor, 1992-1994.

Poetry Judge. The Fargo Forum Life’s Options Creative Writing Contest, 1997-1999.

GEnie Online Computer Assisted Learning Center and PCLink Online, Academic Assistance Center, Creative Writing, 1990-1991. Wholly electronic college teaching and tutoring, classes conducted in real-time (pre-Internet).