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CHRISTINA A. TRIEZENBERG
Department of English and Modern Languages4813 Oxford Drive
Morningside CollegeSioux City, IA 51106
Sioux City, IA 51106(712) 823-3875 (home)
(616) 796-5516 (cell)
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, Western Michigan University, 2014
Dissertation: “Reading toward Scarlett: Tracing the Texts That Helped to Shape
Margaret Mitchell’s American Epic”
M.A., English, Grand Valley State University, 2007
B.A., English and Secondary Education, Western Michigan University, 1987
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Early American Literature and Culture; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture; Southern American Literature and Culture; American Multicultural Writing; American Environmental Writing; Modern British Literature and Culture
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
forthcoming“Inviting Us to Come Closer: Philip Levine’s Portraits of Detroit,”
Midwestern Miscellany.
2016“Advocating for Mother Earth: Uniting 21st Century Technologies, Local
Resources, Art, and Activism to Explore Our Place in Nature,” co-
authored with Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar, The Hilltop Review:A Journal of Western Michigan University Graduate Research 8.2 (Spring 2016): 55-67.
2015“Bridging the Distances: Women Writers Exploring the Nightmare of Vietnam,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 44.5: 681-701.
Book Review
2013“Mapping an Unfinished Masterpiece: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic by Julia Stern.” H-Southern Lit, H-Net Reviews. URL: October.
Newsletter Articles
2011“English 3110 – Our Place in Nature.” Footnotes: A Newsletter for Friends of the
Departmentof English. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Spring/Summer.
2007“Going Postal: Society Launches Effort to Recognize O’Connor on U.S. Postage Stamp.” Cheers! The Flannery O’Connor Society Newsletter 14.1: 1.
In Preparation
“Re-envisioning the American Civil War: The Creative Collaboration of Mary Johnston and N.C. Wyeth,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
GRANT AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
2017“Dr. MohanaRajakumar Discusses Transnationalism, Authorship, and Immigration,” $10,000 Humanities Iowa Major Grant to support the 2018 Dimmitt Fellow Program at Morningside College, June 12.
2015“Slavery in the American Republic: From Constitution to Civil War,” NEH Summer Institute, Washington, D.C., July 5-18.
2013Edward L. Galligan Memorial Scholarship in American Literature, Department of
English, Western Michigan University, March 22.
2012Fifth-Year Doctoral Funding Award, Department of English, Western Michigan University, May.
2010Graduate Student Research Grant, Graduate College, Western Michigan University, July/August.
2009Schoenecke Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in New Orleans, LA, April 8-11.
2007-2011Doctoral Associateship, Department of English, Western Michigan University,
August-May.
2007Outstanding Thesis in English Award, Department of English, Grand Valley State
University, April 27.
2007Dean’s Citation for Academic Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, Grand
Valley State University, April 27.
2007Graduate Student Travel Grant, Department of English, Grand Valley State
University, to attend the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference in Boston, MA, April 4-7.
2007Graduate Student Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Grand Valley State
University, to attend the Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Annual Conference in Boston, MA, April 4-7.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized and Moderated
2017“The Multicultural Writer as Artist and Activist: Strategies for Teaching the
Literature of Protest,” Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics and Pedagogy Section, Midwest MLA Conference, Cincinnati, OH, November 9-12.
2016“Breaking the Silence: Strategies for Teaching Racially Provocative Texts in an Anxious Era” (2 of 2), Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics and Pedagogy Section, Midwest MLA Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 10-13.
2015“Bridging the Distance between Text and Reader: Strategies for Teaching
Multicultural Literature in the Undergraduate Classroom” (5 of 5), Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics and Pedagogy Section, Midwest MLA Conference, Columbus, OH, November 12-15.
Panels Moderated
2013Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fiction Panel and Writing and Cyberspace Panel, Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Hope College, Holland, MI, March 22.
2009Concluding Panel, Southern Literature and Culture Section of the Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 8-11.
Papers Presented
2017“‘[Just] another morning in Michigan’: Exploring Philip Levine’s Last Shift
Poems,” ASLE Biennial Conference, Detroit, MI, June 20-24.
2016“Harnessing the Emotional Power of Ann Petry'sThe Street, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, and the Artifacts of the Jim Crow Museum to Explore American Racism,” Midwest MLA Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 10-13.
2015“Unsettling Perceptions: Multicultural Poetry as a Gateway to Ethnic Understanding,” Midwest MLA Conference, Columbus, OH, November 12-15.
2015“Singing the Song of Detroit: Contemporary Poets Illuminating the Lives and Landscape of the Motor City,” The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Conference, East Lansing, MI, May 31-June 2.
2014“Environmental Ed in the City: Harnessing the Humanities and Urban Resources to Create Environmentally Engaged Citizens in a Rapidly Changing World, Midwest MLA Conference, Detroit, MI, November 12-16.
2014“Beyond Belles: Southern Women Writers Challenging the Traditions of the South in the Decades before the Southern Renaissance,” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, Boise, ID, October 9-11.
2013“Caught in the Wave: Southern Women Confronting a World at War in Evelyn Scott’s Civil War Masterpiece,” ALA Symposium on War and American Literature, New Orleans, LA, October 10-12.
2013“Natural Places, Digital Spaces: Teaching Environmental Writing with Blogging and Digital Storytelling,” co-presented with Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar, Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Hope College, Holland, MI, March 22.
2011“Advocating for Mother Earth: Uniting 21st Century Technologies, Local
Resources, Art, and Activism to Explore Our Place in Nature,” co-presented with Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar, Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, MI, March 11.
2009“Reading Scarlett’s ‘Things’ as Evidence of Historical Realism in Margaret
Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind,” Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, Detroit, MI, October 30-November 1.
2009 “No Longer a Spectator: Ellen Glasgow and Margaret Mitchell’s Protest against the Myth of Female Passivity in Barren Ground and Gone with the Wind,” Southern Literature and Culture Section of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 8-11.
2009“A Few Good Books: Exploring the American Experience Using Memoir, Movies, Poetry, and Prose in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, March 20.
2008“‘In short, the observer is choked with observations’: Finding a Foothold among
the Fractured Images of Disruption and Distress in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and Mrs. Dalloway,” Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, March 7.
2007“Voicing the Unvoiceable: Tracing Rage in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the
Wind,” Southern Literature and Culture Section of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, April 4-7.
2006“The Tramp, the Bible Salesman, and the Gentleman from Charleston: Tricksters as Moralists in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Margaret Mitchell,” Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism: An Academic Conference on Violence and Grace, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, October 5-7.
2006“Unexpected Offspring: Echoes of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Life You Save May Be Your Own’ and ‘Good Country People,’” Flannery O’Connor and Other Georgia Writers Conference at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA, March 30-April 1.
INVITATIONS TO SPEAK
2013“Exercising the Thesis Option: Determining Your Topic and Framing Your Arguments,” with Professors Avis Hewitt and Rachel Anderson, M.A. in English Graduate Student Q & A, DeVos Center, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, November 14.
2011"Gone with the Wind in the 21st Century: Is Margaret Mitchell's Beloved Bestseller Still Worth Reading?" Central Branch, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, Atlanta, GA, August 13.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Modern Languages, Morningside College (2016-present)
Beyond Belles: Exploring the Experiences of Women of the American South (fall 2016)
Things, Things, and More Things: Exploring America’s Material Culture (fall 2016)
Studies in American Literary History: 1850-1950 (fall 2016)
American Minorities Literature (spring 2017)
Critical Inquiry and Communication: The Search for Meaning in Life (spring 2017, first-
year writing course)
Bright Lights, Big City: Exploring America’s Urban Spaces (fall 2017)
Studies in American Literary History: 1750-1850 (fall 2017)
Literature and Society (fall 2017, first-year writing course)
Adjunct Professor,Department of Liberal Studies, Grand Valley State University (2015-2016)
Life Journeys (fall 2015, winter 2016, writing intensive)
Adjunct Professor, Department of English, Grand Valley State University (2011-2016)
Introduction to Literatures in English (fall 2011)
Foundations of Literary Study-Genre (fall 2014)
American Literature I (winter 2012, fall 2014, winter 2015, writing intensive)
American Literature II (fall 2011, writing intensive)
Literature of American Minorities (winter 2015, winter 2016)
Literature and the Environment (fall 2015, writing intensive)
Literary Responses to Death and Dying (winter 2016)
Doctoral Associate and Adjunct Professor,Department of English, Western Michigan University (2007-2013)
Literary Interpretation (fall 2007, winter 2008)
Literary Interpretation-Honors (fall 2011)
Good Books – The American Experience (fall 2008, winter 2009)
Literature and Culture of the United States (fall 2009)
Beyond Belles: Exploring the Experiences of Women of the American South (winter 2010)
Our Place in Nature-Honors (fall 2010)
American Literature II (winter 2011, fall 2012, winter 2013)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009Associate Editor, The Hilltop Review: A Journal of Western Michigan University
Graduate Research, Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
2007Research Assistant, Cheers! The Flannery O’Connor Society Newsletter, English Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI.
2005-2006High School English Teacher, Zeeland West High School, Zeeland, MI.
2003-2005Middle School English Teacher, Corpus Christi Catholic School, Holland, MI.
2002-2003Long-Term Guest Teacher, English Department, West Ottawa High School, Holland, MI.
1994-1995Assistant Editor, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
1993-1994Research Secretary II, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, The University of
Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI.
1990-1992Adult Education Instructor, Ypsilanti Public Schools, Ypsilanti, MI.
1998-1993Copy Editor, Composition Department, Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI.
SERVICE
2017Faculty Advisor, Gamma Beta Chapter, Sigma Tau Delta;
Faculty Advisor, Secondary English Education Students;
Program Director, Dimmitt Fellow Committee: MohanaRajakumar Visit, Spring
2018;
Member, Dimmitt Fellow Committee: Lorenzo Sandoval Visit, Spring 2017;
Member, Integrative Learning Committee (Subcommittee of CPAC)
Member, Sustainability Committee;
Member, Friday Is Writing Day Committee;
Faculty Secretary
Faculty Coordinator, “Jewish and Muslim Life in America: A Conversation,” UPS Auditorium, Lincoln Center, Morningside College, March 23.
2016Faculty Advisor, Gamma Beta Chapter, Sigma Tau Delta;
Member, Friday Is Writing Day Committee;
Member, Dimmitt Fellow Committee: Lorenzo Sandoval Visit.
2011Graduate Student Coordinator for the visit of Drs. Avis Hewitt of Grand Valley State University and Robert Donahoo of Sam Houston State University to WMU as part of the Department of English’s Scholarly Speakers Series, March 24.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2017Safe Zone Training, Faculty Workshop, Morningside College, August 17.
First-Year Seminar/Target Course Workshop, Morningside College, June 1-6.
CIC Course Workshop, Morningside College, August 9-11.
2015Integrated Course Design: Creating Significant Learning Experiences, Pew
Faculty Teaching and Learning Center, GVSU, August 25.
2015Foundations for Online/Hybrid Course Development, GVSU Instructional
Technology Workshop, January/February 2015.
2013Digital Humanities in the Classroom: Implications for Teaching and Learning,
Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Work Group, University Center for the Humanities, WMU, November 20.
2013How to Find and Win Federal Grants and How to Find and Win Corporate and Foundation Grants with Grant Writing Expert David Bauer, DeVos Center, GVSU, October 3.
2013Digital Research Summer Symposium, WMU Graduate College and WMU University Libraries, May 30-June 11.
2013Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age Workshop, WMU Graduate
College and WMU University Libraries, March 21.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Midwest Modern Language Association (2014-present)
The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (2014-present)
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (2015-present)
American Association of University Women (2016-present)
REFERENCES
Marty Knepper, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair (Retired), Department of English
Morningside College
1501 Morningside Avenue
Sioux City, IA 51106
(712) 274-5264
Stephen Coyne, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English
Morningside College
1501 Morningside Avenue
Sioux City, IA 51106
(712) 274-5267
Gail Ament, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Modern Languages
Morningside College
1501 Morningside Avenue
Sioux City, IA 51106
(712) 274-5187
Katherine Joslin, Ph.D.
Professor of English and Founding Director
University Center for the Humanities
Western Michigan University
717 Sprau Tower
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331
(269) 387-2599
Scott Slawinski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Director
Department of English
Western Michigan University
615 Sprau Tower
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331
(269) 387-2582
Last updated 30 September 2017.