FACULTY VITA FORM

Name of Faculty Member:  Joyce Sutphen

Name of Institution: Gustavus Adolphus College                                                   

Title or Rank: Associate Professor                           Field: English

Earned Degrees:  List date earned, institution, and major and minor/supporting field for each degree earned.

            1996 Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Renaissance Drama

            1993 M.A. University of Minnesota, English, Emphasis in Writing

            1982 B.A. University of Minnesota, English

Professional Experience: (including pre K-12 teaching or administration and college/university experience):

List name, location, dates, and field or function for each professional experience.

            Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN.  1993 – present.   Visiting Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor

            University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN  1996 –  present .  Visiting Professor (Split Rock Arts Program, MFA Program)

University of Northern Michigan, Marquette, MI   2002         Visiting Professor, Summer Program

Assignment:  Fill in percentages for all that apply.

100%  Full-Time in Institution                       _____ % Part-Time in Institution

     %  Assignment in Education                     _____%  Assignment Outside Education

100%  Undergraduate Assignment                 _____%  Graduate Assignment

_____%  Administration                                 _____% Other (specify)_________________

Load: (including teaching and administrative assignments):  For Academic Year: 2004-5

List course numbers, titles, and credits  for each semester. Specify whether courses are undergraduate or graduate level.

Fall Semester:

FTS 100-301  First Term Seminar:  “All Roads Lead to ?  The Literature of Travel,”  1 credit  undergraduate level

English 112   Introduction to Creative Writing,  1 credit undergraduate level

English 241   Modern Poetry,  1 credit undergraduate level

Spring Semester:

English 112 Introduction to Creative Writing, 1 credit undergraduate level

English 212 Intermediate Composition, 1 credit undergraduate level

English 116 British Literature II, 1 credit undergraduate level  

Interim and/or Summer Sessions:

J-Term leave in 2005.  Plan on teaching a Split Rock Arts course for the University of Minnesota in Summer 2005.

Name: Joyce Sutphen

Title: Associate Professor of English

Appointment date: 1993

1.         Non-class duties – committees, responsibilities, etc.

           Chair, Lecture Series Committee

               Women's Studies Committee

2.         Current Professional and Academic Associate Memberships:

               Shakespeare Association of America, Poets and Writers Association, Academy of American Poets, Modern Poetry

               Association, The Loft Literary Association.

3.         Current Professional Activities

           Co-Editing an anthology, Minnesota Women Poets, to be published by New Rivers Press, 2006.          

               Giving poetry readings and talks.

               Judging poetry contests and serving on residency committees

               Publishing poems in journals and anthologies

4.         Sample Publications:

Books:

Naming the Stars.  Duluth:  Holy Cow! Press, 2004.

Straight Out of View. (Republished) Holy  Cow! Press, 2001.

Coming Back to the Body.  Duluth:  Holy Cow! Press, 2000.

Straight Out of View.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Contributions to Books:

180 More:  Extraordinary Poems for Every Day.  Edited with an Introduction by

 Billy Collins,  New York:  Random House (forthcoming 3/15/05)

All This Useless Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets on Housework. Edited

Pam Gemin, Iowa: University of Iowa Press (forthcoming Spring 2005)

Red, White, and Blues:  Poetic Vistas on the Promis of America.  Edited by

 Ryan Van Cleave and Virgil Suarez.  University of Iowa Press, 2004.

In Praise of Fertile Land.  Seattle:  Whit Press, 2003.

O Taste and See:  Food Poems. ed.  David Lee Garrison.  Bottom Dog Press, 2003.

Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website, ed. Don Selby and

Diane Boller.  Sourcebooks, 2003.

American Writers, Supplement XIII, Ed. Jay Parini.  Article, “Yusef

Komunyakaa” Scribners, 2003.

The POETRY Anthology 1912-2002.  Chicago:  Ivan R. Dee, 2002.

                        Paperback Edition (forthcoming, Summer 2004).

Good Poems.  Edited by Garrison Keillor, New York:  Viking Press, 2002.

“A Certain Text:  Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and

Others.”  Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002.

Shakespeare Yearbook, Volume XII, 2001.

Ecclesiates, InterVarsity Press, April 2001.

33 Minnesota Poets, Winona:  Nodin Press, 2000.

Boomer Girls, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1999.

A Prairie Home Companion Commonplace Book, St. Paul: Highbridge, 1999.

Shakespeare’s Sonnets.  New York and London:  Garland Press, 1999.

1 Hungry Midnight.  Stockholm, Wisconsin:  Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1996.

Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry.  Beverly Hills, CA:  Monitor, 1995.

Recorded Poems and Readings:

Readings  on the audio version of Good Poems, HighBridge Company, 2002.

Guest at the Fitzgerald Theatre Reading from Good Poems, October 23, 2002.

Guest on The Prairie Home Companion Show, October 24th, 1998.

Poems read on National Public Radio’s Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor: “Some Glad Morning” (April 2004)  “Soundings” (April 2004), “The Day” (August 2003), “In the Beginning” (April 2002), “Girl On a Tractor” (April 2001); Semi-Literate” (November 2000); “A Poem With My Mother In It” (May 2000); “St. Joe, the Angelus” (May 1998); “Living in the Body” (May 1996); “From Out the Cave,” “The Farm,” “My Father Comes to the City” (May 1995).

 “From out the Cave,” 3 Dozen Poems, read by Garrison Keillor. Cassette and CD released February, 1996 (Highbridge).

Internet: Poem as part of Billy Collin’s POETRY 180 project.  Library of Congress website, Poetry 180; “Naming the Stars,” “Up Close Again” www.caffeinedestiny;  “Handprint,” “Losing Touch,” Since You Will Not Send Me Word,” www.threecandles.org;  Poems (Real Audio) featured: www.startribune.com (Bookmark, “At the Podium”) and at www.poems.com  (Poetry Daily), listed (A Celebration of Women Writers) at www/women/writers.html., (Poetry) featured poet: www.poetrymagazine.org.

Broadsides:  “Inter-Text-Mix,” Hand-printed by Regula Russelle at the Cedar Fence Press for Speakeasy, published by the Loft Literary Center, November 2002.  “One of Those Stories,” Hand-printed by Scott King, Red Dragonfly Press, 2002. “In the Beginning,” Hand-printed by Scott King, Red Dragonfly Press Broadside, 2001; “Crossroads,” Hand-printed by Gaylord Schanilec, Midnight Papers, Hungry Mind Broadside Series, No. 3, 1996. 

Poems to Music:  River poems, part of “Raspberry Island Dreaming,” work commissioned by St. Paul Schubert Club, Composer:  Libby Larson, performed by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, September, 2002.Living in the Body, Six poems by Joyce Sutphen, set to music by Lori Laitman, and performed by the Arden Duo in Georgia and Texas, February-March, 2002; Translation of Psalm 31 (Joyce Sutphen with Chris Brunelle, music by Arthur Maud) performed by Rose Ensemble, December 2001. 

Poems Published (Selected):

“Explanations,” “The Philosopher’s Cigar,” “The Exchange,” “It’s Amazing,” Blue Earth Review.  Volume I:  Spring 2004.  “The Body I Once Lived In,” The Wolf (London, UK) Volume 4, Fall, 2003. “Thinking Back,” Water~Stone, Fall, 2003.  “The Bottom Line,” “Measuring the Distance,” “Advice and Content,” “The Rock and the Seed,” “The Old Enmity,” “Café Song,”  The North Stone Review, Fall, 2003.“Not Us,”  Columbia:  A Journal of Literature and Art, #37.  2003.

“I too Baedaker, I too Freud,” and “Salute, to the Empress of Days” in NorthDakota Quarterly, Fall 2003. “What to Pack,” Speakeasy, July / August 2003.   “The Story Behind the Name,” “At the Moment,” “Learning the Language,”Great River Review Spring-Summer 2003.“Mr. Muse,” Red Weather, Spring, 2003, No 22.“Ever After,” Poetry, February, 2003. “Polaroid #2” and “The Sound of No One Calling” in Northeast Review, January 2003. “Inter-Text-Mix,”  Speakeasy,  November 2002. “Gone Missing.”  Water~Stone, Fall 2002. “Holding Green,” “Watching My Father Shave,” Passages North, Winter/Spring 2002.  “A Bird on a Wall in County Clare,” Shenandoah, Spring 2002.  “Notice,” Poetry, February, 2002. “Bird in County Clare,” Poetry, January, 2002.

5.         Sample Papers Presented:

“Hugely Politic”: Memory and the Politics of One.  Presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting,, March 16-20, 2005.

“Some Rhetorical Figures in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 6,” presented at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Convention, March 2002.

“Poet’s Discusssion; the Midwest Perspective,” Central New York Conference on Language and

Literature, Courtland, New York,  October, 2001.

“Treading Air:  One Way of Writing Poems,” Shop Talk Series, Gustavus Adolphus College

6.       Current Research Emphases

                Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Contemporary Women Poets, Irish Poets, Contemporary Poetics, Creative Writing