Curriculum Vitae Linda Bolton

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1 Curriculum Vitae Linda Bolton Associate Professor Department of English 308 EPB The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA (319) Educational and Professional History Ph.D., Comparative American Literatures, University of Arizona, M.A., American Literature, Brandeis University, B.A., Theatre Arts, Smith College, Areas of specialization: Levinasian Ethical Philosophy, Native American Literatures, Literature and Art of American Women of Difference, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Literature. Professional and Academic Positions Associate Professor of American Literatures, Department of English, University of Iowa, present. Assistant Professor of American Literatures, Department of English, University of Iowa, Honors and Awards (Selected) Recipient of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Inspire Integrity Award for The National Society of Collegiate Scholars' Inspire Integrity Awards are the only national studentnominated faculty awards program. These awards are presented to full-time university faculty who have, through their lessons and actions, made a significant impact on the lives of their students and instilled a high degree of personal and academic integrity. The award includes $1000 to the nominating student and $2500 to the University of Iowa Department of English to establish an undergraduate award to honor integrity and ethical excellence.

2 Fund Raiser for the Johnson County Crisis Center. Working with Iowa City business, Discerning Eye, to establish an annual Eye Gave Back campaign: $5000 for 2007 and $7100 for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Collegiate Teaching Award, in Recognition for Exemplary Performance as a Teacher, University of Iowa, Elected to the Board of Directors for the Iowa City Crisis Center and Food Bank. Nominated by Iowa City Mayor, Ross Wilburn. Spring Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind nominated for the MLA First Book Award, September Volunteer of the Year, Iowa City Crisis Center and Food Bank, May Obermann Center Interdisciplinary Research Grant for Collaborative Projects, with painter Chandra Cox (Chair, Department of Art and Design, North Carolina State University), to support collaborative research into the hidden languages of 19 th Century African American quilts. Summer Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Grant, University of Iowa, To support further research on the connection between art and ethics. John C. Gerber Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of English, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Research Grant, Grant Writer for the Ida Beam Fellowship to bring Pulitzer Prize-winning author, N. Scott Momaday to the University of Iowa as a three-day Distinguished Visiting Professor in English, November Scholarship and Publication Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind, Horizons in Theory and American Culture, Louisiana State University Press, May A study of the ethical challenge, presented by the Native and African Other, as it disrupts the discourse on freedom in the founding texts of the new republic.

3 The Physiology of Shame: Inhabiting the Body Marked by Difference (work in progress). An examination of the existential experience of shame, as it is illuminated through philosophy, literature, memoir, and the discourse of psychoanalytic literature. Reader for Liverpool University Press (distributed in the US through University of Chicago Press), Reader for Arizona Quarterly, The Painter, the Sculptor, the Poet. In situ: a collection of literary and visual arts from the iowa city area. Iowa City, Fall Memory and Oblivion : Tracing Lineage Through the Blood. The International Review of African American Art, Winter National Finalist for the Concept Design of the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project, with Public Arts Sculptor Barbara Grygutis. Raleigh, NC, Spring The Magic of Color: Remembering My Mother, Lorraine Williams Bolton. The International Review of African American Art, Fall Invited Lectures and Exhibitions Ethical Activism in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver. Invited Lecture for the Saturday Scholars Series. Sponsored by the Dean s Office, CLAS. October Mellon Visiting Professor in Ethics and Aesthetics, Brown University. Evening Lecture and Graduate Seminar on Levinasian Ethics and the Poetry of Adrienne Rich. March The Binford Literary Series at Marylhust University, Portland, Oregon. One of six writers invited for a 2-day campus visit to present a lecture on their creative and scholarly work and interact with undergraduate and graduate students in small group sessions. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. October The Ethics of Land and Conservation in the Work of N. Scott Momaday and Joy Harjo. An Invited Lecture for undergraduate students in Native Studies

4 and American Literature. Clackamus Community College, Portland, Oregon. October Behold This Face: Frederick Douglass, Sarah Winnemucca and the Ethical Command for Justice. The Second Keynote Speaker in a University Lecture Series, inaugurated by Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison. Johns Hopkins University, February The Great American Criminal: John Brown s Triumphant Failure at Harpers Ferry. One of four national scholars invited to present their work at the sixteenth annual Arizona Quarterly Symposium on American Literatures and Culture. Tucson, AZ, March 25-28, Memory and Oblivion: Legacies of Enslavement in the Americas. A collaborative exhibition with painter Chandra Cox and sculptor Marianetta Porter. A series of nine poetic meditations on the ethics of memory and remembrance. Nine Panels fabricated in corroded steel. The Harriet Tubman Museum, Macon, GA, March 11-May 30, Premiere exhibition at Hampton University Museum, May-September Commission to produce two of the Memory and Oblivion word panels for the State Courthouse in Syracuse, New York. Spring Towards the Ethical in Art: The Public Arts of Barbara Grygutis and Shimon Attie. Final Lecture of Three Annual Lectures for the School of Painting and Design. North Carolina State University, February The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial at Battle Garden, Columbia, MO. A collaborative project with Pubic Arts Sculptor, Barbara Grygutis, that combined language with sculptural design to create a public monument that invites dialogue, remembrance and community. The Monument was dedicated in August Teaching Director of Three Honors Thesis: Ashleigh Kenny, Cory Sanderson and Adam Weir, PH.D. Comprehensive exam and Dissertation committees for Matt Low, Jo Davis and Chad Wrigglesworth (English) and Li Guo (Comparative Literature). Two-semester Independent Study on Native Literature with Li Guo, 2008.

5 * Ethical Intentions: Facing the Other as Human, as Alter-Species, as Earth (English Department Honors Pro-Seminar) * Native Daughters Speak: Writings by American Women of Difference *Selected American Authors: Audre Lorde and Joy Harjo *Selected American Authors: Mary Oliver and Adrienne Rich *Selected American Authors: N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko *Selected American Authors: Joy Harjo and Gerald Vizenor *Reading Poems: Words of Light and Magic in the Work of American Writers of Difference *Native American Oral Literatures * Art, Ethics and Justice: A Graduate Seminar in Cultural Studies *Readings in Native Literatures Graduate Readings Course * The Poetics and Politics of Difference Graduate Seminar in Cultural Studies *Courses I designed and introduced into the curriculum in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. Native American Literature Native American Autobiography Service English Departmental Executive Committee, Honors Program and Leadership Task Force, Faculty Mentor, General Education Teaching Associates. English Department, Search Committee, African American Literature and Culture. English Department, Assistant Professor Third Year Review Committee. English Department, Search Committee, African and Diasporic Literatures. English Department, Task Force on the Undergraduate English Major English Department Honors Committee Search Committee, Program in American Indian Studies Graduate Admissions in English English Departmental Executive Committee President s Committee for the University of Iowa s Mission Statement Ph.D. Placement Committee, English Department