Curriculum Vitae Linda Bolton Associate Professor Department of English 308 EPB The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 linda-bolton@uiowa.edu (319) 466-0679 Educational and Professional History Ph.D., Comparative American Literatures, University of Arizona, 1994. M.A., American Literature, Brandeis University, 1983. B.A., Theatre Arts, Smith College, 1977. 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, 2002- present. Assistant Professor of American Literatures, Department of English, University of Iowa, 1994-2001. Honors and Awards (Selected) Recipient of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Inspire Integrity Award for 2007-2008. 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.
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 2008. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Collegiate Teaching Award, in Recognition for Exemplary Performance as a Teacher, University of Iowa, 2007. Elected to the Board of Directors for the Iowa City Crisis Center and Food Bank. Nominated by Iowa City Mayor, Ross Wilburn. Spring 2006. Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind nominated for the MLA First Book Award, September 2005. Volunteer of the Year, Iowa City Crisis Center and Food Bank, May 2004. 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 2004. Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Grant, University of Iowa, 2003-04. 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, 2000. University of Iowa Research Grant, 1998-2000. 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 1997. Scholarship and Publication Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind, Horizons in Theory and American Culture, Louisiana State University Press, May 2004. 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.
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), 2008. Reader for Arizona Quarterly, 2008. The Painter, the Sculptor, the Poet. In situ: a collection of literary and visual arts from the iowa city area. Iowa City, Fall 2007. Memory and Oblivion : Tracing Lineage Through the Blood. The International Review of African American Art, Winter 2005. National Finalist for the Concept Design of the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project, with Public Arts Sculptor Barbara Grygutis. Raleigh, NC, Spring 2005. The Magic of Color: Remembering My Mother, Lorraine Williams Bolton. The International Review of African American Art, Fall 2001. 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 2007. Mellon Visiting Professor in Ethics and Aesthetics, Brown University. Evening Lecture and Graduate Seminar on Levinasian Ethics and the Poetry of Adrienne Rich. March 2007. 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 2005. 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
and American Literature. Clackamus Community College, Portland, Oregon. October 2005. 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 2005. 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, 2004. 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, 2004. Premiere exhibition at Hampton University Museum, May-September 2003. Commission to produce two of the Memory and Oblivion word panels for the State Courthouse in Syracuse, New York. Spring 2004. 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 2002. 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 1993. Teaching Director of Three Honors Thesis: Ashleigh Kenny, Cory Sanderson and Adam Weir, 2007-08. 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.
* 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, 2007-2010. Honors Program and Leadership Task Force, 2008-09. Faculty Mentor, General Education Teaching Associates. English Department, 2006-07. Search Committee, African American Literature and Culture. English Department, 2005-06 Assistant Professor Third Year Review Committee. English Department, 2003-05. Search Committee, African and Diasporic Literatures. English Department, 2003-05. Task Force on the Undergraduate English Major. 2002-03. English Department Honors Committee. 2001-02. Search Committee, Program in American Indian Studies. 2000-01. Graduate Admissions in English. 1998-2000. English Departmental Executive Committee. 1995-98. President s Committee for the University of Iowa s Mission Statement. 1996. Ph.D. Placement Committee, English Department. 1994-95.