Elizabeth Harris' CV - Arts & Sciences - University of North Dakota

ELIZABETH HARRIS________________________Curriculum Vitae
Department of English 604 Cottonwood Street
Box 7209 Grand Forks, ND 58201
University of North Dakota (701) 330-9228
Grand Forks, ND 58202 eharrisbehling@und.nodak.edu
(701) 777-2703 fax: (701) 777-2373
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Translation, University of Arkansas, August 2000
Thesis: Translation of Le stagioni di Giacomo, by Mario Rigoni Stern
Committee: Miller Williams (director), John DuVal, and Louise Rozier
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, University of Arkansas, December 1999
Thesis: “Fuses” and Other Stories
Committee: Joanne Meschery (director), John DuVal, and Donald Hays
Master of Arts in Creative Writing, The Johns Hopkins University, May 1994
Thesis: Lisa’s Stories
Committee: Stephen Dixon (director), John Barth, and Robert Stone
Bachelor of Arts in Art History, University of Minnesota, 1988
ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE STUDY/TIME IN ITALY
Travel and study in Italy (total time: approx. 2 years):
Sabbatical in Italy (Tortona and Olbia), fall 2011-spring 2012: revision for publication of
Mario Rigoni Stern’s Giacomo’s Seasons (Autumn Hill Books) and Giulio Mozzi’s This is the
Garden (Open Letter Books)
Worked with Marco Candida in Genoa, Italy, summer 2008 & 2009
Worked with Giulio Mozzi in Genoa, Italy, summer 2009; in Minneapolis and Grand Forks, ND:
two weeks, fall 2008; and in Padua, Italy: summer 2007
Worked with Mario Rigoni Stern in Asiago, Italy: summer 1999
Graduate courses in Italian literature and language at the University of Arkansas
Intensive Italian, The Language Schools, Middlebury College, Summer 2001
and 1998 (graduate-level studies)
PUBLICATIONS
Fiction Translations:
Books:
Giacomo’s Seasons, a novel by Mario Rigoni Stern (Le stagioni di Giacomo, Einaudi, 1996), December
2012. Autumn Hill Books (Bloomington IN).
This is the Garden, a story collection by Giulio Mozzi (Questo è il giardino, Sironi, 2005).
Forthcoming, winter 2013. Open Letter Books (Rochester).
Tristano is Dying: a Life, a novel by Antonio Tabucchi (Tristano muore: una vita, Feltrinelli 2005).
Forthcoming, 2014. Archipelago Books (New York City).

PUBLICATIONS CONTINUED
In anthologies/books:
“Y=1285/x,” by Marco Candida. Passageways. Edited by Camile Hungey and Daniel Hahn (San
Francisco: Two Lines Press: World Literature in Translation series), 2012: 64-72.
Excerpt from Dream Diary, by Marco Candida (pp. 86-97 of original novel), Best European Fiction
2011. Edited by Aleksandar Hemon (Urbana: Dalkey Archive Press), 2010: 231- 239.
“Carlo Doesn’t Know How to Read,” by Giulio Mozzi (aka Carlo Dalcielo), Best European
Fiction 2010. Edited by Aleksandar Hemon (Urbana: Dalkey Archive Press), 2009: 158-163.
“Carlo Doesn’t Know How to Read,” by Carlo Dalcielo/Giulio Mozzi, Il pittore e il pesce: una
poesia di Raymond Carver, un’opera di Carlo Dalcielo (Rome: minimum fax, 2009): 56- 64.
In journals:
“Trains,” by Giulio Mozzi. TwoLines Online. Forthcoming, 2013.
“On the Publication of My First Book,” by Giulio Mozzi. The Literary Review. Forthcoming,
spring 2013.
“Practice Sermon,” by Marco Candida (co-translator, Margherita Pompinella-Cropper).
Metamorphosis. Forthcoming, 2013.
“• Obviously,” by Marco Candida (excerpt of Dream Diary). Absinthe: New European Writing. 18, 2012:
82-90 (work solicited by Anne Magnan-Parker, Ed., along with essay on translation of story).
Excerpt of You Don’t Know: A Mafia Dictionary, by Andrea Camilleri. Words Without Borders Dec.
2012 (“Non-Scandinavian Crime issue”):
http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/you-dont-know-a-mafia-dictionary (work solicited by
Susan Harris, Editorial Director)
“F.,” by Giulio Mozzi. The Massachusetts Review. 53.3 2012: 459-71.
“Tana,” by Giulio Mozzi. Words Without Borders April 2012 (“Sex” issue)
http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/tana.
Excerpt of Treatise on an Awakening Sentiment, by Giulio Mozzi. The Chicago Review, 56: 1
Spring 2011: 92-101 (special issue, New Italian Writing, work solicited by Joshua Adams, Ed.)
“The Apprentice,” by Giulio Mozzi. AGNI Magazine 73 2011: 14-34.
“Moving Like Geckos,” by Marco Di Marco. Words Without Borders June 2011 (“Queer II”
issue) http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/moving-like-geckos/ (work solicited by
Rohan Kamicheril, Editor).
Excerpt of Making a Scene, by Domenico Starnone. Words Without Borders March 2011 (“Going to the
Movies” issue): http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/making-a-scene/ (work solicited by
Susan Harris, Editorial Director).
Excerpt from Dream Diary, by Marco Candida (pp. 54-82 of original novel) Words Without Border Dec.
2010 issue (“Horrors” issue): http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/from-dream-diary/.
Excerpt from Dream Diary, by Marco Candida (various excerpts of original novel). The Literary Review
53.3 2010: 180-191 (work solicited by Minna Proctor, Editor-in-chief).
Excerpt from The Revenge of Capablanca (chs. 6 and 15), by Fabio Stassi. Words Without Borders June
2010 issue (“Sports” issue):
http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/from_the_revenge_of_capablanca/ (work solicited
by Susan Harris, Editorial Director).
“Cover Letter,” by Giulio Mozzi. The Kenyon Review 31.3 2009: 44-56.
“Claw,” by Giulio Mozzi. The Missouri Review 30.3 2007: 32-41.
“Glass,” by Giulio Mozzi. AGNI Online 2007: www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/online/2007/mozzi.html
Excerpt from Giacomo’s Seasons (chs. 15 and 17), by Mario Rigoni Stern. Fiction Attic 18
2006: www.fictionattic.com.
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“A Happy Life,” by Giulio Mozzi. The Literary Review 49.1 2005: 155-163. (special edition of
contemporary Italian fiction; invited to translate story by editor, Minna Proctor).
Excerpt from Giacomo’s Seasons (chs. 1-4), by Mario Rigoni Stern. Great River Review
41 2004: 15-26.
Excerpt from Giacomo’s Seasons (chs. 21-22), by Mario Rigoni Stern. Fiction Attic 14 2004:
www.fictionattic.com.
“They Took You Like an Ear of Corn,” “The Wagon Driver’s Daughter,” and “The Full Moon,” by
Rocco Scotellaro. Gradiva 20/21 2002: 92-95. (poetry)
Excerpt from Giacomo’s Seasons (ch. 5), by Mario Rigoni Stern. Metamorphosis 8.2 2000: 99-
203.
Excerpt from Giacomo’s Seasons (ch. 14), by Mario Rigoni Stern. Northwest Review 38.3 2000:
35-40.
Original Fiction:
“Mom’s Day.” Northwest Review 43.2 2005: 24-35.
“Where The Egg Is.” Alaska Quarterly Review 21.3/4 2004: 106-113.
“Fuses.” The Florida Review 24.1 1999: 25-32.
“Sleeping.” Denver Quarterly 33.2 1998: 106-15.
“Rainbow Song.” Other Voices 27.10 1997: 91-103.
Miscellaneous:
“Pianos to Tubas: on Translating Marco Candida.” Absinthe: New European Writing 18 2012: 91-94
(work solicited by Anne Magnan-Park, Ed., for special feature on translation).
Review of The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Lewis (Univ. of
Toronto Press). Translation Review 83.1 2012: 75-79 (solicited by Gregory Ratz, Review Editor).
“From the Translator: Titling ‘Tana.’” Words Without Borders April 2012:
http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/from-the-translator-titling-tana. (commentary
requested by editors)
“A Conversation on Literary Translation with Elizabeth Harris,” interview by Kyle Minor. HTML Giant
2011: http://htmlgiant.com/random/a-conversation-on-literary-translation-with-elizabeth-harris/.
“On Translating Marco Di Marco.” Words Without Borders June 2011:
http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/from-the-translator-elizabeth-harris-ontranslating-marco-di-marco/.
(commentary requested by Rohan Kamicheril, Editor)
“From the Translator: Elizabeth Harris on Translating Marco Candida.” Words Without Borders, Dec.
2010: http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/from-the-translator-elizabeth-harris-ontranslating-marco-candida.
(commentary requested by editors)
“From the Translator: Elizabeth Harris on Translating Fabio Stassi.” Words Without Borders,
July 2010: http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/from-the-translator-elizabeth-harrison-translating-chess-in-the-revenge-o/.
(commentary requested by editors)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, English Department, University of North Dakota, 2004-present (promotion and
tenure in 2009)
Assistant Professor, English Department, Bluffton College, 2003-2004
Lecturer, English Department, University of Michigan, 2002-2003
Visiting Assistant Professor, Writing Department, Grand Valley State University, 2000-2002
Lecturer, English Department, University of Arkansas, 1999 Fall Semester
Lead Graduate Teaching Mentor, English Department, University of Arkansas, 1999-2000
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Graduate Teaching Mentor, English Department, University of Arkansas, 1998-2000
Instructor, English Department, University of Arkansas, 1994-2000
Tutor, Quality Writing Center, University of Arkansas, 1997-2000
Italian Instructor, Community Education, St. Paul, MN, 1989-1990
English as a Second Language Instructor, English House, Utsunomiya, Japan, 1988
COURSES TAUGHT
GRADUATE SEMINARS:
Fiction Workshop: Critiquing of students’ fiction, with emphasis on revising and publishing.
Fiction and Nonfiction Workshop: Exploring boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, with
assignments of fiction, nonfiction, and researched fiction.
Writing and Translating Fiction: Tied to UND’s international Writers Conference, critiquing of
students’ fiction and fiction translation; some consideration of theory, history, and practice of
literary translation as well as borders between fiction writing and translating fiction.
The Art of Literary Translation: Theory, history, and practice of literary translation.
Reading Fiction as Writers: Reading and analyzing published stories and novels in terms of craft.
Sample texts: Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Kafka,
Collected Stories, Rulfo, Pedro Parama, Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man, Gass, In The
Heart of the Heart of the Country, Diaz, Drown, Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt.
UNDERGRADUATE:
Creative Writing:
Introduction to Creative Writing: Reading and writing short stories and poems.
3-Genre Creative Writing Workshop: Reading and writing short stories, poems, and plays.
Intermediate Fiction Writing: Reading and writing short stories.
Advanced Fiction Writing: Reading and writing short stories; some emphasis on publishing.
Essay Writing: Reading and writing creative nonfiction.
Literature:
Introduction to Fiction: Reading and writing about fiction, focusing on the short story.
Humanities I: Reading and writing about western civilization, with emphasis on history, literature,
and art from the pre-historical period to the Renaissance.
World Literature I: Reading and writing about literature, from early civilization to early modern period.
World Literature II: Reading and writing about literature, from the early modern period to the present.
British Literature I: Reading and writing about British literature, from Old English to the
Enlightenment.
The U.S. Short Story: Reading and writing about the U.S. short story, from its origins to the present.
Literary Analysis: The Short Story: Introduction to literary analysis, with emphasis on analytical
reading and writing about literary texts and various critical approaches to these texts.
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Film: Advanced undergraduate seminar focusing on
Italian neorealism and its impact on contemporary Italian letters.
Composition/miscellaneous:
Writing About Popular Culture: theme-based course that emphasizes developing
structure and style in writing and research skills; meets half the time in a computer lab.
Writing with a Purpose: Basic-writing course that prepares students for college writing.
Strategies in Writing: Course includes portfolio-group evaluation and peer consulting in the classroom
and emphasizes developing structure and style in writing and research skills.
Composition I: Reading and writing across the curriculum.
Composition II: Reading and writing about drama, poetry, and the short story.
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Honors Composition I: Intensive course focusing on writing and research across the curriculum.
Honors Composition II: Intensive course on reading, writing, and research about drama, film, poetry,
the short story, and the novel.
First-Year Seminar: Introduction to liberal arts studies.
Beginning Italian: Grammar and conversation at the basic (conversational) level.
English as a Second Language: All levels of English grammar and conversation.
UND INDEPENDENT STUDIES
Mary Ann Krubacker, creative nonfiction, fall 2004
Cyle Cavett, supervised reading for North Dakota Quarterly, fall 2004
Thom Caraway, supervised reading for North Dakota Quarterly, summer 2005
Gilad Elbom, supervised reading for North Dakota Quarterly, fall 2005
Jennifer Groucutt, canonical texts as tied to the journey novel, summer 2007
Stephanie Liden and Therese Borkenhagen, supervised reading for North Dakota Quarterly, fall 2012
UND THESIS AND DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Dissertation Director. Karen Miller, creative dissertation (fiction), fall 2009
Dissertation Director. Jennifer Robinette, creative dissertation (fiction), spring 2012
Dissertation Director. Brian Maxwell, creative dissertation (fiction), expected spring 2013
Thesis Director. Donna Neal, creative thesis (fiction), spring 2005
Thesis Director. Chris Johnson, undergraduate honors thesis (fiction), spring 2006
Thesis Director. Cyle Cavett, creative thesis (fiction), spring 2006
Thesis Director. Lene Johansen, creative thesis (literary translation), fall 2007
Thesis Director. Evan Nelson, creative thesis (fiction), spring 2008
Thesis Director. Emily Sorum, creative thesis (fiction), spring 2008
Thesis Director. Shane Winterhalter, creative thesis (fiction), spring 2008
Thesis Director. Eric Haagenson, creative thesis (fiction), spring 2009
Thesis Director. Luke Geiver, creative thesis (fiction), spring 2010
Thesis Director. Kimberly Stewart, creative thesis (fiction), expected fall 2010
Thesis Director. Sara Dupree, creative thesis (fiction), spring 2011
Thesis Director. Lorenzo Serna, creative thesis (fiction and poetry), spring 2011
Thesis Director. Steven Finney, creative thesis (literary translation), spring 2011
Thesis Director. Ben Greenlee, creative thesis (fiction), expected spring 2013
Thesis Director. Therese Borkenhagen, creative thesis (fiction), expected spring 2013
Thesis Director. Ryan Langerud, creative thesis (fiction), expected fall 2013
Thesis Director. Shawn Brannon, creative thesis (fiction and translation), expected fall 2013
Committee Member. Mirosh Thomas, creative thesis (literary translation), spring 2008
Committee Member. Thomas Caraway, creative dissertation (poetry), spring 2011
Portfolio Committee Member. Amanda Nelson, academic essay on Juan Rulfo, Spring 2010
Portfolio Committee Member. Richard Dombovy, story, spring 2011
Portfolio Committee Member. Emily Hill, nonfiction, spring 2011
Portfolio Committee Member. Bernard Kauk, story, fall 2012
Porfolio Committee Member. Stephanie Liden, story, expected spring 2013
Comprehensive Exam Committee Member. John Early, John Cheever exam, fall 2006
Comprehensive Exam Committee Director. Karen Miller, southern women fiction writers, spring 2008
Comprehensive Exam Committee Director. Jennifer Robinette, Realist Fiction and 20 th century American
Lit. exams, spring 2010
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Comprehensive Exam Committee Member. Thom Caraway, 20 th century American poetry and literary
translation exams, fall 2010
Comprehensive Exam Committee Director. Brian Maxwell, Southern fiction exam, spring 2011
GRANTS/AWARDS
Arts/Social Sciences/Humanities Award, for translation of Mario Rigoni Stern’s Le stagioni di Giacomo
and Giulio Mozzi’s Questo è il giardino, UND, 2011, $5,000
Creative Activity/Scholar Award, for translation of Marco Candida’s Il diario dei sogni, UND 2009:
worked with Candida in Genoa, Italy, $2,500
North Dakota Arts Council Grant, (shared with Heidi Czerwiec), 2009 Writers Conference, $2,000
New Scholars Award for translation of Giulio Mozzi’s Questo è il giardino, UND, 2007 (worked with
Mozzi in Padua, Italy), $2,500
North Dakota Humanities Council Grant (shared with Heidi Czerwiec), 2008 Writers Conference,
$8,000
North Valley Arts Council Grant (shared with Kim Donehower), 2007 Writers Conference
$2,550
North Dakota Humanities Council Grant 2007 Writers Conference, $6,000
OID Mini Grant, for development of creative thesis/dissertation standards, UND, summer 2005
Finalist, Winnow Press Fiction Chapbook Competition, 2004
Artist Residency in Fiction, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL 2004
Artist Residency in Fiction, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, 2003
Artist Residency in Fiction, Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN, 2003
Finalist, Julia Peterkin Award for Fiction, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, 2003
Finalist, Arizona Poetry Center Fellowship, Tucson, AZ, 2003
Antonio and Ida Quaglia Memorial Scholarship, Middlebury Language Schools, 2001
University Baum Teaching Award, University of Arkansas, 2000
Vance Randolph and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship, University of Arkansas, 2000
Gary Wilson Award, translation of Mario Rigoni Stern’s novel, Le stagioni di Giacomo, University of
Arkansas Press 2000
Dudley Fitts Award, translation of Rocco Scotellaro’s poems, “Ti Rubarono a Noi Come Una Spiga,”
University of Arkansas Press 1999
Lily Peter Fellowship, translation of Rocco Scotellaro’s poems, “Ti Rubarono a Noi Come Una
Spiga,” “Alla Figlia del Trainante,” and “La Luna Piena,” University of Arkansas, 1999
Lily Peter Fellowship, translation of Michele Prisco’s story, “La Neris,” University of Arkansas, 1998
Joan F. Giambalvo Scholarship, Middlebury Language Schools, 1998
Literary Merit Award for essay, “The King’s Relationship to his Land and Queen in Shakespeare’s
Second Tetralogy of History Plays,” University of Arkansas, 1996
Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship, University of Arkansas, 1994-98
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
PANELS/PRESENTATIONS:
Panel Chair: “Translating Style in Fiction III: Bits, Pieces, and Beyond.” Also presented on panel: “He
Said, She Said: Translating Dialogue Tags” (organizer of this reoccuring panel on translating
style in fiction). Other panel members, Bill Johnston, translator of Polish fiction, Professor of
Comparative Literature/Translation Studies at Indiana Univ., Russell Valentino, translator of
Slavic languages and Professor of literary translation at Univ. of Iowa, Esther Allen, translator of
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Spanish, professor of Spanish at Baruch College, CUNY. American Literary Translators
Association annual conference, Rochester NY 2012
Guest Translator, University of Arkansas MFA program in Creative Writing (reading of Giulio Mozzi’s
“F.,” plus conducted graduate literary translation workshop plus individual conferenes for nine
students on their submissions), Oct. 2012
Panel Chair: “Translating Style in Fiction II: Sentences and Paragraphs.” Also presented on
panel:“Last Words: Getting the endings right in stories by Giulio Mozzi” (organizer of this
reoccuring panel on translating style in fiction). Other panel members, John DuVal, translator of
French/Italian/Spanish/Director of Literary Translation Program, Univ. of Arkansas, Bill
Johnston, Indiana Univ., Russell Valentino, Univ. of Iowa, American Literary Translators
Association Conference, Kansas City, Nov. 2011
Panel Member, Translating in the Midwest. Presentation, "Teaching a Fiction and Translating Fiction
Workshop in North Dakota," American Literary Translators Association annual conference,
Kansas City, Nov. 2011
Panel Chair, “Translating Style in Fiction I.” Organized/invited panel members: Marian Schwartz
(leading translator of Russian lit.), Bill Johnston (Indiana University), Russell Valentino (Univ. of
Iowa), John DuVal (Univ. of Arkansas), Minna Proctor (Editor-in-Chief of The Literary Review),
American Literary Translators Association annual conference, Philadelphia, Nov. 2010
Guest Speaker, “Carrying a Character into English: Translating Character in a Story by Giulio
Mozzi,” Indiana University at South Bend, Nov. 2011 (invited by Anne Magnan-Park, Assistant
Professor of English)
Guest Translator, reading with Marco Candida, excerpt of Dream Diary plus lecture on literary
translation, Towson University, Baltimore, Feb. 2010
Guest Translator, University of Arkansas MFA Program in Creative Writing, Fayetteville, Nov.
2008 (reading of Giulio Mozzi’s “Claw” and conducted graduate literary-translation workshop
plus individual conferences with eight students on their submissions)
Co-presenter, along with Giulio Mozzi, of the project, Il pittore e il pesce, North Dakota Museum of
Art, Oct. 2008
Panel Member, “Translating Mario Rigoni Stern,” ALTA annual conference, Chicago 2004
Presentation, “The Rocky Marriage of Scholarship and Art in Literary Translation,” Bluffton University,
fall 2003
READINGS:
“F., by Giulio Mozzi, ALTA annual conference, Rochester NY, Oct. 2012
“The Apprentice,” by Giulio Mozzi, ALTA annual conference, Philadelphia, Nov. 2010
Reading with Marco Candida, excerpt of Dream Diary, Loyola University, Baltimore, Feb. 2010
Reading with Marco Candida, excerpt of Dream Diary, American Literary Translators Association
Annual Conference, Pasadena, Oct. 2009
Reading with Marco Candida, excerpt of Dream Diary, UND Writers Conference, Grand Forks March
2009
Reading with Marco Candida, excerpt of Dream Diary, Poetry Month Reading Series, Hotel Donaldson,
Fargo April 2009
Reading with Giulio Mozzi of his story, “Cover Letter” from Questo è il giardino, American Literary
Translators Association annual conference, Minneapolis, Oct. 2008
“Claw,” by Giulio Mozzi, from current translation project, Questo è il giardino, American
Literary Translators Association annual conference, Dallas, TX, 2007
“Glass,” by Giulio Mozzi, from current translation project, Questo è il giardino, American
Literary Translators Association annual conference, Bellingham, WA, 2006
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“The Watch,” by Mario Rigoni Stern, Local Author Series, Und Writers Conference, 2006
“A Happy Life,” by Giulio Mozzi, American Literary Translators Association, Montreal, 2005
Reading, “Fuses,” Local Author Series, University of North Dakota Writers Conference, 2005
Reading, “Rainbow Song,” Bluffton College, 2003 (read with Stephen Cory, Ed.The Georgia Review)
TRANSLATION/EDITORIAL WORK FOR PRESSES:
translation samples/reader reports:
Reader’s report, evaluation of Canale Mussolini, by Antonio Pennacchi (novel won 2010
Strega prize in Italy, most important literary prize in Italy), Graywolf Press (work solicited by
Ethan Nowsoski, Editor), August 2011
Translation sample of Piero degli Antoni’s Block 11, St. Martin’s Press (work solicited by
Daniela Rapp, Editor), Feb. 2011
Reader’s report, along with Marco Candida, of Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery) by Umberto
Eco (work solicited by Sal Robinson, Editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), August 2010
Translation sample and reader’s report, Diego Marani, La nuova grammatical finlandese (New Finnish
Grammar), Dalkey Archive Press (work solicited by Jeremy Davies, Editor), spring 2010
Translation sample, Rita Charbonnier’s La Sorella di Mozart (Mozart’s Sister), Crown Publishing Group:
Random House (work solicited by Allison McCabe, Senior Editor), Jan. 2006
editing:
Fiction Editor, North Dakota Quarterly, 2004-present
Guest Editor (along with Michael Beard), Literary Translation Issue, North Dakota Quarterly, fall 2008
Assistant Editor, Witness, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI, 2003-2004
Editing Internship, University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, fall semester, 1998
JUDGE/EVALUATOR IN LITERARY COMPETITIONS:
Juror, all levels of Zerilli-Marimò-City of Rome Prize for Italian Narrative, Department of Italian Studies
and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University (invited to participate by NYU Italian
Studies Dept.), fall 2012
Judge, second round, National Translation Award (ALTA), Vanishing Points, poetry by Valerio Magrelli,
translated by Jamie McKendrick, August 2011
Judge, second round, National Translation Award, for Mariolina Venegiz’s Been Here a Thousand Years
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), translated from Italian by Mariolina Venezia, 2010
Juror, all levels of City of Rome Prize for best recent Italian novel (to be translated by Steerforth Press),
Italian Department, New York University, fall 2008
Judge, second round, Italian entries, National Literary Translation Award, American Literary Translators
Assoc., 2005
2004 Evaluator, $500,000 McArthur Fellows Program (2008 recipient Stuart Dybek)
Judge, $10,000 Walton Fellowship for translation, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2003
Judge, $1,000 Lily Peter Fellowship for translation, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2003
Judge, Fiction Contest, Parnassus Magazine, Taylor University, Upland, IN, 2002
MISCELLANEOUS:
Planning Committee Member, two American Literary Translators Association Annual Conferences,
Minneapolis and Bloomington (2008 and 2013 conferences)
Workshop Co-director, Introduction to Translation, American Literary Translators Association annual
conference, Montreal, 2005 and Las Vegas, 2004
Member, American Literary Translators Association, 1996-present
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SERVICE ACTIVITIES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (UND)
Committee for Tenure, Review, and Promotion, College of Arts and Sciences, 2010-2013 (on leave,
2011; resumed with meeting in summer 2012)
Committee for Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Feb. 2013
Committee Member, English Department Graduate Admissions, 2005-present
Fiction Editor, North Dakota Quarterly, 2004-present (on leave, 2011; resumed editing summer 2012)
Writing Studies Hiring Committee, English Department fall 2012-January 2013
Organized workshop for visiting fiction writer, UND Writers Conference, spring 2011
Discussion Leader, Style in Tim O'Brian's The Things They Carried, UND Bookstore, ND Big Read,
Dec. 2010
Workshop for CVs and Statements of Purpose for PhD programs, English Graduate Student Organization
(2- hour workshop), Nov. 2010
Executive Committee, English Department, Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Organized/hosted guest nonfiction writer, Michael Downs (reading and class visits), spring 2010
Co-Director, North Dakota Writers Conference, 2006-Spring 2008: 15-20 hours/week:
*2006 point person
*2007 point person for scheduling Salman Rushdie, Great Conversations Committee, President’s
Office, Dean’s Office, Art Museum, organizing regional writers panel
*fundraising
*scheduling, panel topics, webpage design, grant-writing, seeking possible funding sources, etc.
*supervising, organizing work for administrative assistant, (including poster/brochure,
advertising, misc.)
*contracts and scheduling for 5 of 6 writers in 2007: Salman Rushdie, Russell Banks, Amiri
Baraka, Junot Diaz, and Peter Kuper; 4 of our 6 writers in 2006: Miller Williams, Mary Gaitskill,
Stuart Dybek, and Michelle Richmond
*worked with director of of North Dakota Art Museum for art exhibits tied to conferences
Fiction/Film Hiring Committee, English Department, 2007
Job Search Weekly Workshop for PhD students, Brian Maxwell and Jennifer Robinette, summer 2011;
Thom Caraway, Gilad Elbom, and Karen Miller, fall 2007 (1-2 hours weekly, approx.. six
meetings each group, development of cvs, application letters, and teaching statements for
creative-writing positions)
Committee Member, English Department Curriculum Committee, Spring 2008-2009
Committee Member, English Department Speaker Series, 2005-2006
Organized/hosted guest lecturer for English Speaker Series and graduate seminar on Literary Translation:
Dr. John DuVal, Director of MFA Literary Translation Program, Univ. of Arkansas, Spring 2006
Organized pedagogy meeting for intro. genre classes and intro. creative writing, Spring 2006
Taught Local Fiction Workshop, North Dakota Writers Conference, Spring 2006
Hiring Committee for Creative Writing/Poetry Hire, 2005
Helped develop standards for evaluating and writing creative theses and dissertations, 2005
Organized Charles Johnson workshop for UND Writers Conference, 2005
Workshop on Creative-Writing Pedagogy (for GTAs and Lecturers), spring 2005 and fall 2004
Alice Clark New Faculty Mentoring Series, 2004-2005
Search Committee for Creative-Writing Faculty Member, 2004
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REFERENCES
Department of English, University of North Dakota (701) 777-3321
•Dr. Michael Beard, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor michael.beard@email.und.edu
•Dr. Kim Donehower, Associate Professor of English kim.donehower@email.und.edu
•Dr. Eric Wolfe, Department Chair eric.wolfe@email.und.edu
English Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (479) 575-4301:
•Dr. John DuVal, Literary Translation & Creative Writing Program jdvual@comp.uark.edu
Comparative Literature/Film Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (319) 335-0330
•Dr. Russell Valentino, Literary Translation Program russell-valentino@uiowa.edu
Words Without Borders: The Online Journal For International Literature
•Susan Harris, Edit. Director 773-478-9733 harris@wordswithoutborders.org
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