Ann Hostetler
Professor of English
Education
- B.A., Kenyon College, 1976
- M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1982
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1996
Contact
- anneh@goshen.edu
- (574) 535-7469
- Newcomer Center 35 (map)
CURRICULUM VITAE
Ann Elizabeth Hostetler
Goshen College, Goshen, IN 46526
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1996
Dissertation: “Telling the Story of the Past: History, Identity, and Community in the Fiction of Walter Scott, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Silko.”
Advisors: Peter Conn, Farah Griffin, David DeLaura
M.A. The Pennsylvania State University, 1982
Thesis: “The Novel as Maturation Myth: A Study of Jane Eyre and David Copperfield”
Advisor: Robert Lougy
A.B. Kenyon College, 1976
Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors in Art
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
Professor, Department of English, 1998-Present
Department Chair, 2006-2008, 2012-Present
Director, English Writing Major, 2010-Present
Sabbatical, January-December 2009
Associate Professor, 2000-2006
Assistant Professor, 1998-2000
Snowden Fellow, The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Fall 2019
SABBATICAL, 2009-2010
Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany
Visiting Professor, Winter Semester 2009-2010
Hauptseminar (Graduate-level): “American Selves and Their Communities”
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Visiting Professor, Winter Semester, 2009-2010
Hauptseminar (Graduate-level): “American Selves and Their Communities”
COURSES
Literature:
English 205: The Literature of War and Peace
English 207/307: Latino Literature
English 207/307: African American Literature
English 207/307: Contemporary African American Literature & Film
English 207/307: Native American Literature
English 207/307: Mennonite Literature
English and WOST 207/307: Women in Literature: Women & Nature
English and PJCS 207: Literature and Peace Studies in Ireland.
English 214: Banned Books, An Artistic World Perspectives Course
English 210: Introduction to Literature: Poetry
English 302: British Literature 1800-present
English 303: American Literature Survey
English 300: Critical Theory & Practice
English 305: Genre: Contemporary Poetry
English 306: Major Authors: Toni Morrison, William Faulkner & Virginia Woolf
English 306: Major Authors: D. H. Lawrence & Virginia Woolf
English 307 (AW): Diverse Voices in American Literature
English 409: Senior Project
English 410: Senior Seminar
Writing:
English 105: Introduction to College Writing
CORE 110: Academic Voice (first year writing and speaking)
English 110: Literature and Writing. Topics included: “Writing About America,” “Communities in
Fiction,” “Introduction to American Poetry,” “Literary Journeys,” “Literature of War and Peace,”
“Imagining Community” (honors section)
English 203: Creative Writing
English 204: Expository Writing
English 280: Sophomore Writing Portfolio
English 332: Writing Poetry
English 333: Writing Fiction
English 334: Writing Creative Nonfiction
English 336: Editing and Publishing
English 408: Senior Writing Practicum
Courses in Other Departments:
CORE 170 (RW): Speaking of Death – Religious World Goshen Seminar
CORE 190 (PW): Goshen Seminar: Borders, Bridges, and Boundaries – Peacemaking Seminar
History 318: History and Literature of Native Americans.
Humanities 321: Literature and Music
Humanities 420: Literature and Art
Religion/WGS 328: Spiritual Writings of Women
WGS 375: Women in the Media, co-teacher
Maple and Hickory Scholars Projects:
Walking in the World: Creating a Course in Sustainability and Writing, summer 2019, with faculty member Joel Pontius and students Sierra Richer and Sophia Martin.
Essays from the Latinx Legacy Project, with Marris Opsahl and Jose Chiquito-Galvan, summer 2017
Creating Painted Glass Press, with Jenae Longenecker, summer 2017
Digital Humanities, with Joseph Kreider, summer 2016
African American Writers and The New York Times, with Jennifer Speight, summer 2009
Contemporary Poetry by Mennonite Writers, with Anita Hooley, summer 2008
Ann Ruth Ediger Baehr: A Cheyenne-Mennonite Life, with Sarah Roth, summer 2007
Website concept and design for a Center for Mennonite Writing, co-directed with Kyle Schlabach, with
Matthew Yoder, 2007
Thesis Supervision:
Directed Independent Studies in Postcolonial Theory; Spiritual Autobiography; Irish Literature.
Honors Thesis Director for theses on Christina Rossetti; Christa Wolf; James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.
English Education:
Supervised student teachers in English Secondary Education, 1999-2000.
Multicultural Faculty Development Leadership:
Border Crossing Faculty-Staff Book Club: 2016-2017 (3 semesters) with Erin Milanese
Borderlands Faculty and Staff Book Group, founder and co-leader, 2012-2013
Windows and Mirrors Faculty and Staff Book Group, founder and co-leader, 2004-2006
Other:
Advisor to Pinchpenny Press, student publishing company, 2014-2016
Advisor to Broadside, student poetry publication, 1998-2014, 2017-present
Advisor to Red Cents, Literary arts magazine, 2006 to present
Host Guest Speakers and Special Events, including annual S. A. Yoder Lectures
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
High School English Teacher (10th, 11th and 12th grades), Upper School, 1993-1998
Adviser of Echo, the creative arts magazine, 1993-97
Adviser of The Charter, school newspaper, 1997-98.
SEED Faculty Development leader, 1996-98
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lecturer, English Department, 1991-92; Fall 1992
Courses taught: Black Women Writers (400-level)
Ethnic Diversity: Women Writers (200-level)
American Indian Novel (300-level)
American Indian Short Fiction (200-level)
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lecturer, English Department, Spring 1990
Courses Taught: British Literature: 1800 to the Present
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Teaching Fellow, 1982-1984, 1988-1989
(During 1985-1988 I was awarded dissertation or research fellowships)
Courses taught: Black and White Women Writers in Dialogue,
Victorian Novel
Gothic and Fantasy Fiction
Literature and Medicine
Honors Seminar in Literature and Science (co-taught with Professor Dan Malamud,
Biochemistry)
Interpretation (Assistant to Professor Wendy Steiner)
Student participant in Mellon Seminar on Human Nature, 1986-1988, invited by Professor Elaine Scarry
Research Assistant for Professor Wendy Steiner (Spring 1984, Spring 1986)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Teaching Fellow, 1979-81; Edwin Earle Sparks Fellow 1981-82
Courses taught: English 10, English 20: Composition and Rhetoric
Director of the Writing Center, Spring 1981; Writing Center Tutor
Research Assistant for Professor Robert Hudspeth on his edition of Margaret Fuller’s Letters
Writer for Literature and Medicine: An Annotated Bibliography, ed. Joanne Trautmann, Hershey
Medical Center
EDITORIAL
Center for Mennonite Writing. www.mennonitewriting.org. Co-founder and website editor. 2009-Present.
Journal of Mennonite Writing. www.mennonitewriting.org. Co-editor. 2009-Present.
PUBLISHING
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Director of Publicity, 1978-79
George Braziller Publishing Company, New York, New York
Director of Promotion and Publicity, 1978
Doubleday & Company, New York, New York
Copywriter, Editorial Reader, Publicity Department 1976-78
HONORS, GRANTS, AWARDS
Mininger Conference Grant, AWP conference in Portland, Oregon, 2019
Presidential Renewal Grant, Goshen College, 2018: Poetry and the Irish Civil Rights Movement
Mininger Scholarship Grant for Sabbatical research, Goshen College, 2018: John A. Hostetler, The
Making of a Cross-Cultural Ambassador
Mininger Conference Grant, AWP conference in Tampa, Florida, 2018.
- H. Smith Peace Lectureship, 2016-17: Creativity and Conflict: Three Generations of an Amish Shunning
Mininger Conference Grant, Poetry Workshop with Ilya Kaminsky, Iowa Summer Writing Festival, 2016
Mininger Faculty Scholarship Grant, The Glen Workshop, Creative Nonfiction Study with Scott Russell
Sanders, August 2015
New Harmony Writer’s Workshop, New Harmony, IN, June 2015
Poetry Writing Workshop with Ada Limon, June 2015, through Providence Fine Arts Workshop
Mininger Scholarship Grant, 2014-2015, U.S. Poets in Mexico Workshop, Oaxaca, Mexico, Fall 2014
Mininger Scholarship Grant, 2013-2014 Colrain Manuscript Workshop Intensive, August 2014
Mininger Language Study Grant, 2012-2013. Language study at CIS Centro, Dec. 28-Jan. 4, U.S. Poets in
Mexico Workshop, January 5-12: Merida, Mexico, 2013
Faculty Research Fellowship, Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning, Goshen College, 2011-2012.
Mininger Conference Grant, Goshen College, 2012-13
Mininger Conference Grant, Goshen College, 2011-2012
Mininger Conference Grant, Goshen College, 2010-2011
Mininger Conference Grant, Goshen College, 2009-10
John Hewitt Summer School Bursary, Armagh, N. Ireland, Summer 2008
Soul Mountain Retreat Residency, Spring 2007
Mininger Conference Grant, Goshen College, 2008-09
Mininger Conference Grant, Goshen College, 2007-08
Mininger Research Grant, Goshen College, 2006-07
Contemplative Curriculum Development Seminar participant, August 2006. Center for Contemplative
Mind in Society. Held at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Women’s Studies Research Award, Goshen College, 2006
Mininger Conference Grant, Goshen College, 2005-06
Finalist for Arlin G. Meyer Award, Sponsored by the Lilly Fellows Program of Valparaiso
University, 2005, for Empty Room with Light
Mininger Research Grant, 2004-05
Plowshares Research Grant, 2003-04
Honorable Mention, Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Contest of the Society for the Study of Midwestern
Literature, 2003. For “Priestess of Love.”
Mininger Research Grant, Goshen College, 2003-04
Goshen College Faculty Research Awards, annually from 1999-2003
- Henry Smith Peace Lectureship, 2002-2003
Women’s Studies Research Award, Goshen College, Spring 2002
Multicultural Education Office Course Enrichment Grant, Goshen College, 2001-2002; 2002-2003
Women’s Studies Award for Faculty Research, Goshen College, Spring 2001, Spring 2002
Turner Dissertation Prize Nominee, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
Outstanding Educator Recognition, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, 1995
Wisconsin Arts Board Development Grant, 1993-94 for Poetry
Academy of American Poets William Carlos Williams Award
(Honorable mention, judged by W. S. Merwin, 1989)
(Third Place, judged by James Merrill, 1988)
African American Studies Curriculum Development Grant, University of Pennsylvania,
Fall 1988.
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1987-88
Dean’s Fellowship, 1986-87
Distinction, Ph.D. Field Exams, 1985
Distinction, Ph.D. Oral Exams, 1983
Distinction, M.A. Exam, 1982
Edwin Earle Sparks Fellowship, 1981-82
Phi Beta Kappa, 1976
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Monographs
Safehold. Poems. Forthcoming from Cascadia Poetry series, Dreamseeker Books, 2018.
Imagining Community: The Art of Sylvia Gross Bubalo. Exhibit Catalog. The Mennonite-Amish Museum Committee of Goshen College, 2013
Empty Room with Light. Poems. Dreamseeker Books, 2002.
Edited Collection
A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry. Ed. University of Iowa Press, 2003.
Collaborations
The Amish, 3rd Edition, by John A. Hostetler. Revised and updated with Steve M. Nolt. Herald Press, 2013.
Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv. Ed. Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler. Member of Editorial Board. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2008.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
John A. Hostetler: The Making of a Cross-Cultural Ambassador – a monograph in the research stage
The Journey Home – editing and revising a book-length manuscript authored by Beulah S. Hostetler
Toward an Ethic of Care: Mennonite Women Writers
Dancing on the Bridge: Essays on Mennonite Writing
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
In press
“Technologies of Affection.” Forthcoming in Finding the Father, ed. Mary Ann Loewen. University of Regina Press, 2019.
Published
“When the Stranger is the Self: Seeking Mennonite Traces in Carrie Snyder’s Fiction.” Eleven Encounters with Mennonite Fiction, ed. Hildi Froese Tiessen. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Mennonite Literary Society, 2017.
“After Ethnicity: Gender, Voice, and Renewal in the work of Di Brandt and Julia Spicher Kasdorf.”
After Identity: Mennonite/s Writing in North America, ed. Robert Zacharias, Penn State Univ. Press, 2015. Co-published with Univ. of Manitoba Press, 2016.
“Learning, Teaching, Creating Mennonite Literature.” Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing. 8.1, Jamuary 2016. http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/8/1/learning-teaching-and-creating-mennonite-literatur/
“Listening to the Land through Rudy Wiebe’s Fiction.” Conrad Grebel Review. 33.2. Spring 2015.
“Resurrecting the Dead Girl: Modernism and the Problem of History.” Toni Morrison: Memory and
Meaning, ed. Adrienne Lanier Seward and Justine Tally. Univ. of Mississippi Press, 2014.
“The Self in Mennonite Garb: Where does the Writing Come From?” The Mennonite Quarterly Review,
January 2013.
“The Cheyenne in the Poetry of Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr.” Co-authored with Sarah Roth-Mullet. The Mennonite Quarterly Review, July 2011.
“A Valediction Forbidding Excommunication: Ecopoetics and the Reclamation of Community in Recent
Work by Di Brandt.” Journal of Mennonite Studies, 28, Summer 2010.
“Some New Mennonite Voices in Poetry: A Review Essay.” The Mennonite Quarterly Review, April 2010.
“The Art of Teaching: An Interview with Toni Morrison.” Toni Morrison: Conversations. Ed. Carolyn
Denard. Jackson: Univ. Mississippi Press, 2008.
“Playing the Sacred Harp: Mennonite Literature as Confession.” The Conrad Grebel Review. Winter
2008.
“Cento for an Anthology of Women Poets.” With Ann Fisher-Wirth, Ellen Goldstein, D’Arcy Randall,
Rosemary Starace & Lesley Wheeler. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue. Vol. 10,
June 2008.
“Walter Mosley”
“Harryette Mullen”
“Natasha Trethewey”
“Mel Watkins”
African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham, Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.
“Elizabeth Alexander.”
“History.”
“Jean Toomer.”
“Modernism.”
“Nella Larsen.”
“Passing.”
“Quicksand.”
In Writing African American Women. Edited by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. Greenwood Press, 2006.
“Amish Literature”
In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Foreword. The Cultural Work of John A. Hostetler. Ed. David Weaver-Zercher. State College:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
“Bringing Experience to Consciousness: Reflections on Mennonite Literature, 2004.” Journal of
Mennonite Studies. Volume 23, 2005.
“Dancing on the Bridge: Creating the Virtual Community of Mennonite Poetry.” The Measure of My
Days, ed. John Sharp. Telford, PA: Cascadia Publishing, October 2004.
“Listening to the Mennonite in Poetry.” Mennonite Life. June 2004, vol. 59, no. 2.
“Three Women Poets and the Beginnings of Mennonite Poetry n the U.S.: Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr, Jane Rohrer, Jean Janzen.” Mennonite Quarterly Review (October 2003) 77.4, 521-546.
Review essay on The Taken by Naomi Reimer, The Gladys Elegies by Barbara Nickel, and Siolence, an anthology of poetry by women on violence. The Mennonite Quarterly Review (May 2000).
“Food as Sacrament in the Poetry of Jane Kenyon.” Bright Unequivocal Eye: Poems, Papers, and Remembrances from the First Jane Kenyon Conference. Ed. Bert Hornback. New York: Peter Lang publishing, 2000, 105-114.
“The Unofficial Voice: The Poetics of Cultural Identity and Contemporary U. S. Mennonite Poetry.” Mennonite Quarterly Review (October 1998) 72.4, 511-528. Rpt. In Migrant Muses: Mennonite(s) Writing in the U. S., ed. John Roth and Ervin Beck, Mennonite Historical Society, Goshen, IN, 31-48.
“The Aesthetics of Race and Gender in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand.” PMLA (January 1990) 105.1, 35-46.
“Emerson and the Visual Arts: Private Response and Public Posture.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (Autumn 1987) 34.3, 121-136.
NONFICTION ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, AND JOURNALISM
“Holy Cows?” Edible Michiana. March 2014. Also selected for Edible Feast. <ediblefeast.com>. Published eleven other articles with this magazine between 2014-2017.
“Teaching Latino Literature.” A conversation with poet Maria Melendez. Letras Latinas. Weblog of the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame. November 21, 2012. Web.
“Every Buggy Has Four Wheels: Making ‘Sonnets for the Amish Girls of Nickel Mines.’ In Making
Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets. Albany: SUNY Press, 2010.
“Of Mothering, Monasticism, and Creative Space: A Retreat at Soul Mountain.” Future Earth Magazine,
vol. 4, Summer 2010.
“Questions of Travel and Homecoming.” Guest Editor’s Introduction. Rhubarb Magazine. The American
Issue. Winter 2009, no, 24, 3-4.
“The Muse of Travel: An Interview with Keith Miller.” Rhubarb Magazine. The American Issue. Winter
2009, no. 24, 38-40.
“Where Was God When Naomi Died?” (As Ann Hostetler Smucker.) Christian Living (July 1983), 8-10.
REVIEWS
Rebel Mother by Peter Andreas. Journal of Mennonite Studies, 36, 2018.
Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire by Lynette Loepke, Journal of Mennonite Studies, 35, 2017.
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar. Journal of Mennonite Studies, 34, 2016. 232-235.
Entering the Wild by Jean Janzen. Journal of Mennonite Studies, summer 2014.
Walking to Mojacar by Di Brandt. Mennonite Quarterly Review. Vol. LXVIII, no. 2, April 2014.
Poetry in America by Julia Spicher Kasdorf. Mennonite Quarterly Review. Vol. LXVIII, no. 1, January 2014.
Storage Issues by Suzanne Kay Miller. Rhubarb Magazine, summer 2012.
The Wing-Beaten Air: My Life and My Writing by Yorifumi Yaguchi. Conrad Grebel Review, summer 2011.
Understories by Al Rempel. Journal of Mennonite Studies, summer 2011.
“Grist for the Mill.” Review of The Mill Grinds Fine by Helen Alderfer. Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing. May 15, 2009. Vol. 1, no. 3. A shorter version of this review was published in The Mennonite Quarterly Review, July 2009.
The Coat is Thin by Leonard Neufeldt. Journal of Mennonite Studies, summer 2009.
Elements of Faithful Writing by Jean Janzen. Mennonite Quarterly Review. Vol. LXXXII, no. 1, January 2008.
Half in the Sun: Anthology of Mennonite Writing, ed. Elsie K. Neufeld, et al. Journal of Mennonite Studies, summer 2007.
Review of Piano in the Vineyard by Jean Janzen. Mennonite Quarterly Review. Vol. LXXX, no. 2, April 2006.
Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American by Julia Kasdorf. Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Fall 2003.
The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life by Julia Kasdorf. Mennonite Life. June 2002.
Dangerous Elements and Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love by Sarah Klassen. Mennonite Quarterly Review (January 2001). Rpt. What Mennonites Are Thinking 2001. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2002.
The Underground Communion Rail by Susan Firer. Cream City Review (Fall 1993) 17.2, 305-309.
Among the Dog Eaters by Adrian Louis. Cream City Review (Fall 1993) 17.2, 305-309.
INTERVIEWS (Given)
“Teaching Latino Literature.” A conversation with poet Maria Melendez. Letras Latinas. Weblog of the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame. November 21, 2012. Web.
“A Cappella Anthology Draws on Many Voices in Mennonite Poetry.” An interview with Rachel Lapp. Goshen College Bulletin, December 2003. Volume 88, no. 4.
“The Eight-Year Road of a Poet-Scholar: An Interview with Ann Hostetler.” By Raylene Hinz-Penner. Mennonite Life. December 2002. Volume 57, no. 4.
POEMS
“Redbuds.” Conrad Grebel Review, 32.2, 2015.
“Early Morning Writing.” In A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Honor of William Stafford. Washburn University: Woodley Press, 2014.
“Travelers.” Quiddity. Winter 2014.
“Ode to the Dash” and “Suzanne Valadon Poses for Renoir.” Permafrost. Summer 2013.
“Unexpected Ghost.” Bluestem. Spring 2013.
“Herman Hesse Learns the Languages of Color.” The Cresset. Easter 2013.
“The Languages of Yoga in Dresden.” The Cresset. Lent 2013.
“Transfiguration.” Lenten Meditations Online, Goshen College, Spring 2013.
“Youth in Autumn.” Rhubarb. Winter 2013.
“Topeka, Indiana.” Valparaiso Poetry Review. Vol. XIV, 2, Spring 2013.
“In German Class.” Limestone Review. Fall 2012.
“The Many and the One.” Grey Sparrow. Fall 2012.
“The Woman Who Refused to be Shunned.” The Atlanta Review. Fall 2012.
“Black Flower.” Talking River. Spring 2012.
“Jahrzeit.”
“Neuroma.” The Alembic. Spring 2012
“Enough”
“ Flight Patterns.” Nimrod. Spring 2012.
“Prayer.” Express Milwaukee. April 2012.
“Strangers.” The Monarch Review. Summer 2011.
“The Sacrament of Shoes.” Adanna, vol. 1, no. 1, summer 2011.
“Representations of the Body: The German Hygiene Museum.” The Stickman Review, vol. 10, no. 1, spring 2011.
“Too Big for Words.” Poet Lore, summer 2011.
“Portrait of the Artist.” Washington Square Review, summer 2011.
“Afterbirth”
“On the Front Porch at Midnight.” Literary Mama. May 8, 2011.
“Living Sacrifice”
“For Those Who Would Change the World,” rpt.
in Tongue Screws and Testimonies, ed. Kirsten Beachy. Scottdale: Herald Press, 2010.
“Sonnets for the Amish Girls of Nickel Mines.” In Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets. Albany: SUNY Press, 2010.
“Market.”
“Know What You Love.”
“Correspondence.”
“Birthday Dinners.”
“Connection.” In Rhubarb, 26, Summer 2010.
“Martyr.” Protest Poems.org. November 28, 2009. www.protestpoems.org. Rpt. The Christian Courier, 2011.
“Heirlooms.” Valparaiso Poetry Review. Fall 2008.
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“Encounter.” Lenten Meditation. Goshen College Website. March 3, 2007
“Sonnets for the Amish Girls of Nickel Mines.” Mennonite Weekly Review. 1 January 2007.
Rpt. The Elkhart Truth. 9 January 2007.
“The Stranger.” Advent Meditation. Goshen College Website. December 15, 2006
“Moving the Piano.”
“Vespers.” In Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought. May 22, 2006.
“Female Ancestor.” In Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Ed. Marjorie Maddox and
Jerry Wemple. State College: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
“Cinquains to Heal the Earth.” Advent Meditation. Goshen College Website. December 13, 2004.
“Priestess of Love.” In Are You Experienced?: Baby Boom Poets at Midlife. Ed. Pamela Gemin and Paula
Sergi, University of Iowa Press, 2003.
“Imaginary Housekeeping
“Male Chorus”
“Prayer Watch”
“Stigmata”
“Transfiguration.” Mennonite Life. December 2002. Volume 57, no. 4.
“Apparition,” Dreamseeker magazine, Fall 2001.
“Thumbelina,” The Aurorean, Fall 2001; rpt. Dreamseeker magazine, Fall 2001.
“Female Ancestor,” The Mid-America Poetry Review, Spring 2001.
“Imperfect Servant,” The Mennonite, April 3, 2001; also a GC Lenten Meditation for February 2001; rpt. in
Vision.
“Insomnia”
“The Walnut Tree.” Kairos: Arts and Letters From the Mennonite Church, Summer 1999.
“The Iconoclast,” The Mennonite, April 6, 1999, 2.13, 4.
“Family Portrait,” The Mennonite, December 8, 1998, 1.39, 5.
“Spareribs.” In Greeting the Dawn: An Anthology of New Mennonite Writing, ed. Steven Yutzy. Goshen, IN: Pinchpenny Press, 1998.
“The Guest”
“Errand.” Porcupine: A Literary Arts Magazine (Summer 1997) 2.1, 18-19.
“Daniel Hoffman’s Graduate Poetry Workshop”
“Listening to My Students Read”
“Painting with My Daughter” (rpt.),
“Marriage with Children” (rpt.). The Philomathean Society Anthology in Honor of Daniel Hoffman.
University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
“Resisting Geometry.” The American Scholar (Winter 1996), 65.1, 88-89. Rpt. The Christian Courier, 2011.
“Sunday Evening in Bird-in-Hand”
“Walking to the Pond.” Espresso Poetry. Ed Doris Gendelman. Milwaukee, WI: Audubon Court Books.
“Improvisations.” Cream City Review (Fall 1993) 17.2, 171.
“The Properties of Objects.” Mankato Poetry Review (May 1993), 9.
“Looking at Pictures with My Mother.” Mothering (Spring 1991) 59, 33.
“Marriage with Children.” Mothering, (Fall 1990) 57, 116.
“Painting with My Daughter.” The American Scholar (January 1990) 59.1, 66.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES
“Layered Narratives of Displacement and Belonging in the Memoirs of Rhoda Janzen and Miriam Toews.” Mennonite/s Writing VIII Conference, University of Winnipeg, October 2017.
“Writing in the Women: A Mennonite Pilgrimage from Alsace to Alberta and Back Again.” Crossing the Line: Women from Anabaptist Traditions Encounter Borders and Boundaries. Conference at Eastern Mennonite University, June 2017.
“John A. Hostetler: A Conversation with Steve Nolt.” Conference on the Amish. Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA. June 2016
“Mennonite/s Writing Peace as Violence.” Global Anabaptist Peacebuilding Conference. Conrad Grebel University College, June 2016.
“Beyond Despair: Suicide in Recent Mennonite Writing.” Mennonite/s Writing VII Conference, Fresno Pacific University, March 205.
“After Ethnicity: Exploring the Mature Voices of Rebel Daughters in the work of Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Di Brandt.” After Identity: North American Mennonite Writing. Invited Symposium. The Pennsylvania State University, May 2013.
“Critical Consciousness in the College-level Study of Ethnic Literature.” ALA. MELUS session. San Francisco. May 25, 2012.
“The Self in Mennonite Garb: Where Does the Writing Come from?” Invited Plenary Lecture at Mennonite/s Writing VI: Solos and Harmonies. Eastern Mennonite University. March 30, 2012.
“Ecopoetics and the Reclamation of Community: Narratives of Personal and Ecological Crisis in the Work of Di Brandt.” University of Marburg. Canada Studies Days. Marburg, Germany. July 2009.
“Ecopoetics and the Reparative Journey Home in Recent Work by Di Brandt.” “Tools of the Sacred, Technologies of the Secular: Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse, and Doubt,” organized by Franca Bellarsi, Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the Free University of Brussels. Brussels, Belgium, May 4-7, 2010.
“A Valediction Forbidding Excommunication: Ecopoetics and the Reclamation of Community in Recent Work by Di Brandt.” Mennonite/s Writing: Manitoba and Beyond Conference. University of Winnipeg. October 3, 2009.
“The Future of Mennonite Literature.” Panel discussion with Patrick Friesen and Rudy Wiebe. Mennonite/s Writing: Manitoba and Beyond Conference. University of Winnipeg. October 3, 2009.
“The Amish Girls of Nickel Mines and Beyond.” Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba. September 30, 2009.
“Between History and Memory: Exploring Poetry and Peacemaking in Northern Ireland.” AAUW Banquet Lecture, Goshen, Indiana, May 18, 2009.
“Resurrecting the Dead Girl: Modernism and the Problem of History in Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise.” Toni Morrison Society 5th Biennial Conference, University of Charleston, Charleston, S.C. 25 July 2008.
“Letters to the World: Creating an Anthology in Cyberspace.” Moderator and panelist at session accepted for AWP (Associated Writing Programs) annual conference in New York City, Jan.30-Feb.2, 2008.
“Canonization in Context: Mel Watkins, African American Literature, and The New York Times Book Review.” AALCS Symposium, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO. October 26, 2007.
“A Cappella: Mennonite Poets, Poetry, and Hymns.” Invited speaker. Chaired session and read poetry with Sheri Hostetler, Jean Janzen and David Wright at “The Ascending Voice” Symposium, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA., June 6, 2007.
“Playing the Sacred Harp: Mennonite Literature as Confession.” Plenary Address. “Mennonite/s Writing Across Borders” conference. Bluffton University. October 27, 2006.
“Ekphrasis in the Poetry of Kevin Young.” African American Literature and Culture Society section.
American Literature Association. San Francisco. May 26-28, 2006
“The Cheyenne in the Poetry of Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr.” Cheyenne, Arapaho, Mennonite: Journey From Darlington. Sponsored by Mennonite Archives of the Mennonite Church USA. March 30-April 2, 2006.
“Re-visioning the Image in African American Poetry.” 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. February 23, 2006.
“When Poetry and the Peace Process Meet: Collaboration in the Classroom on Location in Northern Ireland.” With Joe Liechty. “Art, Faith, and Social Justice Conference.” Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November 11, 2005.
“A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry—Reading Across Borders.” Panel organizer. Event included Di Brandt, Todd Davis, Patrick Friesen, Jeff Gundy, Barbara Nickel, David Waltner-Toews. Emphasized the Canadian contribution to Mennonite poetry and the border-crossing conversation of Mennonite Literature. Associated Writing Programs. Vancouver, B.C. March 2005.
“The State of the Art of U.S. Mennonite Writing.” Invited paper for The State of the Art of North American Mennonite History Conference, sponsored by the Chair of Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg. October 1, 2004.
“African American Writers, Gender Politics and The New York Times Book Review.” African American Literature and Culture Society. American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA. 27 May 2004.
“A Cappella: Mennonite Poets in Dialogue.” Cincinnati Mennonite Arts Weekend. February 2004.
“Toni Morrison as Teacher: Pedagogy in Paradise.” African American Literature and Culture Society. American Literature Association. Cambridge, MA. 23 May 2003.
“Mennonites, Indians, Poetry and Peace: Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr and the Southern Cheyenne.” C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture. Given at Bluffton College, March 25, 2003, Goshen College, March 26, 2003, The Cheyenne Cultural Center (Clinton, O.K.), March 30, Bethel College (Ks), April 1, 2003.
“A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry.” Panel organizer and participant. Associated Writing Programs. February 28, 2003. Similar presentations were given at SSML at Central Michigan University in May 2003 and at the Midwestern CCCL at Bluffton College in October 2003.
“Three Mennonite Women Poets.” Mennonite/s Writing: An International Conference, Goshen College, October 26, 2002.
“Faith and Learning in an Anabaptist Perspective.” Plenary Panel Presentation. CCCU Campus-Based Faculty Development Conference. Gordon College. May 31, 2002.
“The Ethics of Imagination in the Short Fiction of Sherman Alexie.” AND
“Teaching in the Dark: The Study of African American Literature at a Small Midwestern College.”
Papers presented at M.E.L.U.S. (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States) Annual Conference at Washington State University, April 12-14, 2002.
“Christian Scholarship . . . with Whom?” Plenary Panel, Calvin College Conference on Christianity and Scholarship. Grand Rapids, MI. September 29, 2001.
“Mennonite Poetry: The Invention of a Literary Tradition.” M.E.L.U.S. (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States) Annual Conference. Knoxville, TN. March 2, 2001.
“Coming Into Voice: Three Mennonite Women Poets and the 20th Century Creation of an Ethnic Literary Tradition.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY, February 24, 2001.
“Bearing the Word: Storytelling and Slavery in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved.” AALCS 2000 Conference. University of Utah. Salt Lake City. October 2000.
“Toni Morrison and The New York Times Book Review: The Construction of a Literary Persona, 1970-1999.” AALCS 11th annual meeting at ALA meeting in Long Beach, CA, May 2000.
“The Absolute Value of the Image in Jane Kenyon’s Late Poetry.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. March 24, 2000.
“Looking Through Women: Race Through Gender in Jean Toomer’s Cane.” Presented at the AALCS session at the American Literature Association meetings in Baltimore, MD, May 28, 1999.
“Picturing Family: Constructing Identity in Mennonite Sunday School Curriculum.” With Beth Martin Birky. Mennonites and the Family: Vision and Reality. Conference at Goshen College, Goshen, IN. 16 October, 1999.
“Defining the Mennonite Poet: Faith or Ethnicity?” Plenary session lecture. Mennonite(s) Writing in the U.S. Conference, Goshen College, Goshen, IN 10 October 1997.
“Toni Morrison and The New York Times Book Review.” NEMLA, Toronto, March 1993.
“Black and White Women Novelists in Dialogue.” American Literature Association, Miami, Florida, November 1988.
SELECTED POETRY READINGS AND WORKSHOPS:
Featured poet at Elkhart Writer’s Read, Elkhart, IN. April 2018.
Featured poet at Write Night at LangLab, South Bend, IN. January 19, 2017.
Featured poet at The Sacred Circle: A Poetry Event Honoring the Potawatomi Connection to Pokagon. December 10, 2016. Pokagon State Park.
Poetry Reading. “Mennonite/s Writing: Solos and Harmonies.” Eastern Mennonite University, March 31, 2012.
Poetry Reading. “Art in the Barn.” Goshen, Indiana. 2011, 2012.
“Forgiveness and Other Unexpected Guests: Reflections from a Sabbatical in Dresden, Germany.” Goshen College, 28 September 2009.
Poetry Reading. University of Winnipeg. Mennonite/s Writing: Manitoba and Beyond Conference. 2 October 2009.
Poetry Reading and Performance with Carol Ann Weaver and Rebecca Campbell, musicians. Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. 30 September 2009.
Peacemaker in Residence. Manchester College, Manchester, Indiana. Poetry Reading and Workshop. April 22, 2009.
“Reflections of Divine Mystery in the World.” A lecture-recital with soprano Susan Dengler and pianist Christine Seitz, honoring the poetry of Emily Dickinson and composers who have set her poems to music. Rieth Recital Hall. Goshen College. March 6, 2009.
Poetry Reading: Elkhart County Historical Museum. Bristol, Indiana. October 2008.
Listen for the Loons. Poetry Workshop with Julia Kasdorf. Wilderness Wind Retreat Center. Ely, Minnesota. July 17-20, 2008.
First Mennonite Church. Champaign, Illinois. Invited poet and speaker. Conducted poetry workshop, gave poetry reading and lecture entitled “The Sacrament of Poetry.” November 10-11, 2007.
Shalom Community Church. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Conducted poetry workshop, gave poetry reading and lecture entitled “Poetry as Prayer.” October 20-21, 2007.
Poetry or Cake: A Mardi Gras Poetry Reading honoring the sacrifice and efforts of those working to rebuild New Orleans. Good Library. Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana. February 2007
Mennonite/s Writing Across Borders conference. Plenary Speaker and Poetry Reading. Bluffton University, October 28, 2006.
Poetry Reading. AAUW of Elkhart. May 2, 2006
Poetry Reading. AAUW of Goshen. Goshen Public Library. April 17, 2006
Poetry Workshop, Sermon: “Poetry as Contemplation,” Second Hour Poetry Reading. Community Mennonite Church. Chicago, Illinois. May 6-7, 2006.
Guest Poet. Conrad Grebel College. Waterloo, Ontario. November 8-9, 2005.
Guest Poet. “Writer’s Read” series. Eastern Mennonite University. March 3, 2005.
Celebration for A Cappella. 15th Street Friends Meeting House, New York, NY. November 5, 2004. (With Di Brandt and Julia Kasdorf). Sponsored by Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship.
Eastern University, St. David’s, PA. November 4, 2004. (With Di Brandt and Julia Kasdorf)
Kelly Writer’s House, University of Pennsylvania, November 3, 2004. (With Di Brandt, Julia Kasdorf, and Jane Rohrer.)
Guest poet. South Side Fellowship. Elkhart, Indiana. October 2004.
Featured Guest Poet. Poetry Alliance of Indianapolis. 26 June 2004
Guest Poet. Pittsburgh Mennonite Fellowship. Pittsburgh, PA.
“Ordinary Mysteries: A Poetry Workshop.”12 June, 2004.
“Alabanza: In Praise of a Difficult World.” Sermon on writing as spiritual practice. 13 June 2004.
Guest Poet. Manchester College Writers’ Series, North Manchester, IN. 7 April 2004.
Goshen College, Goshen, IN. Celebration for A Cappella, with poets from the anthology, January 13, 2004. Rieth Recital Hall.
Barnes and Noble, Mishawaka, IN, January 10, 2004.
Barnes and Noble, Lancaster, PA, December 13, 2003
Webster’s Books, State College, PA, December 11, 2003
First Mennonite Church, Indianapolis, IN, August 17, 2003
Barnes and Noble, Carmel, IN, August 16, 2003
“Peace, Bread, and Poetry.” A Community Poetry Reading Against the War. Rachel’s Bread.
Goshen, Indiana. March 2003.
“A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry.” AWP. Baltimore, MD. February 28-March 1, 2003.
Poetry Reading with Di Brandt. Goshen College. January 10, 2003.
Guest Professor and Poet. Oregon Extension of Houghton College. December 4-8, 2002
Plenary Reading of Poems (with Todd David and Julia Kasdorf) at “Mennonite/s Writing: An International Conference,” Goshen College, October 24, 2002.
“Empty Room with Light.” Poetry Reading. Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and the Midwest Poetry Festival, Michigan State University, May 9, 2002.
Poetry Reading. Messiah College. January 2002.
“Open Studio.” WNIT-TV. October 15, 2000.
“Ordinary Mysteries: A Conversation in Poetry.” Poetry Reading with Todd Davis. February 8, 2000.
Afternoon Sabbatical program of Goshen College.
SERVICE:
GOSHEN COLLEGE
English Department Chair, 2011 to present; 2006-2008
Crossing Borders Faculty/Staff Book Club co-facilitator; 2015-16 (three semesters)
Humanities School Chair, 2013-2015
Academic Affairs Committee, 2013-2015
Technology Advisory Committee, 2014-16
Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow, 2011-2012
Borderlands Faculty Book Group, co-organizer, 2012-2013
Course Development Institute, June 2012; June 2011
Campus Bookstore Advisory, 2011-2014
Mennonite Museum Committee, 2007-present
Women’s Studies Advisory, 1999-present
Martin Luther King, Jr. Study Day Committee, 2005-2009.
Facilitated MLK Celebration of the Arts, 2006, 2007.
Presentation on Guess Who? And Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. 16 January 2006.
“Windows and Mirrors” Faculty & Staff Book Group, 2004-2005
TEAC Committee, 2000-2001, 2005-2009
Planning Committee for “Mennonite/s Writing: An International Conference” (2002)
Strategic Planning Committee 2001 – 2003
Integrated Arts Committee 2000 – 2004
Humanities Course Development Task Force 2000-2001
IN THE PROFESSION:
Founder and publisher of Painted Glass Press
Center for Mennonite Writing, Co-founder and Website Editor, 2009 to present.
Journal of (the Center for) Mennonite Writing, Co-Editor, 2009 to present.
Indiana Poet Laureate Selection Committee, 2017-18
Community TA for Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Coursera MOOC offered through the University of Pennsylvania, 10-week fall course, 2011-present
The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Board of Editors, 1998-present
The Conrad Grebel Review, Editorial Board, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 2010-2014
Rhubarb Magazine, Guest Editor, The Mennonite Literary Society of Canada, The American Issue. Winter 2009, no. 24.
Membership Chair, Toni Morrison Society, 2007-2011.
Manuscript Reviewer for Temple University Press
Manuscript Reviewer for Johns Hopkins University Press.
Manuscript Reviewer for African American Review.
Speaker for Pastor’s Week, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, January 2008.
Conference Planning Board, Mennonites Writing: Beyond Borders, Bluffton College,
October 26-29, 2006.
Creative Nonfiction Award Judge:
Conference on Christianity and Literature, Undergraduate Award, 2005
Poetry Contest Judge:
Taylor University, fall 2003
Manchester College, spring 2003, spring 2004.
Conference for Christianity and Literature, Book Award Committee Chair, 2003.
Conference for Christianity and Literature, Book Award Committee, 2002.
Mennonite Historical Society. Board Member. 1999-2001.
Cincinnati Mennonite Arts Weekend, Board Member 1995-1999.
Trained as a group leader by the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project
Leader of S.E.E.D. faculty Development group at the University School of Milwaukee from 1993-1996
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Academy of American Poets
African American Literature and Culture Society
American Literature Association
Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States)
Mennonite Historical Society, Board Member 1999-2002.
Modern Language Association
Poets and Writers
Toni Morrison Society
Women’s Poetry Listserv
Snowden Fellow, Fall 2019, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA.
SNOWDEN FELLOW LECTURE, October 15, 2019
A Life Revealed in Letters: Insights from the Correspondence of John A. Hostetler
May 2020
CORE 186 (AW) – Goshen Seminar: Walking in the World
Spring 2020
ENGL 204 – Expository Writing
ENGL 334 – Creative Nonfiction
CORE 180 (AW) – Goshen Seminar: Writing About Home
Fall 2019 – Research Leave
Snowden Fellowship, The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown, PA
Spring 2019
ENGL 303 (AW) – American Literature of Slavery and Empire
ENGL 180 (AW) – Goshen Seminar: Writing About Home
ENGL 280 – Sophomore Portfolio
Fall 2018
ENGL 307 – Conflict in Irish Literature
ENGL 332 – Writing Poetry
ENGL 280 – Sophomore Portfolio
CORE 110 – Academic Voice
Spring 2018
ENGL 307 – Diverse Voices in American Literature
ENGL 336 – Special Topics: Editing and Publishing
CORE 110 – Academic Voice
Fall 2017
CORE 170 – Speaking of Death, a Goshen Seminar and Religious World Perspective course
ENGL 203 – Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 105 – Introduction to College Writing
CORE 110 – Academic Voice
ENGL 280- Sophomore Portfolio
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 409 – Senior Project
SPRING 2017
ENGL 203 – Creative Writing
ENGL 405 – Junior Seminar
ENGL 410 – Senior Seminar
ENGL 110 – Academic Voice
ENGL 280- Sophomore Portfolio
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 409 – Senior Project
Fall 2016
ENGL 303 – American Literaure to 1900
ENGL 280- Sophomore Portfolio
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 409 – Senior Project
Spring 2016
CORE 190 – Crossing Borders: A Goshen Seminar in Peacemaking
ENGL 203 – Creative Writing: An Introduction
ENGL 280 – Sophomore Writing Portfolio
ENGL 405 – Junior Seminar
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 409 – Senior Project
ENGL 410 – Senior Seminar
Fall 2015
ENGL 204 – Expository Writing
ENGL 214 – Banned Books: An Artistic World Perspectives Course
ENGL 280 – Sophomore Writing Portfolio
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 409 – Senior Project
May 2015
ENGL 290 – English Publishing
Spring 2015
ENGL 302 – British Literature from 1800 – Present
ENGL 332 – Writing Poetry
ENGL 280 – Sophomore Writing Portfolio
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 409 – Senior Project
ENGL 410 – English Senior Seminar
Fall 2014
ENGL 204 – Expository Writing
ENGL 214 – Banned Books: An Artistic World Perspectives Course
ENGL 303 – American Lit to 1900
ENGL 280 – Sophomore Portfolio
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 409 – Senior Project
IIE 691- Capstone Thesis Project, part 2
Summer 2014
IIE 691 – Capstone Thesis Project
Spring 2014
CORE 190 – Crossing Borders: A Goshen Seminar in Peacemaking
ENGL 280 – Sophomore Writing Portfolio
ENGL 334 – Writing Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 409 – Senior Project
ENGL 410 – Senior Seminar
Fall 2013
ENGL 205 – Warriors and Peacemakers: An Artistic World Perspectives Course
ENGL 280 – Sophomore Writing Portfolio
ENGL 207/307 – Mennonite Literature
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 409 – Senior Project
Summer 2013
HUM 220 – Art and Literature: Word & Image (online)
HUM 221 – Lab for Word & Image
May 2013
ENGL 204 – Expository Writing
ENGL 299 – Independent Writing Project
Spring 2013
- ENGL 300 – Critical Theory and Practice
ENGL 280 – Sophomore Writing Portfolio
ENGL 408 – Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 410 – English Senior Seminar
Historic Courses
ENGL 120 – Intro to Creative Writing
ENGL 210 – Introduction to Literature: Poetry
ENGL 299 – Independent Project
ENGL 305 – Genre: Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 306 – Major Author: D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf
ENGL 306 – Major Author: Woolf, Faulkner, and Morrison
ENGL 307 – African American Literature; African American Literature and Film
ENGL 307 – Native American Literature
ENGL 330 – Writing Fiction
HIST 373 – Native American History
HUM 220, 320, 420 – Literature and Art
REL/WOST 328 – Spiritual Writings of Women
BOOKS
A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry
The Amish, revised edition, with Steve Nolt
Imagining Community: The Art of Sylvia Gross Bubalo, exhibit catalog
SELECTED POEMS
Two poems in Permafrost: Ode to the Dash, Suzanne Valadon Poses for Renoir
Heirlooms in The Valparaiso Poetry Review
Transfiguration in Goshen College Lenten Meditations
Two poems in Perspectives: Vespers, Moving the Piano
SELECTED ARTICLES
Learning, Teaching, and Creating Mennonite Literature
Some New Voices in Mennonite Poetry
The Aesthetics of Race and Gender in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
Ann Hostetler is the founder and editor of The Center for Mennonite Writing
Center for Mennonite Writing on Facebook
with Ervin Beck, she co-edits The Journal of Mennonite Writing
(aka the Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing), listed in the MLA bibliography
Mennonite/s Writing IX, the 30th Anniversary Conference, will be held at Goshen College in Goshen, IN, October 22-25, 2020, with Hostetler as conference organizer.