CURRICULUM VITAE Michael Strelow

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:

Ph.D. in American Literature, University of Oregon, 1979.

M.A. in American Literature, Miami University, Oxford, 1968.

B.A. in English, Miami University, 1965.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Professor of English, Willamette University, Salem, OR, 1989-present

Fulbright Lecturer, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain, 1984- 85.

Director of Writing, Communications Component, for the Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Salem, Oregon 1983-84.

Associate Professor of English, Willamette University, Salem,Oregon 1987-present.

Assistant Professor of English, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon 1979-86.

Instructor of English, University of Oregon, 1978-79.

Editor of Northwest Review 1973-79.

Instructor of English, University of Oregon, 1973-75.

Chair of English Dept., American College of Barcelona, 1970-73.

ESL Teacher, North American Institute, Barcelona, Spain 1969-71.

PUBLICATIONS:

Poetry: “The Sweet Pause in Conversation,” Poetry Midwest, Summer 06

Novel: Spring 2005: The Greening of Ben Brown, from Hawthorne Books. Finalist for the Oregon Book Awards

Article in, Atlas of Environmental History of the US and Canada: “The Return to Nature: Transcendentalism/Antebellum Utopian Communities: 1770s-1850” published 2003.

Book: Anthology of Northwest Literature: 1900-1950, reprinted and revised, 2003.

Book: Kesey, reprinted and revised (now in print for 27 years), 2002-3.

Poetry, “The Apocalypse,” published in Bellingham Review, Anthology of Northwest Writers published 2003.

Article in a book: Article in a book: “Kesey and the Hoo-Ha, Remembering Ken Kesey,” in Spit in the Ocean (book, published in 2003).

Poetry: 2000-2001 Poetry published in Sou’wester and Willow Springs and three anthologies Pudding 40 (2000), and Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective Issue—Sou’wester Spring 2000 and Generation to Generation (1998) from Papier Mache Press.

Poetry 1994-2000 in Sou’wester, Bellingham Review, Silverfish Rev., Hubbub, Kansas Quarterly, Willow Spring, and other magazines. Various anthologies including Puddinghouse Press.Poetry 1992-94: Hubbub Vol XI, No. 2 "Frog Speaks", The Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts Issue 10, spring 1994, Hubbub Vol. X Nos. 1&2 "A Foreign Lady"; Cutbank #38 Jan 93, "The Farmer's Bird Dog"; Silverfish Review #23 "Flowers" and "Salmon"; Bellingham Review, Fall 1993, "Dust"; Mr. Cogito, Vol X No. 2, 1992 "Bear"; Hubbub, Fall 1993, "She Stands"; Sou'Wester Fall 1993 Double Issue,"Opossum" and "Come Winter"; Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts, four poems.

Essay 1993: Silverfish Review, #23, "How I Write."

Article 1988: Willamette Journal, special edition on textual analysis, Wm. Duvall, ed., "Emerson and H. L. Davis."

Article 1988: Northwest Review, "Shannon Applegate's Skookum: History as the Novel.”

Article 1985: The American Transcendental Quarterly: A Journal of New England Writers Title; "Emerson Abroad and at Home: The Making of the Paradigm in Essays, First Series."

Article 1985: Published as the proceedings of the las Jornadas de Estudies Americanos ("First Workings of American Studies" approximately) of the University of Valencia, Spain, May 1985. Title: "Towards a Useful Definition of Region: Ken Kesey's, Sometimes A Great Notion and the Northwest Indian Tales."

Article 1984: Published as the proceedings of the VII Congreso de La Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos at the University of Malaga, Spain, December, 1984. Title: "The Role of the Small Press and Literary Magazines in Modern American Poetry."

An interview with novelist, Tom Robbins, in Dialogs With Northwest Writers 1982.

Book: An Anthology of Northwest Writers: 1900-1950, edited with an introduction, Northwest Review Books, 1979. (still in print).

Short Story, The Silverfish Review 1970.

Book: Kesey, edited with an introduction, Northwest Review Books, 1977.

Short Story, Cutbank-8, 1978.

Four early short stories in Dimensions 1965-69.

Dissertation: "Emerson's Paradigm of the Self in Melville and Thoreau."

AWARDS:

2005 Oregon Book Award finalist for the Ken Kesey Prize for the novel

2005 Atkinson Award

2003 Atkinson Award, Hewlett Award

2002 Bellingham Review Vol. XXV No. 2 issue # 51 Special Northwest Edition

Hewlet Grant 2003 to bring writer to campus to initiate Wilbur S. Braden Memorial Reading Series

2000 Inclusion in Fortieth Anniversary anthology of Sou’wester.

Inclusion in Anthology of Illinois Poets (through Sou'wester journal).

1999-2000 Willamette Humanities Fellow

1996-7 Atkinson Summer Grant

1992-3 Atkinson Summer Grant

1990-1991 Sabbatical

1990 Merit Award Willamette

1990 Willamette Fellowship in the Humanities (Atkinson)

1989 Willamette Fellowship in the Humanities

1988 Willamette Fellowship in the Humanities

1987 and 1988 Atkinson Summer Research Grants

1986 Willamette Fellowship in the Humanities

1984-85 Fulbright Lectureship, nine months, American Literature/Studies, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.

1983 Oregon Committee for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship for a project: "Use of Landscape as a Moral Device in NW Writing" (Slide show and lectures).

1976 Coordinating Council for Literary Magazines editing award--Poetry, CCLM editing award for Fiction.

1975 Oregon Arts Commission Research Award.

1965 Greer-Hepburn Creative Writing Award, First Place, Miami University.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Greek World Views (two years), Senior Humanities Seminars (last four years), all levels of composition including ESL, remedial, graduate level management writing (also design and initiate this course), standard composition sequence, World Views, American Lit. from the beginning, Am. Studies Sr. Seminar, The Apocalyptic Vision in the Am. Novel, Regional lit (incl. the South, the West, and the Northwest), Great Ideas Freshman Seminar (Interdisciplinary), Modern American Lit., Creative Writing--poetry and fiction. NEH seminars (in Emerson, Faulkner, Thoreau, Joyce and Melville), The Modern Spanish Novel (taught in Spanish) Alicante, Spain, 1989. Direct Senior Thesis--Comparative Linguistics, Spanish/English--(Willamette U.). Direct graduate thesis in American Lit.--James, Roth, Thoreau, etc.--(Madrid). American Studies at Tokyo International University of America, various years. One-day courses: Editing and publishing seminar. Practical Mycology--The Edible Mushroom.

STUDENT ADVISING AND UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES:

Chair of English Dept. 1998-2000, Chair of American Studies 1985 to present, Chair of Writing Committee 2002, Member of editorial board for the Willamette Journal, Member of Committee to Plan the 4^th floor of Eaton Hall, Two search committees 2002 (Spanish and English), Chair of English (1998-01) and American Studies (1995-present), Writing Center Advisory Committee 1998-01), Preview Days (all), Opening Days Panel 1993-4, 99-00, on the Liberal Arts, AdHoc Parking Com. (to deal with crisis), Off Campus Study Committee 1991 (Chair 1992-94)

1988-1989 Academic Council--Lit. Area. Admissions Committee. World Views Troika. AC Council ad hoc committee on TIU. Student Pub. advisor--Jason and Collegian. Alumni Day presentation of World Views. Two summer faculty workshops (W.U.) on correcting papers (presenter). Spring faculty development workshop on college learning. Fulbright advisor. Mortar board advisor. ILACA Director of program in Alicante, Spain. Faculty Council 1989. Off Campus Study Committee.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

ASLE, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

American Studies Association

Philological Association of the Pacific Coast.

Pacific Northwest American Studies Association

Oregon Council for the Humanities 1986 through 1992

PRESENT PROJECTS/WORKS IN PROGRESS:

Book project: Working title—“Three Guys From Wisconsin—John Muir, Frederick Jackson Turner and Aldo Leopold”

Novel: The Moby Dick Murders , finished and at agent as of Dec. 2005

Novel in progress: Beer and Water in the West.