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Dr. Ellen Fangman

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writing center director and Adjunct instructor (beginning spring, 2009)

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Ellen Fangman received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and will join us from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where she has taught World Literature for the past two years.  Her dissertation, entitled, A Life in Letters:  Personal Essays, is a series of autobiographical vignettes that reflect her interest in creative nonfiction.  Miss Fangman's academic concentrations include twentieth-century American literature, the philosophy of rhetoric and composition, as well as theories of the familiar essay and autobiography.  
 

Publications

  • "Awake with Our Reveries," Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 4:18 (Winter, 2002): 145-56
  • "On Gender, Creativity, and the American West," Annals of Iowa, 4:59 (2000): 425-26
  •  "The Lisbon Affair,"  The Lawrencian, 3:1 (December, 2004): 11-12
  • "Building on Tradition:  The Story of Misha Krutz and the KC Strings," Ovation!  The Magazine of the Kansas City Symphony C3 (3) (Spring, 2004)

conference papers

  • Fiction and Essay Writing Workshop Leader, 4th Annual Catholic Writers' Conference, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA, 2004
  • "The Geography Within" (creative nonfiction), Western Literature Association Conference,  Omaha, NE, 2002
  • "Still Clinging" (creative nonfiction), Mendocino Writers' Conference, Fort Bragg, CA, 2001
  • "Landscape as Metaphor and Domestic Space in the Memoirs of Doig," Western Literature Association Conference, Norman, Ok, 2000
  • "The Flaming Rose and the Golden Light:  Contemplation and Sensuality in O Pioneers!"  International Cather Seminar, Nebraska City, NE, 2000
  • "The Virtues of Elinor Dashwood" (critical essay), Creighton Conference on Language and Literature, Omaha, NE, 2000."Myth and Realism in This House of Sky" (critical essay), Western Literature Association Conference, Sacramento, CA, 1999.
  • "James Fenimore Cooper's Model of the ‘Aristocracy of Virtue and Talent'" (critical essay), Creighton Conference on Language and Literature, Omaha, NE, 1999.