CURRICULUM VITAE

ANN LENORE PUTNAM

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, University of Washington

DISSERTATION
Retreat, Advance, and Holding Steady:

Vision and Form in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
                                   

M.A., English, University of Washington

: "Ontology, Perception, and Beauty in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards"             

B.A. Seattle Pacific University

HONORS

UEC Research Grant 2000

 

UEC Research Travel Grant 2000

 

Residency, Hedgebrook Writer's Colony 1999

 

Joan Webber Prize for Outstanding Teaching

University of Washington, 1984

 

Teaching Scholarship, University of Washington, 1979-1985

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, University of Puget Sound, 1986 to present

 

Courses taught:

 

Major Authors: Hemingway

Survey of American Literature I, Survey of American Literature II

American Identities: Loss and Renewal

Literature by Women

Introduction to Literature

Literature as Art

Introduction to Fiction Writing

Introduction to Poetry

Intermediate Expository Writing, Honors Freshman Writing Seminar

Freshman Writing Seminar

Independent Study: Advanced Fiction Writing

Honors Thesis Independent Study

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

 

"Into the Terrain of the Bull‹The Shape of the Tragic Adventure: Hemingway's ŒThe Undefeated"and The Old Man and the Sea."In Hemingway and Cuba. Forthcoming, Kent State Press.

 

"On Defiling Eden: The Search for Eve in the Garden of Sorrows." In Notable Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice in Hemingway. University of Alabama Press, 2001.

 

"The Divination." Excerpt from Cuban Quartermoon, Arches, Summer, 2002.

 

"Memory, Grief, and the Terrain of Desire: Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa."

In Hemingway and the Natural World. University of Idaho Press, December, 1999.

 

"Across the River and Into the Stream: Journey of the Divided Heart." North Dakota Quarterly, Volume 63, Number 3, summer 1996.

 

"'Tangled Together Like Badly Cast Fishing Line': The Reader and the Text in Katherine

Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider." Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life, University of North Texas Press, 1995

 

"Opiates, Laughter, and the Radio's Sweet Lies: Community and Isolation in Hemingway's "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" in Hemingway Repossessed, Praeger/Greenwood Press, 1994.

 

"Landscape, Narrative, and the 'Bearer of the Gaze' in Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise." Journal of Western American Literature, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, February, 1993.

 

"The Bear." Fiction, South Dakota Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, Autumn 1992.

 

"Waiting for the End in Hemingway's "A Pursuit Race.'" Hemingway's Neglected Short Stories: New Perspectives, ed. Susan F. Beegel. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1992.

 

"Lois Phillips Hudson." Critical essay in Twentieth Century Western Writers. London: St. James Press, 1991.

 

"Betrayal and Redemption in the Fiction of Lois Phillips Hudson." South Dakota Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, Autumn 1988.

 

"Dissemblings and Disclosure in Hemingway's "An Alpine Idyll.'" The Hemingway Review, Vol. VI, No. 2, Spring 1987.

 

"'Wine of Wyoming' and Hemingway's Hidden West." Journal of Western American Literature, Vol. XXII, No. 1, May 1987.

 

Book Reviews:

 

Bones. Franklin Fisher. [Fiction]. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, Journal of Western American Literature Quarterly, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, May 1992.

Mapping the Distance. By Alicia Hokanson. [Poetry]. (Portland: Breitenbush Books, Inc., 1989.), Journal of Western American Literature Vol. XXV, No. 2, August 1990.

 

South of the Border. By John Byrne Cooke. [Fiction] (New York: Bantam, 1989.), Journal of Western American Literature, Vol XXIV, No. 3, November 1989.

The Train to Estelline. [Fiction] By Jane Roberts Wood. (Austin: Ellen C. Temple, Publisher, 1987.) Journal of Western American Literature, Vol. XXIII, No. 3, November 1988.

 

Looking Glass. By Barbara Cherne. [Fiction] (Santa Barbara: John Daniel, Publisher, 1986.) Journal of Western American Literature, Vol. XXII, No. 3, November 1987.

 

Pat's Whore's. By Barding Dahl. [Fiction] (Santa Barbara: John Daniel, Publisher, 1986.) Journal of Western American Literature, Vol. XXII, No. 3, November 1987.

 

 

INVITED LECTURE

 

"Hemingway's Sense of Place in the American West." Address given to the Hemingway Anniversary Symposium: Hemingway's Vision of War and Reconciliation, Boise State University, March, 1986.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS;

"The Last Supper: A Memoir,"Western Literature Conference, Rice University, Houston, 2003.

 

"Fishing the Stream: The Tragic Art of Remembering in Hemingway's ŒThe Snows of Kilimanjaro,'"International Hemingway Colloquium, Havana, Cuba, 2003.

Fiction Reading from Cuban Quartermoon, Western Literature Association, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2002

 

Fiction Reading, "The Moon in Perigee," Western American Literature, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2001.

 

"Hemingway's Transcendence: Gender and Landscape,² International Hemingway

Colloquium, Havana Cuba, 2001.

 

"An Untitled Story: The Rhetoric of Titles," Associated Writer's Program Conference, Palm Springs, 2000.

 

Participant, Hemingway Cultural Exchange, Havana Cuba, 2000.

 

Fiction Reading, "Wide, Darkening Sky,' Western American Literature, University of Oklahoma, 2000.

 

Fiction Reading, "Finca Vigia,"from Cuban Quartermoon, Ninth International Hemingway Conference, Bimini, Bahamas, 2000.

 

Fiction Reading, "Bodeguita del Medio,"Western American Literature Conference, Sacramento, 1999.

 

Chair, "Remagining Gender in Western Writing and Film,² Western Literature Conference, Sacramento, 1999.

 

"The Search for Eve in Hemingway's Green Pastures: One Reader Writes, "Hemingway Centennial Conference: Literary and Historical Perspectives at 100," Oak Park, Illinois, 1999.

 

Participant, "The Hemingway Centennial at the Kennedy Library,"Boston, 1999.

 

Fiction Reading, "The Bear,"Western American Literature, Banff, Alberta, 1998.

"Splitting the Heart of the Sun: Time and Timelessness, Narrative and Lyric in Hemingway's ŒThe Snows of Kilimanjaro.'" Eighth International Hemingway Conference, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France, 1998.

 

Fiction Reading: "Cuban Dreaming" Pacific Northwest American Studies Association, 1998, Cour d'Alene, Idaho.

 

Fiction Reading: "Chapter Three" [novel excerpt], Western Literature Association Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico,1997.

 

"Santiago and the Bullfighter: Hemingway's ŒThe Undefeated,'"Second International Hemingway Colloquium, Havana Cuba,1997.

 

Fiction reading: from Incantation, Western Literature Association Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1996.

Chair, Nature, Narrative, and Perspective in John Steinbeck's Writing,"Western Literature Association Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1996.

 

"Memory, Grief, and The Terrain of Desire: Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa

Seventh International Hemingway Conference, Sun Valley Idaho,1996.

 

"Across the River and Into the Stream: Journey of the Divided Heart,"First International Hemingway Colloquium, Havana, Cuba, 1995

 

Originator and Chair, Hemingway Society Session, "Hemingway's Unreliable Narrators," South Atlantic MLA convention, Atlanta,1995.

 

"In Another Country."Fiction Reading, Western Literature Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.,1995.

 

Secretary, Hemingway Society Session, South Atlantic MLA convention, Baltimore, 1994.

"The Lonely Landscape: A Writer's Use of Longing," Western Literature Association conference, Salt Lake City, October 1994.

 

Chair, "Writers Reading from their Work," Western Literature Association conference, Salt Lake City, October 1994.

"Splitting the Heart of the Sun: Nature, Androgyny, and the 'Tragic Adventure." Hemingway Society Session, South Atlantic MLA Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1993.

 

"The Arsonist's Dream." Fiction Reading, Western Literature Association Conference, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, October 1993.

 

"Laughter, Opiates, and the Radio's Sweet Lies: Community and Isolation in Hemingway's "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio." Fifth International Hemingway Conference, Pamplona, Spain, July 1992.

 

"Landscape, Narrative, and the 'Bearer of the Gaze' in Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise. Western Literature Association Conference, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, October 1992

 

Chair, Panel: Creative Writings and Personal Essays. Western Literature Conference, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, October 1992.

 

Originator and Chair, Panel: Loving Work and Working Love: Private Voices, Public Lives, Western Literature Association Conference, Colorado State University, Estes Park, Colorado, October, 1991.

 

'Like Badly Cast Fishing Lines': The Reader and the Text in Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Western Literature Association Conference, Colorado State University, Estes Park, Colorado, October 1991.

 

"Alfred Hitchcock and the Western Myth." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March, 1990

"'Light is Always Our Enemy': The Strange Tale of Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico! and Katherine Anne Porter's Hacienda. Western Literature Association Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, October 1990

"What Hemingway Really Meant: Another Look at 'Big Two-Hearted River.'" Western Literature Association Conference, University of Idaho, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, October 1989.

 

Chair, Panel: "New West Writers: John Keeble, John Hawkes, Sherley Anne Williams." Western Literature Association Conference, University of Idaho, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, October 1989.

 

"The Rhetoric of Terror in Hitchcock's Western Films." Western Literature Association Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene Oregon, October 1988.

 

 

Chair, Panel: "Writer's Lives: Will James, Wright Morris, Richard Hugo, Gary Snyder." Western Literature Association Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene Oregon, October 1988.

 

"Collisions of Time and Space in Lois Phillips Hudson's The Bones of Plenty. Western Literature Association Conference, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1987.

"A Conversation with Lois Phillips Hudson." Presentation and interview. Sponsored by

Research Council, University of Nebraska, College of Arts and Sciences, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1987.

"Betrayal and Redemption in the Fiction of Lois Phillips Hudson." Western Literature Association Conference, Tarleton State University, Fort Lewis College, and the Durango Commission on the Arts, Durango, Colorado, October 1986.

 

"'Lost in America': Hemingway's West and the Loss of Hope." Western Literature Association Conference, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, October 1985.