Gary Lundy
Professor of English
On Sabattical, 2005-2006

ADDRESS:
Department of English
      University of Montana--Western      
710 South Atlantic
Dillon, Montana 59725
(406) 683-7307
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English, State University of New York at Binghamton, January 1986. Areas of concentration: Contemporary American Poetry/Creative Writing; Hermeneutics and Poetics; Composition/Rhetoric.
M.A. English, State University of New York at Binghamton, May 1982. Certificate in Creative Writing.
B.A. English, The University of Colorado at Denver, December 1979.
A.A. Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California, May 1977.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Western Montana College of The University of Montana, Dillon, Montana 8/91
Department Chair 8/96-5/97
Director of Composition, 8/91-8/96
Associate Professor of English 4/94
Assistant Professor of English 8/91-4/94
- Freshman Composition
- Oral Communication
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Journalism
- Introduction to Poetry Writing
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Intermediate Writing: Writing About Education
- Intermediate Writing: Writing About Art
- Advanced Composition
- World Literature
- Major Period
- Major Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Post 1945 American Poetry
- Images of Vietnam
- Poetry and Painting: Integrating the Arts
- Annual Poetry Workshop

Saint Paul's College, Lawrenceville, Virginia 8/90-7/91 Assistant Professor of English

State University of New York College at Oswego, Oswego, New York 8/85 7/90 Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American Studies 1987-1990 Visiting Lecturer of English 1985-1987

State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 8/80 8/85 Associate Director of Instructional Training 1984-1985 Teaching Assistant 1980-1985


TEACHING INTERESTS:
Creative Writing, Twentieth Century American Poetry, Literary Criticism and Theory, Contemporary Continental Literature, Postmodern Literature and Theory, Gay and Lesbian Literature and Theory, American Literature, Composition and Composition Theory.


PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

BOOKS

- lavish is saying nothing like again (Blue Malady Press, 1997)
- this making i tore the sight from, poetry (Sweetbrier Press, 1996)
- on recreating love (and anguish), original art for poem by Rachael Clark Krusemark (Sweetbrier Press, 1995)

ANTHOLOGY

- "At the Y," Men & Women: Together & Alone, eds. Morty Sklar & Mary Biggs (Iowa City: The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1988)

POETRY

- "waste," "a grief," "the vulnerability of want," Blue Raincoat (Winter 1997)
- "thus it is that my own whisper loses ground with repetition," Antenym 11 (Dec. 1996)
- "Scar," Owen Wister Review, vol.17 no.2 (Fall 1994)
- from "memorial," lower limit speech: a newsletter in poetics #9 (June 94)
- "Family Album," "The Excuse," "At the Produce Stand," O!! Zone 9 (Sept. 93)
- "Letters," "To Make Amends For," "Winter I Fear," Atelier 2 (Summer/Fall 1993)
- "Through A Window," "Before Sleep," Canal Lines 2.2 (summer/fall 1989)
- "Matthew," "Matthew 2," The Fiddlehead 160 (summer 1989)
- "You Do It So They'll Fatten Up," "What Encourages Me," "Left Behind," "A Certain Disease," "Stretching Near Limon, Colorado," Featured Poet, Lake Effect 3.4 (winter 1989)
- "We All Walk Where the Image Fails," "This Making I Tore the Sight From," "Mirror," "Everlasting Peace," boundary 2: a journal of postmodern literature and culture 15.3/16.1 (spring/fall 1988)
- "A Curse," Blue Light Review 8 (summer 1987)
- "Insurance," The Beloit Poetry Journal 37.2 (winter 1986/1987)
- "In Time They Speak," Clockwatch Review 3.2 (1986)
- "Whiskey," Alaska Quarterly Review 4.1-2 (fall/winter 1985)
- "Three Stanzas in Fear of Sleep," "There Is Nothing New in the Universe," Riverstone (May- June 1985)
- "Trains," featured broadside competition winner, State University of New York Creative Writing Festival, Albany, New York, 1984
- "Warning Signs," Poet Lore 78.2 (summer 1983)
- "To See One Calling," "Winter Night Spells," "When I Sought Forgiveness," "What's Left," "Collecting Wood," The Fiddlehead 136 (June 1983)
- "Family Talk During A Cloudburst," The Akros Review 6 (fall 1982)

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

- featured reader, The Cup, Western Montana College, May 4, 1998.
- "Contours of Silence, The Inaudible Yes," presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association Confecence, Chicago, Illinois, November 1997.
- "generous measures," Writing On The Edge, Vol. 8, Num. 1, Fall/Winter 1996/1997.
- featured reader, poetry, Victoria Joy's Bed & Breakfast, Butte, MT 1997
- featured reader, poetry, Western Montana College Gallery, January 1995.
- "A Measure Of, As Against Perfection, Writing, Reading & Poetry," presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta May 1994.
- "Maurice Blanchot, Writing and the Incomplete Elsewhere: Teaching as Permission to Speak," presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 1990
- "Robert Bly: Possibilities for a Male Pedagogy," presented with Donald Vanouse at The Coming Revolution in Higher Education: A Dialogue on Curriculum and Pedagogy for the Twenty-first Century, conference of United University Professions, Albany, New York, April 1990
- featured reader, poetry, Writing Arts Festival at State University of New York College at Oswego, Oswego, New York, April 1988

EXHIBITS

- acrylic on canvas, computer paintings on coated paper, Weaver Studio, Twin Bridges, Montana, June 28-July 16, 1997.
- acrylics on canvas, computer paintings on coated paper, The Cup, Western Montana College, August 26 - September 30, 1996
- paintings, acrylics on canvas and paper, Western Montana College Gallery, January 10 - 30, 1995

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

The Graduate Advisory Council of the University of Montana (faculty representative for Western Montana College of the University of Montana)

Appointed to committee to revise English Education Standards for State of Montana (1993)

Board Member of Montana Association of Teachers of English Language Arts (Western Montana College of The University of Montana Campus Representative, 1991-1994)

Associate and Co-Founding Editor of Pirogue, an Anthology of Poetry by First through Twelfth Grade Students from Beaverhead County Schools

Western Montana College of the University of Montana

- Curriculum Committee
- Tenure and Promotion Committee
- Bachelor of Liberal Studies Committee
- Advising Committee
- Awards and Scholarships Committee
- Overload Committee
- Student Conduct Committee
- Visiting Artist Committee
- Faculty advisor for the Odyssey Club, nontraditional student organization
- Faculty advisor for IGNU, the poetry club
- Faculty advisor for The Wescolite, the campus student newspaper
- Faculty advisor for Solstice, the student literary journal
- Delivered paper for the Faculty Forum
- Conducted series of poetry readings 1994-1995

Saint Paul's College

- Freshman Studies Committe
- Visiting Artist Committee
- Delivered two papers for Faculty Colloquia

State University of New York College at Oswego

- Advisory Committee
- Curriculum Development Committee
- Composition Committee
- Faculty advisor of The Pendulum, the alternative campus newspaper
- Faculty co-advisor of the Writers Guild, a student creative writing club
- Delivered three papers for English Department Colloquia

State University of New York at Binghamton

- Inaugural Associate Director of Instructional Training Program
- Associate Chair of Composition Committee
- Graduate representative on Freshman Task Force Committee
- Graduate representative on the Creative Writing Committee


HONORS AND AWARDS

1996 - Recipient of Merit Award at Western Montana College of The University of Montana
1995 - Recipient of Merit Award at Western Montana College of The University of Montana
1990 - Recipient of annual Award of Recognition for Services and Commitment to Non-traditional Students at State University of New York College at Oswego
1989 - Featured Poet Lake Effect
1982 - Working Scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
1982 - Elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Association for General and Liberal Studies
International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Montana Association of Teachers of English Language Arts
National Council of Teachers of English


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