ALAN WELTZIEN
Professor of English



OFFICE ADDRESS:
Main Hall 315-B
     University of Montana--Western     
710 South Atlantic
Dillon, Montana 59725
(406) 683-7431
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510 S. Dakota
Dillon, MT 59725
Phone: (406) 683-6858

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FAMILY:
Wife - Lynn Myer Weltzien
Sons - Alec M. Weltzien
Joel R. Weltzien
Step-daughter - Melinda Myer

EDUCATION:
1976-1982
1974-1975
1970-1974		 Ph.D. English
M.A. English
A.B. English		 University of Virginia
University of Virginia
Whitman College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude)


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Professor of English
Western Montana College of The University of Montana
1991-Present

Visiting Professor (Fulbright Fellow)
Instytut Anglistyki
Uniwersytet Gdansku, Polska (Poland)
1989-1990

Associate Professor of English
Ferrum College
1986-1991

Assistant Professor of English
Ferrum College
1980-1986

Director of Composition Center
Ferrum College
1982-1991

Faculty Specialist
Ferrum College Composition Center
1981-1982

Graduate Instructor
Department of English
University of Virginia
1977-1980

Tutor
University of Virginia Writing Center
University of Virginia
1978-1980

COURSES TAUGHT:
Composition and Rhetoric
Introduction to Literature
Expository Writing
Semantics and Critical Reading
Introduction to Film
Classic American Film
Colonial and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Science and Literature
World Literature
Eighteenth Through Twentieth-Century British Literature
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Comedy
American Literature 1865-1940
Linguistics
The Western Film
Film Comedy

TEACHING INTERESTS:
The Novel Narrative Prose Nature Writing
Pedagogy AutobiographyComposition
Film Drama American Literature


MEMBERSHIPS:
NCTE Phi Beta Kappa
WLA ASLE
CCCC Montana Committee for the Humanities


DISSERTATION:
Part I "Hawthorne's Festive Episode: The Recurring Revel of the Psychological Romancer" Director: Professor David Levin Festivity in Nathaniel Hawthorne's works frequently becomes a vehicle for articulating characters' moral status. Scenes with processions, masques, or carnivals explore the Hawthornian tension between individuality and community. Too, as tableaux vivants they exemplify Hawthorne's commitment to the verbal emblem.
Part II "The Sense of a Beginning: Teaching The Prose Fiction Beginning" Directors: Professors Harold H. Kolb, Jr., and Lester A. Beaurline By Closely reading the opening paragraphs or chapters of prose fiction texts with students, teachers accomplish at least two purposes. First, they orient students to the particular world of that text by focussing their schemata and deepening their engagement. They expose the act of interpretation and the divergence of response. Second, they teach students the range of activity common to effective, participatory reading.


HONORS:
Cheatham Fellowship
Ferrum College, 1990-1991

Fulbright Fellow
University of Gdansk
Gdansk, Poland
1989-1990

Ferrum College
Teaching Workshop
1989

Judge, NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing
1985-1991

Ferrum College
Writing Workshop
1981, 1983, 1989

NEH Summer Seminar
"The Theory of American Romance"
University of Arizona, 1988
Edgar A. Dryden, Director

NEH Summer Seminar
"Style and the Structure of Discourse"
University of Chicago, 1985
Joseph Williams, Director

James Still Fellowship
Appalachian College Program
University of Kentucky, 1984

Summer Institute Fellow and Tutor
University of Virginia, 1978


CONFERENCE SPEECHES OR LECTURES:
Montana Committee for the Humanities Speakers Bureau, 1994-present

"Recent Montana Voices," MEA/MATELA annual conference, 17 October 1996.

"Cartographic Knowledge in William Least Heat-Moonıs Prairy Earth," Western Literature Association annual conference, Lincoln, NE, October 1996.

"Information or Knowledge? Information Technology as That New Old-Time Religion," Second Annual Conference on Intellectual Freedom, MSU-Northern, Havre, MT, 18-20 April 1996

"Mountain View Beach," excerpt from an original essay, Western Literature Association annual conference, Vancouver, B.C., October 1995

"Dictionaries, Grammars, and Usage," Montana Education Association/MATELA annual conference, Billings, MT, October 1994

"Norman Maclean and Tragedy," Western Literature Association annual conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 1994

"The Demonic Wilderness" in Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire, North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference, Weber State University, Provo, Utah, November 1993

Chair, "Freedom to Teach How to Learn" panel, NCTE, Seattle, November 1991

Associate Chair, "Deconstruction and Dialogue" panel, CCCC, Seattle, March 1989

Keynote speaker, "Transformations: Reflections on Time and Mortality," series at Lonesome Pine Regional Library, Wise, Virginia, 17 February 1991

"Capote's The Grass Harp," in "The Southern Literary Renaissance: Changing Voices" series, Lonesome Pine Regional Library, Wise, Virginia, 17 April 1988

"Sophie's Choice," in "Voices from Virginia" series, Mountain Empire Community College, Big Stone Gap, Virginia, 14 May 1987

"Mary Lee Settle's O Beulah Land," in "The Southern Family: From Past to Present" series, Roanoke County Public Library, 2 April 1987

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The Best Seller in the United States" series, delivered at Buchanan, Carroll, Roanoke, and Smyth County Public libraries and Lonesome Pine Regional Library, March-May 1986

"Thesis Distribution and Revision," CCC, New Orleans, March 1986

"The Opening Chapter of The Day of the Locust," Tenth Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, October 1985

"Cather's The Professor's House" in "Working in America" series, Roanoke County Public Library, October 1985

"The Reader's Predictions and the Writer's Development" CCC, Minneapolis, March 1985

"Look Homeward, Angel and Wolfe's Autobiographical Imperative" Ninth Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, September 1984

"One Department's Response to English in the 1980s: Language Resources for Management at Ferrum," SAMLA, Atlanta, October 1983

"The Sense of a Beginning," Seventh Annual Developmental Studies Conference, Germanna Community College, Germanna, Virginia, April 1983


ARTICLES:
Rick Bass, Western Writers Series, Boise State University, forthcoming

"Cartographic and Mystical Knowledge in William Least Heut-Moonıs Prairyerth," article in circulation.

"Information or Knowledge? Information Technology as That New Old-Time Religion," The Montana Professor, Vol.7 No. 1 (Winter 1997)

"'A Mail-Order Marriage': The Norman Maclean-Robert Utley Correspondence," forthcoming in Montana: The Magazine of Western History

Writing Montana, a review, forthcoming in Montana: The Magazine of Western History

Mountains and Mesas, a review, forthcoming in Western American Literature

"Mountain View Beach," original essay in circulation

"La Montana del Carmelo," original essay in circulation

"George Custer, Norman Maclean, and James Welch: Personal History and the Redemption of Defeat," forthcoming in Arizona Quarterly

"Walt Whitman and Frederick Delius, Endlessly Rocking," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Vol. XIII, No. 3, Winter 1996

"Norman Maclean and Tragedy," Western American Literature, Volume XXX, No. 2, August 1995

"Norman Maclean and Laird Robinson: A Tale of Two Research Partners," in Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Vol. XLV No. 2, Spring 1995

"On Tahoma," a story, in Climbing Art, No. XXVII (1994)

"Towering Intellect and Abiding Affection: Two Great Professors," College Teaching, Fall 1994

"The Two Lives of Norman Maclean and The Text of Fire in Young Men and Fire," Western American Literature, Vol. XXIX No. 1, May 1994

"Notes and Lineaments: Vaughan Williams' Job: A Masque for Dancing and Blake's Illustrations," Musical Quarterly, Vol. LXXVI, 1992

"Herbert's Divine Music in Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs," The George Herbert Journal, Vol. XV, Fall 1991.

"The Seeds of James's Grand Monument, or When Growing Becomes Building," The Henry James Review (late 1991)

"The Picture of History in `The May-Pole of Merry Mount,'" Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 45 No. 1 (Spring 1989)

"The Broken Circle of Mirth: Emblems of Interrupted Festivity in Hawthorne's Romances," in New Interpretations of American Literature, Bucknell Review, 1988

"Look Homeward, Angel and Wolfe's Autobiographical Imperative" CEA Critic, 1987

Introductory essay, "The Southern Family: From Past to Present," for lecture series funded by Roanoke County Public Library and Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 1987

"Constructing the Presence of Irony in The Day of the Locust" West Virginia University Philological Papers, 1986

"Readers, Writers, and Their Distribution" Eric Reports, ERIC Document Reproduction Service, 1986

With Jody D. Brown, "Writing Programs in Virginia Colleges and Universities" "WPAV Newsletter", Vol. 3, No. 2 (September, 1986) and Virginia Department of Education (forthcoming)

"Reading Classic Film" Ferrum Review, Vol. 6

Book review (Generating Prose: Patterns, Relations, Structures, by Willis Pitkin, Jr.) in CCC, February 1988

Four book reviews in Small Press (Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Corporation), 1987-1988

Twenty book reviews in The Roanoke Times & World News Book Page 1982-1991


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