Kate Reavey

		Kate Reavey Coordinator Environmental Humanities The Center of Excellence

	*Contact Information* kater@pcadmin.ctc.edu 360.417 6490, office ~ 360.417.6340, appointments Center of Excellence Peninsula College 1502 East Lauridsen Blvd. Port Angeles, WA 98362 ~ ~	Education M.A. Creative Writing and Literature 1993 University of California, Davis B.A. Area Studies (African Concentration) and Literary Writing, 1989 Trinity College, Hartford, CT, cum laude Thesis: “Debating the New English—Ngugi wa Thiongo and Chinua Achebe in Post Colonial letters” Semester Abroad, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, England, 1987 Experience English Faculty, September 1993-99 & 9/2004-present. Peninsula College. Curriculum development across the disciplines, including a Spring 2005 Learning Community course centered on the Elwha watershed, its cultural history, and the historic influence of the dams. Collection of student and faculty essays, 2007. Instructor, 1996-present.Olympic Park Institute, Port Angeles, WA. Writing seminars on ecology and culture. Creative Writing Instructor, 1992-93. University of California, Davis. Awards Phi Beta Kappa Pi Gamma Mu, National Honors in the Social Sciences Ruel Crompton Tuttle Award in English Underwood Prize in Poetry Related Experience Author, History of the Elwha Valley, Olympic Park Institute (OPI), 11/05-5/06. Essays include cultural and environmental history, the cultural and political environment leading to dam decommission, and the effects of proposed dam removal on local industry. Author/Historian, National Park Service. Written documentation of the Elwha and Glines Canyon. Completed a cultural history of the Lake Crescent area and another centered on two pioneer families in the Quinault Valley. Poetry Editor, Pharos:Journal of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Society, Stanford, CA. Teaching and Research Interests My interests include poetry, both written and spoken word presentation, post-colonial fiction, women’s literature, memoir, interdisciplinary essays, and GIS/mapping as composition. My research is focused on the way in which place—the ecology of culture—influences literature. Classes I teach include Introduction to Composition/Advanced Composition Women’s Voices in Contemporary America Creative Writing/Advanced Creative Writing Introduction to Literature Interdisciplinary science, composition, and literature courses Interdisciplinary history and literature courses Developmental English Courses Human Development Courses World Literature courses Selected Publications Recent Presentations Elwha River Valley Mashup (Google Earth file) “Axe Handles: Gary Snyder, Traditional Chinese Formal Poetry, and Contemporary Free Verse,” WCTCHA Conference, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. 2005 “Salmon, the Elwha Klallam, and the Return of Wild Culture,” WCTCHA Conference, Bellingham, WA. 2006. “The Elwha River as Curriculum,” Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2008. “’Big Ideas’in Sustainability”—workshop with Jean Mac Gregor, WA. Center, and June Johnson Bube, Seattle University— Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2008. Poetry Readings: Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts & Elliott Bay Book Store. Editing Landscapes of Home: A Natural History of the Elwha Valley (editor) 2006. Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of Olympic National Park, with Jacilee Wray, Anthropologist. Who We Are: The Tribes of the Olympic Peninsula, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 Poetry Books: Too Small to Hold You (New York: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2000) third printing, 2006. Through the East Window (Port Townsend, WA: Sagittarius Press, 1998). Trading Posts (Berkeley: Tangram Press, 1997). Individual poems have been published in more than twenty five journals and anthologies including The Western Journal of Medicine, Mothering magazine, the Lost Mountain Poesia, and convolvulus.
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