Bonnie Sunstein

Bonnie is a frequent keynote speaker, guest professor, workshop leader, and consultant for composition colloquia, teachers' groups, departments of education, historical societies, and arts councils throughout the US, Canada, and English speaking schools abroad. She teaches summer writing institutes in Martha's Vineyard, New Hampshire, and several sites in California. She has been visiting professor at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Tampa FL, and at the Fife Folklore Institute in Logan UT. In 2000, she received a Woodrow Wilson fellowship for her Iowa-based Fieldworking website and in 1992, a NEH fellowship in folklore and narrative theory at the University of Wisconsin.

At Iowa, she directs the writing program in the English Department and sits on the General Education Curriculum Committee in the College of Liberal Arts and has served on the Educational Policy Committee. She was a 1993 recipient of Iowa's Collegiate Teaching Award. For over twenty years before coming to Iowa, Bonnie taught English in Massachusetts secondary schools, and at several colleges in New England. She is a Trustee of the Research Foundation for the National Council of Teachers of English as well as a member of the English Education Executive Committee, and over many years has served or chaired on the Nominating Committee, Standing Committee on Research, and as president of the National Writing Centers Association.