Faculty Patricia Foster David Hamilton Robin Hemley, Director Susan Lohafer Bonnie Sunstein Visiting Faculty Susanne Paola Our semester-long writer-in-residence this Fall is the author of Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2001 and won an American Book Award for that year. Core Faculty Patricia Foster Associate Professor, UI English Dept. Fields of Study: Memoir, American Literature, Short Fiction Selected Publications: Just Beneath My Skin, collection of essays forthcoming from University of GA Press, 2004. "Notable Essays" in Best American Essays: 2001, 2000, 1998, 1996, and 1995. All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter, University of Alabama Press, 2000. Co-editor, The Healing Circle: Narratives of Recovery, Dutton, 1998. Editor, Sister To Sister, Anchor/Doubleday, 1995. Editor, Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul, Anchor/Doubleday, 1994. Essays and stories published in: Antioch Review, Fourth Genre, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review and other quarterlies. Awards & Distinctions: Dean's Scholar Award, University of Iowa; PEN/Jerard Fund Award, Women's Nonfiction; Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Women's Nonfiction. Office Telephone: 319 335-0474 E-mail: patricia-a-foster@uiowa.edu David Hamilton Professor, UI English Dept. Editor, The Iowa Review Fields of Study: The Essay, Poetry, English and American Literature Selected Publications: Textualities: Essays on Poetry in the United States, Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans, Universitat de València, 2003. Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm, University of Missouri Press, 2001. Essays in College English, Connecticut Review, Creative Nonfiction, Gettysburg Review, Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and elsewhere. See "Writing at Iowa" See also The Iowa Review. Office Telephone: 319 335-0431 E-mail: david-hamilton@uiowa.edu Robin Hemley Director, Nonfiction Writing Program Professor, UI English Dept. Author of seven books of nonfiction and fiction, including most recently: Invented Eden: The Elusive Disputed History of the Tasaday, Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2003. An Editors' Choice book of The American Library Association; and Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness, Graywolf, 1998. Winner of the Independent Press Book Award. E-mail: robin-hemley@uiowa.edu Susan Lohafer Professor, UI English Dept. Fields of Study: Narrative theory with an emphasis on short stories, personal essays, and the relationships between them. Selected Publications: Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, Genre, Poetics, and Culture in Short Story, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003; Co-editor, The Tales We Tell, Greenwood, 1998; Co-editor, Short Story Theory at a Crossroads, Louisiana State University Press, 1990; Co-editor, Coming to Terms with the Short Story, Louisiana State University Press, 1983. "Why the 'Life of Ma Parker' is Not So Simple: Preclosure in Issue-bound Stories," Studies in Short Fiction, Special Number on Short Story Theory 33:4 (Fall 1996; printed Spring 1998); "Preclosure to an 'Open' Story: Julio Cortazar's 'Orientation of Cats,'" Creative and Critical Approaches to the Short Story, ed. Harold Kaylor, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1997; "Stops on the Way to 'Shiloh': A Special Case for Literary Empiricism," Style 27 (Fall 1993). Office Telephone: 319 335-0454 E-mail: sklohafer@aol.com Bonnie S. Sunstein Director, Undergraduate Writing and Professor, UI English and Education Departments. Fields of Study: Ethnographic Writing, Nonfiction forms, Folklore and Narrative Studies, Literacy Studies, English Education, Teacher Education. Selected Publications: FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research (1997, revised, 2001); The Portfolio Standard (2000); Assessing Portfolios: A Portfolio (1996); Composing a Culture, Boyton/Cook, 1994; Portfolio Portraits (1992); also many articles, chapters, and poetry in journals and collections about teaching and writing. Recipient of a Woodrow Wilson "Imagining America" grant (2000) for FieldWorking Online: A Community Archive for Cultural Conservation. Office: N266 Lindquist Center Office telephone: 319 335-5607 E-mail: bonnie-sunstein@uiowa.edu Web: http://www.uiowa.edu/~llc/people/bsunstein.htm   Other Professors who have taught with us include Kevin Kopelson, William Kupersmith, Brooks Landon, Jeff Porter, Tom Simmons, and Thom Swiss -- all of whom you may find under the Department of English -- Stephen Bloom from the School of Journalism and James Galvin of the Writers' Workshop.