"Lips Over Golden Gate" (After Man Ray)
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KATHY LOU SCHULTZ
poetry & scholarship : teaching: CV: bio : contact

Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania     May 2006 (expected)
English

MFA, San Francisco State University    May 1996
Creative Writing (Poetry), American Literature

BA, Oberlin College       May 1990
English: Creative Writing, Women's Studies (double major)
8/88-5/90

Columbia University 8/85-5/87

Dissertation
"In the Modern Vein": Afro-Modernist Poetry and Literary History
Chair: Bob Perelman. Readers: Herman Beavers, Charles Bernstein, Aldon Nielsen (Penn State)

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
Center for Africana Studies Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 2005-2006
Critical Writing Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania 2005-2006 (declined)
Fence Books Alberta Prize, Runner-up, 2005
School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2005
Gilchrist-Potter Prize, 2004
Adelia A. F. Johnston Graduate Fellowship for Oberlin College Alumni, 2004
University Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2003-2004
University of Pennsylvania Course Review: Spring 2003 poetry course listed among highest rated  courses across the university (3.71/4.0)
Travel Grant, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2003
Rosenberg Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-2003
Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-2001, 2001-2002
Adelia A. F. Johnston Graduate Fellowship for Oberlin College Alumni, 1995
Michael Rubin Poetry Chapbook Award, San Francisco State University, 1994
Phyllis Jones Memorial Women's Studies Prize, Oberlin College, 1990
Dean's List, Columbia University, Spring 1986, Fall 1986, Spring 1987

Publications
Books
Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press, 2002)
Genealogy (a+bend press, 1999)
Re dress (San Francisco State University, 1994) *Winner of the Michael Rubin Poetry Award
Essays
"Small Press, Big Wor(l)ds: African-American Poetry from Publication to Archive." Rainbow  Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry. Ed. Keith Tuma. Miami University  Press, forthcoming.
"Writing Gender, Righting History: Myung Mi Kim and the Lineage of Modernist Women Writers."  Anthology of Emergent Women Poets. Ed. Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker.  Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming.
"Proceed Queerly: The Sentence As Compositional Unit." Biting the Error: Writers on Narrative. Ed.  Mary Burger, Robert Gluck, Camille Roy, and Gail Scott. Coach House Press, 2004.
Leaving Saturn by Major Jackson, Traffic, Fall 2002 (book review)
"Rock and a Hard Place: Erica Hunt and the Poetics of African-American Postmodernity," HOW2,  Vol. 1, No. 5, March 2001
"Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women," Tripwire No. 2  (book review)
"Talking Trash, Talking Class: What's a Working Class Poetic and Where Would I Find One?"  Tripwire No. 1, February 1998
"Work/Art/Life: The Poetry of Karen Brodine," Synapse, Fall 1994
Anthologized Work
"Melvin Tolson." Entry in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry. Forthcoming.
"The Sonneteer" 1 & 2; "Piece meal pie;" "Or If She Would Fly Apart;" Some Vague Wife, Chapter  5 "Adjustable Perches;" and "Genealogy IV." Anthology of Emergent Women Poets. Ed.  Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker. Wesleyan  University Press, forthcoming. (poetry)
"Notes to Her," and "Recounting" in The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading.  Ed.  Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz. Semiotext(e), 1995. (prose/poetry)
Creative Work in Journals
"Monument," "Blood," and "Landlocked." Bridge, forthcoming (poetry)
"Or If She Would Fly Apart," Hambone 17, Fall 2004 (prose/poetry)
"Apparatus 1," and "Apparatus 2," Fence Vol. 7, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2004 (poetry)
"My essentially receptive positionality reinvented as submission," "Memories of you are  accompanied by the confusion," and "At one point I wiped the lipstick off the rim," Electronic  Poetry Review #5 (poetry)
"U.S. to scuttle missile treaty, Bush tells Congress," The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 2001  (poetry)
"Story," Lipstick Eleven No. 2 (prose)
"Quickly I press a narrative into service," Shampoo 7 (poetry)
"Some Vague Wife," Narrativity Issue Two (prose)
"Genealogy," Parts III & IV, lower limit speech #14 (poetry)
"Genealogy," Part VII, Rhizome, (poetry)
"Genealogy," Part III, Kenning, Vol. 2, No. 1 "Issue #4" Spring 1999 (poetry)
"Genealogy," Part I, Outlet 4/5 Weathermap, October 1999 (poetry)
"Genealogy," Part IV, Idiom No. 5 (poetry)
"Genealogy," Part VI, Mirage #4/Period(ical) #84, March 1999, Special Issue on Bay Area Women  Poets/Editors/Publishers (poetry)
"Genealogy," Part II, Sweat Labor Magazine Online, November 1998 (poetry)
"Some Vague Wife," (excerpt) Lipstick Eleven No. 1 (prose)
"Procedure," Lyric& No. 6 (poetry)
"Some Vague Wife," (excerpt) Outlet 1, The Debutante (prose)
"Some Vague Wife," (excerpt) Fourteen Hills, Spring 1998 (prose)
"Dear," Rooms, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1994 (prose/poetry)
"Impression Surface," Transfer 67, Spring 1994 (poetry)
"Dear," Transfer 66, Fall 1993 (prose/poetry)
"Inhabiting the Lesbian Body," and "Blank knows," Ink Magazine, #11/12 (poetry)
"love letters," and "BODY," Mirage #4 Period(ical) #15, April 1993 (poetry)

Public Presentations And Conference Papers (selected)
"The Afro-Modernist Poetics of Melvin Tolson." Modernist Studies and Latitudes Reading Groups  (co-sponsored), University of Pennsylvania, November 2004
"'Freer and larger than dialect?' Black Vernacular Practice and Modernism from Dunbar to Mullen."  Marjorie Cook Poetry Festival and Conference: Diversity in African-American Poetry, Miami  University (Ohio), September 2003
"HOW2, (HOW)ever, and Current Trends in Modernist Scholarship," with Ann Vickery. Modernist   Studies Reading Group, University of Pennsylvania, October 2001
Moderator, "Queer Writers at Penn," University of Pennsylvania, March 2001
Panelist, "Loved Poems and Poems About Love," Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,  February 2001
"Rock and a Hard Place: Erica Hunt and the Poetics of African-American Postmodernity." American  Literature Association, Long Beach, California, May 2000
Panelist, "Class and Innovative Writing," San Francisco Art Institute, December 1999
Panelist, Sound Culture 1996, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, April 1996
"An Examination of Working Class Literature: Categories and Assumptions." Midwest  Women's Studies Association Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1990

Teaching Experience
University of Pennsylvania
Instructor:
Prose Works: Prose Poems, Short Stories, and the Personal Essay (English 10) Summer  2005
Encountering the City (Pre-Freshman Program English Seminar) Summer 2003
"How To Do Things With Words:" Poetry, Process, and Form (English 10) Spring 2003
The Women and the Men: Gender and Identity in African-American Literature
 (English 3/Women's Studies 6/Afro-American Studies 3) Fall 2002
Encountering Communities (Pre-Freshman Program English 6) Summer 2002
Introduction to Poetry and Prose: Re-envisioning Personal Narratives (English 10) Spring  2002
Cultural Controversy in Contemporary America (English 3) Fall 2001

Teaching Assistant:
The Twentieth Century (English 104) Spring 2003
Introduction to American Literature (English 80) Spring 2002
Shakespeare (English 101) Spring 2001
Introduction to American Literature (English 80) Fall 2000

Temple University Center City, Philadelphia
Books You Wish You'd Read, Summer 2005
Books You Wish You'd Read, Winter 2005

Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia
Prose Explorations (10th-12th Grade) Spring 2003 Essentially English Program

San Francisco State University
Personal Narrative (Creative Writing 510) Winter 1999
Fundamentals of Creative Writing (Creative Writing 301) Spring 1995
Fundamentals of Creative Writing (Creative Writing 301) Fall 1994

Oberlin College
Writing Tutor and Teaching Assistant:
Studies in Poetry, Spring 1990
Introduction to Women's Studies, Fall 1989

Instructor:
Practicum at a Battered Women's Shelter (Oberlin College ExCo Program) Fall 1988, Spring 1989, Fall 1989, Spring 1990

Teen Parents' Center, Lincoln, Nebraska
Writing Teacher, Fall 1990

Areas of Specialization
Poetry and poetics, 19th and 20th century American and African-American literature and culture, Modernism, Gender studies, Working class studies, Creative writing

Activities and Professional Service
Mentor to First-Year PhD Student, 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Graduate Admissions Committee, University of Pennsylvania Department of English, 2003-2004
English Department Liaison to Pre-Freshman Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-present
 Hiring Committee, KWH Director, 2003
 Coordinator, Modern Poetry Symposium for seventh graders from Houston's KIPP urban  charter school
Poetics Reading Group, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-present
Judge, San Francisco Bay Guardian Poetry Contest, 1995
Chair of Advocacy Committee, Coalition Against Racism and Prejudice, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1990- 1991
Women's Studies Program Committee, Oberlin College, 1989-1990
Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, 1988-1990
Mallory House Women's Collective, Oberlin College, 1988-1989
Amnesty International Chapter Coordinator, Columbia University, 1986-1987

Editorial Work
HOW2, Contemporary Innovative Writing by Women Editorial Advisory Board, 8/00-present
Lipstick Eleven, Editor and Publisher, 7/96-present
Forum on Class and Poetics, Co-editor. HOW2, Vol. I, No. 2, September 1999
SWEAT Labor Magazine, A magazine of culture and politics, Editor. 1/97-1/98
Women Working in Literature Study Guide, The Poetry Center San Francisco State University,  Editor. 1991
The Archives News, a Poetry Center magazine, San Francisco State University, Assistant Editor.  1991
The Nebraska Report, Lincoln, Nebraska Editor. 7/90-8/91
The Peacemaking Covenant Report,  Lincoln, Nebraska Editor. 7/90-8/91
Women's Journal-Advocate  Lincoln, Nebraska, Editorial Collective Member. 8/87-8/88

Additional Literary Arts Experience
Graduate Student Reading, Kelly Writers House, The University of Pennsylvania, Organizer and  Host. November 2001
Lipstick Eleven/Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, Reading and Events Organizer. December  1998
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, Program Assistant. 8/91-6/92
Prairie Schooner Literary Quarterly  Lincoln, Nebraska, Poetry Reader.  8/90-7/91

Journalism (selected)
"Winners craft creative solutions to business problems," InfoWorld, Sept. 29, 1998
"Historic Victory, Continuing Struggles at Han Young Mexico," SWEAT, Spring 1998
"Protect Your Privacy On the Internet," InfoWorld Electric, February 9, 1998 (book  review)
Features Editor, Redherring.com San Francisco, California, 3/99-8/00
Supplements Editor, InfoWorld Magazine San Mateo, California, 10/97-1/99
Contributing Columnist, Lincoln Journal-Star Lincoln, Nebraska, 7/90-8/91

Public Readings
215 Festival ìPolymorphous Perverse:  the 215 After Hoursî Philadelphia, October 2005
National Women's Press Club, Washington, D.C., February 2005
Lunch Poets Program, Featured Poet, Kelly Writers House, February 2005
MLA Offsite Reading, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, December 2004
Writers House Live, WXPN Radio, Philadelphia, November 2004
West End Reading Series, Ithaca, New York, April 2004
La Tazza, Philadelphia
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (Poetry & Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics) October 2003
Philly Sound Festival, August 2003
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, January 2003
Molly's Books, Philadelphia, January 2003
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York City, November 2002
A Mind of Winter, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, January 2002
Old English Live, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, May 2001
Love Poems and Poems About Love, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, February  2001
Writers House Live, WXPN Radio, Philadelphia, January 2001
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, January 2000
Page Mother's Conference, San Diego
Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, April 1999
Blue Bar, San Francisco, 1999 (Reading for a+bend press)
Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, August 1998 (Publication Reading for Lyric&)
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, July 1998
Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, June 1998 (Publication Party for Outlet Magazine)
San Francisco International Book Festival, November 1997
60th Street Gallery, Oakland, June 1997, Sponsored by Poets & Writers
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, May 1997
Canessa Park Gallery, San Francisco, March 1997
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, October 1996
Red Dora's, San Francisco, March 1996
Luna Sea Women's Performance Project, San Francisco, August 1995
West Berkeley Women's Books, Berkeley, July 1995
The Coffee Mill, Oakland, October 1994
Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, May 1994
San Francisco State University, Student Awards Reading, May 1994
San Francisco State University, Publication Reading for Transfer, April 1994
E Space, San Francisco, November 1993
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, May 1990