Rev

[Rev. 8/2004]

Ami M. Regier

Direct line to office: (316)284-5293
aregier@bethelks.edu

Education

Ph.D.: English, Univ. of Southern California (8/95)

MA: English, Kansas State University (7/90)

BA: English and Art, Bethel College (5/85 Magna Cum Laude)

Academic Appointments Assistant Professor, Department of English at Bethel College, Fall 1995--2001, Associate Professor, Department of English at Bethel College, 2001--.
Courses taught: Studies in Fiction: History of the Novel and Female Authorship, Literature of the Non-Western World, Contemporary American Literature, Poetry Workshop, Fiction Workshop, Modern Critical Theory, Studies in Drama, Understanding Literature, American Literature I and II, College Issues Colloquy, Critical Writing, and Fundamentals of English.

Assistant Lecturer, Freshman Writing Program at the University of Southern California, 1990-1995. Courses taught: beginning and advanced composition, and composition for students having English as a second language.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English at Kansas State University, 1988-1990.

Publications

Articles

Forthcoming: “Revolutionary Enunciatory Spaces: Ghost Dancing, Transatlantic Travel, and Modernist Arson in Gardens in the Dunes.” Modern Fiction Studies. Projected publication date: late 2005.
“Revising the Plainness of Whiteness.” Mennonite Life June 2002. Online. [www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/]
“Replacing the Hero with the Reader: Public Story Structure in The Poisonwood Bible.” Mennonite Life March 2001. Online. [www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/]
"Material Meeting Points of Self and Other: Fetish Discourses and Leslie Marmon Silko's Evolving Conception of Cross-Cultural Narrative," in Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays. Eds. James L. Thorson and Louise K. Barnett. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. May 1999. (Peer reviewed).
"From Oedipus Rex to The Bingo Palace: Teaching Greek Drama and Native American Narrative." Kansas English 82.4 (Spring 1997): 22-29.
"Criticism and Cultural Work: A Travelogue." A Drink from the Stream: Essays by Bethel College Faculty and Staff. 2^nd ed. Ed. John K. Sheriff. Newton, KS: 1996. 131-140.
"On Earrings, Eclecticism and Taking History Personally." A Drink from the Stream. 2^nd ed. Ed. John K. Sheriff. Newton, KS: 1996. 141-150.

Reviews and Interviews Interview with Karen Reimer on language, legibility, and visual art. Bethel College Bulletin. Spring 2000. 32+.

"Multimedia Colloquy with Keith Ratzlaff." Large-scale interview with recorded readings and Paul Klee paintings on the relations of poetry and visual art in Man Under a Pear Tree. Mennonite Life. Online journal. 3/30/2000.

"The Dream of the Self as a `Community of Memory': Jeff Gundy and the Ancestral Voices." Arts review essay. Mennonite Life March 1998 53.1: 28-30.

They Call Me Agnes: A Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose. MELUS: A Journal of the Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S. vol. 22.3 Fall 1998.

Brunk, Juanita. Brief Landing on the Earth’s Surface. MQR.Winter1998.

Alvarez, Julia. El Otro Lado / The Other Side. Portlandia (Winter l996 2): l0.

Janzen, Jean. Snake in the Parsonage. Mennonite Life. 50.4: l995. 4l, 42.

Professional Papers Presented

“Teaching Novels as `Public Stories’: Liberal Arts Narrative Modes and Communal Structures.” Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts Curriculum. Bluffton College, May 26-28, 2004.

“Hybrid Objects and Narrative Syncretism in Gardens in the Dunes.” American Literature Association 2001 Contemporary American Literature Conference. Santa Fe, New Mexico. October 25-28, 2001.

Collection, Narration, and Drama: Interdisciplinary Elements in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace." Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. 4/6/96.

"Thematic Humanities Courses: Self-Other Encounters." Fourth Annual Cultural Studies Symposium: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. 3/9/95.

"Translating Objects and Constructing Subjects in North-South Border Writing." Modern Language Association: Toronto, Canada. 12/29/93.

"Simulacra, Cyborgs, and the Female Subject in Angela Carter's Novels." Philological Association of the Pacific Coast: Las Vegas, Nevada. 11/15/91.

"Wallace Stevens Looking at `Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers.'" Aesthetic Politics/Political Aesthetics: Univ. of California, Los Angeles. 5/18/91.

"Metaphor, Identity and Loss in Colin Clout's Come Home Againe." Central Renaissance Conference: Loyola University, Chicago. 4/7/90.

Community Presentations

"Love Story: Romantic Fictions." Junior Reading Circle, Newton, KS. 3/16/2000.

Faculty Seminar. "Collecting and Recollecting One's Self: From Oedipal Origins to Hybrid Cultural Identities." 2/9/98.

Slide-lecture presentation (with Karen Reimer). "Legendary, Lexical, Loquacious Love." Bethel College convocation series. 4/21/97.

Guest lecture. "Gender, Race, and Class in Contemporary American Literature." Women's Issues course. Spring 1997.

Review and discussion of biographical fiction: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. Bethel College Reading Club. May, 1998.

Review and discussion of Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye "Carrying the Written Life in The Red Suitcase". Bethel College Reading Club. 4/7/97.

International Literature. Life Enrichment. 12/13/96.

Teaching Multicultural Literature. ACCK English gathering. Spring 1995. McPherson.

Guest lecture. Feminist literary studies. Women’s Issues course. Fall 1995.

Service

BIFL Interviewer 2000-01, 2002-03
Assessment Committee. 1998-2001; Spring 2003.
Undergraduate Research Committee 2002-2003.
Technology committee, 2003--present.
Search committee for math position 2002-2003.
Search committee for jazz artist in residence 2002.
Search committee for Communication Arts positions 1998, 1999.
Search committee for Enrollment Services Dean Spring 1998
Educational Policies Committee 8/97-5/2000. Chair, 1999-2000.
EPC subcommittee for the review of POC I-II. 1997-98.
EPC subcommittee for the review of computer literacy, and grant research. 1997-98.
Administration Building Renovation Task Force, Summer 1997, Spring 1998.
Ad hoc committee on the open philosophy position, Humanities Division. Fall l996.
Library and Academic Development Committee. 1996—spring 1999.
Student Senate Advisor 96—98.
Sappho Advisor 95--present.

Student Mentorship

Undergraduate research: advisor, 1 student, summer 2003, postmodern theory and ethics
Undergraduate research: advisor for 2 students winning research funds, summer of 1997
Undergraduate research: 1 student, summer 1999

Senior seminar advisor: 1995--present

Professional Development

Annual co-leader (among 3) of faculty development workshops in teaching writing to Liberal Education Advisors. Bethel College. August, 1996—present.
Creative writing workshop. Short Fiction. Univ. Of Iowa, Iowa City. 6/96
Creative writing workshop. Poetry. Univ. Of Iowa, Iowa City. 7/97
Mennonite(s) Writing in the U.S., a conference at Goshen College, attended 10/97.
MLA, attended 12/99.

Dissertation

"Collectibles, Fetishes and Hybrid Objects: Object Discourses and Syncretic Female Identity in Recent Cross-Racial North American Women's Representation."

An aesthetics grounded in collection figures strongly in women's formulations of ethnically syncretic identity in contemporary North American multicultural literature. I examine the narrative, critical, and visual practices that use the hybridity, excess, and accumulation of collections to revise the traditionally hierarchical relationship of subject and object, self and other, in American literature and culture.

Honors

Ralph P. Schrag Distinguished Teaching Award, Bethel College, 2000.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Freshman Writing Program, Univ. of Southern California (1994).
Middleton Dissertation Fellowship, English Department. Univ. of Southern California (1994-95).
NEH Nomination for dissertation grant. English Department, Univ. of Southern California (Fall 1993).
Leo S. Bing Award for graduate seminar paper, English. Department, Univ. of Southern California (1991).
High Distinction awarded on Masters Exam, Kansas State Univ., (1990).
Robert W. Conover Memorial Award for academic excellence. Kansas State Univ. (1989).
Research Paper Award, Humanities Division, Bethel College (1985).

Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association MELUS