Zabelle Stodola
(In publications only: Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola)
EDUCATION
The Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. (Honors), 1976-80 The Pennsylvania State University, M.A. (Honors), 1974-76
London University Institute of Education, Graduate Certificate in Education, 1971-72
The University of Kent at Canterbury (England), B.A. (Honours), English and American Literature, 1967-70
EMPLOYMENT
Director, William G. Cooper, Jr., Honors Program in English, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), 2004-2011; Interim Director, Fall 2012 Professor of English, UALR, 1990-2012
Associate Professor of English (tenured), UALR, 1985-90
Assistant Professor of English, UALR, 1980-85
Graduate Assistant/Part-time Lecturer, The Pennsylvania State University, 1974-80
Lecturer in English Language and Literature, Uxbridge Technical College (England), 1972-74
SELECTED GRANTS
- Arts and Culture Heritage Grant from the State of Minnesota to fund supplementary material for Renville book, 2010-11 (applicants of record were Carrie R. Zeman, my co-editor, and the Pond Dakota Heritage Society)
- UALR College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences research fellowships, 2008, 2009, 2011
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends, 1997 and 2003
- Newberry Library/South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Short-term Fellowship, 1999
- Newberry Library/SCMLA Fellowship, 1995
- UALR summer research stipends, 1990, 1993, 1999, 2001-03
- SCMLA research grant abroad, 1988
- Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, research stipend, 1982
- Mentor of the Year 2012, McNair Scholars Program, UALR
- The University of Nebraska Press nominated my co-edited book A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity: Dispatches from the Dakota War (2012) for the Ray Allen Billington Prize (Organization of American Historians).
- The University of Nebraska Press nominated my book The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature (2009) for the Jacques Barzun Prize (American Philosophical Society), the John Hope Franklin Prize (the American Studies Association), the Christian Gauss Award (Phi Beta Kappa), the Chicago Folklore Prize (American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago), the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, the Robert G. Athearn Book Award and the Caughey Western History Association Prize both sponsored by the Western History Association, and the Albert J. Beveridge Award (American Historical Association).
- Faculty Excellence Award for Research, UALR, 1995, 2004, and 2011
- Honorable Mention, Richard Beale Davis Prize for best essay in Early American Literature, 1987. Awarded to “Puritan Orthodoxy and the ‘Survivor Syndrome’ in Mary Rowlandson's Indian Captivity Narrative.” Volume 22 (1987): 82-93.
- Fulbright Travel Grant & English-Speaking Union Scholarship, 1974-79 (England to USA)
- President, Society of Early Americanists, 2003-05 (was Vice President, 2001-03, and Executive Coordinator, 1999-01)
- Editorial Board, Early American Literature (1994-97)
- Editorial Board, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (2000-02)
- Editorial Board, Literature in the Early Republic (2007-)
- Reviewer, NEH Summer Stipends, 1999-2001 & 2004
- Tenure/promotion reviews for Michigan State, Emory, Kent State, Old Dominion, Illinois State, Georgia State, Texas Christian, Central Florida, Santa Clara, Southern Maine, and Drexel Universities, University of Connecticut, Lehman College/CUNY, University of New England, The College of New Jersey, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
- Manuscript reviews for St. Martin’s Press, University of Chicago Press, Kent State University Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of Oklahoma Press, University Press of Kentucky, University of Georgia Press, University Press of Florida, West Virginia University Press, & Broadview Press (Canada)
A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity: Dispatches from the Dakota War by Mary A. Renville. Scholarly edition. Co-edited with Carrie R. Zeman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. Book’s website and ongoing blog entries at http://athrillingnarrative.com
The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature. Critical monograph. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Women's Indian Captivity Narratives. Anthology with general and individual introductions, notes, and bibliography. New York: Penguin Classics, 1998.
The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550-1900. Critical monograph co-authored with James A. Levernier. New York: Macmillan/Twayne, 1993.
Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole. Edited collection of essays. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992.
The Journal and Occasional Writings of Sarah Wister. Scholarly edition. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987.
SELECTED ARTICLES
Profile of “Ann Eliza Webb Young (Denning).” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 26 (2009): 150-59.
“Captivity, Liberty, and Early American Consciousness.” Review essay. Early American Literature 43 (2008): 715-24.
“’Many persons say I am a “Mono Maniac”’: Three Letters from Dakota Conflict Captive Sarah F. Wakefield to Missionary Stephen R. Riggs.” Article includes introduction, transcription, and annotation of three letters written in 1863 from Sarah Wakefield to Stephen Riggs. Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies, volume 29 (2004): 1-24. Cambridge University Press, ed. Jack Salzman.
“Dime Novels.” Co-authored with Colin T. Ramsey. In A Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865, ed. Shirley Samuels. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 262-73.
“The Captive as Celebrity.” In Lives out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation, ed. Robert D. Habich. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004. 65-92.
“Captivity and the Literary Imagination.” In The Cambridge Companion to 19th-Century American Women’s Writing, ed. Dale Bauer and Philip Gould. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 105-21.
“Book Marketing and Indian/White Stereotypes.” Inform 13.3 (2001): 4-9, 34. Inform is the journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (Chicago); the article appeared in a special issue on designing history and historical design.
“Captivity Narratives.” In Teaching the Literatures of Early America, ed. Carla Mulford. New York: MLA, 1999. 243-55.
“The Captive and Her Editor: The Ciphering of Olive Oatman and Royal B. Stratton.” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 23 (1998): 171-92. Cambridge University Press, ed. Jack Salzman.
“Troping America.” Review Essay. Early American Literature 30 (1995): 188-95.
“The Indian Captivity Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Olive Oatman: Case Studies in the Continuity, Evolution, and Exploitation of Literary Discourse.” Discourse in Early America issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination, guest ed. Reiner Smolinski, 27 (1994): 33-46.
Profile of “Sarah Wister.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 10 (1993): 128-34.
“The New England Frontier and the Picaresque in Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal.” In Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992. 122-31.
“’The excellency of the inferior sex’: The Commendatory Writings on Anne Bradstreet.” Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 1 (1990): 129-47.
“The Publication, Promotion, and Distribution of Mary Rowlandson's Indian Captivity Narrative in the Seventeenth Century.” Lead article with cover illustration, Early American Literature 23 (1988): 239-61.
“Puritan Orthodoxy and the ‘Survivor Syndrome’ in Mary Rowlandson's Indian Captivity Narrative.” Early American Literature 22 (1987): 82-93.
“’A dear dear friend’: Six Letters from Deborah Norris to Sarah Wister, 1778-9.” In special Philadelphia issue of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 108 (October 1984): 487-516.
“An Examination of the Drafts of Hemingway's Chapter ‘Nick sat against the wall of the church. . . .’” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 77 (1983): 54-65. Rpt. Critical Essays on Hemingway's In Our Time, ed. Michael Reynolds. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983: 61-75.
“Lost in the Crowd: Rebecca Rush's Kelroy (1812).” The American Transcendental Quarterly 47-48 (1980): 117-26.
SELECTED SERVICE AT UALR
University & College: Policy Advisory Council, 1997-99; University Senate, 1994-99; Provost's Committee on Teaching Load Criteria, 1993-94; Faculty Excellence Awards Committee, 1994, 1996, 1998-2002, 2009-10; Team leader, Undergraduate Research Committee, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 2002-04, committee member, 2010-12; Chair, campuswide Undergraduate Research Committee 2004-07; campuswide Student Research Team, 2010-12; Search Committee, Vice Chancellor for Research/Dean of the Graduate School, 2004-05
English Department: Dean's Transitional Advisory Committee on formation of new English Department, 1993; Annual Evaluation Committee, 1993-94, 1998-99, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2008, 2009, 2010; Assessment Committee, 2000-04, 2007-09; English Honors Program Committee, 2001-03, 2011-12; Personnel Committee, 1987-89, 1998-99, 2009-11; Composition Committee, 1980-84; Recruitment Committee, 1981-83, 1985-86, 1990-92, 2001, 2008-10; Curriculum Committee, 1982-84, 1996-98, 2000-02, 2003-05, 2008-10; Research Committee, 1984-86, 1988-90, 1998-2000; Graduate Committee, 1990-92, 1994-96; Administrative Committee, 1984-88; Ad Hoc Committees to Investigate Department Evaluation Guidelines, 1983-84, 1988-89, 2000. Have chaired all major department committees.
SELECTED ADDRESSES
“Mary Schwandt and Maggie Brass: A Minnesota Pocahontas Story?” Brown County (Minnesota) Historical Society Dakota War Symposium, New Ulm, Minnesota, August 2012. Address posted on website www.athrillingnarrative.org
Remarks at book launch party for A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity: Dispatches from the Dakota War. Pond Dakota Heritage Society, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 2012
“The Challenges of Writing The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature.” Pond Dakota Heritage Society, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 2010
Invited presentation on pedagogy and the archive at the Women in the Archives Symposium, University of New England, Portland, Maine, June 2009
“The Accidental Colonialist: Notes on Academic Choice and Identity.” Presidential address.
“Ethnic Stereotypes and Contemporary Book Marketing.” Keynote speaker, American Institute of Graphic Arts (Chicago), Inform: The Night, November 2001
“Using Archival Materials on American Women Writers.” Invited address, University of New England, Portland, Maine, February 2000
“White/Indian Stereotypes and Book Marketing in the 1990s.” Colloquium, Newberry Library, Chicago, November 1999
RADIO WORK
Conceptualized, developed, and recorded radio series “Speaking Volumes”: spots on literary topics on KLRE and KUAR, the two National Public Radio stations based in Little Rock and airing throughout the state. (1997-2011).
