Concordia College

Dr. Joan Kopperud Department Chair
Associate Professor
218.299.3710
kopperud@cord.edu

B.A., Concordia College; M.S., Mankato State University; Ph.D., University of North Dakota

Research Interests: Composition and Rhetoric, Multicultural literature, Pedagogy, Service learning

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Along with Dr. Harvey Stalwick, Professor Kopperud presented Centennial Scholars research project she recently completed entitled "Strangers at Our Gate: A Social History of Hospitality at a County Poor Farm."  This project covered the Lac Qui Parle County poor farm from 1930 to 1951.   Professor Kopperud also attended the annual conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education.  KVLY TV also aired a story about a collaboration she arranged wit  Moorhead Junior High, Nokomis Child Care Center, and her reading methods course.

B.A., Concordia College
Research Interests:Continuing search for the perfect golf course

Recent Projects and Achievements:

Ole and Lucy Flaat Distinguished Service Award for Support Staff- April 2005

Omicron Delta Kappa- April 2005

B.S. University of Wisconsin-Platteville; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Research Interests: Nonfiction writing, regional history and writing, vocabulary development and learning, English as a second language

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Professor Coomber, along with Sheldon Green of the Office of Communications and Marketing and Tom Riley, dean of NDSU Arts and Humanities, helped write a paper titled "Factions, Fictions, and Prospects for Farming and Ranching in the Upper Great Plains," which was presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans.  His article "Vegetables Bring New Crop Possibilities for North Dakota," has been published in North Dakota Horizons magazine.

Kim Crowley
Instructor
218.299.3969
crowley@cord.edu

B.A., Stephen F. Austin State University; M.Ed., North Texas State University; Ph.D., University of North Texas

Research Interests: Twentieth-century British/global literature, Irish literature, Postcolonial theory, Drama

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Professor Duncan's book on Irish drama, which is titled Language, Identity, and Postcolonial Playwriting,  is now available, published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2003.  She also published a chapter titled "A Flexible Foundation: Constructing a Postcolonial Dialogue" in the book on Postcolonial Theory, Relocation Postcolonial.  The book was published by Blackwell in 2002.  In the summer of 2003, she also delivered a paper, "Compassionate Contact:  When Irish Playwrights Reach Out for Others," in Debrecen, Hungary, at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature and served as the U.S. representative to the Executive Council.  At that annual conference, participants elected Duncan secretary of the international organization for a three-year term.  Also for that organization, Duncan presented at a conference in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in 2002.  Duncan's additional presentations include the American Conference for Irish Studies in Milwaukee and the Association of Core Texts and Courses in Montreal.

B.A., San Francisco State University; M.A., California State University, Hayward; Ph.D., University of California, Davis.

Research Interests: Early American literature, ethnicity, gender, the American West.  His other scholarly interests include critical theory, film, graphic art, and Tai-Chi.  

Recent Projects and Achievements:

He is currently revising his manuscript entitled “Native Americans and Manifest Domesticity” for publication as a book.

B.A., Abo Akademi, Finland; M.S. and Ph.D., Purdue University

Research Interests: Literary criticism and theory, Women's studies

M.F.A., Creative Writing (fiction), University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Graduate fiction courses, George Mason University; B.A., French/Journalism, Moravian College

Research Interests: Fiction Writing, The Lyric Essay, and Women's Studies

Karla Knutson
Instructor
218.299.3714
knutson@cord.edu

Dr. Gordon Lell
Professor
218.299.3717
lell@cord.edu

B.A., Western Colorado State College; M.A., Colorado State University; Ph.D., University of Nebraska

Research Interests: Shakespeare, English Renaissance literature, Chaucer

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Professor Lell attended the 31st annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Victoria, British Columbia.  At the 32nd annual meeting of the organization in New Orleans, he presented a paper "Shakespeare's Battle of Agincourt:  Two Film Versions of 'Henry V'." 

B.S., Moorhead State University; M.F.A., Bennington College

Research Interests: Journalism

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Elected president of the board of Family HeathCare Center, which provides affordable primary heath care to low-income and uninsured people.  Was also awarded the 2002 Media Award from the North Dakota Mental Heath Association for her writing about mental health issues.

B.A. and M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Research Interests: Nature writing, Travel writing, Essay writing, Fiction writing, Publishing

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Most recently, Professor Olson has acquired attention for his adventures on board one of the planes that fly into the eye of a hurricane, about which he will be writing.  He has also been published in River Teeth, North Dakota Quarterly, Tampa Review, and Del Sol Review.  His book Gravity--The Allure of Distance--Essays on the Act of Travel was published in 2003.  In addition, he received a grant from the Lake Region Arts Council to support a travel essay about northern roads in winter.  Also, he spoke at the annual conference of the Associated Writing Programs, the University of Eastern Washington, and the Glacier/Waterton Writers conference.

B.A., Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests:  Temporal structures in Robert Frost's lyric poems, folk literature, history of Dutch surnames

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Professor Postema's paper "First (Double) Crossings:   Vikings, Christianity, and the Skraelings" was accepted for presentation at the American Studies Association annual conference in November 2004 and was subsequently published online, as well.

B.A., Florida Atlantic University; M.A., Temple University; Ph.D., Florida State University

Research Interests: Creative writing; Intertextual/mixed-genre writing; Contemporary poetry; Modern British, Postcolonial and World literatures

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Professor Snyder was awarded a 2004 ND Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for literature.  He has also read from his chapbook My Mother Liked Leno Best at the Poetry Society of South Carolina in Charleston on September 12, 2003.  The chapbook won the society's 2002 Kinloch Rivers Chapbook Competition.  Other publications include poems "What Happens to Curt Cobain"  in Bryant Literary Review, "A Train Into Morning" in Chaffin Journal, "Desire" in Ship of Fools, "Rain and the Smell of Time" in The Louisville Review, and "I Make a Poem While Steaming Pots" in English Journal.

B.A., Bethel College (Kansas); M.A., University of Kansas; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Medieval literature and culture, Arthurian legends, Fantasy literature, Linguistics, Folklore

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Professor Sprunger presented "Malory and Grief" at the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University.  He also presented a paper, "Later Renaissance Political and Religious Propaganda in Chaucer's Name," at the same conference two years later.  At the Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literatures in Sioux Falls, SD, Professor Sprunger presented a paper and chaired a session on medieval and renaissance romance.  In addition to his presentations, he has worked with Timothy S. Jones to edit a new book titled Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles:  Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations, in which he has an essay published.

B.A., Concordia College; M.A. and Ph.D., State University of New York - Binghamton

Research Interests: Literary Criticism, Comparative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, Gender studies, Continental philosophy, Global and multicultural literature, Cultural Studies

Recent Projects and Achievements:
Professor Steinwand had an essay published in "The Wider World of Core Texts and courses:  Selected Papers from the Association for Core Texts and Courses' Seventh Annual Conference."  He has also presented a paper at the American Comparative Literature Association conference on Global and Ethnic Networks--Old and New at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  At the Red River Conference on World Literature at NDSU, he presented a paper, "Aloha Asian/Pacific Islanders:  The Contest for Authentic Decolonialization of Hawaiian Culture."

PhD, English Literature, and minor in History, University of North Dakota; M.A. and B.A., English Literature, North Dakota State University

Research Interests: Eighteenth- and nineteenth- century English and American writers, origins of the novel, gender studies, eighteenth- and nineteenth- century European history, women's writing