Office:Keezell 224
Phone: 540-568-6860
Email: bleegek@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 MW 11:00-2:15 and by appointment
COURSES:
IDLS 400:Seminar in Liberal Studies
ENG 332: Contemporary Poetry, Tu 7:00-9:30
ENG 391: Introductions to Creative Writing, Non-Fiction, MW 2:30-3:45
SPECIALTIES:
African American Literature, Contemporary Poetry, Literary Nonfiction Writing
EDUCATION:
MFA, University of Iowa, Nonfiction Writing Program, 2004
MA, University of Chicago, Humanities, 2001
BA, James Madison University, English and Art History, 1996
HONORS:
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2007
Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Literary Nonfiction, The Missouri Review, 2006
T. Anne Cleary Fellowship, travel research fellowship, University of Iowa, 2003
Stanley Foundation Fellowship, travel research fellowship, University of Iowa, 2002
Iowa Arts Fellowship, full tuition scholarship, University of Iowa, 2001–2003
Ruth Murray Prize for the essay, “Rituals of Initiation in Benin, West Africa,” Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago, 2001
First Place Honors Thesis in the Department of English, James Madison University, 1996
First Place Poetry Prize, James Madison University, 1995 & 1996
First Place Fiction Prize, James Madison University, 1994 & 1995
NONFICTION PUBLICATIONs:
“The Country They Lost.” Review of When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, by Peter Godwin and Rainbow’s End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm, by Lauren St John. The Iowa Review, Winter 2007/2008.
“Doucement,” Barnstorm, Spring 2007.
“Obedience,” The Missouri Review, Spring 2006.
“Out of Obscurity: A Peace Corps Volunteer’s Journey in Benin,” Montpelier. Winter 2002.
“Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland: Revision in a Nationalist Tradition,” James Madison University Undergraduate Research, 1996.
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