Office: Keezell
223
Phone: 540-568-6298/6202
Fax: 540-568-2983
Email: facknima@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2008 -TT - 8:15-9:15, 11-12 and Tu 2-3
Courses: Spring 2008
English 299, Writing about Literature
English 248, Later American Literature
English 662, Studies in Twentieth Century American Literature
Specialties: Twentieth-century British and American
literature, Creative writing
(particularly fiction and essay), Critical theory
Education: Doctor of Philosophy, English, University of
New Mexico, 1983; Master of Fine Arts, Iowa Writer's
Workshop, University of Iowa, 1977; Assistant d'anglais,
Lycée Carnot, Dijon, France, 1972-73; Bachelor of Arts, magna
cum laude, French, Lawrence University of Wisconsin, 1972; Secondary
degree, Collège du Léman, Versoix, Geneva, Switzerland,
1968.
Awards:
*JMU CIT grant for development of online version of creative nonfiction, May 2008.
*
Fulbright American Studies Institute, Egypt. Ain Soukhna, 28 January-3 February, 2005.
• JMU Curriculum Development Grant, Summer 2004. (Development
of course on Vietnam War.)
• JMU Faculty Development Leave, Spring 2000. (Fiction
and essay writing.)
• JMU Curriculum Development Grant, Summer 1999. (Development
of course in creative non-fiction.)
• CMM Grant 1999 for development of on-line creative writing journal for
JMU students.
• JMU Curriculum Development Grant, Summer 1995. (Image
and text database development for English 236.)
• Madison Institute grant, 1991-92, to develop and teach World War I and
Modern Consciousness.
• JMU Faculty Development Leave, Spring 1990.
• First place winner, 1989 Virginia Prize for Fiction, for Las Golondrinas
and Other Stories.
• Residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, July-August,
1989.
• JMU Curriculum Development Grant, for development of course and materials
for Contemporary American Literature, summer 1988.
• JMU Research Grant, for work in twentieth-century British autobiography,
summer 1986.
• Thomas J. Watson Fellow, for travel to India, France, and Mexico, 1974.
Publications:
Essays
• “Cher Maître, for Bruce Cronmiller.” Lawrence UP, in press.
"Where Faith Comes From." Rubber
City. 1.1. (2001): 55-66.
• “Daily Miracles: Teaching Creative Writing in
the Age of Complacency.” Gardy Loo. 2.1 (October 1997):
3-4, 21-23.
• "Love Letter from the Lonely Middle." The
Georgia Review. 48.2 (Summer 1994): 225-238. Nominated for the
Pushcart Prize.
Criticisms
*“’Gone out is part of sanity’: Reading Ivor Gurney’s Shell Shock”. Journal of the Ivor Gurney Society. 13 (2007): 175-192.
*Dream, Death, and the Self. J. J. Valberg. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science. Forthcoming .
**"The Ship We Come Over On: Fact, Image, Myth, and the Self in American Immigration.” Immigration, Assimilation, Cultural Identity: Conference Proceedings. CD-ROM. Harrisonburg, VA: James Madison University, 2007.
*Review of Forgiving Dr. Mengele. Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh. VHS. First Run Features, 2006. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science. 14. 1-2: 183-185.
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Review of Katharine A. Rodger. Breaking Through: Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward Ricketts .Berkeley: U California P, 2006. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science. 14. 1-2: 156-159.
*“Getting It Right by Getting It Wrong: Maya Lin’s Misreading
of Edwin Luytens Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.”
Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal. 7(2004/2005): 47-
69.
*“The Berles Position Military Cemetery, 1917-1918: An Essay
on Margins and Memory. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 12:1/2
(2005): 161-187.
* “Review: The Things They Carried.” Montpelier (Fall 2004):
15-16.
*"Character, Compromise, and Idealism in Willa Cather's
Gardens." Cather Studies 5: Willa Cather’s Ecological Imagination. Lincoln:
U Nebraska P, 2003: 291-307.
*"Shellshock." In History in Dispute, Volume 9: World
War I, Second Series. Dennis Showalter, ed. Columbia, SC: Manly,
2002.
*"The undiscovered country from whose bourn":
William Shakespeare and Joseph Conrad in Frederic Manning's The Middle Parts
of Fortune. Precursors and Aftermath. I. 1 (2000): 78-94.
*"One More Reason We Can't Stop Tugging Over Raymond
Carver's Body." Q. W. E. R. T. Y. 9. Pau: Université de
Pau, 1999: 149-155.
*Review of Rosa Maria Bracco'sMerchants of Hope: British Middlebrow
Writers and the First World War, 1919-1939. South Central Review11.4
(Winter 1994): 62-64.
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Translator, with Jacqueline Berben-Masi: Arlette
Bouloumie, "Writing and Modernism: Michel Tournier's Friday." Style 26.3
(Fall 1992): 447-56.
*"Fascism, Phoria, and the Symbolic Destiny of Abel
Tiffauges." The Journal of Narrative Techique 22.2
(Spring 1992): 105-13.
*"Andre Dubus," "Timothy Mo," and "Tobias
Wolff." Contemporary Novelists. London: St. James Press,
1992.
*"Raymond Carver and the Menace of Minimalism." Rpt.
in Raymond Carver: A Study of the Short Fiction. Ed. Ewing Campbell. Boston:
Twayne, 1992.
*"The Garden and the Self in Great War Autobiography." a/b:
Auto/biography Studies. 5.2 (Fall 1990): 140-51.
*"The Edge of Night: Figures of Change in Henry
Green's Concluding." Twentieth-Century Literature 36.1
(1990): 10-22.
*"Raymond Carver and the Menace of Minimalism." CEACritic. 52.1-2
(Fall 1989-Winter 1990): 62-73.
*"W. H. Auden," "William Gass," "Galway
Kinnell," "Minimalism," and "World War I." Reader's
Encyclopedia of American Literature. George Perkins, ed. New
York: Harper and Row, 1991.
*"Self-Effacement as Revelation: Narration and Art
in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time." The
Journal of Modern Literature. 15.4 (Spring 1989): 519-29.
*"The Ethics of Fiction." Essay review
of Wayne Booth's The Company We Keep. University of Hartford Studies
in Literature. 21.1 (1989): 45-47.
"Cryptic Allusions and the Moral of the Story: The Case of Joseph Conrad's
'The Secret Sharer'." The Journal of Narrative Technique 17.1
(1987): 115-30.
*"'The Calm,' 'A Small, Good Thing,' and 'Cathedral':
Raymond Carver and the Rediscovery of Human Worth." Studies in
Short Fiction 23.3 (1986): 287-96.
*"Missing the Train: Raymond Carver's Sequel to
John Cheever's 'The Five-Forty-Eight'." Studies in Short Fiction 22.3
(1985): 345-347.
Fiction
• "What You Can See in PA." New
Virginia Review. 8 (1991): 42-53.
• "A Practical Problem." The American
Literary Review 1.1 (1990): 21-32.
• "The Girl Next Door." In Earnest. 2.1
(1989): 1-18.
• "Las Golondrinas." Shenandoah. 39.2
(1989): 32-50.
• "Rita." In Earnest 1.1 (1987):
36-45.
• "Small Comfort." The Iowa Review 16.1 (1986): 73-82.
• "The Most Beautiful Sister in the World." The
Antietam Review 1986: 19-25.
• "First Principles." Empty Shelves 2.1
(Fall/Winter, 1985-86): 13-18.
• "Honesty." Story Quarterly 20
(1985): 61-66.
• "The Coldest Winter Ever." New America 5.1
(1984): 26-31.
• "Brewster Lake." Conceptions/Southwest 5
(1983): 52-55.
• "This Little Piggy." Conceptions/Southwest 2
(1979): 37-43.
• "Papa and I Polish the Comet." Iowa
Journal of Literary Studies 1.1 (1977): 133-55.
• The Gravedigger. [novella] Appleton: In the Shade, 1971.
Poetry
• "In Detroit" and "Mission
Statement." In Earnest 1.2 (1988): 34-35.
• "Topography." Reprinted in Keener Sounds. Stanley
Lindberg and Stephen Corey, eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
• "Topography." Reprinted in The Georgia
Review: Fortieth Anniversary Poetry Retrospective 40.3 (1987): 662.
• "For Lovers Whose Addresses I Cannot Find," "Elegy
for a Naturalist," and "The Earthquake at San Xavier." TheLouisville
Review 20 (Spring 1986): 32-34.
• "Summer Night," "Chamber Music," and "Cat's
Binge." Akros Review 11 (1985): 11-14.
• "Topography." The Georgia Review 37.3 (1983):
305.
• "Nostalgia." Conceptions/Southwest 5 (1983):
65.
• "The Manitoulin Before the Squall." The Lake Superior
Review 10 (1979): 26.
• "Poeme I." Tropos 3 (1970): 18.
"My Purple Crayon." The Maglet (New Delhi, 1963): np.
Papers and Selected Other Public Presentations
“Freedom and Endless Exile in Hannah Arendt.” The Space Between Conference. Northwestern University. 13-14 June 2008.
“The Cultural Construction of Psychiatric Injury in the Twentieth Century.” Conference War and Peace: The Eternal Swing. James Madison University. 3-4 April 2008
“Kitsch, Modernity, and the Deathworks.” Keynote lecture. JMU EGO conference, April 2008.
"Ivor Gurney's Shellshock." Conference on Ivor Gurney. Cambridge University. 8-9 September 2007.
"How Shellshock Became PTSD." The Space Between Conference. United States Naval Academy. 7-9 June 2007.
"The Ship We Come Over On: Fact, Image, Myth, and the Self in American Immigration." Conference on Immigration, Assimilation, Cultural Identity. James Madison University, 29-30 March 2007.
•Colloquium “Mourning in Stone: Luytens, Lin, Libeskind.”
University of Massachusetts at Boston. 7 March 2006.
•“The Genealogy of Shellshock: From Soldier’s Heart to
PTSD.” 31st Annual Conference on Literature and Film:
Documenting Trauma, Documenting Terror. Florida State
University, 2-5 February 2006.
•“Self-Effacement Revisited.” Anthony Powell Centennial
Symposium. Georgetown University, 30 September 2005.
•“W. G. Sebald and the Liberation of the Imagination.”
Conference on Freedom. James Madison University, 31 March
2005.
•“Liminal Landscapes, Memorial Ideologies, and the Unheroic
Dead: The Case of the Berles Position Military Cemetery,
1916-1917. Twentieth Century Literature. University of
Louisville, 24 February 2005.
•“Modern Calvaries: Passchendaele, Auschwitz, and
Hiroshima” Humanitas Lecture Series, James Madison
University, 18 January 2005.
• “W. G. Sebald and the Renovation of Traumatic Memory.” Society
for the Study of Narrative Literature, University of Vermont, 22-25 April 2004.
• “Image, Anxiety, and Narrative Arrest.” Holocaust Remembrance
Symposium. James Madison University, 20 April 2004.
• "Imagining Peace after Unimaginable Horror--Verdun, Guernica, Auschwitz,
My Lai and All the Rest" James Madison University, Honors Symposium on Peace,
3 March 2004
• “Kitsch.” Chair, Criticism and Discussion Group. South
Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta,14-16 November, 2003.
• “Kitsch, Art and the Cultural Negotiation of Memory In the Aftermath
of the Great War.” Modernist Studies Association, Birmingham, England,
24-26 September, 2003.
• “With Good Reason: Memories and Legacies of World War One” with
Sarah O’Connell, aired 17 May 2003, a VFH/NPR production, archived
at: http://www.virginia.edu/vfh/wgr/may03wgr.html. Re-aired
5 April 2004.
• “Getting It Right by Getting It Wrong: Maya Lin’s Misreading
of Edwin Luytens’ Thiepval Memorial.” Conference on Culture
and War. University of New Hampshire. 10-13 April 2003.
• "No Man's Land as Boundary, Barrier and Metaphor," South Atlantic
Modern Language Association, Baltimore, 15-17 November, 2002.
• “The Exile of Hannah Arendt.” Conference
on Exile, James Madison University, 24-25 October 2002.
• "Contested Places and Narrative Boundaries: Four Perspectives on
the Ideology of Commemoration and the Ethics of Memory." (Organizer and
participant.) Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Michigan
State University, 11-14 April 2002.
• "Persistent Because Unreliable: The Moviegoer Will
Motor On." Modern Language Association, Washington, D. C., 27-30 December
2000.
• "'a tidy half-acre': Nature, Compromise, and Idealism in Willa
Cather's Gardens." The International Cather Seminar 2000: Willa
Cather's Environmental Imagination. Nebraska City, Nebraska. 17-24
June 2000.
• "Willa Cather's Waste Land: Allusion and
Anomie in One of Ours and The Professor's House. Occidental
College Conference on Willa Cather in the Southwest. Mesa Verde, Colorado. 20-24
October 1999.
• "Contested Memory and Contested Ground: Public Memorials and Private
Memoirs after the Great War." Carolinas Symposium on British Studies. Mary
Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia. 2-3 October 1999.
• “Modernism on the Killing Fields, 1914-1918.” Washington
Area Modernist Symposium. University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland,
24 October 1998.
• "The Berles Position Military Cemetery, 1916-1917: Evidence and Ethics
in Literary and Historical Study." Keynote Address, Madison Conference on
English Studies. Harrisonburg, Virginia, 18 March 1995.
• "Literature or History: Great War Revisionism and the Middle Ground." Carolinas
Symposium on British Studies. Norfolk, Virginia, 15-16 October 1994.
• "'Land where our fathers died': Telling and Retelling the American
Dream in the Writing of Andre Dubus." International Conference on
Narrative Literature, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Vancouver,
British Columbia, 28 April-1 May 1994.
• "The Romance of History and the Sad History of
Romance: A Reading of Willa Cather's The Professor's House." Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference, Louisville, 24-26 February 1994.
• "William Shakespeare and Frederic Manning's Great War." Carolinas
Symposium on British Studies. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina,
17-18 October 1992.
• "Anti-Modernist Strategies in Three Great War Narratives." Narrative,
An International Conference, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tennessee, 10-12 April 1992.
• "Hermeneutics or Hype? The Relevance of Critical Theory to Literary
Studies." Address to English Graduate Organization, James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, Virginia, 12 September 1991.
• "Fascism, Phoria, and the Symbolic Destiny of Abel Tiffauges." Conference
on Narrative, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. University
of Nice, Nice, France, 10-14 June 1991.
• Organizer, two panels on Michel Tournier. Conference on Narrative,
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. University of Nice, Nice,
France, 10-14 June 1991.
• "Raymond Carver and the Christian Gamble." Conference
on Christianity and Literature. Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg,
Virginia, 2-3 November 1990.
• "The Edge of Night: Figures of Change in Henry
Green's Concluding." Carolinas Symposium on British Studies. Appalachian
State University, Boone, North Carolina, 20-21 October 1990.
• "Daily Miracles: Teaching Creative Writing in the Age of Complacency." Principal
speaker, North Carolina/ Virginia C. E. A., Harrisonburg, Virginia. 13
October 1990.
• "Virginia Writers III: Mark Facknitz," interview with Ben Cleary. Funded
by Virginia Commission for the Arts and regionally syndicated on NPR, fall 1990.
• "The Craft of Fiction," Keynote speaker, Shenandoah
Valley Writers' Guild Annual Conference. Front Royal, Virginia. 19
May 1990.
• "Through the Dark Continent: Henry M. Stanley and the Imperialist
Narrative." Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative
Literature. New Orleans, 5-7 April 1990.
• Fiction Reading, "Las Golondrinas." Virginia Prize Winners
Reading, Virginia Museum. Richmond, 14 January 1990.
• Organizer and moderator. "Raymond Carver: From Monologue
and Minimalism to the Beautiful Window." Special session, Modern
Language Association. Washington, D. C., 27-30 December 1989.
• Interviews and readings of "Honesty," and
excerpts from Small Winners, The Valley Voice, special broadcasts
for the visually impaired. WMRA FM, 8 July and 25 November 1989.
• "The Ludic Impulse: Play as a Paradigm for Aesthetic Response." Eastern
Division Meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics. Philadelphia,
21-22 April 1989.
• Fiction Reading. "Las Golondrinas." James
Madison University, 13 April 1989.
• "Raymond Carver and the Menace of Minimalism." Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference. Louisville, 23-25 February 1989.
• "Play and Representation in Tristram Shandy:
The Paradox of Uncle Toby." Midwest Modern Language Association. Saint
Louis, 3-6 November, 1988• "'We Who Must Die Soon': War and Selfhood
in Twentieth-Century British Autobiography." Carolinas Symposium
on British Studies. James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia,
15-16 October 1988.
• Satiric Conventions in Anthony Powell's O! How
the Wheel Becomes It." College English Association. New
Orleans, 14-16 April 1988.
• Moderator, Session II.2: "Issues in Eighteenth-Century Narrative." Conference
on Narrative Literature of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Columbus,
8-10 April 1988.
• Fiction reading. "What You Can See in
PA." University of Akron, 7 April 1988.
• "The Purpose of Autobiography." Shenandoah
Valley Writer's Guild. Middletown, Virginia, 13 March 1988.
• "Nobody, Somebody, Everybody--Odysseus the Freshman." Freshman
Reading Series Lecture. James Madison University, 22 September 1987.
• "Self-Effacement as Revelation: Narration
and Art in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time." International
Conference on Narrative Literature of the Society for the Study of Narrative
Literature. Ann Arbor, 2-4 April 1987.
• "Henry Green's Concluding." Sigma
Tau Delta English Honor Society Lecture. James Madison University, 19
March 1987.
• “Death's Season and the Second Self: Preservation as Creation
in English Autobiography after the Great War. Twentieth-Century Literature
Conference. Louisville, 25-27 March 1987.
• Fiction reading. "Small Comfort" and "The Most
Beautiful Sister in the World." James Madison University, 29 January
1987.
• "Cryptic Allusions and the Moral of the Story: The Case of Joseph
Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer'." Conference on Narrative Poetics of
the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Columbus, 10-12 April
1986.
• Fiction and poetry readings. "Small Comfort," "Honesty," and
other work. University of Akron, 9 April 1986.
• Fiction reading. "William Tiller," excerpt from work
in progress. Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville,
26-28 February 1986.
• Fiction reading. Passages from The Small
Winners, work in progress. James Madison University, 28 February
1985.
• "Writing One's Life." Sunnyside
Presbyterian Home, Massanetta Springs, Virginia, 6 February 1985.
• Fiction reading. "Brewster Lake" and "The Coldest
Winter Ever." James Madison University, April 1984.
• Fiction reading. "Papa and I Polish the
Comet." Epstein's Bookstore Iowa Review Benefit, Iowa City,
Iowa, March 1977.
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