Lindsay
Knisely
Lecturer-in-Residence, Oakes College
Office: Oakes
313
Phone: 831.459.1829
E-mail: lknisely@ucsc.edu
Education
M.F.A. in Poetry, University of Oregon Creative Writing Program,
June 2001
Concentrations: Ethos and the Construction of the Poetic
Speaker, Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Theory
B.A. in Creative Writing, Oberlin College, May 1999
Concentrations: African-American Literature and Literary
Theory, Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics
Research
interests
Establishing Ethos in Writing
Writing of Witness
Poetry Analysis and Interpretation
African-American Literature and Literary Theory
Writing as Social Activism
Writing as Identity Development
Classes
taught
Three courses offered through Oakes College:
• "Values and Change in a Diverse
Society," the Oakes College Core Course
• "Diverse Voices in Contemporary
American Women's Poetry," offered spring quarter
• Coming soon! "Re/Presenting
Identity," a writing course offered by Oakes in winter 2007
Selected
publications
"Charleston, South Carolina." Monson, Ander, ed. (Some
From) Diagram: An Anthology of Text, Art, and Schematic. Washington, DC: Del
Sol Press, 2003.
"Lake Ontario in Midwinter." Climate Controlled: An
Electronic Anthology of Northern Literature, Spring 2002.
[http://thediagram.com/cc/]
"Charleston, South Carolina." Diagram 1.6 (2001).
[http://www.webdelsol.com/DIAGRAM/1_6/index.html]
"Ashtabula." The Oklahoma Review 1.2 (2000).