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Years at Knox: 1997 to present
Education
M.F.A., 1992, University of Massachusetts.
B.A., 1987, University of Massachusetts.
Teaching Interests
Creative writing, fiction, non-fiction, children's literature.
Publications
"Like Falling Up Into a Storybook': Trauma and Intertextual Repetition in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak." Children's Literature Association Quaterly 35 (2010): 395-414.
"Total Stalker." Errant Parent (2010.)
"Ooga Booga and the Writing Life." Diet Soap (October 2009). Essay Podcast November 2009.
"Kafka and Me." The Short Humor Site (September 2009).
"Potluck." Errant Parent (September 2009).
"Liz Lochhead," "William Steig," "Russell Hoban," Entries in Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, Ed., Donald Hasse, Greenwood Press, (2008).
"A Boy Called Horse." Paradigm 7 (2008).
"The Secret Diet." Ken again (2005): 1-5.
"Shrinking." Rose and Thorn (2005).
Presentations
"The Mother/Daughter Plot Enters the Twilight Zone." Paper, Children's Literature Association Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2010.
"I Am Outcast: Trauma and Repetition in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak." Children‘s Literature Association Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2009.
Campus & Community Involvement
College Conduct Council.
Student Life Committee.
Like many Knox College students, Steve Galdek is fond of the squirrels wandering around campus. His research project is enabling him to learn more about their winter-survival strategies.
A few weeks after completing an international assignment to take photos of newly arrived pandas in Scotland, Knox College instructor Michael Godsil is asked to document the delivery of two more pandas in France.
Knox College introduces KnoxReads, an online book discussion. The first selection is "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World," by writer and foreign policy analyst Robin Wright, who visits Knox on February 28.
