Sandra Hutchison

Sandra Hutchison
Adjunct Professor of English
5752 Neville Hall, Room 302
Orono, Maine 04469-5752
U.S.A.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Topic: The Betrayed Generation: The Literary Leftwing Movement of the 1930s in Canada

Doctoral Dissertation: Form and Vision in the Poetry of Dorothy Livesay, A Literary Biography, 1909-1986

Ph.D., English Literature, University of Toronto
M.A., English Literature, University of Western Ontario
B.A., English Literature, University of Western Ontario

POSITIONS HELD

Poetry Editor, Puckerbrush Review, 2006-08
Adjunct Professor, University of Maine, 2003-08
Guest Lecturer, Canadian Studies, University of Maine, 2002-08
Lecturer, University of Hong Kong, 1998-99
Lecturer, City University of Hong Kong, 1996-97
Senior Resident Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto, 1994-95
Researcher, Baha’i World Center, Haifa, Israel, 1991-93
Asst. Prof.(English/WST), Trent University, 1990-91
Foreign Correspondent, Indian Post (Mumbai, India), 1989
Foreign Expert, Anhui University, China, 1988-89
Research Fellow, Killam Postdoc. Fellow, U.B.C., 1986-88

Canadian Literature and Studies, Maine Literature and Studies, Cross Border Studies (Literature of Canada and the United States), Creative Writing

Freshman Composition, Business and Technical Writing, Practical Writing, Forms of Oral Discourse (Public Speaking), Effective Writing, English Literature and Composition, Introduction to Women's Studies, Gender and Literature, Canadian Women's Literature, Modernism and Its Roots, Canadian Literature, Shakespeare, Modern Literature, Introduction to British Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, The Novel, Science and Literature, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Canadian Women’s Literature, Creative Writing (Memoir, Fiction, Poetry), Coastal Literature: Maine and the Maritimes

* Graduate Faculty in Women’s Studies and Maine Studies, University of Maine, 2008
* Faculty, Wilmette Institute( Long Distance Learning), 2002-08

"The Love Poetry of Dorothy Livesay," (M.A., Nanjing University, Nanjing, China); "Dorothy Livesay's Poetry and the Gita," (Ph.D., S.N.D.T. University, Mumbai, India); "Margaret Drabble's Fiction," (M.A., Anhui University, Hefei, China)

2006 - Finalist, Teaching Fellows, Wesleyan Writer’s Conference
2006 - Best Encyclopedia Award, “Women and the Baha’i Faith in North America,” in Women and Religion in North America, ed. Rosemary Reuther, Columbia University Press, New York
2005 - Editor's Choice Poet for Puckerbrush Review, Terry Plunkett Poetry Festival
2004 - Emily Dickinson Award for Poetry, Universities West Press
1996 - Chinese Brushstrokes selected for inclusion in Books for Everyone, an Editor's Choice Catalogue
1994 - Ontario Arts' Council Works-in-Progress Grant
1994 - Association of Baha’i Studies Scholarship, Cambridge, Mass.
1992 - Guest Scholar Sino-American Seminar on Women's Issues, Shanghai, China
1990 - SSHRC International Travel Grant
1990 - Trent University Travel Grant
1989-90 - Ontario Arts Council Writer's Reserve Grant
1987 - Shastri Indo-Canadian Travel Grant to Lecture in India
1986-88 - Izaac Walton Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Women of the Coast: An Anthology of Literature by Women of Maine and the Maritimes

“The Art of Nesting,” anthologized in Where Art and Faith Converge, ed. Michael Fitzgerald (GR, Oxford, England, 2008)

“Weeds” and “The Art of Nesting,” The Terry Plunkett Anthology (Winter 2005)

"Weeds," in Universities West Press Anthology of Emily Dickinson Poetry Prize Winners, 2005

“Puckerbrush Portfolio # 12: Sandra Hutchison, "A Song from The Song of Songs," "Eight Poems from China," Puckerbrush Review (Summer/ Fall 2002)

“Annie’s Joe,” (short story) in Where Art and Faith Converge (GR, Oxford, 2007)

“Drawing the Map, Writing the Journey” (creative non-fiction) in Where Art and Faith Converge (GR, Oxford, England, 2007)

"Waving Hands Like Clouds," Chinese Ink: Western Pen, The Oxford Anthology of Stories Written by Westerners about China (Oxford University Press, London, 2000)

"A Prophet From the East," a one-act play produced in Haifa, Israel (January 1992)

”Opening Up the Mysteries of Aging,” Rev. of Fierce With Reality, ed. Margaret Cruikshank (Tillbury House, 2007), Puckerbrush Review (Fall/Winter 2008)

“All Crows Are Equally Black,” Rev. of Original Works performed at the University of Maine, Puckerbrush Review, (Fall/Winter 2008).

“Of Christians, Children, and Chowder – Margaret Avison in Orono,” Puckerbrush Review (Winter/Spring 2008)

“The Homeward Voyage,” Rev. of Vanishing Act, by Kathleen Ellis (C.C. Marimbo Communications, Berkeley, CA, 2007) Puckerbrush Review ( Winter/Spring 2008)

“A Proliferation of Puckerbrush: Celebrating 28 Years of PR,” Constance Hunting Memorial Issue of Puckerbrush Review (Spring 2007)

"Working in the Dark in a Worldly Way, Discovering the Word: Reflections on the Art of Constance Hunting," in Puckerbrush Review (Fall/Winter 2006)

"The Amazing Forms of Grace," Review of new poetry by Constance Hunting, in Off the Coast (April 2006); reprinted in Puckerbrush Review (Fall/Winter 2006)

"Women and the Baha'i Faith," in Women and Religion in North America, ed. Rosemary Reuther (Columbia University Press: New York, New York, 2006)

"Remembering Dorothy Livesay: A Memoir," Puckerbrush Review (Summer/ Fall 2002)

"The Path of Beauty: The Literary Life of Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum," World Order (Winter 2000)

"Introduction," The Diary of Agnes Parsons, ed. Richard Hollinger (Kalimat Press, Los Angeles, 1996)

"Frontiers of Imagination: The African Experience of Dorothy Livesay and Karen Blixen," Canada and the Nordic Countries, eds. Jorn Carlsen and Bengt Streijffert (Lund University Press, 1988)

"Dorothy Livesay's American Experience and the Evolution of her Poetry of Protest," in Arrivals: Canadian Poetry in the Eighties, ed. Bruce Meyer (Greenfield Centre, N.Y., Greenfield Review Press, 1986)

Dorothy Livesay:Profiles in Canadian Literature, ed. Jeffrey Heath (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1986)

"What is Truth?" Review Article, Journey with My Selves, an autobiographical memoir by Dorothy Livesay, in Canadian Literature (Winter 1992)

Review of the Canadian film "Prairie Women," Director Barbara Evans, in Canadian Literature, (Summer 1989)

Review Article, The Self-Completing Tree by Dorothy Livesay, and A Public and Private Life, eds. Lindsay Dorney, Gerald Noonan, and Paul Tiessen, in Canadian Literature (Summer 1988)

Review of The Glass Air, by P.K. Page, in Canadian Literature (Summer/Fall 1987)

Review of Dry Media, by Brenda Riches and Lacuna, by Laura McLauchlan, in BRICK: A Journal of Reviews 14, (1982)

Review of Pointwise, by Derk Wynand and Ticket Stubbs for the Bullgang, by David Conn, in Cross-Canada Writer's Quarterly 3, Nos. 2-3 (1980)

"Celebrating Confucius' Birthday in His Hometown," China Reconstructs (North American Edition), Vol. XXXVII, No. 8 (August 1989).

"Sisters Meet Sisters: Canadian Women's Delegation in Anhui Province," in China Reconstructs (North American Edition), Vol. XXXVI, No. 8 (August 1987).

"Modrooten," (Culture Column), article on Canadian Studies conference in Lund, Sweden, in Dagens Nyheter (Daily News, Stockholm), 31 August 1987.

Presenter, “Dorothy Livesay and the Literary Leftwing in Canada,” for Panel on The Literature of the 1930s, with Burton Hatlen and and Carla Billateri, Marxist Lunch Series, University of Maine, Winter 2007

Convenor, Chair, and Presenter, A Proliferation of Puckerbrush: A Celebration of 28 Years of Puckerbrush Review, The Fogler Libray, University of Maine, 16 October 2006

Chair and Interviewer, “The Poetry of Margaret Avison,” Poetry of the 1940s, sponsored by the National Poetry Foundation, English Department, University of Maine, July 2004

“Radicalism on the 1930s Prose of Shoghi Effendi: The Great Depression, World War II and the Destiny of America," Conference on American History, Wilmette, Illinois, March 1994

"Developing New Models of Scholarship," A.B.S. Campus Association Talk, University of Toronto, October 1993

"Canadian Women's Literature: Evolving Patterns," East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, November 1992

"Women, Scholarship, and Service: Using Higher Education to Translate Ideas into Action," Sino-American Seminar on Women's Issues, Shanghai, China, November 1992
"Women Today and Tomorrow: A Report on the 1992 Sino-American Seminar on Women's Issues held in Shanghai, China," Allenby Lecture Series, Haifa, Israel, November 1992

"The Equality of the Sexes and the New Scholarship," Anhui University, Hefei, China, November 1992

"Martha Root's Pilgrimage to Qazvin: Love and the Art of Biography," Allenby Lecture Series, Haifa, Israel, November 1991

"The Path of Renunciation: Sacrifice, Fulfilment, and the Female Self in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss," Women’s Studies Lecture Series, Trent University, 1991

"The Seven Ages of Woman -- Love and the Liberal Education of Tess of the D'Ubervilles," Trent University Women's Studies Lectures, 1991

"Creating Concepts of Global Citizenship: The Art of Teaching Shakespeare in China," Annual Conference on Higher Education, Dalhousie University, Halifax, June 1991

"Tradition and Modernization: Developing a Framework for a Curriculum for Moral Education in China," Hong Kong Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 1990

"An Introduction to Canadian Studies," "An Introduction to Canadian Politics," "A Survey of English Literature," "The Literature of the Bible," "An Introduction to Canadian Women's Literature," Fu Yang Teachers College, Fu Yang, China, November 1988

"A Survey of Canadian Women's Writing" and "The Literary Leftwing Movement in Canada in the 1930s," Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Lecture Tour of Indian Universities, at the University of Rajasthan (Jaipur), S.N.D.T. University (Mumbai), the University of Aurangabad (Aurangabad), Osmania University (Mysore), and the Mysore Semiotics' Circle at the Central Institute for Indian Languages (Mysore), March 1988

"Poetry and Politics in Canada in the 1930s: A Literary Response to the Question of Colonialism," Association of Canadian Studies Conference, Delhi, India, March 1988

"Frontiers of Imagination: The African Experience of Dorothy Livesay and Karen Blixen," Nordic Association of Canadian Studies Conference, Lund, Sweden, August 1987

"`An Odd Attempt in a Woman': A Survey of Canadian Women's Writing from Pioneer Times to the Present," Communist Party School for Women Cadres, Hefei, China, September 1986

Reading and Book Signing, New Book Celebration for The Art of Nesting sponsored by the Orono Public Library (November 20, 2008)

Writing Your Life, a course in memoir writing offered through the Orono Public Library, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council (Summer 2006 & Fall 2007)

Reader (Poetry), Terry Plunkett Poetry Festival (April 2006)

Editor's Choice Reader, Puckerbrush Review, Terry Plunkett Poetry Festival, (April 2005)

Reading (Memoir) and Book Signing, Orono Writes, Orono Public Library (November 9, 2005)

Two Day Intensive Creative Writing Workshop, The Spirit of Children, A Conference on Writing for Children, Eliot, Maine (Summer 2004).

Reading (Poetry from Puckerbrush ), Poets for Peace, Bangor Public Library (Spring 2004)

Writing Workshops for Children, Stillwater Montessori School (Fall/Winter 2004-2005)

Reading (Poetry), First Annual Penobscot Poetry Walk, Bangor, Maine (October 23, 2004)

Reading from The Red Pen Society, Orono Writes, Orono Public Library (November 2003)

Reading from The Red Pen Society, Teaching East Asia: History, Literature, and the Arts, National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, University of Maine (Spring 2003)

Reading, Poets/Speak! Many Voices Reading, Bangor Public Library, April 17, 2003

Reading from The Red Pen Society and Chinese Brushstrokes, Women in the Curriculum, Women's Studies Department, Univ. of Maine (December 5, 2001)

Convenor, Community Poetry Readings Series including Orono Writes (Orono Public Library, November 2003; Poetry Reading by Michael Fitzgerald and Madeleine Slavick (Orono Pharmacy, Summer 2002); Phoenix and Dove: A Reading of Persian Mystical Poetry (Orono Pharmacy, Fall 2003; and Reading by Constance Hunting and Sandy Phippen (Orono Public Library, 2002)

Participant, Chinese Association of Canadian Studies First International Conference, Beijing, China, July 1990.

Consulting Editor for The Self-Completing Tree: The Selected Poems of Dorothy
Livesay (1985-1986)

Commentator for C.B.C. State of the Arts programme on Dorothy Livesay broadcast, Sunday May 15, 1988.

Editorial Staff for Canadian Literature: A Journal of Arts and Letters (University of British Columbia), 1986-88.

Proofreader, Alan Rickett's Dorothy Livesay: An Annotated Bibliography (Downsview: ECW Press, 1983).

Chair and Coordinator, Poetry Reading by Dorothy Livesay, University of Toronto, March 1981.

*Interview with Maine novelist Miriam Colwell, Tennant’s Harbor (October 2008)
*Interview with poet Margaret Avison, National Poetry Foundation Conference, Poetry of the 1940s (Summer 2004)
* Commentator, Women of China, Trent University Radio Show (Spring 1991)
*Interview with Canadian painter Otto Rogers, in Haifa, Israel (January 1993)
*Interview with poet Dorothy Livesay (Victoria, B.C., 1988)
*Interview with poet Earle Birney (Vancouver, 1988)
*Interview with 1930s playwright and activist Toby Ryan (Toronto, 1988)
*Interview with Canadian composer Barbara Pentland (Vancouver,1988)
*Commentator for CBC State of the Arts on Poet Dorothy Livesay (May 15,1988)
*Interview with poets Leo Kennedy and F.R. Scott (Montreal, 1987)
*Interview with Canadian historian Stanley Ryerson ( Montreal, 1987)

*Facilitator, Shining Stars Middle School Girls’ Discussion Group
*Troop Leader, Junior Girl Scouts, Orono
*Board of Directors, Orono Village Association
*Member, Orono Historical Society
*Master Gardener, Plant a Row for the Hungry, at the Orono Community Garden
and Roger’s Farm
*Friends of the Fogler Library
*Friends of the Orono Public Library,
*Volunteer Reader, Poetry for Senior Citizens, Old Town
*Vice-Chair, Sino-American Seminar Women's Issues, Shanghai
*Convenor, Committee for the Dev. of Feminist Pedagogy, Trent U,
*Consultant, First Sino-American Women's Congress, Beijing
*Presenter, Ontario-Jiangsu Educ.Exchange Programme, U. of T.,
*Member, Task Force, Developing a Curriculum for Moral Education, Landegg Academy, Switzerland
*Guest Speaker, "New Models of Equality," U. of T
*Guest Lecturer, "Women of China," University of Guelph
*Guest Lecturer,"Women of China," Night-Course," Malaspina University College
*Lecturer, University of British Columbia, Brockhouse Lecture Series for Seniors
*Board of Directors, Canada-China Friendship Association
*Delegate, First Canadian Women's Delegation to Anhui Province, China