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Susanne George Bloomfield
Curriculum Vitae
University of Nebraska at Kearney
(308) 991-4647 (mobile)
drbloomfield.edublogs.org
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1988.
M.A. Ed. in English, University of Nebraska-Kearney, 1979.
B.A. in Education, English and French majors, University of Nebraska-Kearney, 1968, Cum Laude.
DISSERTATION:
My Blue and Gold Wyoming: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. 1988.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
19th Century American Literature
Western American Literature
Multicultural Literature
Biography and Memoir
English Education
ACADEMIC CAREER:
Adjunct, Professor Emerita, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska. 2015 -present.
Professor, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska. 1997 to 2015.
Martin Distinguished Professor, University of Nebraska-Kearney, 2005-2008.
Tenured Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska. 1992 to 1997.
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska. 1988-1992.
Lecturer at University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska. 1979-1987.
English and French teacher, Axtell Community Schools, Axtell, Nebraska, 1968-1973. French: Grades 4-12; English: Grades 10 & 11.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Nebraska-Kearney, 2013
Delbert and Edith Wylder Award for Exceptional Service to the Western Literature Association 2012
Pratt-Heins Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Research 2008
Martin Distinguished Professorship 2005-2008
Plains Humanities Alliance Digital Research Fellowship 2008
Plains Humanities Alliance Digital Research Fellowship 2006-2007
Professional Development Leave Spring 2006
Leland Holdt/Security Mutual Distinguished Faculty Award for Superior Teaching, Research, and Service 2002
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Charter Member 2002
UNK Exceptional Performance Award 2001
Professional Development Leave, Spring 1999
Mari Sandoz Award. Nebraska Library Association 1998. ["For Her Contribution to the Nebraska Literary World through Her Writing, Poetry, Literary Criticism and Film Consultation"]
University of Nebraska Graduate Fellow
Center for Great Plains Studies Fellow
Phi Eta Sigma (National Honorary Society) Honorary Member 1998
UNK Profiles in Excellence 1998.
UNK Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award 1996.
Pratt Heins Award for Excellence in Teaching 1995.
Crawford Award for Curriculum Development 1995.
Mortar Board: Certificate for Outstanding Teaching 1994.
UNK Deans' Award for Scholarship 1993.
BOOK AWARDS
2009 Finalist, New Mexico Book Awards for Adventures in the West.
2006 Winner, Nebraska Book Awards for Nonfiction for Impertinences: Selected Editorials of Elia W. Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. [Nebraska Center for the Book].
2006 Winner, WILLA Literary Award for Nonfiction for Impertinences: Selected Editorials of Elia W. Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. [Women Writing the West Association].
2000 Top 25 List, Library Journal’s Notable Document List for The Prairie Mosaic. (Top 25 works for 2000--nine states represented; eleven international)
1998 Winner, Susan Koppelman Award for Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. [Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association, National Women's Studies Association]
1998 Finalist, Biography Award for Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works, Society of Midland Authors. [Formerly Chicago Cliff Dwellers Club]
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND STIPENDS ($162,123 total)
Distance Education and General Studies Stipend 2011: $2,000
Distance Education Stipend 2010: $1,500
Distance Education Stipend 2009: $3,000
Pratt-Heins Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Research 2008: $1,000
Program of Excellent Award: “Enhancing the English Teaching Endorsement” $3,200
Plains Humanities Alliance Digital Research Fellowship 2008: $1,600
Plains Humanities Alliance Digital Research Fellowship 2006-2007: $6,500
Martin Distinguished Chair 2005-2008: $10,500.
Artists & Lecturers, et al. for Lakota Author Joseph Marshall III Speaker 2006: $7,500
UNK Research Service Council Mini-Grant 2005: $250.
UNK Research Council Summer Scholarly Activity 2004: $1,575.
Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, Keynote Address 2003: $1,000.
Leland Holdt/Security Mutual Distinguished Faculty Award, 2002: $5,000.
UNK Exceptional Performance Award 2001: $853.
UNK Research Council Mini-Grant 2001-2002: $1,480.
Technology Grant (Fiber-Interactive Telecommunications), 2001: $1,500.
UNK Research Council Summer Stipend, 2001: $1,016.
Center for Great Plains Studies Summer Fellowship, 1999: $5,000.
World Herald Foundation Grant, 1999: $50,000 to UNK for
publishing A Prairie Mosaic [co-writer].
UNK Research Council Grant, 1997-98: $1,464.
Western Literature Association Conference, 1996: $15,650
UNK's OTICA Teaching Award, 1996: $500 for Research Development
Pratt Heins Award for Teaching, 1995: $2,000.
UNK Research Council Summer Stipend, 1995: $4,625.
Crawford Award, 1995: $500 for Curriculum Development.
Nebraska Humanities Council Mini-Grant, 1995: $1,500 for publishing Wellsprings: Poems by Six Nebraska Poets.
Nebraska Humanities Council, 1995: $5,000 for 1995 Nebraska Literature Festival [co-chair and co-writer].
UNK Summer Fellowship, 1994: $3,000.
Center for Great Plains Studies Faculty Summer Fellowship, 1993: $5,000.
UNK Research Council Grant, 1993-1994: $1,750.
World Herald Foundation Grant, 1992: $35,000 to UNK for
publishing The Platte River [co-writer].
Nebraska Humanities Council Grant, 1992: $8,700 for Nebraska Literature Festival [chair of 1992 Festival held at UNK and co-writer].
Nebraska Arts Council Grant, 1992: $4,700 for Nebraska Literature Festival [co-writer and chair of 1992 Festival held at UNK].
UNK Research Council Grant, 1990-1991: $2,000.
Nebraska Humanities Council Summer Stipend, 1990: $3,000.
UNK Research Council Grant, 1989-1990: $5,000.
UNL Presidential Fellowship, 1987-1988: $8,000.
Maude Hammond Fling Fellowship for Dissertation Research,
1986: $750.
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
Adventures in the West: Stories Young Readers. Co-edited with Eric Melvin Reed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
From the Beginning: A Century of Excellence at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2005.
Impertinences: Selected Editorials of Elia W. Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Edited and with a Biography by Susanne George Bloomfield. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
“Absolutely No Manners”: On Having the Audacity to Write Biography. Monograph. Lincoln, NE: Mari Sandoz Heritage Society and the Center for Great Plains Studies, 2003.
A Presidential Visit. Eds. Susanne George-Bloomfield and Steve Rothenberger. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2002.
A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska's Land, Nature, and Culture. Eds. Steve Rothenberger and Susanne George-Bloomfield. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2000.
Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. Susanne K. George. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Wellsprings: Poems by Six Nebraska Poets. Ed. Susanne K. George. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1995.
The Platte River: An Atlas of the Big Bend Region. Eds. Allan Jenkins and Susanne K. George. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1993.
The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Susanne K. George. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
DIGITAL RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Elia Peattie: An Uncommon Writer, An Uncommon Woman. Web Site for the Gateway Project of the Plains Humanities Alliance (Consortium of Humanities Councils of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma). 2009. <http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/peattie/>.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Letters on an Elk Hunt. Consultant and Humanities Advisor with Marcia Hensley for Radio Dramatization. Scribbling Women Website. Created and Maintained by the Public Media Foundation at Northeastern University Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. <www.scribblingwomen.com>.
Lesson Plans for Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Letters on an Elk Hunt. “Literary Interpretations: Women Homesteaders, The Journey or Quest Motif, and The Epistolary Tradition.” Scribbling Women Website. Created and Maintained by the Public Media Foundation at Northeastern University Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. <www.scribblingwomen.com>.
“Biography” and “Further Reading” for Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Letters on an Elk Hunt. Scribbling Women Website. Created and Maintained by the Public Media Foundation at Northeastern University Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. <www.scribblingwomen.com>.
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS IN PROCESS
“Placebound: A Love Story of the Great Plains.” An Ethnobiography. One Chapter already published in Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace.
SELECTED REVIEWS OF PUBLISHED BOOKS:
Selected Reviews of Impertinences:
Downs, C. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. American Literary Realism 39.2 (Winter 2007).
Lauters, Amy Mattson. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. American Journalism (Summer 2005).
Loomis, L. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Choice (December 2005).
Wolfe, Peter. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Nebraska History 86.4 (Winter 2005): 152.
Boylan, James. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Columbia Journalism Review (July/August 2005).
McCue, Mike. Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Lanier Newsletter (Fall 2005).
Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Roundup Magazine 12.6 (August 2005).
Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Great Plains Quarterly 25/3 (Summer 2005).
Rev. of Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age. Nebraska Life. 10.2 (March/April 2006): 53-54.
Selected Reviews of Prairie Mosaic:
Snyder, Vicki. " Rev. of A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska's Land, Culture, and Nature." Grassroots Nebraska December 2000: 4.
"Kearney Writers Did Themselves Proud." Rev. of A Prairie Mosaic. Omaha World-Herald 28 December 2000:12.
Selected Reviews of Kate M. Cleary:
Aronson, Marilyn A. Carlson. Rev. of Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. Nebraska History 78.4 (Winter 1997):206.
Berndt, Michael D. Rev. of Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. Western American Literature 32.4 (February 1998): 401-402.
Keetley, Dawn. Rev. of Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 16.2 (1999):206.
Selected Reviews of Adventures of the Woman Homesteader:
Billesbach, Ann. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Nebraska History 74.2 (Summer 1993).
Graulich, Melody. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 11.2 (1994): 174.
Hart, Sue. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Great Plains Quarterly 14.1 (1994).
Kirschke, James J. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Western American Literature 28.3. (1993).
Peterson, Catherine. Rev. of The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. English Westerners (United Kingdom) (Summer 1994).
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
Literary Criticism:
“Writing Women’s Biographies: Processes, Challenges, Rewards.” Mary Clearman Blew, Susanne George Bloomfield, Meoldy Graulich, and Judy Nolte Temple. Western American Literature 43.2 (Summer 2008): 179-203.
“Elia Wilkinson Peattie.” Vintage Magazines.” Iola, WI: KP Books, 2005: 72-73.
“Kate Cleary.” Vintage Magazines.” Iola, WI: KP Books, 2005: 72-73.
“Children’s Literature” (with Susan Maher).Great Plains Encyclopedia. Ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
“Kate M. Cleary.” Great Plains Encyclopedia. Ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
“Elia W. Peattie.” Great Plains Encyclopedia. Ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
“Elinore Pruitt Stewart.” Great Plains Encyclopedia. Ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
"Kate M. Cleary." Women Building Chicago 1790-1990. Adele Hast and Rima Lunin Schultz, eds. University of Indiana Press, 2001. 170-173.
"'The Happiness and the Curse': Literary Views of the Nebraska Prairie." A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska's Land, Nature, and Culture. Eds. Steve Rothenberger and Susanne George-Bloomfield. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2000: 138-143.
"Solomon Butcher: Prairie Photographer." A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska's Land, Nature, and Culture. Eds. Steve Rothenberger and Susanne George-Bloomfield. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2000: 112-115.
"Kate M. Cleary." Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920. Vol. 221. Ed. Sharon Harris. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman: 2000: 52-60.
"'The Boy's Mother': Nineteenth-Century Drug Dependence in the Life of Kate M. Cleary." The Great Plains Quarterly. 20.1 (Winter 2000): 3-18.
“Neighbors: The Pioneer Poor in Popular Historic Fiction.” Platte Valley Review. 28.2 (Spring 2000): 53-65.
"The Prairie State: Root-Bound to Nebraska." Nebraska History. 80.1 (Spring 1999):17-20.
"'A Ornament to Sassiety': Elinore Pruitt Stewart and Kate M. Cleary, Nineteenth-Century Western Humorists." Over Here: A European Journal of American Culture (Nottingham Trent University, England). 17.2 (Winter 1997): 99-114.
"Elinore Pruitt Stewart: The Adventurous Woman Homesteader." By Grit and Grace: Women Who Shaped the Pioneer West. Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain, eds. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Press, 1997: 153-173.
"Native American Autobiography as Captivity Narrative." Heritage of the Great Plains. 30.1 (Spring/Summer 1997): 33-47.
"Introduction." Resource Guide to Six Nebraska Authors: Vol. II. Lincoln: Slow Tempo P, 1992.
"The Journeys of Elinore Pruitt Stewart." The Nebraska Humanist. Winter (1989): 32-37.
"A Patchwork of Friends: Female Community of Elinore Pruitt Stewart." Platte Valley Review. 17.1 (1989): 51-59.
Book Reviews:
Rev. of Tillie Olson: One Woman, Many Riddles” Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. By Panthea Reid. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University press, 2010.) In Western American Literature. (Fall 2012): 318-319.
Rev. of Working the Land: The Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West. By Sandra K. Schackel. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2011). In Montana: The Magazine of Western History. (Summer 2012): 74-75.
Rev. of “Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin.” In Western American Literature. 43.2 (Summer 2008): 204-205.
Rev. of “Oh, Give Me a Home: Western Contemplations.” Ann Ronald. Journal of the West. 2007.
Rev. of “Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie.” Jim Hoy. Nebraska History (Winter 2006): 176.
Rev. of “A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Culture.” George P. Horse Capture and Emil Her Many Horses, eds. Journal of the West (September 2006).
Rev. of "Rural Voices: Place Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing." Robert E. Brooke, ed. Great Plains Quarterly. 24.3 (Summer 2004): 216.
Rev. of “Great Plains Reader.” Diane D. Quantic and Jane P. Hafen, eds. Nebraska History. 84.4 (Winter 2003): 217-218.
Rev. of “Eugene Field and His Age.” Lewis O. Saum. JHistory. February 2003.
Rev. of “Shaping Our Mothers’ World: American Women’s Magazines.” Nancy A. Walker. JHistory. November 2002.