Department of English
207 Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-625-3363

College of Liberal Arts Voices from the Gaps

Patricia Hampl

 

Regents Professor

Department of English
University of Minnesota
210M Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN55455
(612)625-3546
hampl@umn.edu

Special Interests

  • Creative writing (poetry and prose)
  • Memoir and autobiography
  • Contemporary American poetry and fiction, especially the short story and the novel

Honors & Awards

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
  • Distinguished Achievement Award (from The Western Literature Association at their 36th annual conference, October 2001).
  • Minnesota Book Award (for the short story, "The Summer House," published as a book by Minnesota Center for Book Arts--the project solicited by MCBA) in the catregory of Fine Press. (2000)
  • Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Awards (for I Could Tell You Stories.).
  • Pushcart Prize for "The Bill Collector's Vacation" (short story)
  • Regents Professor
  • Two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (one for poetry, one for prose)
  • Guggenheim Fellowship (memoir)
  • Two Bush Fellowships (prose and poetry)
  • Bellagio Fellowship (Italy)
  • McKnight Distinguished University Professorship, 1996
  • Fulbright Fellowship (Czech Republic, 1995)
  • MacArthur Fellowship (five years, 1990-95)
  • CLA Distinguished Teacher of the Year (1985)

Background

  • Education
    • University of Iowa, M.F.A.
    • University of Minnesota, B.A.

Publications

  • Books
    • I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, W.W. Norton and Co, 1999 (217 pages). Paperback, Norton, 2000.
    • 2 for 5 (chapbook with Michael Dennis Browne), Views from the Castle" (essay), Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1999.
    • Editor, Burning Bright, anthology of sacred poetry (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), Ballantine, 1995.
    • Virgin Time. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1992. (Paperback, Ballantine 1993).
    • Editor, The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short Fiction, 1989.
    • Spillville. Milkweed Editions, 1987.
    • Resort and Other Poems. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
    • In a Winter Garden. Libretto. Music by Libby Larsen. With Janis Hardy and Dan Dressen. Cond. Phillip Brunelle. Plymouth Festival Chorus and Orchestra. Pro Arte PAD 151 (record), PCD151 (tape), 1983.
    • A Romantic Education. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. (New edition with afterword, 1992).
    • Woman Before an Aquarium. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978.
  • Prose and Poetry in Magazines and Anthologies
    • "Parish Streets." Graywolf Annual 3: Essays, Memoirs, Reflections. Graywolf, 1987.
    • "The Mayflower Moment: Reading Whitman During the Vietnam War." Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song. Ed. Jim Perlman, Ed Folsum and Dan Campion. Minneapolis: Holy Cow!, 1981.
    • "Look at a Teacup." New Yorker, 28 June 1976: 26-9. Reprinted in The Best American Short Stories of 1977. Ed. Martha Foley. Boston: Houghton, 1977. 181-87. Also reprinted in The Minnesota Experience. Ed. Jean Ervin. Minneapolis: Adams, 1979. 383-89.
    • Memoir pieces, travel pieces, short stories, book reviews and essays in various periodicals and anthologies, including  New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Alaska Quarterly Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Granta, The Riverside Anthology of Literature (Houghton Mifflin Co), The Dolphin Reader (Houghton Mifflin Co), Autobiography: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press), The Writer on Her Work (vol 2), Best American Short Stories (1977), Out of the Garden (1994). Poetry in: Antaeus, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Iowa Review, Ironwood, Crazyhorse, Choomia, Dacotah Territory, 25 Minnesota Poets, Aphra, Amazon Quarterly, and New American Poets of the 80s (Wampeter Press, 1984). The New Yorker, PEN International Newsletter, London,The Riverside Anthology of Literature.

Teaching

  • Combined graduate and undergraduate courses
    • EngW 5120: Heroic Poetics
    • EngW 5210: Topics in Advanced Literary Nonfiction
    • EngW 5310: Reading as Writers

Other Activities

Readings, Lectures, Workshops: National and international. Three tours of Austria (Universities of Vienna, Graz and Salzburg), two readings at Charles University, Prague. Readings and/or lectures and workshops at colleges and universities across the country, in the past five years including Alaska, New York, Florida, Arizona, California, West Virginia, Michigan, Iowa, Montana, Texas, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania.