Creative Writing West Virginia
Resume:
ETHEL MORGAN SMITH
Birmingham, AL 35208
***************@*****.***
ethelmorgansmith.online.com
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
****-******* ********* ********/**** Virginia University
2000-2016- Associate Professor of English-West Virginia University-
African American Literature & Creative Writing
1999 Visiting DuPont Scholar-Randolph-Macon Woman’s
College-Lynchburg, Virginia-African American Literature
1997-1998 Fulbright Scholar-Universität Tübingen –Tübingen, Germany –African
American Literature
1993-2000 Assistant Professor of English –West Virginia University
African American Literature & Creative Writing
1990-1993 Instructor of English-Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University –
Blacksburg, Virginia-Business English & American Literature
Developed and implemented first Black Studies Program with Nikki Giovanni
1987-1989 Instructor of Fiction & Screenwriting-Council on Authors & Journalists-
Atlanta, Georgia
EDUCATION
1990 MA –-English/Creative Writing–Hollins University –
Roanoke, Virginia
1974 BBS—Business Administration-Alabama A&M University-
Huntsville, Alabama
Other Training (one semester)
2016 NEH-Ernest Gaines and the Southern Experience-University of Louisiana- Lafayette
2001 German Literature-Brandeis University
2000 Advanced Playwright-West Virginia University
1998 Grundstufe II (one year)-Universität Tübingen, Germany
1997 Grundstufe I-Universität Kiel, Germany
1993 NEH-The Slave Narratives-University of Kansas-Lawrence, Kansas
PUBLICATIONS
Play Reading
African Violets-Public Reading Hollins University-April 2017
New Media
From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College. 2007.
Books
Path to Grace. (August 2023) University Press of Mississippi. Winner of 2023 Eudora Welty Award.
From Whence Cometh My Help (reissued in paperback) March 2017. University of Missouri Press
Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany. January 2013. 2014- Finalist for The INDIE Book Award.
From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College.
University of Missouri Press, January 2000.
Essays/Articles/Excerpts
“We Ready.” University of Florida Journal. Spring 2019 (Finalist for the Jeanne M. Lieby Chapbook Award)
“The Problem With Evolving.” All the Women in my Family Sing. Winter 2018.
“ Meteor.” The Green Mountains Review. Spring 2015.
“Living in a World of Rape.” Stir Journal. Spring 2015.
“If I Call Your Name.” De Standaard, Brussels, Belgium-December 2014.
“Mad Hearts.” (essay), Mothering Adult Children, edited by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard- Lexington Books, September 2013.
“Robert Byrd: A Living History.” The New York Times. June 2010.
“Lilacs.” ConnotationPress.Com: An Online Artifact. June 2010.
“Mother.” New York Times (Motherlode). May 2010.
“The Future of Race Relations in America.” ThatMinorityThing.Com-Dec 2009.
“Outside of Dreams.” (essay). Shaping Memories, Edited by Joanne V. Gabbin. The University Press of Mississippi. August 2009.
“Mother.” That Minority Thing (online publication). May 2009.
“Deferred Dreams.” That Minority Thing (online publication) April 2009.
“Love Means Nothing.” essay and winner of the 2005 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Prize Tusculum Review. Volume 3, 2007.
“Soul-Mating.” (essay) Mr. Wrong, Edited by Harriet Brown. Ballantine Books. 2007.
“The Woman Preacher” (essay). From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore, Edited Daryl Cumber Dance. WW Norton, 2002.
“Afterwards” (essay) Artemis 2001.
“Time” (essay) NPR’s “On the Media-2000.
“Revisions of Communal History in Ernest Gaines’s “A Long Day in November” (article), Edited by Bernd Engler & Oliver Scheiding. WVT Weissenschaftlicer Vertag Trier, Germany, 1998.
“Come and Be Black for Me (essay). Honey Hush! African American Women‘s Humor, Edited Daryl Cumber Dance, WW Norton, 1998.
“A Conspiracy of Grace.” (essay). An Anthology of Grandmothers Edited by Nikki Giovanni. Henry Holt, 1994.
Interviews
“An Interview with Gloria Naylor.” Callaloo. 23.4 Spring 2001.
Alabama A&M University-February 2018
On The Media-NPR-WNYC-1999s; Blue Ridge Nightline-WMSY Television;
De Standard by Evita Neefs (a leading Belgium journalist)-two interviews
Reviews
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea by Nikki Giovanni. African American Review. Spring 2004.
American Story by Debra J. Dickerson. The Roanoke Times & World News. February 2001.
The Black Rose by Tananartive Due. The Roanoke Times & World News. February 2000.
Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin by Deborah E. McDowell. African American Review. Fall 1998.
A Long Way From St. Louie by Colleen McElroy. The Roanoke Times & World News. April 1998.
Moses Unchained by Marilyn Moriarty. The Roanoke Times & World News. March 1998.
Fiction
“Meteor.” Green Mountain Review. Spring 2015.
“Woman With Papa.” Spittoon 3.23. June 2013.
“A Walk in the Park.” Callaloo. Spring 2000.
“The Spelling Bee.” Honey Hush! African American Women‘s Humor. WW Norton, 1998.
“Burying Gems.” The Potomac Review. Spring 1998.
“Shopping for a Prom Dress.” Kestrel 7. Spring 1996.
WORK IN PROGRESS OR READY FOR PUBLICATION
Flowers Out of Bone (novel)-2005/2006 finalist- William Faulkner & William Wisdom Award
Flowers Out of Bone (novel)-2005 semi-finalist for The James Jones Contest
Designing Dreams (screenplay)-The life of designer and creator Ann Cole Lowe (famously known as the creator and designer of Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding dress.)
Come and Be Black for Me (a collection of essays)
Being Here (a collection of essays)
READINGS
May 2018 PLAYA-Summer Lake, Oregon
Feb 2018 University of Alabama Birmingham
July 2016 West Virginia Writer’s Workshop
Feb 2015 Hollins University
July 2014 West Virginia Writer’s Workshop
Nov 2013 West Virginia Wesleyan- Gender Studies Symposium
Nov 2012 West Virginia University
Oct 2012 Virginia Tech-“Sheer Good Fortune Conference,” honoring
Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou
Oct 2011 James Madison University-Harrisonburg, Virginia
Oct 2009 Virginia Polytechnic & State University-Blacksburg, Virginia
June 2009 University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Jan 2008 Virginia Center for Creative Arts- Amherst, Virginia
Jan 2006 Carlow University-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Oct 2005 Marshall University-Huntington, West Virginia
April 2004 Hollins University-Roanoke, Virginia
Feb 2002 Wellesley College-Wellesley, Massachusetts
Feb 2002 Brandeis University-Women’s Studies Research Center Waltham,
Massachusetts
Sept 2001 Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Oct 2000 Spelman College-Atlanta, Georgia
Oct 2000 Virginia Polytechnic & State University – Blacksburg, Virginia
April 2000 Hollins University - Roanoke, Virginia
Feb 2000 West Virginia University - Morgantown, West Virginia
Feb 1999 Randolph Macon Woman’s College-Lynchburg, Virginia
June 1994 Virginia Foundation for Public Policy & The Humanities – Charlottesville
Nov 1993 Providence College-Providence, Rhode Island
July 1993 University of Kansas-Lawrence, Kansas
April 1993 Morehouse College-Atlanta, Georgia
LECTURES
Feb 2018 Black History Month Reading-UAB
Feb 2018 “Living Elsewhere”-Alabama A&M University
Feb 2009 “Art in the Civil Rights Movement”- University of San Francisco
Nov 2001 “African American Landscape & Memory”-Harvard University-The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Oct 2000 “The Call of the Ancestors”-Spelman College-Atlanta, Georgia
Sept 2000 “The Construction of Community in African American Literature”-University of
North Carolina-Charlotte
April 1999 “Fictionalizing History: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”-CLA Conference-Atlanta, Georgia
Feb 1997 “The Voice of African American Women in Southern Literature-West Virginia University-Morgantown, West Virginia
May 1994 “Reclaiming Ours Mothers’ Gardens: Relationships Between Mothers & Daughters”-North Carolina State University
Oct 1993 “Anne Spencer: Native Daughter of the Harlem Renaissance”-Bluefield State University-Bluefield, West Virginia
HONORS AND AWARDS
2018 PLAYA Residency-Summer Lake, Oregon
2018 Disquiet International Literary Program-Lisbon, Portugal
2016 National Endowment for the Humanities-University of Louisiana- Lafayette-Ernest J. Gaines & the Southern Experience
2007 Visiting Artist- American Academy in Rome
2005 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation (nonfiction) Prize- “Love Mean Nothing.”
2001/08 Visiting Scholar-Brandeis University-Women’s Studies Research Center, Waltham, Massachusetts
2001 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship-Bellagio, Italy
2000 Outstanding Researcher-West Virginia University (College of Arts & Sciences)
2000 The Cheikh Anta Diop Award-West Virginia University (Center for Black Culture & Research
1999 DuPont Scholar-Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
1997/98 Fulbright Scholar-Universität von Tübingen, Germany
1996 Senate Research Award-West Virginia University
1994 Virginia Foundation for Public Policy & the Humanities-Charlottesville, Virginia
1993 National Endowment for the Humanities-University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
1991/92 Jane C. Camp Fellowship-Virginia Center for the Creative Arts-Amherst, Virginia
1990 Bread Loaf Writers Conference-Middlebury, Vermont
1988 Idyllwild School of Music & Arts- Idyllwild, California
1981 Leadership Atlanta-Atlanta, Georgia
1979/80 Outstanding Young Woman of America
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Aug 2014 US Embassy of Ghana-Honoring Maya Angelou
Aug 2014 Asheshi University-Accra, Ghana
April 2012 Tübingen Universität-Kickoff reading for Reflections of the Other
April 2007 American Academy in Rome
Feb 2006 Center for North America Studies-Wittenberg University
Feb 2006 Freie Universität- John F. Kennedy Institute-Berlin, Germany
Feb 2006 Amerika Haus-Kölin, Germany
Feb 2006 German-American Institute-Munich, Germany
March 2005 The University of New South Wales-Canberra, Australia
“The Narrative of the Memoir”
March 2005 Charles Sturt University-Wagga Wagga, Australia
“The Grace of Globalization”
Oct 2001 Rockefeller Center-Bellagio, Italy
July 1998 Deutsche Amerika Institute-Tübingen, Germany
“The Spirituality of Southern Black Women in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and “1955”
June 1998 Sarah (Kultureezentrum für Frauen e.v.)-Stuttgart, Germany
“The Herstory of African-American Women Writers
May 1998 Universität Graz-Graz, Austria (two lectures)
“Female and Black in America” and “African American Women”
May 1998 US Information Service: 29th American Studies Seminar-Bonn, Germany-“Transcending Borders in American”
May 1998 Fiction Reading-American Embassy Club-Bonn, Germany
May 1998 Deutsche Amerika Institute--Tübingen, Germany
“Traditional & Neo Slave Narratives”
April 1998 German-American Women’s Club-Stuttgart, Germany
“The Writings of Mary Evans, Toni Morrison & Alice Walker”
April 1998 Universität Rostock- Rostock, Germany
“The Construction of Community in African American Literature”
March 1998 Oberschulamt Tübingen-Tübingen, Germany
“Rage & Redemption in Gwendolyn Brooks’ Fiction”
Feb 1998 Deutsche Amerika Institute-Stuttgart, Germany “The Impact of African American
Women Writers”
Feb 1998 Goethe Universität Frankfurt-Frankfurt, Germany
The Poetry of Rita Dove & Nikki Giovanni
Feb 1998 Universität Tübingen-Tübingen, Germany
Reading from book in progress
Nov 1997 Johannes Gutternber-Universität Maniz-Germersheim, Germany
“Women and the Slave Narratives”
Nov 1997 Volks Schule-Tuübingen “Voices of the South-African American Women in Literature Speaks”
Aug 1996 Ploughshares International Fiction Conference-Kastle Wells, The Netherlands
July 1995 The University of Canterbury-Christchurch, New Zealand
July 1995 Monash University-Melbourne, Australia
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