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Presenter Bios: Craft(ing) The Classroom: A Poetry & Pedagogy Conference
Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Anna Lena Phillips Bell is a poet, teacher, editor, printer, and the author of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize. Her artist’s books and print objects include A Pocket Book of Forms, a travel-sized guide to poetic forms, and Forces of Attention, a series designed to help people mediate their interactions with screened devices. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in magazines including 32 Poems, Colorado Review, the Southern Review, Subtropics, Michigan Quarterly Review, International Poetry Review, and Quarterly West, and in anthologies including A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia,Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene, and Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change. Bell is the 2019–2021 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for Eastern North Carolina, and is the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in literature, as well as awards and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Southern Women Writers Conference, and Penland School of Crafts. She teaches in the creative writing department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and is the editor
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New Faculty in Arts
The Faculty of Arts welcomes several new members of faculty with appointments beginning July 1, 2018.
Promoted to Assistant Professor
Dr. Dallas Hunt
Dallas Hunt joined the department of Native Studies in 2017 as a Lecturer and, following successful defense of his PhD last fall, was promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor. Dr. Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapisewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. He holds a PhD from the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, as well as an MA in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies from McMaster University and a BA (Hons.) from the Department of English at the University of Alberta. He has had creative and critical work published in The Fieldstone Review, Decolonization: Indigeneity Education & Society, and Settler Colonial Studies. His work looks at the intersections of Indigenous studies, urban studies and Indigenous literature. Hunt’s research benefits from Winnipeg’s location, being the largest urban Indigenous population in Canada, as well as provides multiple opportunities to engage in the city’s vibrant literary and arts scenes.
New members of faculty
Dr. Réal Carrière