Dakota, Or What's a Heaven For: Getting the Word Out Through Conferences and Readings
Academic Year:
2011 - 2012 (June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2012)
Funding Requested:
$2,000.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
In 2010 my second novel, Dakota, Or What's a Heaven For, literary historical fiction set in late-19th-century Dakota Territory, was published by the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. Several readers and colleagues have noted that this novel, which highlights the gendered, ethnic, and economic dimensions of the myth of independence that accompanied the European and Yankee settlement of the west, would be of interest to students and professors of nineteenth-century American history, women's literature, Western and Midwestern literature, as well as LGBT studies. I am requesting a Lecturers' Professional Development Grant for $2000 to help fund travel to academic conferences and to readings sponsored by university Creative Writing Programs and English Departments.