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Distinguished Professor, English
Professional Service
- Harvard University .
Served on Harvard-Cambridge Scholars Selection Committee .
02/11/2023 - present
- U of Chicago Committee on Social Thought .
Evaluate poet Valzhyny Mort for Possible Hire .
02/08/2023 - 02/20/2023
- Stonybrook University .
Role: wrote letter .
Wrote Letter to Promote Christine Kitano to tenured Associate Professor .
12/15/2022 - present
- Cornell University .
Wrote promotion letter for Ishion Hutchinson for full professor .
09/30/2022 - present
- Salt Lake City Public Library .
serve as one of the judges for teen poetry contest.
07/27/2022 - 08/02/2022
- Harvard Universtiy .
served on Harvard-Cambridge Scholars Selection Committee
also served as first reader .
02/12/2022 - present
- Congregation Kol Ami .
regularly chant and also give talks about the text a few times a year .
01/01/2022 - 12/31/2022
- University of North Texas .
Wrote promotion letter for Jehanne Dubrow for Distinguished Professor .
10/15/2020 - 10/30/2020
- University of North Texas .
Wrote promotion letter for Jehanne Dubrow for Distinguished Professor .
10/15/2020 - 10/30/2020
- Many publishers.
Wrote a number of blurbs -- at least five.
01/08/2020 - 10/14/2020
- University of Georgia Press .
Evaluated Proposal for Anthology of Contemporary Elegy for Publication .
12/18/2019 - 02/01/2020
- University of Utah English Department .
Role: Read and Evaluate Files of Applicants for PhD in English .
Graduate Committee .
12/15/2019 - 02/21/2020
- Harvard .
Selection of Harvard-Cambridge Scholars
First Reader -- read and evaluated sixty files
Final Interviews -- interviewed and deliberated upon 12 finalists .
12/01/2019 - 02/08/2020
- University of Utah .
Role: Read and Evaluate Files of Nominees for Distinguished Professor.
Distinguish Professor Selection Committee .
09/02/2019 - 02/19/2020
- University of Southern California.
reviewed poet Anna Journey for Tenure .
08/14/2019 - 10/01/2019
- Utah Valley University .
Outside Reviewer for Brock Jones' Third Year Review
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08/14/2019 - 09/03/2019
- University of Utah .
Role: Director.
Have founded, Raised Funds for, Organized and Run the yearly 10-day Graduate Student Artists' Colony at the Taft-Nicholson Center (receive no cfinancial ompensation for this).
07/26/2019 - 08/05/2019
- Jewish Federation of Utah .
Judge Holocaust Poetry Contest for middle school and high school.
03/27/2019 - 04/10/2019
- LSU Press .
evaluated three manuscripts for publication this year
Judith Hall's PROSPECTS, Elizabeth Powell's ATOMIZER, Jehanne Dubrow's WILD KINGDOM.
02/01/2019 - 10/16/2019
- University of North Texas.
Role: Wrote Promotion letter .
Reviewed Jeheanne Dubrow, Candidate for Full Professor .
08/05/2018 - present
- University of Utah .
Role: member (read and evaluate files) .
Distinguished Professors Nomination and Selection Committe.
08/2018 - 07/2021
- University of Utah Department of English .
Role: Member.
Graduate Committee .
08/2018 - 07/2019
- Cornell University .
Reviewed Ishion Hutchinson for tenure .
07/01/2017 - 10/01/2017
- University of Utah .
Served as Internal Reviewer for the School of Music .
04/03/2016 - 05/05/2016
- Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships.
On Board of Directors, Served as First Read, on Selection Committee.
01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016
- Sterling Scholarships.
Final Judge for Sterling Scholarships in English --
read portfolios and interviewed 15 applications .
02/12/2015 - 02/24/2015
- English Dept Outreach Committee.
Seminar for Teachers, multiple visits to classrooms at local high schools.
08/25/2014 - 05/01/2016
- Taft Nicholson Center .
Organized, found Funding and Ran 10-day writers colony for CW Graduate Students .
07/01/2014 - 07/10/2014
- National Endowment for the Arts .
Reader of Fellowship Applications in Poetry .
06/01/2014 - 07/10/2014
- Utah Jewish Federation .
Teach monthly Biblie Class in Park City .
01/09/2014 - 12/04/2014
- Congration Kol Ami .
Chant and often given talks about Bible in synagogue services.
01/04/2014 - 12/27/2014
- Taft-Nicholson Center WRiters Conference .
Organized, got funding for and ran for 13 graduate students in creative writing .
07/2013 - 08/2103
- Princeton University College of the Humanities.
Reviewed Tracy K Smith for tenure and promotion .
03/2013 - present
- Jewish Federation of Utah .
Lead Lunch and Learn Series for Jewish Federation .
06/2009 - present
- Jewish Federation of Utah .
Teach in Lunch and Learn series (once a month) .
05/2009 - 12/2014
- Harvard-Cambrdige Scholarships Selection Committee .
Chair .
09/01/2008 - 02/28/2013
- Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships .
Governance Committee, first reader, double interviewer.
10/2005 - 02/07/2015
- Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships .
Role: Member.
Governance Committee/ Selection Committee.
08/2002 - 07/2019
- Congregation Kol Ami .
Chant and Lead Torah Discussion .
07/1989 - present
Internal Service
- Selection Committee Distinguished Professors.
08/21/2017 - 02/23/2018.
University service.
- Curriculum Committee.
Member ,
07/01/2015 - 12/30/2015.
Department service.
- Selection Committee Distinguished Professors .
Member ,
01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015.
University service.
- Outreach Committee.
Member ,
01/01/2015 - 07/01/2015.
Department service.
- Distinguished Professors' Selection Committee .
On small committee to appoint Distinguished Professors,
07/01/2014 - 07/01/2016.
University service.
- Curriculum Committee .
Member,
07/01/2014 - 07/01/2016.
Department service.
- Distinguished Professors Nominating Committee .
09/2011 - present.
University service.
- Search Committee: Fiction Writer .
07/2011 - 02/2012.
Department service.
- Distinguished Professors Selection .
02/2011 - present.
University service.
Community Partnership
- Met with group of students at English language library, YALI school, Changsha, Hunan Povince, China
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01/24/2107 - present
- Congregation Kol Ami "Spotlight on the Community" read works in progress from Berlin.
11/12/2017 - present
- Governance Committee and Selection Committee Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships .
10/15/2017 - 02/10/2018
- Jewish Federation -- teach monthly Bible class to women's grouop .
07/20/2017 - 12/06/2017
- SLC Jewish Community Center after school program taught poetry to five and six year olds.
01/15/2016 - present
Honors & Awards
- Research Assignment to write Essays on the Bible
(it's not "Sponsored Research" -- as it's not a monetary gift, so I decided to put it under honors and awards) .
University of Utah College of the Humanities ,
08/19/2019
- Winner of 2019 Phillabaum Poetry Award
(for best book of poetry to be published in 2019) .
LSU Press,
02/2018
- Residency at Artists' Colony in Evoramonte, Portugal .
Las Obras, Portugal ,
04/15/2017
- George Edwards and Rachel Hadas Fellowship
(all costs covered for my residency at VCCA) .
Virginia Center of Creative Arts ,
03/15/2017
- One-month residency, living expenses paid .
Jentel Artist Residency ,
02/01/2017
- Selected as one of four poets to be featured on poster series for 2012.
Pennsylvania Center for the Book Public Poetry Project ,
12/2011
- 2010 Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award for "At Peter Behren's House" as best poem published in Southwest Review in 2010 .
Soutwest Review ,
02/14/2011
In the Media
- Review of MY LOOKALIKE AT THE KRISHNA TEMPLE
in ANTIOCH REVIEW . 08/14/2019.
- Radio West Interview for National Poetry Month . 04/02/2019.
https://radiowest.kuer.org/post/two-utah-poets
- Poem quoted in review of Best America Poetry, WASHINGTON POST . 01/2019.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books...
- BBC Cultural Frontline Interview . 12/22/2018.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswp71
- Interview with Doug Fabrizio reaired on RADIO WEST. 12/29/2017.
- Doug Fabrizio is planning to make a short film of my "Dusk in January: Salt Lake City" to be aired on the Radio West website. I recorded the poem, but film has yet to be made. 03/01/2016.
- Radio West Interview with Doug Fabrizio . 12/01/2015.
- Adam Kirsch, in TABLET MAGAZINE, said, Jacqueline Osherow, who writes about American Jewish experience better than any poet at work today. 08/06/2015.