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Allison Bulsterbaum Wallace
University of Central Arkansas
Honors College – McAlister 302-A
201 Donaghey Avenue
Conway, AR 72035 Teaching and Research Interests
American environmental writing, history, and activism; food and farming; literary non-fiction
Education
Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992
Major: American Literature to 1900; Minor: Twentieth-Century British and American Literature
DISSERTATION: “‘The Prospect Hence is Infinite’: Ecocentrism in Twentieth Century American Nature Writing,”
directed by Townsend Ludington
M.A. English, University of Mississippi, 1984
THESIS: “Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and Midwestern Regionalist Painting,” directed by Benjamin F. Fisher IV
B.A. English and Education, University of Mississippi, 1982
Academic Honors
Senior Fulbright Fellow, Spring 2003 - present
Fulbright Lecturer, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, April 2002 – July 2002 (competitive)
Fellow, NEH Institute on Medicine and the Humanities, Hiram, OH, June 1991 - June 1992 (competitive)
Senior Fellow in Literature and Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, UNC-CH School of Medicine,
July 1990 - June 1992 (competitive)
Graduated summa cum laude, 1982
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of American Studies, Honors College, University of Central
Arkansas, 2007 - present
Assistant Professor of American Studies, Honors College, University of Central
Arkansas, 2001 - 2007
Assistant Professor of American Studies, Honors College, Univ. Central Arkansas, 2001 - present
Associate Professor of English and Humanities, Unity College in Maine, 1997 – 2001
Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, Unity College in Maine, 1992 - 1997
Publications - Books
Sweet: The Transformative Power of Sugar. In progress.
A Keeper of Bees: Notes on Hive and Home. New York: Random House, 2006. 186 pp.
H. L. Mencken: A Research Guide. New York and London: Garland, 1988. 267 pp.
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Publications - Essays and Articles
“In Thoreau’s Wake on the West Branch.” Teaching in the Field: Working with Students in the Outdoor
Classroom. Ed. Hal Crimmel. University of Utah Press, 2003. 223-40.
“The Work of Honeybees.” The Georgia Review. 57.1 (Spring 2003) 9-16.
With Kato Sadamichi, “Satoyama: A Japanese Model of Sustainable Harmony.” The Maine Organic Farmer and
Gardener. 30.2 (June-August 2003) 18-19.
“The Origins of CSA [Community Supported Agriculture]: Japan’s Seikyou Movement, Then and Now.” The Maine
Organic Farmer and Gardener. 30.1 (May 2003) 24-25.
“Phenology as Modernist Paradox in Donald Culross Peattie’s An Almanac for Moderns.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 9.1 (Winter 2002) 83-90.
“Where Have All the Farmers Gone?” The Maine Times. 31 May 2001: 14-15.
“Testing My Vegetable Mettle.” The Maine Times. 29 March 2001: 14-15.
“A Wonder of Winter Sweetness.” (on oranges) The Maine Times. 30 November 2000: 14-15.
“Thanksliving: Giving Thanks, Shaker Style.” The Maine Times. 23 November 2000: 20-21.
“It’s Everywhere, It’s Everywhere.” (on sweet corn) The Maine Times. 31 August 2000: 14-15.
“Let Us Now Praise Famous, Well, Lettuce.” The Maine Times. 29 June 2000: 14-15.
“The Honeybee’s Incredible, Edible Metaphor.” Proteus 17.1 (Spring 2000): 15-17; reprinted in Orion (Summer 2000):
16-20.
With Harry Crockett, “Recent Rocky Mountain Nature Writing.” Update to The Literary History of the West.
Ed.Thomas J. Lyon. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1997. 793-807.
“Contemporary Ecophilosophy in David Quammen’s Popular Natural Histories.” The Literature of Science: Perspectives
on Popular Scientific Writing. Ed. Murdo William McRae. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press,
1993. 273-90.
“H. L. Mencken.” Encyclopedia of American Humorists. Ed. Steven H. Gale. New York: Garland, 1988. 320-326.
“E. B. White.” Encyclopedia of American Humorists. Ed. Steven H. Gale. New York: Garland, 1988. 476-481.
“Wasp (1801-1802).” American Magazines and Comic Periodicals. Ed. David E. E. Sloane. Westport, CT: Greenwood,
1987. 307-311.
“Godey’s Ladies’ Book (1830-1898).” American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Ed. Edward E. Chielens. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. 144-150.
“The New England Magazine (1831-1835).” American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Ed. Edward E. Chielens. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. 269-272.
“‘Sugarman Gone Home’: Folksong in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Papers of the Arkansas Philological
Association 10 (Spring 1984): 15-28.
“William Faulkner’s ‘The Tall Men’: A Closer Look.” Papers of the Mississippi Philological Association (1983): 62-69.
Numerous articles in Endeavors Magazine, Office of Research Services, UNC-CH, June 1987 through June 1988, covering subjects such as modern dance, Hinduism in modern South India, North Carolina filmmaking, painting and writing by John Dos Passos, foliations and branch surfaces (mathematics research), and the use of computer graphics to predict geographical occurence of earthquakes, among others.
“The Mother Tongue,” monthly column on language for The Community Newspaper, Unity, ME, September 1996 - March 1998.
Book Reviews in Backpacker Magazine, September 1994 and April 1995; The Rocky Mountain Review, Spring 1996 and Spring 1997; ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Fall 1997 and Summer 2004.
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Presentations
"Sweet: The Botany of an Insatiable Desire," Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment, Spartanburg, SC, June 2007.
“Swarm! On (Not) Keeping Honeybees,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Eugene, OR, June 2005.
“The Bees of My Youth,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Boston, MA, June 2003.
“Overview of Programs to Build Skills for Beginning Farmers,” Arkansas Farm-Community Alliance, Morrillton, AR, January 2003.
“The Body and the Earth are Not Two: Wendell Berry’s The Unsettling of America and Masanobu Fukuoka’s One-Straw Revolution,” Modern Language Association, New York, December 2002.
“The Japanese Origins of Community Supported Agriculture,” The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, Unity, ME, September 2002.
“The Satoyama Conservation Movement in Japan,” The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, Unity, ME, September 2002.
“Food with a Conscience, Food with a Face: Community Supported Agriculture in the U.S. and Japan,” Conference on Environment, Culture, and Community, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002.
“Memory and Make-Believe in Franklin Burroughs’ Billy Watson’s Croker Sack,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (regional meeting), Oxford, MS, October 2001.
“The Work of Honeybees,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Flagstaff, AZ, June 2001.
“The Planet on Our Plates; or, Food in the Nature and Culture Classroom,” Great Lakes American Studies Association, Youngstown, OH, April 2000.
“The Honeybee and Its Incredible, Edible Metaphor,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Kalamazoo, MI, June1999.
“Extractive Economics in Ruth Moore’s The Walk Down Main Street,” American Women Nature Writers, Westbrook, ME, June 1998.
“Phenology as Modernist Paradox in Donald Culross Peattie’s An Almanac for Moderns, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Missoula, MT, June 1997.
“Veracity in Nature Writing,” panelist, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Missoula, MT, June 1997.
“We’re Outta Here: Experiential Components in Undergraduate Nature Writing Courses,” organizer and panelist, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Fort Collins, CO, June 1995.
“Defining Ecocritical Theory and Practice,” panelist. Western Literature Association, Salt Lake City, UT, October 1994.
“Ecocentrism, Anthropomorphism, and The Land of Little Rain.” Modern Language Association, New York, December 1992.
“Nature Writers in the Literature Curriculum: David Quammen and the Case Against Humanism.” Society for Literature and Science, Portland, OR, October 1990.
“Writing Across the Curriculum,” Symposium sponsored by the Principals’ Exchange Program, UNC-CH Institute of Government, November 1989.
“Manliness in the Popular Novels of Mark Twain.” Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Lexington, VA, April 1984.
“‘A Gale in the Course of the Night’: The Function of Weather in Bleak House.” Arkansas Philological Association, Oxford, MS, January 1984.
“‘Sugarman Gone Home’: Folksong in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.\rdblquote Arkansas Philological Association, Conway, AR, November 1983.
“William Faulkner’s ‘The Tall Men’: A Closer Look.” Mississippi Philological Association, Jackson, MS, January 1983.
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Teaching
August 2002
Environmental Thought in America: Wendell Berry and the Sustainable Agriculture
Movement (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan)
April - July 2002
Introduction to American Culture; Studies in American Culture and Society
(University of the Ryukyus)
September 2001 - Present
Interdisciplinary Honors courses on the Self and Community; The Ecology, Ethics, and Economics of Food; The Philosophy, Principles, and Practice of Organic Gardening;
American Medicine and the Other; Issues in Global Economics and Environment; Literature
and Medicine; Water, Water, Everywhere (UCA Honors Program)
August 2002
Environmental Thought in America: Wendell Berry and the Sustainable Agriculture
Movement (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan)
April – July 2002
Introduction to American Culture; Studies in American Culture and Society (University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan)
September 1992 - May 2001
The Ecology, Ethics, and Economics of Food; The Control of Nature; Survey of American Nature Writers; Perspectives on Nature; Perspectives on Conservation; Seminar in Thoreau; Coming of Age in American Literature; American Literature
On the Road; Romantic and Victorian Literature; Maine Writers; Advanced Writing;
Composition I and II (Unity College in Maine)
Summers, 1993 -
1994
Unity College Summer Institute (Basic Composition)
July 1990 - June 1992
Seminars in Literature and Medicine (Dept. of Social Medicine, UNC-CH School of Medicine)
Spring 1990
Tutor, UNC-CH Writing Center
1984 - 1989
Contemporary Literature, Film Criticism, Business Writing, Composition 1 and 2,
Basic Comp (Dept. of English, UNC-CH)
Summer 1988
Twentieth-Century Primitivism in Literature and Painting, Black Women Authors
(North Carolina Governor’s School, Laurinburg)
Summer 1984
British Literature I: Beowulf to Bunyan (Northwest Mississippi Junior College, Senatobia)
1982 - 1984
Freshman Composition I and II (Dept. of English, University of Mississippi, Oxford)
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Theses and Independent Studies Supervised
1996 – present
Australian Native Title and Terra Nullius; A Multilayered Approach to Vascular Lesions; American Women Nature Writers; Sustenance: Local Farmers, Local Food; Community Food
Systems; Sustainable Rural Living; Nature in the Country, Nature in the City; Ecological
Responsibility at Home; The Conway Community Hours Project; Against the Grain:
Returning to a Sustainable Ag. Tradition; Fresh Water: Rethinking Water Policy in Eastern
Arkansas; China’s Latest Human Rights Abuse: The Floating Population;
Scarred; Let This Seed Be Exhaustless: The Ideas and Arguments of Vandana Shiva
Editing
Summer 1990
Editorial Consultant, Research Triangle Institute; Research Triangle Park, NC
1987 - 1988
Assistant Editor and Staff Writer, Endeavors Magazine, Office of Research Services,
UNC-CH
1987 - 1988
Editor-in-Chief, Carolina Quarterly, UNC-CH
1986 - 1987
Managing Editor, Carolina Quarterly, UNC-CH
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UCA Foundation Grant in support of the Dee Brown Memorial Garden, $2000, Spring
2007.
UCA Faculty Enhancement Grant, $1000, Spring 2005
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, $1500, and The Maine Humanities Council, $1000; both in support of a symposium for twenty-five scholars, teachers, and writers on Food and Farming in American Life and Letters, held 15-17 June 2000 in Unity, Maine
National Endowment for the Arts, $4000 every other year, 1986-88, for support of the Carolina Quarterly
The North Carolina Arts Council, $4000 every other year, 1986-88, for support of the Carolina Quarterly
Service – University of Central Arkansas
Sustainable Environment and Ecological Design (SEED) Committee; Faculty advisor to Local Harvest; Faculty co-advisor to the Environmental Alliance
Service – Unity College
B.A. Environmental Studies Program Coordinator, 1996 - 2001; Faculty Moderator, 1998-2000; President’s Council; Faculty Priorities and Personnel Committee; Faculty Academic Committee (chair); Interdisciplinary Environmental Stewardship Core Curriculum Committee; Flying Fish Speaker Series (founder/director); Planning Coordination Committee; numerous faculty search and evaluation committees
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Service - Professional
Fulbright Program Advisor (UCA), May 2006 – present
Vice President, President, and Immediate Past President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, January 2004 – December 2006
Co-Director, Sixth Biennial International Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Eugene, OR, June 2005
Editorial Board member, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, October 1995 – present
Editorial Board member, Organization and Environment, June 2000 – present
Academic Advisory Board, Nature and Environmental Writers – College and University Educators (NEW-CUE), March 2000 – August 2001
Faculty Facilitator, Literature and Medicine seminars for the Maine Humanities Council, January – June 2001, Pittsfield, Maine
Director, “Food and Farming in American Life and Letters: A Symposium,” sponsored by The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and the Maine Humanities Council,15-17 June 2000, Unity, Maine
Secretary-Treasurer, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), October 1993 – May 2000
Contributing editor, ASLE Bibliography, 1990 - 1993, Jonesboro, Arkansas, Fall 1994
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Professional Memberships
Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Modern Language Association
The Thoreau Society
Community Memberships
Arkansas Farm-Community Alliance
The Nature Conservancy
Slow Food, USA
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