Associate Professor of English
Office
Moreland 244
Phone
541-737-1630
Email
ahelle@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Oregon 1986
B.A. University of Puget Sound
Areas of specialization
Literacy and pedagogy, feminist/gender theory and criticism, 19th
and 20th century American women writers, modernism and poetry, life
writing
Selected publications
The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath, ed.,
forthcoming University of Michigan Press (forthcoming 2006).
"Lessons from the Archive: Sylvia Plath and the Politics of
Memory," Feminist Studies 37 (October 2005): 1-21.
"Ultramodernity's Mourning at the Little Review 1918-1921,"
Modernism and Mourning, ed. Patricia Rae (Bucknell
University Press).
"Community Literacy and Literature-Another Missing Theory," in
The Literacy Connection, ed. Alice Horning and Ron Sudol.
(Pittsburgh: Hampton Press, 1999), pp. 161-82.
"Poetry: the 1940's to the Present," American Literary
Scholarship, ed. Gary Scharnhorst. (Durham: Duke University
Press, 1999), pp. 351-71.
"Playing with Elegy: Mina Loy's Poetry of Mourning," Mina Loy,
Woman and Poet, ed. Keith Tuma and Maeera Shreiber. (Orono:
National Poetry Foundation, 1998): 258-78.
"Reading the Rhetoric of Curriculum Transformation." NWSA
Journal (Fall 1994): 434-41.
"William Stafford: On the Poet, His Vocation, and Cultural
Literacy."
Oregon English. Kenyon, Ill: NCTE (1994): 27-31.
"Reading Women's Autobiographies and Reconstructing Knowledge."
Narrative and Dialogue in Education. ed. Nel Noddings and
Carol Witherell. Columbia: Teachers' College Press (1991).
48-66.
Administrative responsibilities
Associate Chair, Department of English
2005-present.
Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and
Research, College of Liberal Arts 1998-2001.
Grants, awards and honors
W.C. Hovland Award, 2004 (college)
Kellogg Foundation Leadership Initiative Grant - Faculty-to-Faculty
Mentoring Project, 2003 (university)
Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award , 1994
(university)