VITA

LORETTA MARTIN MURREY

            Department of English

            Western Kentucky University-Glasgow

            Glasgow Regional Center

            500 Hilltopper Way

            Glasgow, Kentucky 42141

            E-mail:  loretta.murrey@wku.edu

            Office:  (270) 659-6938 or 659-6900

EDUCATION

            Ph.D.   University of Kentucky, 1991, English

            Rank 1 University of Kentucky, 1984, English

            M.A.   Western Kentucky University, 1976, English Education

            B.A.    Western Kentucky University, 1975, English Education and Journalism Minor

DISSERTATION

            “Dream and Reality in Mary Lee Settle’s Beulah Quintet”

             Directors:  John Cawelti and J.A. Bryant, Jr. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Western Kentucky University-Glasgow (1983-present) Associate Prof. of English (1997-present)

English 100 Freshman Composition

English 200 Introduction to Literature

English 300 Junior English

English 302 Language and Communication

English 319 Teaching Language in the Grades   

English 390 Masterpieces of American Literature

Kentucky State University, Frankfort (Jan. 1982-Dec. 1982) Adjunct Professor

English 101 Freshman Composition.

University of Kentucky, Lexington (Aug. 1981-Dec. 1982) Teaching Asst. & Part-time Instructor

English 101 Freshman Composition

English 203 Business Writing

Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN (Aug. 1978-May 1981) Instructor of English

English 100 Freshman Composition

English 381 Survey of English Literature, Part 1

Upward Bound Communications 

Reading 100 in Extended Campus Program at Brushy Mountain Prison, Petros, TN 

Journalism 100 Basic News Reporting

Conversational English to summer exchange students from Kanto Girls’ School, Tokyo

Somerset Community College, Somerset, KY (Aug. 1976-July 1978) Learning Lab Instructor

English 101 Freshman Composition

Developmental Reading 100, Developmental Writing 100, & Study Skills 100

Western KY University, Bowling Green (Aug. 1975-May 1976) Grad. Asst. & Writing Lab Tutor

English 101 Freshman Composition

TEACHING INTERESTS

            Literary Area:  Southern American Literature

            Kentucky Literature

            Asian-American, Native-American, and Hispanic-American Literature

            Biblical Literature

            Environmental Literature

            Creative Writing (Poetry)

            Oral History

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

            Broomsedge Chronicles Editor, WKU-G, 1992-present  

            Writing Center Director, WKU-G, 1993-2001

            Faculty Advisor for LMU student newspaper The Blue and the Gray, 1980-1981

            Editor Writings from Within, essays written by Brushy Mountain Prison inmates, 1980, LMU

            Faculty Advisor for LMU International Student Union, 1980-1981

            Coordinator LMU Basic Studies Lab, 1978-1981

            Assistant SCC Learning Lab Supervisor (1976-1978)

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

            “Mary Lee Settle.”  The History of Southern Women’s Literature.  Ed. Carolyn Perry and Mary

            Louise Weaks.  Baton Rouge:  LSU Press, 2002.  503-507. 

"Quilting."  The Companion to Southern Literature:  Themes, Genres, Places, People,

            Movements and Motifs.  Ed. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda MacKethan.  Baton Rouge: 

            LSU Press, 2002, 701-702.

"Poets Nurturing Poets:  Joy Bale Boone's Experience with Poetry Workshops and Other Poetry

            Gatherings.” The Journal of Kentucky Studies 14 (1997):  82-86.

"An Interview with Kentucky Poet Joy Bale Boone."  Border States:  Journal of the Kentucky-

            Tennessee American Studies Association 11 (1997):  46-53.

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kentucky Poet Joy Bale Boone."  Kentucky Philological Review11

            (1996):  6-7.

"Dispossession and Regeneration in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet."  Southern Quarterly 35:1

            (Fall 1996):  62-68.

"The Sense of Place in Joy Bale-Boone's Poetry."  Kentucky English Bulletin 45:1 (1995):  68-73.

"Linking the Campus and the Community." California English 31:2  (1995):  10-11.

"The Loner and the Matriarchal Community in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in

            Heaven."  Southern Studies:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 5: 1 & 2 (1994):  155-164.

            "KERA in the University."  Southeastern Conference on English in the Two-Year College

            Journal 27:2 (1994):  23-30.

"Everything I Need to Know I Learned on the Farm:  Helping WKU-Glasgow Extended Campus

            Students Develop a Sense of Pride in Their Rural Heritage.” Kentucky English Bulletin

            43:2 (1994):  23-26.

"From the Classroom."  The Council Chronicle:  The National Council of Teachers of English

            2:5 (1993):  3. 

"From Religious Ritual to Family Ritual:  The 'Holiness of Life' in Eudora Welty's Losing

            Battles."  Southern Folklore 47:3 (1990):  239-247. 

Essay.  “How About a Little Zest, As in Sports, for Helping Less Fortunate Among Us?" Your

            Turn column," Courier-Journal, May 1986.   

“Fifty Years After [Jesse] Stuart:  Reading and Writing at Lincoln Memorial University."

            Appalachian State University's Resource Center for Developmental Education, 1980.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

            "Joy Bale Boone and the Power of Poetry."  Women's Studies Conference.  Murfreesboro,

            Tennessee, February 22, 1997.

"The Motherless Daughter and the Daughterless Mother:  Memory and Loss in Barbara

            Kingsolver's  Animal Dreams."  Twentieth-Century Literature Conference.  Louisville,

            Kentucky, February 24, 1996.

"Chicago, Elizabethtown, Balewick, Lyme Regis, and Elkton:  The Places in Joy Bale-Boone's

            Life and Poetry" and "Thirteen Ways of Looking At Joy Bale-Boone:  An Introduction."

            Kentucky Philological Association Conference.  Morehead, Kentucky, March 1, 1996. 

"Dream, Reality, and Renewal in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet."  Kentucky Philological

            Association Conference.  Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1995.

"The Female Loner in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven.” Western

            Kentucky University Women's Studies Conference.  Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1994.

"Dispossession and Regeneration in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet."  Kentucky Philological

            Association Conference.  Frankfort, Kentucky, 1994.

"KERA-Friendly Activities on the WKU-Glasgow Campus."  KY Council of Teachers of

            English/Language Arts Conference.  Louisville, Kentucky, 1994.

"Three Women Peacemakers in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet."  Western Kentucky

            University's Women's Studies Conference.  Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1993.

"Bird Women in Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet."  Western Kentucky University's Women's

            Studies Conference.  Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1992.

"From Religious Ritual to Family Ritual:  The 'Holiness of Life' in            Eudora Welty's Losing

            Battles."  WKU's Women's Studies Conference.  Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1988.

"The Role of the Artist in Society in Mary Lee Settle's The Killing Ground.” Kentucky

            Philological Association Conference.  Morehead, Kentucky, March 1988.

"Scottish Writers Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott."  South Central Kentucky Historical and

            Genealogical Society meeting.  Glasgow, Kentucky, May 1988.

"Kentucky Literature."  With Jane Morris Murrey.  South Central Kentucky Historical and

            Genealogical Society meeting.  Glasgow, Kentucky, August 1986.

"The History of the English Language."  South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical

            Society meeting.  Glasgow, Kentucky, September 1985.

BOOK IN PROGRESS

A Guest on Earth:  The Life and Poetry of Joy Bale Boone, Kentucky Poet Laureate, 1997-1999.

POETRY

            Introduction for KY Poet Laureates Richard Taylor and James Baker Hall at the Southern

                        Kentucky Festival of Books, Bowling Green, April 20, 2002.

            Rainstick Poetry Reading, Glasgow Musicale, January 20, 2002, Glasgow, KY.

            Two-Day Children's Poetry Workshop, Barren County Christian Home Educators' Association,

            WKU-Glasgow Campus, November 2 and 9, 2001.   

Rainstick Poetry Reading, Mammoth Cave Wildflower Weekend, April 9, 2000, Mammoth Cave

National Park. 

            Poem “The Message” displayed at Special Blends Café, Glasgow, during Christmas season 1999.

            Rainstick Poetry Reading, Mammoth Cave’s Wildflower Weekend, April 18, 1999, Mammoth

            Cave National Park.

            Introduction for KY Poet Laureates Joy Bale Boone and Richard Taylor at the first-ever poetry

            reading of two KY poet laureates, Southern Kentucky Festival of Books, Bowling Green, April 17, 1999. 

            Rainstick Poetry Reading, Glasgow Musicale’s Easter Breakfast, April 3, 1999.

            Letter to Editor.  “Joy Bale Boone: Poet Laureate” in Glasgow Daily Times, April 24, 1998.   

            Poem "The Builder's Muse" read by KY Poet Laureate Joy Bale Boone, at KY Council of

            Teachers of English/Language Arts concurrent session on poetry, Lexington, KY, February 14, 1998.

            "Mid-Morning at Hazel's Truckstop."  The Journal of Kentucky Studies 14 (1997):  15.

            Two-Week Children's Poetry Workshop, Plum Tree Montessori School, Bowling Green, July

            1996.

Organized "Rainstick" poetry group, led by KY Poet Laureate Joy Bale Boone, 1995-present. 

DRAMA

            Authored Travelers Just Passing Through, a one-act play based on a Frank and Jesse James

            legend,  produced October 1, 1988, by the Far-Off Broadway Players as part of the Barren County Homecoming celebration.     
            Spoke to Barren County High School drama class about play on May 11, 1992.

            Co-authored with Tim Best On the Banks of Beaver Creek, a dramatized choral reading set to

            music dealing with the organization and early history of Barren County's oldest church, produced November 6, 1988.

            Directed Community Montessori School, Glasgow, production of The Wizard of Oz , spring

            1995.  Directed South Green Elementary, Glasgow, Japanese and English productions of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, May 1996.

ORAL HISTORY

        "Oral History and How to Preserve It." Barren River Writers' Circle. Glasgow, KY, April 5,

            2001.

        "The History of Broomsedge Chronicles."  South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical

            Society.  Glasgow, Kentucky, January 22, 1998.

         Student Oral History Publication Broomsedge Chronicles, 1992-present, 19 issues.

FILM

        A Woman Called Joy.  Co-Producer and Researcher with Jerry Barnaby.  Bowling Green, KY: 

    Western KY U.  WKYU-TV Productions, 1997. 

    --Presented at 2000 joint meeting of Popular Culture Association in the South and American Culture Association in the South, October  
       5, 2001, in Nashville, TN. 

    --Presented at Kentucky-Tennessee Border States chapter of the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Red Boiling Springs,    
       TN, April 1998. 

    --Presented at 20-Century Literature Conference in Louisville, KY, February 28, 1998.

    --Aired on Kentucky Educational Television in February 1998.

    --Aired on WKYU Educational Television in November 1997.

INTERNET

       Broomsedge Chronicles:  South Central Kentucky Living history, submission information, and

    samples included on WKU English Department web site.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

University:  Potter College Dean's Committee, 1992

                    WKU-Glasgow Director Search Committee, 1992

                    SACS Undergraduate Education Committee, 1993

                    Library Advisory Council, 1994-1996          

                    Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Advisory Council, 1994-1999         

                    President's Faculty Enhancement Task Force, 1995

                    Various English Department committees

                    Organized and directed WKU-Glasgow Minority Scholarship, 1995-1999 

Public:  Mary Wood Weldon Public Library Board, 1994-1998.

             South Green Elementary School Library Committee, 1995.  Co-chaired Fall 1995 Book Fair.  

             Taught weekly Japanese Language & Lit class, South Green Elementary School, 1995-2000.

             Directed Japanese Festival, South Green Elementary School, spring 2000.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

            Robert Penn Warren Circle

            Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts

            Kentucky Philological Association

HONORS/ GRANTS

            1998 Kentucky Oral History Project Grant, KY Poet Laureate Joy Bale Boone book

            1998 KY Oral History Transcription Grant 1, Joy Bale Boone book

            1999 KY Oral History Transcription Grant 2, Joy Bale Boone book

            2001 KY Oral History Transcription Grant 3, Joy Bale Boone book     

            1998 & 2000 Awarded Release Time for Research, WKU

            1976 Master of Arts, WKU, Summa Cum Laude

            1975 Bachelor of Arts, WKU, Magna Cum Laude

            1975 Teaching Assistantship, WKU

CREDENTIALS--Available on request.