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Author's Information: Suzanne Lillian Bunkers E-mail: suzanne.bunkers@mnsu.edu Fax: 507-389-5362 Phone: 507-388-4020 Biographical background: Born 4/20/1950 Hometown: Granville, Iowa "Home of Black Soil" Parents: Verna Klein Bunkers and Jerome A. Bunkers Godparents: Theodore Klein, Jr., and Lillian Welter Bunkers. Daughter: Rachel Susanna Career: Professor of English and Director of Honors, 1980-Present Minnesota State University, Mankato MN 56001 RELEVANT BACKGROUND: I earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Iowa State University. Then I earned my doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I have taught full-time at Minnesota (Mankato) State University for twenty-two years. In June 2002, I completed my second two-year term as Director of the University’s Honors Program. I do research, writing, and publishing in the fields of autobiography, memoir, Midwestern American history, women’s studies, and immigration history (with emphasis on Luxembourg history and immigration to the U.S.). I have received a number of grants and awards for my work: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/professi1.htm For twelve years, I've hosted "The Weekly Reader," a program broadcast on KMSU-FM, our university’s public radio station. On this program, which I began in 1990, I interview writers about their work and invite them to read from works in progress: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/weekly_reader.htm I regularly travel widely in western Europe, particularly in Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. I’ve also traveled often to parts of Mexico and Canada. In June 1999, my travels took me to Beijing, China, to speak at the International Symposium on Autobiography. In summer 2000, my research took me to Europe and Canada. In summer 2001, I returned to Europe to continue my research. In summer 2002, thanks to a MSU Teaching Scholar Fellowship, I will continue my research in the U.S. and in European settings. During summer 2002, I have been awarded a Teaching Scholar Fellowship from my university for the purpose of studying diaries and developing a course, English 213, "Diaries and Diarists." For more information on my project, go to http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/diaries.htm For more information about the Teaching Scholars Program, to go http://www.mnsu.edu/acadaf/Html/AAFaculty_Development/Teaching_Scholar_guidelines.htm BASIC BIOGRAPHY: I am a native Midwesterner who grew up in the small northwest Iowa town of Granville: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/granvill.htm At the age of eighteen, I went to Ames, Iowa, to study at Iowa State University, where I remained for six years. From there I did post-graduate work at Purdue, then entered the doctoral program in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After earning my Ph.D. in 1980, I accepted a position at MSU. For the past twenty-two years, I have lived in Mankato, Minnesota, where I teach literature and creative writing at Minnesota State University and direct the University’s Honors Program: http://www.mnsu.edu I am also a writer and have published several books. My daughter, Rachel, and I like to travel, especially to Luxembourg, our ancestral home. Click here to see photos from Luxembourg: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/luxembou2.htm Click here to read my essay about Luxembourgers who immigrated to the Midwestern U.S.: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/immigran.htm In the past five years, I've also done extensive research into my Bunkers ancestry in Germany. Click here to see photographs of our family's journeys: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/bunkers.htm Click here to read an essay about my research into my German ancestry: http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/newpage14.htm BOOK-LENGTH PUBLICATIONS:
In Search of Susanna: an Auto/biography. Iowa City: U Iowa P, 1996. http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/buninsea.htm http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/insearch.htm
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