Listed below are some of my most recent activities, publications, etc.  If you click on the appropriate icon at the left, you can survey earlier activities.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS:

2002     Teaching Scholar Fellowship, Minnesota State University

For details, click on this URL: 

http://www.mnsu.edu/acadaf/Html/AAFaculty_Development/Teaching_Scholar_guidelines.htm  

2000      Residency Award, Norcroft Writers' Retreat

For details, click on this URL:  http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/norcroft_writing_retreat.htm  

1999-2000  Learning Fund Assessment Grant: Honors Program, Minnesota State U.

1998-99      Faculty Instructional Innovation Grant, MnSCU

1998-99      Work-in-Progress Grant:   Diaries of Girls and Women

                              Minnesota Humanities Commission & NEH

1998           Learning Fund Initiative Grant for Course Development, MSU

1998           Faculty Research Grant: Diaries of Girls and Women

1997-98      Research Grant and Mini-Grant, Minnesota Historical Society

1996-97     Travel and Study Grant, The Jerome Foundation, St. Paul, MN

BOOKS:

Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern Sampler. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press's North American Studies in Autobiography Series, 2001.

Sarah Gillespie: A Midwestern Pioneer Girl's Diary. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers, with Ann Hodgson.  Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2000.

In Search of Susanna: An Auto/biography. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.

Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia Huff. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

NOTE: To learn more about a specific book listed above, click on http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~susanna/publicat.htm   

SCHOLARLY ESSAYS:

"Whose Diary is It, Anyway?"  Forthcoming in a/b: Auto/biography Studies, spring 2003.

"Dorothy Parker: Feminist and Social Critic." In Women and Satire. Ed. Rhonda S. Pettit. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (forthcoming fall 2002).

"Honors Programs at Mid-sized Universities: Questions and Answers.  The National Honors Report 22.3 (Fall 2001): 14-28.

"Exploring Diaries as Life Writing."  Proceedings of the First International Conference on Auto/biography.  Ed. Zhao Baisheng.   Beijing: Peking University, forthcoming.

"Challenges in Doing Interdisciplinary Work in Immigration History and Autobiography." The American Historical Association's 2000 Conference Proceedings. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association (also published simultaneously by University Microfilms), forthcoming.

"On Issues of Gender in Honors."  The National Honors Report 21. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 29-30.

"Diaries as Sourcebooks for Women's History."   Women Historians of the Midwest Newsletter 28. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 1999):   1-2, 14.

"Susanna Simmerl Youngblut: A Study of One Immigrant's Life." Migrare Humanum Est . . . Emigration & Immigration au Cours de l'Histoire. Ed. Jean-Claude Muller. Luxembourg City: Association Luxembourgeoise de Genealogie et d'Heraldique, 1999.  185-202.

"Why are These Women Laughing?  The Power and Politics of Women's Humor."  The Humor Prism in 20th Century America.   Ed. Joseph Boskin.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997.   159-171.  Originally published in Studies in American Humor.

"Suzy's Diary."  Adolescent Diary Writings by Chinese and American Students.  Ed. Sun Jianqiu.  Beijing: University of International Business and Education (UIBE) Press, 1999.   376-364.

"Reflections of Luxembourg in the Rural Midwestern United States."  Bulletin Linguistique et Ethnologique de I'Institut Grand-Ducal" Fascicule 29.  Ed. Jean Ensch.  Luxembourg City, 1999.   12-31.

"Illegitimacy and Intercultural Life Writing."   a/b: Auto/biography Studies 12.2 (Fall 1997): 188-202.

"Writing Your Own Story."  Mankato State University Today.  28. 1 (Fall 1997), 8.

"Memories of the Midwest Women's Caucus."  Newsletter of the Midwest Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association Spring 1997, 8-9.

"Susanna Simmerl Youngblut: A Study of One Immigrant's Life." Annuaire/Jahrbuch 1995.  Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Genealogy and Heraldry. Ed. Jean-Claude Muller. Luxembourg City: Luxemburgische Gesellschaft fur Genealogie und Heraldik, 1995.

"Illegitimacy and Intercultural Life Writing." A/B: Auto/biography Studies 12.2 (Fall 1997): 188-202.

"Diaries and Dysfunctional Families: The Case of Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie Huftalen." Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1996. 220-235.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

"'Studying Unpublished Diaries.'  Research and Discovery: Using the Iowa Women's Archives."  Symposium:  "Making Women's History: The Louise Noun - Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives at Ten Years."  University of Iowa, November 2002.  For information, click on: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/symposium.html   

"Diaries of Women & Girls--Programs & Preservation."  Wisconsin Librarians Association Annual Convention. Middleton, Wisconsin, October-November 2002.  

"Diaries as Windows into Women's Lives."  Delta Kappa Gamma, Mankato, MN.  September, 2002.

"The Life of a Country School Teacher." McGee Country School Reunion/Coffin's Grove Fest. Manchester, Iowa, August 2002.

Lecture and Book-signing: Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler.  Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, March 2002.

"Women’s History Month 2002 Kick-off Lecture." University of Wisconsin-River Falls, February 2002.

"The Value of Telling Your Own Story." Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Mankato, February 2002.

"Whose Diary Is It, Anyway?  Issues of Agency, Authority, Ownership."  'Dear Diary': New Approaches to an Established Genre, November 2001.

"Honors Programs at Mid-Sized Universities: Opportunities and Challenges."  National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, November 2001.

"Saints and Sinners": An Upper-Level Honors Topics Course Exploring Ethics and Other Questions.  National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, November 2001.

"Diaries and Journals: Word Quilts." Wisconsin Women Library Workers Teleconference, September 2001.

"Life Writing Strategies." Minnesota Retired Educators Association, September 2001.

"A Century of Change as Reflected in the Annals of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Family."  History of Women Religious Conference, June 2001.

"Honors Programs at Mid-Sized Institutions: Achievements and Challenges."  National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, October 2000.

"Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary."   Women and Spirituality Conference.  October 2000.

"German Immigration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives."  Northern Great Plains History Conference, September 2000.

"A Conversation: Immigration History." Midwest Organization of American Historians Convention, August 2000.

"An Autocritical Conversation."  Plenary session at the Autobiography and Changing Identities International Symposium, July 2000.

"Gender and Self-Representation in Diaries of Rural Midwestern United States Girls and Women."  Rural Women's Studies Association Conference, June 2000.

"Diaries as Sourcebooks for Oral History."   Minnesota Oral History Association Conference, April 2000.

"Challenges in Doing Interdisciplinary Work in Immigration History and Autobiography."   American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2000.

"Gender and Self-Disclosure in Discussion-Based Classes." at the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning’s Fall 1999 Conference. Co-presented with Professors Carol Perkins and Cathryn Bailey.

"Service Learning and Volunteerism in Honors." National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Conference, October 1999.

"Exploring Diaries as Life Writing."  First International Conference on Auto/biography, Peking University--Beijing, June 1999.

"'Illegitimacy' and Life Writing."  Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, November 1998.

"'Mary Has Helped!' Experiences of Teaching Religious in Two Luxembourger Immigrant Communities."  History of Women Religious Conference, Loyola University, June 1998.

"Reflections of the Metaculture of Luxembourg in the Rural Midwestern United States." Invited Presentation. Newberry Library Seminar on Rural History. May 1998.

"Buenker/Bunker/Bunkers: All in the Family." Paper, Midwestern American Studies Association Conference, April 1998.

"Women's Diaries: A Midwestern Sampler." Paper, Popular Culture Association Conference, April 1998.

"Autobiography and American Studies." Paper, Midwestern American Studies Association Conference, April 1997.

"In Search of Susanna: Transgression and Performance in Autobiography." Paper, American Literature Association Symposium on Autobiography, 1997.

"Whose Diary is It, Anyway? Publishing Scholarly Editions of Women's Diaries." Paper, Modern Language Association, 1996.

"Border Crossings: Teaching and Writing Autobiography." Presentation, Midwest Modern Language Association, 1996.

"Writing Auto/biography: In Search of Susanna." Paper, Western Literature Association, 1996.

"Cross-cultural Autobiography." Presentation at the Conference on Memory, History, and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium." Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1996.