Rosemary Graham  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Virginia,, 1992
  Dissertation: "Affection and the Problems of Freedom: Leaves of Grass in 1860"
• M.A. University of Virginia, 1986
• B.A. Georgetown University, 1982

Teaching Experience:

• Professor - Saint Mary's College of California (2002 - Present)
• Associate Professor of English - Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California (1996 - 2002)
• Assistant Professor - Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California (1992 - 1996)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of English - Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (1990 - 1992)

Award:

• Young Adults' Choice Award - International Reading Association (June 2005)
  Novel, My Not-So-Terrible Time at the Hippie Hotel, chosen by young adult readers as one of the thirty top titles published in 2003

Fellowships:

• Writers Residency - Hedgebrook (July 2006)
• St. Mary's College Alumni-Faculty Fellow - St. Mary's College (1995)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Summer - Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (1994)
  Participated in the Seminar "Slavery and the U.S. Civic Imagination,"

Grants:

• Lasallian Initiative Grant (Departmental) - St. Mary's College (2001)
• Irvine Foundation Grant for Curriculum Development, - (1993)

Honor:

• Books for the Teen Age - New York Public Library (March 2006)
  Novel, Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude, chosen as one of the best books for teens published in 2005.

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• Writing for Today's Teen Reader. Graham, Rosemary (panel or forum member)
  San Francisco Writers Conference
  (February 19, 2011)
• Contra Costa Library Festival of Reading. ,
  (May 17, 2008)
• Negotiating Terms: The Language of the MFA Classroom.
  "Reconcilable (In)Differences," University of Denver
  (April 1997)
• "The Prostitute in the Garden: Female Sexuality in Walt Whitman's Poetry".
  American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland
  (May 1995)
• Writing for Today. Graham, Rosemary

Publications:

• Stalker Girl. New York: Viking, 2010.
• Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude. New York: Penguin, 2008.
• September 2003. Clothing Firms Try on Teen Fiction, All Things Considered, NPR
• My Not-So-Terrible Time at the Hippie Hotel. : Puffin, 2003.
• "A Word From Her Sponsor." The San Francisco Chronicle, October 15, 2001
• "The Value of A Summer Job." The San Francisco Chronicle, July 16, 2001
• "City of Scolds." The San Francisco Chronicle, July 2001
• "Death Rites." The Santa Monica Review, 2001
• ""Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice"; "The Attorney General's Office"; "The City Dead-house"; "The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman"; "The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman"." entries for The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. LeMaster and Donald Kummings, eds., Greenwood Press, 1998
• "The Prostitute in the Garden: Walt Whitman, Fanny Hill, and the Fantasy of Female Pleasure." English Literary History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997
• "Solving All the Problems of Freedom: The 'Case' of the 1860 Leaves of Grass." American Transcendental Quarterly. University of Rhode Island, March 1993
• "Dividing them from Us Within Ourselves." Interview with cartoonist Lynda Barry, for "Women and Humor" issue of IRIS: A Journal About Women 20, pgs. 34-39, 1988