Natasha Sajé
(801)
832-2376 Westminster College
1840 South 1300 East, Salt Lake, UT 84105
nsaje@westminstercollege.edu
Education
1995
1980
1976
"'Artful Artlessness':
Reading the Coquette in the Novel, 1724-1913"
Director: Linda S.
Kauffman
I trace the coquette—a woman
who gains power through verbal and body language—as a figure of discourse
through eighteenth-century British novels and conduct books, with a major focus
on American novelists Hannah Webster Foster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James,
and Edith Wharton. I argue that the coquette's "art" challenges
hierarchies that limit human potential, such as those between natural and
artificial, male and female, true and false.
Assistant
Professor of English, 1998-2002; Associate Professor, 2002 to 2008; Professor,
2009-present.
Director
of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series
Teach
courses in literature (Introduction to Literature, Middle Eastern Literature,
Introduction to Literary Studies, American Realism and Modernism, English
Senior Thesis Seminar), creative writing (Introduction to Creative Writing,
Poetry Workshop, Nonfiction Workshop), and composition; advise literary
magazine (Ellipsis); write grants for poetry series and Ellipsis.
Vermont College MFA in
Writing, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT 05602
Faculty,
Poetry: December 1996 to present
Lecture
and teach workshops in poetry, translation, and creative nonfiction. Guide
students through individual courses of study.
Instructor: Graduate courses: Poetry Workshops; 20th-Century World Literature; Voice in Modern Short Fiction; Fiction Workshop; Contemporary Literature; Identity Politics and the Contemporary Writer. Made admissions decisions on poetry applicants and acted as advisor to poetry students; read theses.
Maryland State Arts Council, Poet-in-Residence, 1989 to 1998
Poetry
writing workshops for grades 3-12 and workshops for teachers.
Instructor: "The American Dream: Gender, Race,
Class, and Ethnicity, 1865-1993," essay writing, introduction to literature
courses, poetry workshops.
Visiting
Lecturer: advanced undergraduate poetry workshops.
Margaret
Banister Writer-in-Residence, Fall 1995: advanced undergraduate poetry
workshop.
Teaching
Assistant: Courses taught: Advanced Poetry
Writing, Critical Methods, Introduction to the Novel, Women in Literature,
Professional Writing, Composition.
Mentor
Teacher: Supervisor of new teaching assistants.
Goucher College, Maryland,
1982-1987
Instructor:
Three levels of composition in a computer-integrated program. Taught creative
writing workshops in the continuing education program.
Business Writing at Its Best,
1985-1990
Workshops
for business executives.
Books-in-Progress
Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory
Chapters on Etymology,
Syntax, Rhythm and Sound, Surprise and other Emotions, Figurative Language, Form,
Narrative, Ethics, Self and Identity, Structuring Books, Literary Evaluation
untitled as yet
collection of poems spurred
by etymology and the alphabet
Bend (Tupelo Press, 2004) Utah Book Award for Poetry
Red Under the Skin (1994,
“Poetry and Ethics: Writing
about Others,” forthcoming The Writer’s
Chronicle
“Metonomy, the Neglected (but
Necessary) Trope,” American Poetry Review
Jan/Feb 2009
“Narrative and Poetry,” The
Writer’s Chronicle 41 (1) September 2008: 62-72.
“Rhythm and Repetition in
Free Verse, or, the Poet as Witch,” The
Writer’s Chronicle 39 (5) March 2007:25-35.
“Frontloading Syntax,” The Writer’s Chronicle 38(2) October
2005: 46-53.
“Dynamic Design: Structuring
Books of Poems,” The Iowa Review 35(2)
Fall 2005: 149-162.
“The Politics of Literary
Evaluation,” The Writer’s Chronicle 36(6)
May 2004: 24-32.
“Roots in our Throats: A Case
for Using Etymology,” The Writer’s
Chronicle 35(6) May 2003: 50-56.
“Gertrude Stein’s
Granddaughters: A Reading of Surprise.” The Writer’s Chronicle 34 (4)
February 2002: 38-45.
"Open Coffins and Sealed
Books: The Death of the Coquette in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred." Legacy:
A Journal of American Women
Writers 15(2) Fall 1998: 158-170.
"'Artful Artlessness':
Reading the Coquette in Roderick Hudson." The Henry James Review
18 (Spring 1997): 161-172.
"'The Assurance to
Write, The Vanity of Expecting to Be Read': Deception and Reform in Mary Davys'
The Reform'd Coquet." Essays in Literature 23 (Fall 1996): 165-177.
"D.H. Lawrence, Hamlet,
and Sons and Lovers," Dalhousie Review 71(3) (1992): 334-347.
Interview
with Kamau Brathwaite, forthcoming Ariel:
A Review of International English Literature
Interview with Derek Walcott
(with George Handley), Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 32
(2) April 2001: 129-144.
"Dynamic Design: Review
of books by Stuart Friebert, C.D. Wright, Sarah Gorham & Rod Smith" Prairie
Schooner 74(4) Winter 2001: 167-174.
Review: Sandra Alcosser, Except
By Nature, Poet Lore 94(4) Winter 2000: 65-67.
Review: "Collective
Music," Chezia Thompson-Cager, Giant Talk; and Forrest Hamer, Call
and Response. Poet Lore 92 (2) Summer 1997: 61-64.
Review: "A Finely
Nuanced Darkness," Elaine Terranova, Damages. Poet Lore 91 (3)
Winter 1996: 61-62.
Review: "Travelers in
Time," Barbara Guest, Selected Poems, and Josephine Jacobsen, In
the Crevice of Time. Poet Lore 91 (2) Fall 1996: 70-73.
Review: Women and Romance by Laurie Langbauer;
Daughters, Fathers, and the Novel by Lynda Zwinger; and Women, Love
and Power by Elaine Hoffman Baruch; for Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society 19(1) Autumn 1993: 276-279.
“Down to the Wire,” Modern
Love Column, Sunday New York Times 19
April 2009
“Reading Sula in
“On Reading Mr. Mani,” New Ohio Review Fall 2008
“The Telephone Interview,” Associated Writing Programs Job List
September 2006.
“Teaching for Tips,” Liberal Education 91(1) Winter 2005:
48-51.
“A Recipe to Share: Women’s
Writing Groups and Community,” So to
Speak: A Feminist Journal 13(1) Winter/Spring
2004: 55-59.
"The Poetic Process as
an Agent of Growth,"
"An Uneasy Relationship:
Women, Housework, and Writing," The American Voice 39 (Spring 1996):
84-90.
“Against Chronology” and “Two
Thieves” Cerise Review (inaugural
issue) Summer 2009
“Anathema,” forthcoming New Ohio Review
“Brief Bio,” “Essay on Touch,” “Dear John, Dear Mr.
Milton,” Western Humanities Review Spring 2009
“Friendships” The
Café Review Winter 2009
“G” and “Š” Denver Quarterly Fall 2008
“O” and “M” Pool
(#7, 2008)
“The Sheep’s Tail” Antioch Review Fall 2008
“Refraction: Moby Dick” and “Refraction: The Scarlet Letter” (American Poetry Journal Summer 2007)
“Ghosts,” “Mourner,” “This Moment,” “My Guardian
Angel,” (translations of Miriam Drev) Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007).
“C” and “Q” Cincinnati
Review (Summer 2007)
“D” Paper Street (Fall 2007) issue includes interview
“Legacy” (translation of
Miriam Drev) Seneca Review, Spring
2007
“Sacrifice: An Interview” (Wheelhouse Summer 2007)
“J” (Salt Flats Annual 2007)
“W” VOLT (February 2007)
“E,” “N,” “V,” “Z” Prairie Schooner (Winter 2006)
“F”
“L,” “P” and “T,”
“B” and “H,” Pool (#4, 2005)
“Y” and “S,” Puerto del Sol (Summer 2005)
“Divine
Plan,” “Catamenia,” and “Passing,” XConnect (2004)
“Marcel at the Station
House,”
“Dear
One” and “Seven Types of Ambiguity,” Quarterly West (Summer 2003)
“The
Tunnel” and “On Melancholy,” Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2003)
“Pink
Parken,”
“Chicken
Scratch” and “My Secret Life,” Shenandoah (Fall 2003)
“Wave,” “Heaven,” and “The
Art of the Novel,” The Southern Review (Fall 2002)
“Flying Home” and “Tale,” Prairie Schooner (Fall 2002)
“Song of the Cook,”
“trouble,” and “Bad News,” Exquisite Corpse (Spring 2002)
“Leave No Trace,”
“I See,” “Reading the Menu,” and “Thanksgiving,”
“View of
“A Girl of the Streets,” New Zoo
Poetry Review (Spring 2002)
“The Philosopher’s Name Was Misspelled Everywhere,”
“The Statues,” and “Graphology,” Ploughshares
(Spring 2002)
“We Saw No Caribou,”
"Wonders of the
Invisible World," Paris Review (Winter 2002)
“Marble Steps,” Crab Orchard Review (Spring/Summer
2001)
"Theme and Variations
for Flute, Snail, and Bird,"
"Vice,"
"Bend" and "Reading Henry Fowler's Modern
English Usage in Salt Lake City in November," Kenyon Review (Fall
2000)
"Channel," The
New Republic (15 September 2000)
"Beyond Good and Evil"
and "White,"
"Story of a Marriage,"
Two Rivers Review (Spring 1999)
"A Minor Riot at the
Mint," Ploughshares (Fall 1998)
"Goodbye To Robert
Graves," The American Voice Anthology 1998
"I am peeling four pink
grapefruit," Shenandoah (Spring 1998) rptd. Poetry Daily
"
"Walking Dream,"
"Fruit," Gargoyle
(1998)
"Heloise to Abelard"
and "Night Writing," Luna (Spring 1998)
"Astrology" and
"Why I Won't Pierce My Ears," Crab Orchard Review (Fall
1997)
"I Want But Can't
Remember," Shenandoah (Fall 1996)
"Scrabble," Shenandoah
(Spring 1996)
"Fable," Harvard
Review (Fall 1995)
"Gravity,"
"Then What Is the
Question?" Feminist Studies (Spring 1995)
"Agoraphobia," The
"Edith Wharton after the
Death of Henry James," Gettysburg Review (Spring 1994)
"Appetites" and "Salsify,"
Salmagundi (Spring 1994)
"What I Want To Make For
You," The American Voice (Spring 1994)
"Red under the
Skin," Ploughshares (Spring 1994)
"A Male in the Women's
Locker Room," Ploughshares (Fall 1993)
"Tongues," Prairie
Schooner (Fall 1993)
"Game" and
"Eating Crabs with Bob and Jim," Shenandoah (June 1993)
"A Short History of the
Sybarites," Poetry (May 1993)
"What Difference Does It
Make?" Ploughshares (Spring
1993)
"Reeling,"
"L'Oustau de
Baumanière," The American Voice (Fall 1992)
"Rampion" and
"Chocolates," Antaeus (Fall 1992)
The Working Poet: Seventy-five Exercises in
Poetry Writing (Autumn House, 2010)
Contemporary American Women’s Poetry (Autumn House, 2008)
Words Overflown by Stars: Creative Writing Instruction
and Insight from the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. Faculty (Writer’s Digest Books, 2008)
Poetikon
15/16 (November-December 2007) selected Saje poems translated into Slovenian
Best American Poetry 2007
Manthology (
Rough Places Plain (Salt Marsh, 2006)
Mona Poetica
(Mayapple Press, 2005)
Sweeping Beauty:
Contemporary Women Poets on Housework (
Contemporary American
Poetry
(Autumn House, 2005)
Poetry East: Origins:
Poets on the Composition Process (#55, 2005)
Sustenance and Desire: A
Food Lover’s Anthology of Sensuality and Humor (Godine, 2004)
Poetry Speaks (Source Books, 2003)
Mercy of Tides (Salt Marsh, 2003)
Are You Experienced? Baby
Boom Poets at Midlife (
O Taste and See: Food Poems (Bottom Dog Press, 2003)
Proposing on the
The Poets’ Grimm (Storyline, 2003)
Strongly Spent: Fifty Years of Poetry (Washington & Lee U, 2003)
Poets of the New Century (Godine, 2001)
Writing Poems 5th & 6th Editions
(Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2000, 2003)
The American Voice Poetry
Anthology (
Everyday Creative Writing (NCTE, 1996)
Hungry As We Are (Washington Writers House, 1995)
What’s Become of
Poetry Daily (Fall 2005; Fall 2003; Summer 2002; Winter 2002;
Spring 1998)
Verse Daily
(September 2002)
“Poetry and Ethics: Writing about Others,” National
Federation of State Poetry Societies, National Convention, Layton, Utah, June
2008
“The Politics
of Translation.” Chair. Associated
Writing Programs Annual Convention, New York, 2008
“Can a Cobbler Make a Revolutionary Shoe?” Discussion
of Literature and Politics with writer Diane Lefer at the Utah Book Festival,
October 2007
“Roots in Our Throats: Poets
Using Etymology.” Chair. Associated Writing Programs Annual Convention, Austin, 2006
“Poems from Bend.”
Utah Book Festival, September 2004
“What Makes a Book Popular? What Makes a Book Good?”
Salt Lake Public Library, May 2004
“Poets Reading Novels; Novelists Reading Poems,” Panelist.
Associated Writing Programs Annual Convention, Chicago, 2004.
“The Politics of Literary
Evaluation,” Loveland, Colorado Poets in the Park, July 2003
“Translating
Poetry/Translating Culture,” Chair. Associated
Writing Programs
Annual
Convention, Baltimore, 2003
“Roots in Our Throats”:
Poetry Master Class. National Collegiate Honors Council
Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2002
“Problems in Reading Middle
Eastern Literature”
Utah
Humanities Council Lecturer, Fall 2001 to 2007
“Hunger and Excess: Women,
Food, and Poetry,” Panelist. Associated Writing Programs
Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2002
Contemporary American Poetry:
Talk & Reading (invited speaker)
College English Association,
November 2001, Mayagűez, Puerto Rico
“Writing about the ‘Other’:
Who Is Allowed to Say What about Whom?” Chair.
Associated
Writing Programs Annual Convention, Palm Springs, 2001
Interview with Derek Walcott. Utah Book Festival, Salt Lake City, September 2000
Interview with Maxine Kumin. Utah Book Festival, Salt Lake City, September 1999
"Bridges between Critical Theory and Creative
Writing," Chair. Associated Writing Programs Annual Convention,
Pittsburgh, 1995
"'The Assurance To Write, The Vanity of Expecting
To Be Read': The Coquette as Woman
Writer." South Atlantic Modern
Language Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, November 1994.
"Sorcery in the Street: Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Edith Wharton, and the Undine as Woman Novelist." American Studies Association
Annual Meeting, Nashville, October 1994.
"Every Dante Needs a Beatrice: Henry James and
"Hannah Webster Foster's Unsentimental Novels.” American Literature Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, May 1993.
and poetry readings at many
colleges, universities, arts festivals, and bookstores
2009 Merit Leave, Westminster
College
2008 Utah Original Writing
Competition, First Place, Poetry
2008 Gore Summer Research Grant
2008 Alice Fay di Castagnola
Award (for ms in progress), Poetry Society of America
2006 Gore Summer Research
Grant
2006 Westminster College
Faculty/Student Research Grant
2004
2004-2005 Fulbright Grantee/Slovenia
2004
2003 Merit Leave,
2003 Distinguished Teaching
Award,
2002
2002
2001
Utah Original Writing Competition, First Place, Poetry
2001 Gore Summer Research Grant
2000
1999 Judith Siegel Pearson
Poetry Award,
1998 Robert Winner Award,
Poetry Society of
1996
1995
1995 Banister
Writer-in-Residence,
1995
1994
1993 Agnes Lynch Starrett
Poetry Prize for Red Under the Skin
1993 Paumanok Poetry Award,
Runner Up
(Visiting
Writer, SUNY-Farmingdale)
1993
1993
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003,
1996, 1993, 1992 Pushcart Prize Nominations
1992
Creative and Reflective
Capacities Learning Goals Workshop, September 2008
Faculty Affairs Committee, 2002-2003
and 2007 to present
Task Force on
Internationalism, Summer 2007
Peer Review Committees: 1999;
2000; 2003(chair); 2004; 2005; 2008(chair)
Sabbatical Committee, 2005 to
2007
AAUP Chapter Vice President,
2006 to present
Ad Hoc Faculty Evaluation
Committee, 2005 to present
Arts & Sciences Promotion
Procedures Committee, Spring 2006 to 2007
Athletic Facilities Director
Search Committee, Fall 2005
English Department Search
Committees, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007
Grievance Committee, 2002, 2008
Diversity Task Force, Team
Leader, Spring 2003
McNair Scholarship Committee,
Reader & Advisor, Spring 2003 to present
Building and Planning Committee, Faculty Representative, 2000 to 2002
Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2001 to 2007
English Department, IT liaison, 2000 to present
Faculty Advisor,
Faculty Advisor, Ellipsis, Westminster College
Literary Journal www.westminstercollege.edu/ellipsis Fall 1998 to present
Fulbright Scholar Program,
Creative Writing Specialist, August 2007 to present
Poetry Out Loud, Utah State
Competition Judge, April 2008
Vermont College of Fine Arts,
Accreditation Steering Committee, July-December 2007
Hunger Mountain,
co-editor, Fall 2007 issue
Writers@Work,
Board Member and Faculty Chair, 2000 to
2005
Advisory Committee, Utah Book
Festival, 2000 to 2003
Model Book Discussion, October 2002
Reader, Utah State University
Press/May Swenson Award. 1998 to 2003
Reader, AWP Poetry Award Series, Spring 2000-2003
Judge, Academy of American Poets Student Contest, BYU, Spring 2002
Reviewer, Utah Arts Council Literary Grants. Spring
2001; Summer 2001.
Judge, 1999-2000 Eisteddfod Poetry Competition.
AWP Benefit Reader, 1999
Judge, "Say the Word" National Competition for Poems about Food. Arlington County Arts Council, 1999
Judge, University of Texas at
El Paso Student Poetry Contest. 1999
Judge, Poet Lore
Narrative Poetry Contest. Spring 1998
Columnist, Women's
Literature Review. Fall 1996 to Fall 1998
Honors Program Committee,
Maryland Institute College of Art, Summer 1996 to 1998
Reader, Mosaic: A Journal for
the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 1993 to 1996
Graduate English Organization
Speaker Committee, University of
English Department Personnel
Committee,
Ethos, Graduate Literary Journal,
Reviewer, Freshman Writing
Textbooks, University of Maryland, 1988 to1990
Fluent in French and German,
reading knowledge of Italian