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Mary Pinard
- Professor
Academic Division: Arts & Humanities
Bio
Academic Degrees
- M.F.A., Vermont College of Norwich University
- MA, University of Chicago
- BA, Saint Mary's College
Academic Interest / Expertise
Contemporary American Poetry; Writing PedagogyAwards & Honors
Courses
Degree Courses 2023
- LTA 2030 PLACE AND LANDSCAPE IN LITERATURE
- LIT 4604 DOCUMENTARY POETRY: ENGAGING REALITY
- SES 2000 SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Degree Courses 2022
- LTA 2049 PILGRIMS AND PILGRIMAGE IN LIT
- ENG 4604 WRITING POETRY
- LIT 4689 POETIC ELEGY
- LVA 2085 SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL PRAIRIE SYSTEMS
- NST 2085 SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL PRAIRIE SYSTEMS
Publications
Journal Articles
- Pinard, M.C. (2009). Voice(s) of the Poet-Gardner: Alice Oswald and poetry of Acoustic Encounter. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory-Special Issue on Ecopoetics. Penn State.
Books
- Pinard, M.C. (2022). Ghost Heart: Ghost Heart. Page: 100 pages. Ex Ophidia Press. link
- Pinard, M.C. (in press). Ghost Heart: "Ghost Heart" (book of original poems). Ex Ophidia Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (2014). Portal. Salmon Poetry.
Cases and Teaching Notes
- Pinard, M.C. (2001). Student Guide: Babson First-Year Rhetoric Program, Academic Year 2001-2002.
- Pinard, M.C., O'Brien Hallstein, L., Nixon, C. (2000). Student Guide: Babson First-Year Rhetoric Program and Yearlong Experience, 2000-2001.
Book Chapters
- Pinard, M.C. (2010). Hep: Stepping on My Brother's Head and Other Secret Your English Professor Never Told You: A College Reader. Heinemann-Boyton/Cook.
- Pinard, M. (2008). “Niedecker’s Grammar of Flooding”: Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Politics of Place. University of Iowa Press . link
- Pinard, M.C. (2006). “Gender and the U.S. Online Literary Scene" : proceedings for the Gender & Global Digital Divide session at the Women’s Worlds 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women.
- Pinard, M.C. (2006). “Haunted by Waters: The River in American Films of the West,”: The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns: Ecocriticism in an American Film Genre. Page: 127-140. University of Utah Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (2005). “A New Strategy for Improving Corporate Creativity”: Strategy and Leadership with Robert J. Allio.
- Pinard, M.C. (2005). “Overlappings: Lorine Niedecker and René Char: Exploring the Unlikely Likelihood”: Court Green (special dossier feature on Lorine Niedecker).
- Pinard, M.C. (2004). “(Re) Educating for Leadership: How the Arts Can Improve Business” : Arts and Business, UK, with Ted Buswick and Alastair Creamer.
- Pinard, M.C. (2002). “The Politics of Writing Centers”: The Journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Vol: 54, Issue: 1, Page: 156-158.
- Pinard, M.C. (2001). “Lorine Niedecker: Environment and a Grammar of Flooding” : ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.
- Pinard, M.C. (2000). “Willfulness and Wild Space: A Geography of Motherlessness” : South Dakota Review.
- Pinard, M.C. (1999). “Surviving the Honeymoon: Bliss and Anxiety in a WPA’s First Year, or Appreciating the Plate Twirler’s Art” : Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, and Troubadours: Writing Administrators Tell Their Stories. Heinemann.
- Pinard, M.C. (1996). “The Beginnings of Creativity” : The Regional Review. Vol: 6. Federal Reserve Bank.
- Pinard, M.C. (1993). “Paean to Place: The Poetry of Lorine Niedecker” : Poetry East. Issue: 35, Page: 77-82.
- Pinard, M.C. (1990). “Christopher Latham Sholes, The Typewriter, and Women’s Economic Emancipation: A Reading of an Image”: Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy. Issue: 23, Page: 22-35.
- Pinard, M.C. (1988). “Finding the Hinge: Subversive Pedagogy”: Critical Exchange. Issue: 25, Page: 8-17.
- Pinard, M.C. (1986). “Time In and Out of Solitude in One Hundred Years of Solitude”: Critical Perspectives on Gabriel Garcia Marquez. University of Nebraska Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (1983). Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare, “Shakespeare V,” Vol. 89: Great Books of the Western World. Franklin Publishing Company.
- Pinard, M.C. (1982). Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare, “Shakespeare VI,” Vol. 83: Great Books of the Western World. Franklin Publishing Company.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). Reader’s Guide to Chaucer, “Troilus and Cressida,” Vol. 77: Great Books of the Western World. : Franklin Publishing Company.
- Pinard, M.C. (1980). Reader’s Guide to Chaucer, “The Canterbury Tales I and II,” Vols. 49-50: Great Books of the Western World. Franklin Publishing Company.
- Pinard, M.C. (1980). “Editorial Introduction,” Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”: The Great Ideas Today, 1980.. Page: 399-402. Encyclopedia Britannica.
Working Papers
- Pinard, M.C. (1989). “Representations of the American Secretary”. Bunting Institute, Radcliffe Research and Study Center.
Other
- Pinard, M.C. (2022). Fellow Traveler: Western Conifer Seed Bug: Refuge: Plein Air Poem Anthology. Page: 1. Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2022). Palimpsest: Ecotone. Issue: No. 32, Page: 2. Ecotone. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2022). Heart/Roots: Wabaunsee County: A Play in Two Acts: Heart/Roots: Wabaunsee County. Page: 40 pages. Volland Press. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2021). "Cranes and Bison: Re-Volutions": If Bison Can Dream: Zhang Hongtu. Tina Keng Gallery.
- Pinard, M.C. (2021). "Diesel," "Gone in Search," and "So when I saw for the first time": Moving Images: Poetry Inspired by Cinema.
- Pinard, M.C. (in press). "Fellow Traveller: Western Conifer Seed Bug". Old Frog Pond Farm Studio.
- Pinard, M.C. (2021). "Mourning Dove": Modern Music of New Singers: 21st-Century American Art Songs--Soprano, Vol. 2. Northa Star Music, LLC.
- Pinard, M.C. (2021). "Seagull You Lull Me": Modern Music for New Singers: 21st Century American Art Songs--Mezzo-Soprano, Vol. 2. North Star Music, LLC.
- Pinard, M.C. (2020). "Fallen Tree": Speaking of Sculpture: Ekphrastic Poetry & Outdoor Sculpture.
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Even After All": Salamander (literary journal).
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Widow Sugaring for Moths": Salamander.
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Note to a Hingeless Coral Pink Door Floating in the Woods": Speaking of Sculpture: Ekphrastic Poetry & Outdoor Sculpture (juried chapbook).
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Somehow Forgotten": Southern Poetry Review (literary journal).
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Staying Loss": Tupelo Quarterly (online literary journal).
- Pinard, M. (2018). "Trails, Trailings at the Farm: Outside the Sculptor's Studio": Paths Tracks Trails: Plein Air Poetry 2018.
- Pinard, M. (2018). "Driving to the End of the Storm": Crab Orchard Review--Special Double Issue.
- Pinard, M. (2017). "In Praise of Parenthesis" and "Ode": Art on the Trails: Finding Solace in the Woods. Page: 2. The Tishman Review. link
- Pinard, M. (2017). "Spool": Memoir. Page: 1. Old Frog Pond Farm . link
- Pinard, M. (2017). "Late in the Season, Widow Gardening": Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation . Page: 1. Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation.
- Pinard, M.C. (2017). "How the Hogs Got There": saltftont: studies in human habit(at). Issue: 5, Page: 2. saltfront: studies in human habit(at). link
- Pinard, M.C. (2017). "Northern Mockingbird" and "Public Bath": Birdsong: Poems in Celebration of Birds. Foothills Publishing.
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Poet": Even The Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Page: 1. Salmon Poetry Ltd.. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Widow with Extra Doors": Nimrod International Journal 38th Literary Awards 38 Issue. Vol: 60, Issue: #1, Page: 1. University of Tulsa. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Turning Light": Splash: Plein Air Poetry. Vol: II, Page: 1. Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Cardinal," "Flamingo," "Meadowlark," "Vulture" and "Sandhill Cranes": Western Humanities Review. Vol: 70, Issue: #1, Page: 5. University of Utah, Department of English. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Bluffline, Loess Hills, Iowa": Down to the Dark River: Poems on the Mighty Mississippi. Page: 2. Louisiana Literature Press. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2015). "Vulture": Poem of the Month, Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio. Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2015). "Underground Fence": Poem of the Moment, MASS Poetry. MASS Poetry. link
- Pinard, M. (2015). "Direct Address": Dead in Good Company: A Celebration of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Page: 266-267. Ziggy Owl Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (2013). "Fragment House": Ocean State Review. Issue: Summer. University of Rhode Island.
- Pinard, M.C. (2013). "Gone in Search": Salamander. Vol: 18, Issue: 2, Page: 111. Suffolk University English Department.
- Pinard, M.C. (2010). Surprising Reversals: Working With and Against Preference: The Best of the AWP Pedagogy Papers 2010. The Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
- Pinard, M.C. (2010). "Song Net for an Estuary": The Iowa Review. Vol: 40, Issue: 3. University of Iowa Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (2009). "Crossties": The Southern Review.
- Pinard, M.C. (2009). Antietam Primer: Boston Review.
- Pinard, M.C. (2009). "The Weight of the Dislodged" and "Theory of Disappearance": Prairie Schooner.
- Pinard, M.C. (2008). Piazza di Spagna 26: Salamander.
- Pinard, M.C. (2008). "Eavesdropping in a Boatyard, East Boston": Salamander.
- Pinard, M.C. (2007). "Reading the Summer 2005 Anthropologie Catalogue," New Politics, Spring 2007.
- Pinard, M.C. (2007). "Blossom Running With a Rake" : Poetry East, #59.
- Pinard, M.C. (2002). "Habits of Rcollection, " "The Other Side." and "Respirations". Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry.
- Pinard, M.C. (1984). A selection from over thirty “Women’s Voices” articles : Yellow Springs News and The Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1984). “A Morning in November” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1984). “Look at Women in History” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1984). “Two Women Named Mary” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1983). A selection from over thirty “Women’s Voices” articles : Yellow Springs News and The Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1983). “Into the Darkest Night” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1982). A selection from over thirty “Women’s Voices” articles : Yellow Springs News and The Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1982). “Parakeets, Fairy Tales and Freedom” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1982). “Why Do I Hate Math?” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). A selection from over thirty “Women’s Voices” articles : Yellow Springs News and The Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). “An Interview with Adrienne Kennedy”: Yellow Springs News.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). “The First Women Writer in the English Language”: Yellow Springs News.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). “Women at the World’s Fair: A Forgotten Feminist Event”: Yellow Springs News.
Articles - Circular or newsletter (e.g., Babson Insight)
- Pinard, M.C., O'Brien Hallstein, L. (2000). “What Does It Mean to be Articulate?”: Babson Bulletin.
Presentations
Department & College Wide Services
- Senate-appointed Task Force: "Review of Bias Incident Response Protocols as it Pertains to Faculty," with Cheryl Kirschner and Ben Luippold (Fall 2018 - Spring 2019)