Beth Kalikoff
Director of the Writing Center
University of Washington, Tacoma
Box 358453
1900 Commerce
Tacoma, WA 98402-3100
253-692-4417
kalikoff@u.washington.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, Indiana University, 1983
M.A., English, Indiana University, 1980
A.B., The Johns Hopkins University, 1977

HONORS
The Nation "Discovery" Poetry Contest Semi-Finalist, 1994
The Adrienne Lee Award for Poetry, Hubbub, Reed College, 1992
The Walter Hall Award for Poetry, Hubbub, Reed College, 1992
Seattle Metro Bus Poetry Contest Winner, 1992
Professor of the Year Award, University of Puget Sound, 1991
NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1990
Nartin Nelson Junior Sabbatical Award, University of Puget Sound, 1988
Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, 1987
Martin Nelson Faculty Summer Research Award, University of Puget Sound, 1987
Eastern Illinois University Research Grant, 1984
Indiana University Graduate Fellowship, 1977-1981
William Riley Parker Prize for Graduate Teaching, Indiana University, 1980

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Director of the Writing Center, University of Washington, Tacoma, 1994-present
Senior Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington,
Tacoma, 1998-present

Associate Professor, University of Puget Sound, 1989-93
Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound, 1986-89
Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University, 1983-86
Associate Instructor, Indiana University, 1978-81

Courses

Advanced Composition
Advanced Fiction Writing
Advanced Poetry Writing
Basic Skills
Composition
Edwardian Studies
Extension University Writing and Literature
First-Year Writing Seminar
Interdisciplinary Basic Skills (Office of Latino Affairs)
Introduction to Fiction Writing
Introduction to Poetry Writing
Modernism and Modernization
Poetry Writing in the Northwest
Prelude Program for Reading, Writing, and Thinking
Shaw and Wilde
Summer Writing Program for Incoming College Students
Survey of British Literature 1750-present
Theory and Practice of Writing
Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing for the Professions
Writing Pedagogy

PRESENTATIONS (Selected)

"Coercion and Collaboration in Writing Center Assessment," Pacific Coast Writing Center Association Annual Conference, Washington State University, Pullman, September, 1998.
"In Your Dreams/In Your Face: Making a Movie to Market the Writing Center," Pacific Coast Writing Center Association Annual Conference, Washington State University, Pullman, September 1998.
"Nobody Here But Us Plagiarists: Writing Center Truth in Advertising," presented with Linda Calendrillo, National Writing Center Association Conference, St. Louis, September 1995.
"Strong Measures for Student Poets," National Council of Teachers of English, Seattle, Washington, November 1991.
"The Brontes" and "Crime in Victorian Melodrama," Actors Theatre of Louisville, Classics in Context Theatre Festival, Louisville, Kentucky, October 1988.
"Creating a Community of Learning," National Women’s Studies Association, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland, June 1988.
"Invention, Poetry, and Finding Car Keys in the Dark," Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1986.

WORK IN PROGRESS

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Murder and Moral Decay in Victorian Popular Literature. Nineteenth-Century Studies Series. Ed. Juliet McMaster and James Kincaid. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.

Articles

"Tracking Tenure with Camera and Net." Iris: A Journal About Women. 30. Winter 1993. 37-39.
"Look Out! Run! Miss Collegiality has a Gun! Or, How Women Can Get Tenure at Small Institutions Without Being Institutionalized." Concerns. 23:1. Winter 1993. 40-43.
"The Execution of Tess d’Urberville." In Executions and the British Experience. Ed. William Thesing. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990. 111-121.
"Victorian Sexual Confessions." Victorians Institute Journal. Fall 1989. 1989. 99-112.
"The Falling Woman in Three Victorian Novels." Studies in the Novel. 19:3, Fall 1987. 357-67.
"Round Up the Usual Suspects: Mystery Writing and Writers in Illinois." Illinois Writers Review. 5:2. Fall 1986. 6-7.

Biographical Essays

"Stella Adler" and "Elaine May." Notable American Women in the Theatre. Ed. Alice M. Robinson, et al. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. 608, 605-6.

Poems (Selected)

"Songs on an Old Kitchen Radio," "Brother Marcus Reid (Chicago)," and "Vegetarians
Abroad," College English, 1993.
"Camping on the Methow" and "Mary’s Parrot," Seattle Metro Poetry Contest, 1992.
"Deciding What to Save" and "Art and Science," Hubbub, 1991.
"Raw Material," Northwest: Oregonian Sunday Magazine, February 21, 1988.
"Bad Sport," This Sporting Life: Contemporary American Poems About Sports and
Games. Minneapolis: MN: Milkweed Editions, 1987.
"The Discovery of Chili," Another Chicago Magazine, 1986.
"Atlantis" and "A New Contraceptive is Invented by Juanita Bink," Northern New
England Review, 1986.
"The Second Annual Zucchini Festival," 13^th Moon, 1985.
"On the Run," Spoon River Quarterly, 1985.
"Bugtown; or, the Growth of a Poet’s Mind," Literary Magazine Review, 1985.
"Modern Drama," The Madison Review, 1985.
"My Last Christmas Tree," Berkeley Poetry Review, 1983.
"Ships Ahoy! Or, Thirty Years on the Uterine Canal," Indiana Review, 1983.
"Juanite Bink [Juanita Sings ‘Que Sera, Sera’]," The South Dakota Review, 1982.
"Dr. Cliff Notes Reads Pamela," College English, 1981.

Fiction

"How I Lost 150 Lbs. of Useless Fat," Poet and Critic, 1983.
"Following a Map," Indiana Review," 1982.

Reviews (Selected)

The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture, ed. G. A. Cevasco,
Victorian Review, forthcoming.
Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists: Walking the Moral Hospital, by Nicholas
Rance, Victorian Studies 36:1 (Fall 1992): 88-89.
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830-1914, by Martin
Weiner, Victorian Studies 35: 2 (Winter 1992): 218-19.
Sex and Death in Victorian Literature, ed. Regina Barreca. Victorian Studies 34:4
(Summer 1991): 500-01.
Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Policy in the fin de siecle, by Ruth Harris,
Victorian Studies 34:2 (Winter 1991): 264-65.
Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy, ed. Patricia Yaeger and
Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, and Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of
Nineteenth-Century Gothic, by Eugenia C. DeLaMotte, Victorian Review
17:1 (Summer 1991): 96-99.
Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women, by Jan Cohn.
Victorian Periodicals Review 23:3 (Fall 1990): 127-28.
Sisters in Time: Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, by Susan Morgan.
Choice (March 1990): 146.
Victorian Farce, Jeffrey Huberman. Victorian Studies Newsletter (Ontario) 40 (Fall
1987): 27-28.
Plays by Tom Taylor, ed. Martin Banham; Bernard Shaw: A Critical View, by
Nicholas Grene; and The Art of the Actor-Manager: Wilson Barrett and
The Victorian Theatre, by James Thomas. Victorian Studies 30:4 (Summer 1987): 519-20.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Manuscript Reader for College English, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, University of Chicago Press, Victorian Studies

EDITORIAL WORK

Free-lance manuscript editor and consultant, 1993-94
Editorial Board Member, Works and Days, 1983-present
Poetry Editor, Karamu, 1983-86
Managing Editor, Victorian Studies, 1982-83
Editorial Assistant, Victorian Studies, 1981-82

REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

Deborah Brandt, Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
University of Wisconsin

Patrick Brantlinger, Chair and Professor of English
Indiana University

William Breitenbach, Professor of History
University of Puget Sound

James F. Brown, Associate Dean for Academic Programs
University of Washington, Tacoma

Vicky Carwein, Chancellor and Vice Provost
University of Washington, Tacoma

Donald Gray, Professor of English and former Editor of College English
Indiana University

Hans Ostrom, Professor of English
University of Puget Sound

Susan Resnick Pearce, President
University of Puget Sound

James Quivey, Professor and former Chair of English
Eastern Illinois University

William Richardson, Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program
University of Washington, Tacoma