KEVIN HEARLE
102 Hobart Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94402
(650) 571-6390
kevinhearle@earthlink.net

Brief Biography:

Kevin Hearle received his AB degree in English at Stanford University and his MFA in English (creative writing poetry) from the University of Iowa. He also completed his MA and Ph.D. in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. He was the Poetry co-editor of Quarry West. He served as the Research Assistant at the NEH Summer Institutes on Literary Translation.He has been a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, CSU Los Angeles, UC Santa Cruz Extension, and Santa Clara University. He was a participant at the NEH Summer Seminar on American Indian Literature and is a founding member and member of the editorial board of the Steinbeck Newsletter. He has been asked (but declined) to donate his papers to the California State Library.

Public Lecture Topics:

  • Steinbeck
  • California Literature
  • Regionalism and Local Color
  • Regionalism and the American Indian
  • poetry readings

Publications:

  • "Are You Sure You Belong?" pp. 255-63 in Community in the American West, Stephen Tchudi, ed. Halcyon Series. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1999
  • "Robinson Jeffers: A Symposium," Quarry West #27, eds. Kevin Hearle and Alan Soldofsky
  • The Grapes of Wrath: Text & Criticism, Peter Lisca & Kevin Hearle, eds. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1997
  • Each Thing We Know Is Changed Because We Know It, and Other Poems, Boise: Ahsahta Press of Boise State University, 1994 & 1996 by Kevin Hearle

Recommendations:

  • The Plow That Broke The Plains film by Pare Lorentz
  • Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams
  • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Chinatown film by Roman Polanski
  • Donald Worster's Under Western Skies
  • Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins' Life Among the Piutes

Kevin Hearle has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 13-Aug-1999.