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MICHAEL KOWALEWSKI
Carleton College
English Department
Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 646-4323
mkowalew@carleton.edu
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Brief Biography:
Every three years, Michael Kowalewski directs an off-campus program for Carleton College called "Visions of California". It is an interdisciplinary American Studies program that studies the literature, art, history, film, and environments of California. The course enrolls 25 students and is located at various sites throughout the state. It ran in 1995 and 1998 and will next be offered in the winter of 2001.
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Public Lecture Topics:
- Presentations on the Gold Rush throughout California in 1998 (including a radio interview on KPFA radio in Berkeley)
- Currently serving as President of the Western Literature Association and host of "West of the West: California and the American West" conference in Sacramento in October, 1999
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Publications:
- Editor, Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration (Heyday Books, in conjunction with the California Council for the Humanities, 1997), winner of a 1998 award of merit from the American Association for State & Local History
- Editor, Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
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Recommendations:
Books
- Ramon Gutierrez, Contested Eden
- David Wyatt, Five Fires
- Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear
Films
- Cadillac Desert documentary series
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Publishing Project:
California Fiction Reprint Series, University of California Press
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Michael Kowalewski has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 10-Feb-1999.
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