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Nicole Provencher
Academic
Interests: Rhetoric and Composition, Contemporary American
Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Myth. Literature of the 1920s and the
Harlem Renaissance, specifically the impact of D.H. Lawrence on
American Literature. Joyce Carol Oates. Medieval Women, Philosophy,
and Theology.
Education:
M.A. in English
Language and Literature, Our Lady of the Lake University. May 2007.
B.A. in
English, Our Lake of the Lake University. August 2005.
A.A. in Liberal
Studies, Richland College. May 2003.
Conferences:
“Omitted Drama: Female Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance as
Catalysts for Change.” University of Tulsa English Graduate Student
Conference. March 29-31, 2007.
“Religious
Sexuality and Science: The Joining of the Physical and Spiritual
Worlds through the Ecstatic Experience of Female Mystics in the
Early Renaissance.” South Central Renaissance Conference (SCRC). San
Antonio, TX. March 8-10, 2007.
North Eastern
Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2007. Reviewed Abstracts for
the NEMLA Summer Fellowship Program.
“Affliction and Consolation: A Study of the Relationship Between
Pleasure and Pain in the Lives of Female Medieval Mystics.” Texas
Medieval Association (TEMA). Waco, TX. Oct. 6-7, 2006.
Published
Poetry:
“Highway 281 –
Speed Limit 45,” The Thing Itself, 35 (2007); “Miriam,” River Oak
Review, 2.3 (2006); “Pieta,” Karamu, XX.1 (2006); “This New
Stranger,” Samsara, 1.12 (2005); “And this is How I Carried You,”
Nimrod: International Journal, 49.1 (2005); “Homecoming,” Voicings
From The High Country, Spring (2005); “Pieta,” Nimrod: International
Journal, 49.1 (2005); “Placenta,” Nexus, 40.1 (2005); “Eve,” Hidden
Oak, Summer/Fall (2004); “Highway 251,” Trinity Review (2004);
“Little Alterations,” Art:Mag, 27 (2004); “Recollection,” Freefall,
Fall (2004); “Slightly Left Over,” Studio, 97 (2004); “Words,”
Zillah, 4.2 (2004); “All Gone,” Jewish Currents, Nov/Dec (2004).
Hometown:
San Antonio, Texas
Favorite
Authors: Joyce Carol Oates, Doris Lessing, John Irving, Kurt
Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Sharon Olds, D.H. Lawrence,
Neruda, Lorca, Silko, John Updike, and Henry James.
Ultimate
Vacation: Joyce Carol Oates Archives at Syracuse University!
Email:
nprovenc@lonestar.utsa.edu
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