FPU faculty contributes to book on Willa Cather
An essay by a Fresno Pacific University faculty member is part of a new book on a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author.
"'Everything Was Contested' Teaching Print and Television Biographies of Willa Cather," by Eleanor Nickel is one of 19 essays in "Teaching the Works of Willa Cather" from Green Tower Press at Northwest Missouri State University.
The book is co-edited by Steven B. Shively, associate professor at Utah State University, and Virgil Albertini, NMSU distinguished professor emeritus.
Cather's novels are widely taught in high schools, colleges and universities. Teaching Willa Cather is designed to offer resources for educators.
Nickel's essay is important because helps teachers with the massive amount of information available about writers, according to the editors. "Students--and sometimes teachers--too often accept information without examining it critically," states a publisher's release.
"Professor Nickel gracefully analyses the value judgments, biases and omission in the most widely used biographies of Willa Cather. Yet she also communicates respect for the biographies as well as the students and teachers who use them."
Nickel joined the FPU faculty in 2002. She has a doctorate from the University of Iowa, a master's degree from West Virginia University and a bachelor's from Gordon College.
Best-known for novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, Willa Cather (1873-1947) won the Pulitzer for "One of Ours." Other works include "O Pioneers," "My Antonia" and "Song of the Lark."
The book is co-edited by Steven B. Shively, associate professor at Utah State University, and Virgil Albertini, NMSU distinguished professor emeritus.
Cather's novels are widely taught in high schools, colleges and universities. Teaching Willa Cather is designed to offer resources for educators.
Nickel's essay is important because helps teachers with the massive amount of information available about writers, according to the editors. "Students--and sometimes teachers--too often accept information without examining it critically," states a publisher's release.
"Professor Nickel gracefully analyses the value judgments, biases and omission in the most widely used biographies of Willa Cather. Yet she also communicates respect for the biographies as well as the students and teachers who use them."
Nickel joined the FPU faculty in 2002. She has a doctorate from the University of Iowa, a master's degree from West Virginia University and a bachelor's from Gordon College.
Best-known for novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, Willa Cather (1873-1947) won the Pulitzer for "One of Ours." Other works include "O Pioneers," "My Antonia" and "Song of the Lark."
