Valerie J Miner

Contact Me

miner002@umn.edu

Links

• http://english.cla.umn.edu/faculty/MINER/Miner.htm

Educational Background & Specialties

Specialties

• creative writing
• cross-cultural literacy and social criticism
• feminism
• fiction
• journalism
• reportage
• review
• working-class literature

Courses Taught

• EngL 8130/WoSt 8670 - Women and the Creative Imagination
• EngW 3960 - Fiction Workshop for Majors
• EngW 5110 - Advanced Cross-Genre Writing in London
• EngW 5110 - Imagination and Invention in Fiction
• EngW 8130 - Advanced Belles Lettres
• EngW 8140 - Manuscript Preparation, Fiction and Nonfiction

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Arizona: 1990 - 1992

Publications

• Range of Light. Miner, Valerie, Zoland Press, 1998.
• A Walking Fire. Miner, Valerie, State University of New York Press, 1994.
• Blood Sisters. Miner, Valerie, Women's Press, St. Martin's, 1981, 1982.
• The Low Road: A Memoir. Miner, Valerie, Michigan State University Press, Fall 2001.
• A Scottish Opera. Miner, Valerie, Fall 1998.

Awards

• Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, 2000
• McKnight Research Award
• University College Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Minnesota, 1999