Madelon Sprengnether

Specialties

• creative writing
• feminist psychoanalytic criticism
• Freud
• nonficition
• poetry
• Shakespeare
• women writers

Publications

• The Angel of Duluth, prose poems. Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2006.
• Near Solstice, Mourning (poetry chapbook): West Town Press, 2009.
• Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2002.
• La Belle et La Bete, poetry chapbook. Sarasota Poetry Theater Press, 1999.
• Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender. Ed. Shirley Garner and Madelon Sprengnether. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
• Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism. Ed. V. Clark, R. Joeres and M. Sprengnether. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993.
• “Feminist Criticism and Psychoanalysis.“ A History of Feminist Literary Criticism. Ed. Gill Plain and Susan Sellars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• “Musing on Forgiveness: A Response to Roy Schafer.“ Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 53.2 (Spring 2005).
• “Mouth to Mouth: Freud, Irma and the Dream of Psychoanalysis.“ American Imago 60.3 (Fall 2003).
• “Lot’s wife.“ To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present. Ed. Joyce Sutphen, Thom Tammaro and Connie Wanek. Moorhead: New Rivers Press, 2006.
• “Great River Road.“ Fugue 26 (Winter 2003-04).
• “Heart,“ “Hands,“ “Skin,“ “Drowning in Air“ (prose poems). Women’s Studies, 31.4 (July-August, 2002).
• The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Sprengnether, Madelon, 1990.
• The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation. Ed. Shirley Garner and Claire Kahane , Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Sprengnether, Madelon, 1985.

Activities

Awards

• College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University of Minnesota, 1992 - none
• McKnight Research Award, 1999 - 2002
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1988 - none
• The Loft Creative Nonfiction Award, 1987 - none
• Regents Professor, 2008
• Distinguished Women Scholar Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005
• Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, 2004
• Fessler-Lampert Chair in the Humanities, 2001 - 2002

Courses

• Movies and Memory
• Eng 8710 - Personal Voice in Criticism
• Eng 8710 - Writers as Critics
• EngW 5210 - Writing from Life
• EngW 5310 - Varieties of Nonfiction Prose
• Contemporary Readings of Freud
• Seminar in Literary Nonfiction (Memory and Memoir)
• Studies in Feminist Criticism: Reading Through the Mother
• Freud and Feminism
• Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis, Feminism
• Reading Across Genres
• The Cinematics of Loss
• Introduction to the Literature of the Renaissance
• The Female Imagination in English and American Literature
• Shakespeare in Question, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, New Historicism and Deconstruction
• Specialized Subjects in Renaissance Literature: Madness in the Drama of Shakespeare and Ford