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Brian Bedard
Associate Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing
Editor: South Dakota Review
Contact information:
Office room number: Dakota Hall 217
Office phone number: 605-677-5966
E-mail address: bbedard@usd.edu
Office hours
Curriculum vita
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"We think by feeling. What is there to know?" —Theodore Roethke
Affiliations:
Research and teaching interests:
- Teaching: Creative writing and twentieth century American literature
- Research: Creative projects in short fiction and personal essay
Courses regularly and/or recently taught at the U.:
| ENGL |
283 |
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Creative Writing I |
| ENGL |
492/592 |
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Creative Writing II: Short Fiction |
| ENGL |
483/583 |
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Creative Writing III: Writer's Option |
| ENGL |
782 |
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Seminar: Writing Short Fiction |
| ENGL |
734 |
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Seminar Twentieth Century Studies: Hemingway and Faulkner |
| ENGL |
734 |
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Seminar Twentieth Century Studies: McCullers and O'Connor |
| ENGL |
734 |
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Seminar Twentieth Century Studies: Form and Technique in Twentieth Century Fiction |
Education:
- PhD in English from the University of Utah
- MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana
- B.A. in English from the University of Montana
Selected publications:
Book
Grieving on the Run. Short story collection, to be published by Snakeskin Press after July 1, 2006.
Stories
"Snakeskin Boots." The Owen Wister Review, Spring 2005
"News from Nevada." Briar Cliff Review, Spring 2003
"When the Buffalo Roam." Blueline, Spring 2002
"Grieving on the Run." North Dakota Quarterly, Fall 2001
Three Stories on a Theme. The Chariton Review, Spring/Summer 2000
"Coyote Bait" and "Stingray." South Dakota Review, Fall 2000
"Blazer." The MacGuffin, Fall 1999
"Prentice Holt Returns." Loonfeather, Summer 1998
14 additional stories in The Chariton Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cimarron Review, Rhododendron, and South Dakota Review, 1980 to 1998
Essays
"Egress Window." South Dakota Review, Spring/Summer 2005
"Stray Cat." South Dakota Review, Winter 2004
"Wooden Ghosts." South Dakota Review, Summer 2004
"Flocking." South Dakota Review, Fall 2004
"The Apparition of Deer." South Dakota Review, Fall 2003
"Buffalo Diorama." South Dakota Review, Summer 2003
"Hawk on the Goal Post." South Dakota Review, Summer 2002
"The Fifteen Foot Prairie Dog." South Dakota Review, Spring 2000
18 additional essays in South Dakota Review, 1992-1999
Awards and recognitions:
- 2005 Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for short fiction from Snake Nation Press for Grieving on the Run, a short story collection
- Pushcart Nominee: 2001, 2003
- Best of Cimarron Review anthology
- Barnes and Noble Writers Harvest: Guest Writer
Professional statement:
I've given my adult life to teaching and writing and have no regrets about doing so. I have no high flown ideas about making students into great writers, but I take what I am doing with great seriousness and try to temper the seriousness with humility and humor. As I see it, my job as a college English professor is to strengthen in students the four cornerstones of literacy: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The possession and employment of these powers, if nurtured and honed, determines the extent of freedom and self determination a person can lay claim to as a citizen of any country and as an inhabitant of the world. Whatever I can do to release such individuals into the mainstream of society, I will do. The future rests on the shoulders of people who have developed an inner life built on dynamic literacy, on people who possess the power of good judgment. This is what all the reading, writing, speaking, and listening should lead to--the art of decision.
