Julianne Newmark

Julianne Newmark lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor at New Mexico Tech, in Socorro, New Mexico, where she teaches Native American literature, American literature, writing, and technical communication courses. Her most recent article is forthcoming in the journal Arizona Quarterly. Previously, Julianne has been published in the journals Western American Literature, Etudes Lawrenciennes, and The Latin American Literary Review. She has presented papers on various American literature and Native American literature subjects, as well as on WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) course design and program development, at numerous international, national, and regional conferences (please see the CV section for a full list). Julianne was recently awarded a Visiting Scholar appointment by the Charles Redd Center for Western History at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. During the Spring term of 2009, she will be in residence at the Charles Redd Center, conducting research for her second book project. In addition to this award, Julianne was a 2007 recipient of a joint award by the South Central Modern Language Association and the Newberry Library in Chicago. The Graduate School of Wayne State University awarded Julianne the 2002 Heberlein Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is an active researcher, campus leader, and advocate for her students.

Julianne received her Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where she also held a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in the Honors Program. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, she led her students in the creation of Service Learning projects. Julianne returned to New Mexico in August 2005 to teach for the 2005-2006 academic year at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Presently, as an Assistant Professor at New Mexico Tech, Julianne continues to serve her students as a teacher of writing, technical communication, and American and Native American literature courses. She also serves as New Mexico Tech's Composition Coordinator. In addition, along with a team of faculty members, Julianne is working towards enhancing the visibility and integration of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) at NMT. Julianne continues to incorporate pedagogical methods informed by the University of New Mexico's Writing Across Communities (a community-based incarnation of WAC) initiative and philosophy in her writing and literature classrooms and she encourages students to participate as scholars and leaders within and beyond the university. Her previous experience at Wayne State University as the Conference Director (and creator) of the Youth/Xchange (Y/X) Conference, and as Editor of the Xchanges online journal, demonstrates her long-standing dedication to student success, growth, and excellence. Recently, Julianne moved the Xchanges journal to New Mexico Tech, and she once again is serving as the journal's Editor.

Having been raised in New Mexico, Julianne relishes the opportunity to serve the students of the Land of Enchantment as a teacher and scholar. When she is not teaching students in the classroom, sitting with students in her office, or seeking out ways to enhance student learning within the university, Julianne devotes herself to ballet, cooking, the Detroit Tigers, and her family's Bedlington Terrier and German Shorthair pointers.