Cass Dalglish, MFA, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English

Chair Women's Studies

Office
Memorial 224
Wednesday: by appointment
Thursday: 4:45 to 5:45 p.m.
WEC Fridays: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Phone: 612-330-1009
Augsburg Women's Center
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons (except faculty meeting and committee dates )
dalglish@augsburg.edu



NIN a novel by Cass Dalglish from Spinsters Ink now in bookstores and online

Online: Peace Matters, an online magazine produced by the Spring 1999 journalism class

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Brief Biography
Cass Dalglish is a novelist, poet and short fiction writer. A former journalist who has worked in both the print and broadcast media, she took her quantitative journalism students to Cuba in January 2001. She was project director and adviser to journalism students who published an online magazine that features stories about peace and peacemakers, Peace Matters. She was also project director and adviser to journalism students who published Avenues of Taste, (1997) a culturally meditative cookbook featuring the stories and recipes of people of the Cedar-Riverside/Augsburg community. She won two grants for the publication of that cookbook. Her journalism course at Augsburg College is listed as an exemplary community service learning classroom in Writing the Community, the American Association of Higher Education's volume on service learning in composition, 1998. She developed and teaches the college's computer assisted reporting class. Students in her journalism classes have contributed to "The Color of TV News," an ongoing study of network news stations in the Twin Cities and their representations of people of color on the news.

She has written and spoken on the similarities between ancient women's writing and contemporary hypertext ("The Textual Dance, Allusion in the Oldest and Newest Poetry,") at The First Annual Red River Conference on World Literature, April, 1998, Fargo, ND, and "Translating Softpoems from Clay to Kinetics," Associated Writing Program National Conference, April, 1999, Albany, N.Y.) In the second volume of the Red River Proceedings, "You've done it right/the first time darling...." Dalglish looks at women poets of the twentieth and twenty first centuries who express themes of exile by using images that call to mind those used by two women poets--enheduanna and ninshatapada--around the turn of the second millennium B.C.E.

She has traveled to Israel and Greece in her study of archetypal theory and is currently working on poetic translations of some of the stories and songs written by women in clay four thousand years ago. She will soon have a machine modulated version of that translation. She recently won an Augsburg College faculty development grant to work with an Augsburg student on the composition of a musical rendition of the first signed text in history, a devotional hymn written by enheduanna (c.2350 BCE).


Creative Interests

  • For a quick look at the theory behind her poetic translation process, see "Skipping, Jumping, Leaping, and Twisting from the Oldest to the Newest Writing," Enculturation, An Electric Journal for Cultural Studies & Theory, 1:1 Spring 1997.
  • Her first novel Sweetgrass (Lone Oak Press) was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in 1993.
  • Her second novel NIN (Spinsters Ink) was published in Novmeber 2000. Her creative and critical work resurrects memory of a female vernacular and investigates physical imagery women writers have used since the first author signed her text. NIN is a work of American magical realism that allows the reader to meet women who wrote four millennia ago in Mesopotamia.
  • She is fascinated by the similar gestures that appear in stories of the grail and in earliest of stories written in Sumerian and she has written and spoken on that theme Mythos Journal, No. 7, a publication of the Mythos Institute. and "In Search of the Holy Story," Second Annual Red River Conference on World Literature, April, 1999, Fargo, N.D.).


    Education
    B.A. The College of St. Catherine
    MFA Vermont College
    Ph.D. The Union Institute


    Member
  • Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
  • Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
  • Creative Writing Committee of the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities (ACTC)
  • National Women's Studies Association
  • Augsburg Echo Board
  • The Loft

    Teaching 2002 - 2003
  • MAL 510: Visions of Leadership
  • Eng. 227: Journalism
  • Eng. 361: Modern Fiction
  • Quantitative Journalism: Joint Winter WEC/Spring Day 2002
  • Eng.226: Creative Writing Spring WEC 2002
  • Eng. 445: Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
    Cass Dalglish, Ph.D.

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