Carole Gottlieb Vopat
Professor of English
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141-2000
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Professor Vopat received her Ph.D. in white male authors before the world
changed, and fervently hopes that she has been part of the revolution, at
least in Southeastern Wisconsin. She taught the first class in women
writers at Parkside in 1972;as well as the first classes at UWP in African
American Women Writers in 1988; Gay and Lesbian Writers in 1994; Latina
Literature in 1999; Asian American Women Writers in 2001; and Literature
of the Holocaust in 2003. She has published articles on contemporary
literature, including on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Kerouac, and since the
early 1980’s has concentrated on the writing of fiction. A daughter of
immigrants, she was the first in her family to graduate high school.
Her current interests are in Holocaust Studies, literature by American
women of color, Queer Studies, and fiction writing. She has studied the
literature of the Holocaust at seminars in Jerusalem, Poland, and Lithuania.
Professor Vopat has received numerous awards for her writing, and has been
honored with several teaching awards, among them the Regents Teaching
Excellence Award 2003, the Stella Gray Teaching Award in 2001 and 1992,
and the Keikhofer-Steiger Award for Distinguished Teaching. Professor
Vopat is grateful that she has enjoyed a lifelong passion for literature
and for teaching, and believes it is the student in us who is our best
self.
"Separation Day," fiction, The Bridge: A Journal of Fiction and Poetry, 10th
Anniversary Issue, 7:2 (Winter 2000) 19-31.
"A College Boy, A Jewish Boy," Crucible 34 (Fall 1998) 64-70.
"The First Jewish Shoplifter," fiction, Footwork: The Paterson Literary Review 1996,
162-166.
"Punching Bags," fiction, Karamu: A Magazine of Literature and Ideas, XIV:2 (Spring
1995) 3-12.
"Better Lives," fiction, The Bridge: A Journal of Fiction and Poetry 4:2 (Summer-Fall
1994) 33-49.
"Speeding," fiction, Footwork: Paterson Literary Review 1994, 166-170.
"Enemies," fiction, Spectrum, VI: 1 (Spring/Summer 1993) 33-42.
"Twenty-five Dollars and a Fifth," fiction, Innisfree XII:4 (Spring/Summer 1993)
24-27.
"What Hard Times Is," fiction, Laurel Review, 27:1 (Winter, 1993) 18-35.
"Lament," poem. Out of Season. Amagansett, New York: Amagansett Press, 1993.
"Little Monkey Eyes,"fiction, The Virginia Quarterly Review, 68:4 (Autumn 1992)
753-769.
"A Great Writer," fiction, The Gifted Child Today, 15:4 (July/August 1992) 16-22.
"Volcanoes," fiction, The Bridge: A Journal of Fiction and Poetry, II:2 (Summer 1992)
12-30.
"And Then I Got A Beating," fiction, Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and Their
Friends, III:1 (Spring/Summer 1992) 115-125.
"Secrets," fiction, Emrys Journal, IX (Spring 1992) 25-39.
"Your Armani Smile," and "You Open the Door," poems, The James White Review, IX:4
(Summer 1992) 15.
"Mysteries," fiction, Spectrum, V: 1 (Spring/Summer 1992) 51-64.
"Becoming A Lady: The Origins and Development of Isabel Archer's Ideal Self," criticism,
Literature and Psychology 38:1 & 2 (1992) 38-57.
"The Darker Vision of W. B. Yeats: 'A Woman Young and Old'," criticism, Colby
Quarterly, XXVIII: 1 (March, 1992) 39-45.
"A Good-Looking Woman," fiction, San Jose Studies XVIII: 1 (Winter, 1992)
91-103.
"Grieving," fiction, Sisyphus II 6 (March/April 1992) 13-19.
"Immigrants' Daughter," fiction, Mandala II: 1 (January 1992) 12-18.
"A Little Love and Understanding," fiction, Athena V:1 (Winter/Spring 1992) 6-23.
"Knocking Them Dead," fiction, Grasslands Review #6 (1991) 3-11.
"A Great Writer," fiction, Poetry Forum: Short Stories (December 1991) 2-5.
"A Great Writer," fiction, Words of Wisdom, XI: 1 (June, 1991) 16-24.
"Lament for Peter," poem, The Wisconsin Light, IV:12 (Junce, 1991) 4.
"Mr. Gittelmacher," fiction, Milwaukee Weekly: Literary Supplement, III:13
(September, 1990) 7-9
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