Donald Meisenheimer
- Lecturer
Office Hours: M 10:30-12:30, T 9:00-10:00
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1999
- B.A. University of Washington, Seattle, 1992
Biography:
Dr. Meisenheimer earned a Bachelor's degree in English
from the University of Washington in Seattle. He began teaching writing
while doing research for his dissertation at the University of
Minnesota, developing and delivering curriculum and instruction in
scientific and technical writing as well as in linguistics, the
techniques of literary study, and the American short story. In the fall
of 1999, he joined the Federation Faculty of UC Davis, where he most
often teaches future scientists and engineers how to develop the
documents and reports specific to their fields. His own interests
center on challenges to the formula Western in the Progressive Era
writing of authors such as Hamlin Garland, Zitkala-S-a, and Mary
Austin, among others. His article on fin de siècle crises in
masculinity was published in a recent issue of Science-Fiction Studies,
and an essay on the work of Dakota author Zitkala-S-a appeared in
Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing. He
has presented at the annual conferences of the Society for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery and the Western Literature
Association, of which he is a member. Dr. Meisenheimer's works in
progress include two unpublished novels. The first, Middle Border, is
loosely based on his experiences working his way through college as a
gravedigger. Since arriving at UC Davis, however, he has also completed
a draft of Falling Together, a novel about a rediscovered
eighteenth-century French harp set in the American West.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant in the Program in Composition and Communication of the University of Minnesota, 1996-1997.
FBI Special Agent is Guest Speaker in Stephen Magagnini's Journalism Class
Writing on the Edge and Prized Writing 20th Year Publication Celebration