Stephanie Gauper

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Listening to Our Bodies: The Rebirth of Feminine Wisdom (Beacon Press, 1983).
• Listening to Our Bodies translated and published by Shiso No Kagaku Sha in Tokyo, 1987.
• New Dimensions in Spirituality: Bi-Racial Readings of Toni Morrison's Novels , co-authored with Karla Holloway, (Greenwood Press), 1987. Recognized by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book for l987.
• "Anais Nin and the Feminine Quest for Consciousness: The Quelling of the Devouring Mother and the Ascension of the Sophia" in The Critical Response to Anais Nin forthcoming from Greenwood Press, l997.
• "Death, Ethics and her Final Testament," in Recollections of Anais Nin forthcoming from Ohio University Press (Swallow Press), l995.

ARTICLES

• "Why I Joined the Hemlock Society," Kalamazoo Hemlock Quarterly (Spring, 1993), 3 4.
• "The Philosophy/Psychology of Women and Holocaust Theology in the Works of Ilona Karmel," Midwest Quarterly (Summer, l994),
• "Jousting for Treatment Against the Brotherhood of Medicine," Women, Technology and Ethics: Defining the Issues of the 21st Century, Morehead State College, 1992, 58 70.
• "Classical and Symbolic Dimensions in the Paintings of Martin Maddox," Women in the Landscape : Paintings by Martin A. Maddox, a catalog published by Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, pp.8 9.
• "George Eliot's 'Janet's Repentance' as the First Portrait in Literature of a Woman Addict and her Recovery," Midwestern Quarterly XXXIII (Spring, l992), 167 197.
• "Maternal Bonds as Devourers of Women's Individuation in Toni Morrison's Beloved ," Black American Literature Forum 26 (Spring, l992), 51-61.
• "The Value of Not Planning: Right Brain Approaches to Garment Design," Spin Off: The Magazine for Handspinners XIV (Spring, 1991), 54 55.
• "Barely Tamed: Designing a Jacket from Border Leicester Fleece," Spin Off: The Magazine for Handspinners XV (Summer, 1990).
• "John Ford and his Irish Drinking Ethos as an Influence on Stereotypes of American Male Drunks," Midwestern Quarterly XXXII (Winter, 1991), 224 235.
• "Academic Rape," Anima 4 (Fall, 1990), 51 58.
• "Goddess Manifestations as Stages in Feminine Metaphysics in the Poetry and Life of Anne Sexton," Essays on Anne Sexton , editor Diana Hume George, (University of Illinois Press), 1987, pp. 45 67.
• "Woman's Milk as Agape in Anne Sexton's The Death Notebooks," Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale, editor Steven Colburn (University of Michigan Press), l988, pp. 168 176.
• "Remembering Our Foremothers: Older Black Women, Politics of Age, Politics of Survival as Embodied in the Novels of Toni b Morrison, "co author Karla Holloway, Women and Politics 6 (Summer, 1986), 13 35. This is a special issue subtitled Women as Elders: Images, Visions and Issues. Haworth Press is going to republish this issue as a book.
• "Colette, Clairvoyance and the Medium as Sibyl: Another Step Towards a Feminine Metaphysics," Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, 4 (Spring, l984), 62 80.
• "Margaret Laurence's Fiction: A Re Visioning of Feminine Archetypes," Canadian Literature 93 (Summer, 1982), 42 60.
• "The Nursing Mother and Feminine Metaphysics: An Essay on Embodiment," Soundings, LXV (Winter, 1982), 430 444.
• "Life Stage Theory, Gerontological Research, and the Mythology of the Older Woman: Independence, Autonomy, and Strength,"<>I Anima, VIII (Spring, 1982), 84-98.
• "The Metaphysics of Matrilinearity in Women's Autobiography: Studies of Mead's Blackberry Winter, Hellman's Pentimento, Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Kingston's The Woman Warrior," Women's Autobiography: Essays in Criticism , ed. E. Jelinek (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, l980), pp. 180 206.
• Entries on Ann Bedford Ulanov, Jungian theologian; June Singer, Jungian analyst/writer; Esther Harding, Jungian analyst/writer; Mary Daly, feminist theologian, in American Women Authors , ed. Lina Mainiero, Volumes I, II, IV (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing House, 1980 82), two to five pages apiece.
• "Hestia, Goddess of the Hearth: Notes on an Oppressed Archetype," Spring: An Annual of Jungian Thought and Archetypal Psychology, 1979, pp. 55-75.
• "Anais Nin and the Feminine Quest for Consciousness: The Quelling of the Devouring Mother and the Ascension of the Sophia," in Women, Literature and Criticism , ed. Harry R. Garvin (Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press, 1978)pp. 119-139.
• "Feminism, Sex Role Exchanges, and Other Subliminal Fantasies in Bram Stoker's Dracula ," Frontiers II (Fall, 1978), 104 114.
• Review of Shakespeare's Last Plays , eds. Richard C. Tobias and Paul G. Zolbrod (Essays in honor of Charles Crow), Comparative Drama II (Summer, l977).
• "Archetypal Constellations of Feminine Consciousness in Nin's First Diary," Mosaic XI (Fall, l977), 1 17. b
• "Iconography of Heroic Womanhood: An Interdisciplinary Illustration of the Great Mother and Sophia Archetypes in Renaissance Art and Drama," Anima III (Fall, l977), 1 17.
• "Positive Images of the Feminine Principle in Current Jungian Thought," Women's Caucus Religion Studies Newsletter VI (Winter, 1976).
• "Eve as a Circean and Courtly Fatal Woman," Milton Quarterly 9 (December, 1975), 78 86.
• "Active and Contemplative Lives in Renaissance Art and Literature," Ralph (A publication on teaching methods for Medieval and Renaissance Area teachers) I (January, l974), 1 4.
• "Popular Literature as an Introduction to the Classics: From Dracula to Jane Eyre, " Arizona English Bulletin (NCTE publication) 17 (April, l975), 48 52.
• "Raphael as a Lover: Angel Iconography in Paradise Lost ," The Explicator, October, l974, l5.
• Report on the workshop I organized and presented for NCTE, "Images and Concepts of Women in Literature," College English 35 (April, l974), 851 857.
• "Old and New Renaissance Women" in University Magazine (WMU Alumni Magazine), Spring, l974, 2 4. Mine was the lead story and the cover was designed to go with my article.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

• Western Michigan University's "Woman of the Year" for l987
• WMU Faculty grants for the years 74, 78, 80, 83, 88, 91
• l972 NEH Summer Stipend.
• Choice award for Outstanding Academic Book for Toni Morrison book.

Last updated: May 13, 1995
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