COURTNEY A. HUSE WIKA

EDUCATION
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Creative Writing
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, M.A. in English with a specialization in Creative Writing 
Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD, B.A. in English and Philosophy, May 2003

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION 
Distinguished Faculty, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 2019
​Associate Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2017-Present
Former Director of the University Honors Program and Assistant Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2013-Spring 2018
Former Director of the Writing Center and Assistant Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2010-Fall 2013

BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Perch. Baton Rouge: Anchor and Plume Press, forthcoming October 2016. (Poetry Chapbook)
 CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS 
  • “Soapstone.” Poetry, CALYX, forthcoming. 
  • “Point Lonely.” Short Fiction. South Dakota Magazine, January/February (2017): 96-100.
  • “Hush.” Poetry. Kindred 6 (2014).
  • "Take me.” Poetry. Kindred 5 (2014).
  • “Macroura.” Poetry. Kindred 4 (2013).
  • “In the Beginning.” Poetry. Midwestern Gothic 9 (2013): 161-162.
  • “Dress Your Dog Like Karl Rove; Or, The Day the Chaise Longue Came to Town.” Fiction. Scissors and Spackle 8 (2012): 59-63.
  • “Chimera.” Poetry. 605 Magazine 2.3 (2010): 31.
  • “The Last Supper.” Creative Nonfiction. 605 Magazine 2.3 (2010): 30-31.
  • “On Finding Home.” Creative Nonfiction. Life on the Farm and Ranch: South Dakota Stories. Ed. John E. Miller. Brookings: South Dakota Humanities Council, 2009. 80-82.
  • “Kenneth and Hilda: The Beginning.” Creative Nonfiction. Life on the Farm and Ranch: South Dakota Stories. Ed. John E. Miller. Brookings: South Dakota Humanities Council, 2009. 45-46.
  • “The Hazards of Diet and Exercise.” Short fiction. The MacGuffin 24.3 (2008): 14-21. 
  • “Point Lonely.” Short fiction. Paddlefish 2 (2008): 29-36. 
  • “I’m on Fire, You’re on Fire: A Modern Love Story.” Short fiction. Backwards City Review 4.1 (2008): 20-34. 
CRITICAL PUBLICATIONS 
  • “The Poetics of a Cyclic Directed Graph,” Courtney Huse Wika and Dan May. Bridges Conference Proceedings, 2017. (Peer-reviewed article)
  • “Galaxies Containing Infinite Worlds: Poetry from Finite Projective Planes,” Courtney Huse Wika and Dan May. Bridges Conference Proceedings, 2015. (Peer-reviewed article)
  • “Beyond Bella: Rewriting Love and the Female Hero in Young Adult Literature.” Voice of Youth Advocates. 35.1 (2012): 26-28. 
  • “She’s Not Me: Confrontations with Monstrous Doubles in Adolescent Fantasy Texts.” Voice of Youth Advocates. 34.3 (2011): 234-238.
  • Huse Wika, Courtney, and Susan Wolfe. “Policing the Rift: The Monstrous and the Uncanny in Torchwood.” Illuminating Torchwood: Essays on Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 21. Ed. Andrew Ireland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 30-42.
  • “Echoes from the Digital Abyss: Current Challenges in the Writing Classroom.” Voice of Youth Advocates. 32.1 (2009): 24-25.
CREATIVE AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Poetic form and technique
Regional writing 
Gender and identity in contemporary American and adolescent literature
Popular culture
Monster theory and the Uncanny
PRESENTATIONS
Creative Readings
  • “Perch,” poetry reading.  Spearfish Author Talks, Spearfish, SD, December 2018.
  • “Perch,” poetry reading.  Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2018.
  • “Perch,” poetry reading.  Perfect Hanging Gallery Art Showcase, Rapid City, SD, June 2017.
  • “Perch,” poetry reading.  John R. Milton Writers Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD October 2016
  • “Grackle,” poetry reading.  BHSU Faculty Readings, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD October 2015
  • "In the Beginning,” poetry reading.  BHSU Faculty Readings, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD October 2014
  • “Honeybee,” poetry reading.John Milton Writers Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD November 2013
  • “Split Lip,” poetry reading.English Club Faculty Reading, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD October 2013
  • “In the Beginning,” poetry and fiction reading.English Club Faculty Reading, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD February 2013
  • “The Persistence of Gravity,” fiction reading. September 2011 Visiting Writer’s Series, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
  • “From the River House: South Dakota in Three Parts,” poetry and creative nonfiction reading.Western Literature Association 2009, Spearfish, SD October 2009
  • “Handed Down Like an Heirloom: A Zuihitsu on the Personal Poetic,” poetry reading. October 2008  Vermillion Area Arts Council Harvest of the Arts, Vermillion, SD.
  • Featured Reader for the Vermillion Literary Project Poetry SLAM June 2008 Vermillion, SD
  • “Chimera: A Poetry Reading,” October 2007John R. Milton Writers’ Conference University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 
  • “Point Lonely,” short fiction. April 2007Dakota Conference, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD; also read at John R. Milton Writer’s Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, October 2005. 
  • Featured Reader for the English Department Spring Banquet, poetry. April 2007 Vermillion, SD
  • “The Baptism of Sister Little,” short fiction. February 2007 SW/TX Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM 
  • “Dress Your Dog Like Karl Rove; Or, The Day the Chaise Longue Came to Town,” short fiction. Popular Culture Conference, Indianapolis, IN October 2006 
  • “She’ll Feel it When it Comes,” short fiction. April 2006 Graduate Research Forum, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 
  • “What Women Know of Love,” short fiction. April 2004Graduate Research Forum, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 
Scholarly Presentations
  • “Intersections of Math and Poetry,” February 2018 Geek Speak, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
  • “Something Wicked This Way Comes" October 2017 Geek Speak, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
  • “#Blurred Lines: American Raunch Culture” January 2016 Geek Speak, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
  • “Practical Magic: Myths and Rituals of Halloween” October 2014 Geek Speak, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
  • “This Is Gonna Suck: The Historic and Literary Vampire” March 2014 Geek Speak, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
  • “We Wish You a Merry (And Terrifying) Christmas” December 2013 Geek Speak, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
  • “Your Guide to the Apocalypse” October 2013 Geek Speak, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
  • “Acting as Families: The Constructed Family in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” November 2011 Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO.
  • “No More Snuggles?”: Monstrous Doubles in Adolescent Fantasy Texts November 2010Midwest Modern Languages Association, Chicago, IL
  • “Hellmouth, Hellspawn, and Teenage Angst: Uncanny Identity Politics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” WisCon, Madison, WI May 2010
  • “This Home is No Longer My Own: The Uncanny in Adolescent Vampire Texts” April 2009 Popular Culture Conference, New Orleans, LA
  • “M/Other: De-centered Maternal Bodies in Confessionalist Poetry” March 2007 Women’s Studies Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
  • “’Naming the Monster:’ Rape, Redemption, and A Room of One’s Own in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak,” October 2006  Popular Culture Conference, Indianapolis, IN 
  • “’Ready-made, Happy Endings to Misfit All Stories’: Distortions of Love in the Pygmalion Myth,” February 2006
  • SW/TX Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM; also read at Graduate Research Forum, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, April 2006.