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 
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.