Faculty
Gabrielle Civil
Assistant Professor of English, The College of Saint Catherine
M.A., Ph.D., New York University
A.B., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Gabrielle Civil is a poet and a conceptual and performance artist originally from Detroit. She has created and shown performance work both nationally and internationally. She currently teaches at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN.
Areas of Study
- Diasporic Black Literature: African-American, Caribbean, African, Afro-Canadian
- Performance & Conceptual Art
- Contemporary Women's Poetry
- Twentieth Century & Contemporary World Poetry
- Black Feminist Theory
- Creative Writing & Composition
- Multicultural Higher Education
Spring 2006 Courses
Past Macalester Courses
Honors and Awards
Teaching/ Advising
- 2005 College of St. Catherine Faculty Teaching and Advising Award
Scholarly /Artistic
- 2005 Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women Research / Creative Work Award
for “Anacaona: Notes Toward Caribbean Performance Art”
- 2004 Center of Excellence Grant for “The Poetry Circle: Action Research on Poetry, Community and Collaborative Reading Strategies”
- 2004 Curriculum Development Grant for Asian Pacific American Women's Poetry
- 2003 National Endowment of the Humanities Seminar Fellowship
on Caribbean Theater & Cultural Performance
- 2002-2003 Jerome Foundation Many Voices Residency at the Playwright's Center
- 2001-2002 Naked Stages Performance Art Grant (funded by the Jerome Foundation)
for “whisper (the index of suns)” (inspired by Jacqueline Beaugé's A vol d'ombre)
- 2001-2002 Red Eye Works-in-Progress Production Grant for “Hieroglyphics”
- 2001 Faculty Development Grant for “At Shadow Flight: Transforming Translations
of Jacqueline Beaugé's A Vol d'Ombre into Performance”
- 2001 Center of Excellence for Women & Technology Grant for “Re/Composition:
Integrating Technology and the Humanities Through Writing”
- 2001 James W. Denney Prize for Distinction in Writing for Gloss (a manuscript of poetry)
Selected Publications:
- “Death Done and Undone,” (On James Lee Byars and Curating Performance), New York Foundation of the Arts Quarterly, Spring 2005
- “Anacaona-Notes toward Caribbean Performance Art,” Sargasso: Journal of Caribbean Theater and Performance, Winter 2004
- “Infestation of Gnats” in XCP 14: Poet’s Theater / People’s Theater issue, Winter 2004
- “Body Dander, Dust,” Women & Performance, Performing Autobiography Double Issue, Vol 19-20, 1999-2000
- “Diversity & Democracy Phase II: A Proposal on Curriculum Transformation & Faculty Development” Bush Foundation Grant 2001-2002
- “Teaching / Testing Technology in the Classroom,” December 2001 issue of Colleagues.
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