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General Information

Full Name Margie Judd

Education

  • 2023
    Ph.D., English
    University of Nevada, Reno
    • Concentration 19th-Century American Literature
  • 2016
    M.A., English,
    University of Montana
  • 1981
    B.A., Philosophy,
    Hamilton College

Teaching

  • 2017 - present
    Instructor
    University of Nevada, Reno
    • Courses
      • Composition I (Fall 2017)
      • Composition II (Spring 2018, and Online, Spring 2022)
      • Composition II (Online, Summer 2018)
      • Film Analysis and Interpretation (Online, Summer 2020)
      • American Experiences and Constitutional Change (Online, Fall 2021 and 2023)

Professional Experience

  • 1997 - 2016
    Margie Judd Photography
    • Professional Photographer
      • Specialized in digital restoration and portraiture
  • 2010 - 2014
    Documentary Film Maker
    • Film Maker
      • Researched, scripted, and produced the funding trailer for the documentary Mary Quite Contrary exploring the cultural work of Mary MacLane's 1903 Autobiography
      • Researched, scripted, and produced the documentary Like A Postcard exposing the disappearance of archival studio collections across America and Canada as a result of the digital revolution

Grants and Awards

  • 2022
    • Bilinski Fellowship
  • 2021
    • University of Nevada, Reno Core Humanities Distinguished Teaching Assistant
  • 2018
    • Silver Bow Historical Society
  • 2014
    • Greater Montana Foundation Grant
  • 2013
    • Strategic Investment Grant
  • 2013
    • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Humanities Montana
  • 1998
    • Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize finalist, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Invited Talks

  • “National Mythology and Changing Ideas of Masculinity”
    • Core Humanities American Experience and Constitutional Change
    • University of Nevada, Reno, April 1 2019
  • “Engaging Robert Maynard’s Fault Lines in Composition II”
    • Committee Meeting, University of Nevada, Reno
    • April 27 2018
  • “New Shifts in Female Identity Mary MacLane”
    • Silver Bow Historical Society, Butte, Montana,
    • August 11, 2014

Publications

  • “Gunshots, Indian Scouts and Train Robberies Frontier Mythology in William Dean Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes." Western American Literature, vol. 55, no. 2, 2020, pp. 115-35.