Randi Tanglen
- Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Vice Provost of Faculty Affair
Contact Info
- Email: randi.tanglen@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.4141
Office Address
O'Kelly Hall Room 8A
221 Centennial Drive Stop 8006
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8006
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Dr. Randi Lynn Tanglen became vice provost for faculty affairs at the University of North Dakota in January 2023. She has degrees from Rocky Mountain College (B.A., English Education), the University of Montana (M.A., English), and the University of Arizona (Ph.D., English). For twelve years she was on the faculty at Austin College in Sherman, Texas and was promoted to the rank of full professor of English in 2019. While at Austin College, she served as director of the gender studies program, interim chair of the English department, and director of the Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching. Her co-edited volume Teaching Western American Literature appeared in 2020, and her essays on American women writers, western American literature, and literary studies pedagogy have been published in Western American Literature, Southwestern American Literature, and several edited volumes. Randi served as executive director of Humanities Montana, the non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in her home state, from 2020-2022.
- American literature and culture before 1900
- 19th-century American women writers
- U.S. western literary and cultural studies
- Women's and gender studies
- Public humanities
Co-edited volume:
- Teaching Western American Literature. Co-edited volume with Brady Harrison, University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Journal articles and book chapters:
- “Teaching American Literature as a Confederate Monument.” Reading Confederate Monuments. Ed. Maria Seger. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 230-50.
- Co-authored with Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry-Roisin, “Moriscos and Mormons: Captivity Literature on the Spanish and American Frontiers.” Separate Worlds? Spain, the United States, and Transatlantic Literary Culture throughout the Nineteenth Century. Eds. John Havard and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso. New York: Routledge University Press, 2021. 27-54.
- “Tribute to Dr. Annette Kolodny, 1941-2019.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 37 (2020): 154-160.
- “Anti-Mormon Prejudice and the Politics of Whiteness in The Captivity of the Oatman Girls.” Southwestern American Literature 43.1 (2017): 35-50.
- “Canons of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: How to Use Literature Circles to Teach Popular, Under-Represented, and Canonical Literary Traditions.” Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Literature and the Perils and Pleasures of the Classroom. Ed. Janet Casey. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015. 31-47; 204-5.
- “Critical Regionalism, the U.S.-Mexican War, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary History.” Western American Literature 48 (2013): 181-98.
Guest articles and op-eds:
- “Sustaining the humanities across rural Montana.” The Bozeman Chronicle, June 16, 2021.
- “Value the humanities, especially in perilous times.” The Missoulian, February 28, 2021.
- “You can call me doctor.” The Missoulian, December 16, 2020.
- “Humanities tell us we were made for times like these.” Billings Gazette, November 18, 2020.
- “What rural Texas and Dolly Parton can teach the country about getting along.” Dallas Morning News, November 26, 2020.
- “‘Little Women’ offers wisdom on work-life balance and civic engagement for the #MeToo generation.” Dallas Morning News, January 5, 2020.
- “#MeToo novel about Dallas 'Bad Men' shows the misogyny working women face.” Dallas Morning News, July 21, 2019. 4P.
Podcast, Radio, and Other Interviews:
- Reframing Rural podcast. Host Megan Torgerson. Sowing Possibility, Episode 8: Randi Lynn Tanglen, Ph.D. April 28, 2022.
- Living West as Feminists blog. Ed. Krista Comer. “For Me, the West is Rural.” August 3, 2021.
- Homeground Radio, Montana Public Radio. Host Bryan Kahn. Interview with Randi Lynn Tanglen, July 30, 2020.
- “Humanities Montana Director Fights for Hidden Voices of the West.” The Missoulian. July 5, 2020.
- Western Academic Leadership Academy, Western Insterstate Commission of Higher Education, Boulder, Colorado, July 16-29, 2024.
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars for College and University Teachers, “Transcendentalism and Reform in the Age of Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller,” Concord, Massachusetts, June 2017.
- Visiting Scholar, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies; Brigham Young University, Fall 2014.
- Texoma AAUW, Woman of Achievement Award, April 2014.
- Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, honorable mention. “Best Paper Presented at the 2012 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference,” 2012.
- The Best 300 Professors. Random House/Princeton Review Books, 2012.
- Humanities Research Fellowship Grant; Montana Committee for the Humanities; Missoula, Montana; “Women’s Community Cookbooks of Eastern Montana,” 2002-2003.
- Ph.D., English, University of Arizona
- M.A., English, University of Montana
- B.A., English Education, summa cum laude, Rocky Mountain College
- Humanities Montana, Missoula, MT, 2020-2022
- Executive Director
- Austin College, Sherman, TX, 2008-2020
- Promoted to full professor, 2019
- Associate professor, 2014-2020
- Assistant professor, 2008-2013
- Director, Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching, 2015-2020
- Director, Gender Studies Program, 2017-2020
- Interim chair, English Department, 2020