Dean Rader

Dean Rader is an American writer, blogger, poet, and professor who teaches at the University of San Francisco. He is primarily known for his scholarly work on Native American poetry. In 2008, his blog, The Weekly Rader, got some attention in the blogosphere when one of his posts, grading President Bush's State of the Union Speech, "graded" President George W. Bush's speech as if it were a student paper. In April 2008, Rader's blog got even more attention as he was one of the first to write about [http://weeklyrader.blogspot.com/2008/02/stuff-white-people-like-blog-review.html the web sensation Stuff White People Like.

Rader is also a well-published poet who won two major poetry prizes in 2010. His poem "Hesiod in Oklahoma, 1934" won the Sow's Ear Review poetry prize, judged by Kelly Cherry. The Sow's Ear Prize, with a purse of $1,000, is among the most lucrative awards for a single poem. Rader's debut poetry collection, Works and Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize judged by Claudia Keelan. Awarded for the best unpublished collection of poems, the award is the only domestic poetry prize sanctioned by Eliot's widow. It carries a purse of $2,000 and publication by Truman State University Press.

Books

• The World is a Text", (2001; 2005; 2008; 2010) Prentice Hall.
• Speak To Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, University of Arizona Press.
• Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film (forthcoming from the University of Texas Press in 2010)
• Works & Days (T. S. Eliot Prize, 2010). Truman State University Press, 2010. Judge, Claudia Keelan.

Other publications

• The Weekly Rader
• Studies in American Indian Literature
• Fire
• San Francisco Chronicle
• College English
• POOL [1]

Career

• Department of English, University of San Francisco
• Dean of Humanities, University of San Francisco
• Editor, Studies in American Indian Literature
• National Endowment for the Humanities Chair, USF, 2009–2010

Accomplishments

• M.A. & Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton
• Rader has had fellowships at Harvard University and Princeton University^[1]
• In 2007, Rader won poetry prizes from Crab Orchard Review and Common Ground Review^[2]
• Rader was named the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at the University of San Francisco, 2009–2010.
• Rader won the T.S. Eliot Prize for his collection of poems Works & Days [2]

References

1. ^ http://www.borderlands.org/webaudio/rader/index.html
2. ^ Crab Creek News: Crab Pot Poetry Contest Results and Our First Fiction Contest To Begin Soon

External links

• Borderlands Web Audio Project (Interview and poetry reading by Rader
• Dean Rader's website
• University of San Francisco Page
• Baltimore Sun story on Stuff White People Like
• [3] Sow's Ear Poetry Award Announcement
• [4] Article in San Francisco Chronicle about the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize

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