Amy Wink
Teaching Experience
2002-present: Adjunct Professor. English Dept. .Austin Community College. Austin, Texas.
2003-2005: Assistant Professor (Part-Time). Dept of English. Southwestern University. Georgetown, Texas.
2004-2005: Column Editor/Contributor. “Creative Practices” Column. Creative Pulse Magazine.
2001-present: The Writing Mentor: Professional Writing Assistance and Manuscript Evaluation Writing assistance for writers of memoir, autobiography, family history, creative non-fiction, fiction. http://www.thewritingmentor.com
1999-2001: Visiting Assistant Professor. Dept of English Emporia State University. Emporia, Kansas.
1997-1999: Visiting Assistant Professor. Dept. of English/Philosophy. Stephen F. Austin State University.
1996-1997: Post-Doctoral Fellow. Department of English. Texas A&M University. College Station, Texas.
1987-1996: Graduate Assistant, Teaching. Department of English. Texas A&M University. College Station, Texas. Recipient of McDonald’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts. 1992.
Courses Taught
Composition
Writing and Critical Thinking. Southwestern.
Composition 1 and 2. Texas A&M; Stephen F. Austin; Emporia State; Austin Community College.
Advanced Writing
Advanced Composition. Emporia State.
Reasoning and Writing. Stephen F. Austin.
Memoir and Life-Writing. Emporia State.
Literature
Introduction to Literature. Texas A&M.
Introduction to Women’s Literature. Emporia State.
American Literature 1 and 2. Austin Community College.
American Literature 2. Texas A&M; Stephen F. Austin.
American Literature. Southwestern.
British Literature 2. Stephen F. Austin.
World Literature 1. Stephen F. Austin; Austin Community College.
World Literature 2. Stephen F. Austin.
Literature-Special Topics
The American Romantic Period. Stephen F. Austin.
American Women’s Autobiography and Life-Writing. Stephen F. Austin.
19th Century American Women Novelists. Emporia State.
Frontier Women’s Diaries. Emporia State.
Major Authors: Ellen Glasgow. Emporia State.
Recent Professional Activities
2010: Who’s Who in America. Marquis Who’s Who.
2010: Invited Speaker, Bell County Museum, March 20, 2010
2009: Blackboard Professional Development Workshops. Austin Community College
2009: Info Game - Electronic Information Literacy. Professional Development Workshop. Austin Community College.
2009: Special Populations-Students with Disabilities. Professional Development Workshop. Austin Community College.
2004: Judge, Short-Short Fiction Contest. Creative Pulse of Austin.
2003: Collectibles/Collecting/Collections Area Co-Chair,SW/TX Popular Culture Association.
2000-01:Faculty-Graduate Student Preceptor. Emporia State University.
Professional Publications
PUBLICATIONS
Small Voices and Encounter Narratives: Notes from a Creating Life. 2018 eBook available via amazon.com.
Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1854-1888. University of Tennessee Press. (April 2009).
“The Loveliness She Made: Memory and Community in Women’s Gardening Writing.” Brown Working Papers5 (2005). Southwestern University. Georgetown, TX. http://www.southwestern.edu
She Left Nothing in Particular: The Autobiographical Legacy of Nineteenth Century Women’s Diaries. University of Tennessee Press. October 2001.
Critical Introduction to Jane Eyre, Barnes and Noble E-book. http://www.bn.com. 2002.
“Narratives of Resistance: Negotiating the Altering and Altered Selves in the Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 13.2 (1999): 199-222.
Cold Sassy Tree— Study Guide with Connections. Kathy Judge, Editor. May 1999. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
Websites
Amy L. Wink. Writer. Writing Mentor. Editor http://www.amywink.com. Professional writing and weblog.
Embree Diaries: The Companion Website to Tandem Lives. http://www.embreediaries.com. Information and Photographs related to the publication, Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856-1888 (University of Tennessee Press, 2009)
InsideHigherEd.com Articles
“Parallel To Shore” October 15, 2007
“Ancillary Jobs” September 13, 2007
“A Rock and a Hard Place” March 16, 2007
“A Time For Casting Away” Feb 26, 2006
“Comprehending the Light”. December 21 2006
“Going Solo”. September, 2006.
“Even Hummingbirds Sit” August 8, 2006
“Balancing Acts” June 3, 2006
“Navigating Whitewater” April 25, 2006
“Finding The Courage to Begin Again.” January 3, 2006.
Driving Articles
“HACA Activities.” The Whip: Journal of the American Driving Association. May 2009
“Haven Hill Driving Trial 3.” The Whip: Journal of the American Driving Society. March 2008
“The Literary Turnout” Carriage Driving Digest. May 2006.
Creative Work
“Even Hummingbirds Rest” Yoga+Joyful Living. January/February 2007
“Fledging” austinstateofmind.com. Summer 2006
“Creativity Can Help You Find a Way Out of Chaos” Editorial. Austin American Statesman. December 30, 2005
“ ‘In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity’” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning. 11 (Winter 2005-06).
“Everyday Grace.” Poem. Creative Pulse of Austin. July 2004.
“The Timing of Daffodils”; “Highway 30, Easter Sunday.” Poems. Borderlands: The Texas
Poetry Review. 8(1996).
Creative Pulse Magazine Columns
“Excellence is a Habit” (Summer 2005)
“Comprehending the Light” (Spring 2005)
“Poet in Motion” (October 2004)
“Writer, Heal Thyself!” (August 2004)
Book Reviews
An American Girl Travels into the Twentieth Century: The Chronicle of Catherine Eddy Beveridge. Indiana Magazine of History. June 2007
Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works. Susanne K. George (Universityof Nebraska Press, 1997) and Dear Editor and Friends: Letters from Rural Women of the North West, 1900-1920. Norah L. Lewis, ed. (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998). Review for NWSA Journal 12.1 (2000).
Through the Window, Out the Door: Women’s Narratives of Departure from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison and Didion. Janis Stout. (University of Alabama Press, 1998).
Review for Studies in the Novel 31.4 (Winter, 1999).Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Susan L. Roberson, ed. (University of Missouri Press, 1998). Review for South Central Review: Journal of the South Central MLA. Fall 1999.
Encyclopedia Entries
Marge Piercy; Lucy Stone; Separate Spheres. Subject Entries. Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies. Eleanor Amico, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. February 1998.
“Diaries.” Topic Essay. Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. Lorraine Code, General Editor. Routledge. July 2000.
“Women’s Diaries of the Civil War.” Topic Essay. Encyclopedia of American War Literature. Philip K. Jason and Mark A. Graves, eds. Greenwood Press. March 2001.
Correspondence; Journals; Louisa Willis. Subject Entries. Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia. Gregory Eiselstein and Anne K. Phillips, eds. Greenwood Press. January 2001.
Conference Presentations
“City Ancestor, Country Ancestor: Collecting Family History in Photographs.”Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. April 2004. San Antonio, TX. Co-author: Stacey C. Short.
“Collecting the Signs of Life” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. February 2003. Albuquerque, NM.
“In Memory of Women: Antiques, Artifacts, and the Collectable Past” Southwest/TexasPopular Culture Association/American Culture Association. March 2001.Albuquerque, NM. Co-author: Stacey C. Short.
“Guerrillas on the Garden Path: The Surprising Politics of Women’s Gardening Writing.” National Women’s Studies Association. June 2000. Boston, MA.
“‘The Loveliness She Made’: Memory and Community in Women’s Gardening Writing.” Communities of Women: Woman Writing and Written in Cultural and Literary Experience. September 1999. Waco, TX.
“Scully’s Journal: Creating the Diarist in Popular Culture.” South Central Women’s Studies Association Conference. March 1999. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.
“In the Act of Writing: Women’s Diaries as Daily Creativity.”South Central Women’s Studies Association. March 1998. University of Houston-Clear Lake. Clear Lake, TX.
“Writing Private Women Public: Women’s Diaries and the Critical Response.” South Central Women’s Studies Association Conference. March 1997. Texas A&M University. College Station, TX.
“‘Education Will Make Her as Bright as the Noonday Sun’: Mothers, Daughters, and Women’s Education in Nineteenth-Century Texas.” Women and Power Conference. February 1997. Middle Tennessee State University. Murfreesboro, TN
Published: January 21, 2025