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Contact us

  »   Posted on January 29, 2008 12:52 PM. Link

The easiest method is usually email: voices@umn.edu.

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How to Contribute an Artist Biography

  »   Posted on July 6, 2007 02:01 PM. Link

Ask a reference librarian for assistance in using these resources: Dictionary of Literary Biography (Quarto PS21 .D55x). This multivolume work contains biographical and bibliographical information on thousands of past and contemporary writers in the English language.

Posted by DieterBohn

Sample Requests for Permission

  »   Posted on February 27, 2006 09:39 AM. Link
To obtain permissions to republish an image, such as a photo of the artist, or a video or audio file with your entry, you must write to the copyright holder with a request, and you must include copies of your...

Posted by LaurenCurtright

About VG

  »   Posted on January 19, 2006 09:14 AM. Link

The fact that the pages they created would have longevity far beyond our class and their academic careers made creating the pages for Voices for the Gaps a very meaningful project for them.

Posted by DieterBohn

How to Contribute Critiques

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 02:37 PM. Link

To that end we host several sorts of essays, broadly categorized into Reviews, Critiques, and Interpretations.

Posted by DieterBohn

How to Contribute Interviews or Media

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
How to Contribute Interviews or Media VG conducts interviews with Women Artists whenever possible. We often interview authors who visit the University of Minnesota campus, but love to talk with anybody. VG is also interested in other sorts of media,...

Posted by DieterBohn

How to Contribute Links

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
How to Contribute Links Have a site related to VG? Send us the link with a brief description and we'll post it in our links section!...

Posted by DieterBohn

About the Civil Rights Memorial and VG

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
We chose this image as a metaphor for the new VG.

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Feedback

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link

This site is the result of collaborative contributions by many people at varied levels of scholarly development and your gentle feedback will help us to refine the knowledge that is being produced here.

Posted by DieterBohn

VG in the Classroom

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
"I use Voices from the Gaps as a resource in all of my literature courses. Each semester I introduce approximately 84 students to the site. I use it to supplement the class and have found it to be an extremely...

Posted by DieterBohn

Outreach

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
Currently, VG is involved in outreach into high schools and the community through College in the Schools and other service learning literacy programs, and is in collaboration with the Womens Prison Book Project (WPBP).

Posted by DieterBohn

Scholarship

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
Scholarship VG maintains the highest standards of scholarship in the intersecting areas of womens studies, Asian-American Studies, African-American Studies, Latino/a Studies, American Indian Studies, Ethnic Studies, and transnational American studies.

Posted by DieterBohn

Navigating the Site

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
For example, you will find Toni Morrison listed under "M, fiction, her birthstate of Ohio, alongside the years 1927 (the year of her birth) and 1993 (the year she won the Nobel Prize for Literature), and under the heading African Americans.

Posted by DieterBohn

About VG

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
Each artist page presents biographical, critical and bibliographical information about the artist, images and quotations pertinent to her life and works, and links to other resources on the web that provide information about her, including translations and archives.

Posted by DieterBohn

Credits

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link

VG / Voices From the Gaps project is sponsored by the University of Minnesota and housed in the Department of English Major Sponsors Include: CLA Infotech Fees Committee and the Humanities Institute American Studies American Indian Studies Women's Studies African American Studies Graduate School Outreach Office Academic and Distributed Computing Services Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Office for University Women Voices From the Gaps was developed at the University of Minnesota by Professor Toni McNaron of the Department of English and Professor Carol Miller of the Program in American Studies.

Posted by DieterBohn

 

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
Image from theCivil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama..

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Awards

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For Classes and Teachers

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:38 PM. Link
Please feel free to contact the editors at: VG Department of English 207 Lind Hall University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-625-1834 (phone) 612-624-8228 (fax) voices@umn.edu (email) We will be more than happy to provide any assistance you need in using this project in your classroom.

Posted by DieterBohn

Contributing to VG

  »   Posted on January 12, 2006 01:37 PM. Link
Contributing to VG VG accepts all sorts of submissions, including essays, photo-essays, interviews, biographies, cultural critique, and more.

Posted by DieterBohn