Kathryn Lindquist was appointed to the Weber State University Board of
Trustees in 2005. She is Chair of the Personnel and Academic Policy
Committee and serves on the Honorary Degree Committee.
Professional Experience
Adjunct Instructor, Honors Program, University of Utah, 1998-2002
Coordinator and Student Advisor, University Studies Program, University of Utah, 1992-1999
Director, National Student Exchange Program, University of Utah, 1999
Adjunct Associate Instructor, Liberal Education, University of Utah, 1991-1998
Consulting Editor, self-employed, 1988-Present
Teaching Fellow, English Department, University of Utah, 1986-1990
Teaching Assistant, Writing Program, University of Utah, 1985-1986
Owner-Manager, Lady Madonna Maternity Boutique, 1979-1983
Research Specialist, Development Office, University of Utah, 1979
Assistant Director, Utah State Board of Education Law-Related Education Project, 1978-1979
Executive Secretary, Utah Hands Up (a community crime-prevention program), 1977-1978
English Teacher, Olympus High School, Salt Lake County, 1966-1968
Community Activities
Member, Friends of Service Board, Lowell Bennion Community Service Center, 2003-Present
Member, Visions for Learning Board (a non-profit, arts-based educational corporation), 2002-Present
Member and Chair, Faculty Screening Committee for Service-Learning
Courses, Lowell Bennion Community Service Center, University of Utah,
2000-2003
Member, Bennion Center Service-Learning Advisory Board,
2001-2003
Member, Board of Directors, Utah Art 2002, a juried exhibition of Utah artists for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games
Initiator, Telitha E. Lindquist Community Service Scholarship, University of Utah, 1999
Member, Editorial Board, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 1993-1998
Member, Steering Committee for Campus Advisors Group, University of Utah, 1994-1996
Discussion Leader, Utah Humanities Council Book Group, 1991-1994
Member, Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance Development Committee, 1989-1995
Member, Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance Board of Directors, 1989-1993
Member, Joint University Writing Program/English Department Teaching Committee, University of Utah, 1988-1989
Volunteer Teacher of Junio Great Books, Salt Lake School District, 1976-1984
Volunteer Teacher for Salt Lake County Youth Services Center, 1975-1978
Member, Salt Lake County Commission on Youth, 1976-1978
Member, Junior Leaue of Salt Lake City, 1974-1978
Chairperson, Sophomore English Curriculum Committee, Olympus High School, 1967-1968
Publication
Lindquist, Kathryn, "Sexual Hegemony and 'Liberated' Mormon Women: Seeing Ourselves in the Bambara Mirror," Dialogue, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer, 1992, 54-71
Education
Ph.D. in English (American Studies), University of Utah, 1998
M.A. in English, University of Utah, 1989
B.A. in English, secondary teaching certificate, University of Utah, 1966
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., 1962-1964
San Diego State College at Rouen, France, Summer 1962
Academic Fields
American Studies with emphases in Native American Indian Narrative
African American Narrative
Women's Folklore
Post-Structuralist Cultural Criticism
Twentieth-century American Literature
Western Intellectual Traditions from Ancient to Contemporary Times