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Home Page > Academics > College Of Arts And Sciences > English > Faculty And Staff > Woodard, Charles
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Charles Woodard, Distinguished Professor
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Office: Scobey Hall 003
Phone: (605) 688-4056
Charles.Woodard@sdstate.edu
Major Areas: American Literature, Regional Literature, Native American Literature, War Literature
Dr. Charles Woodard received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Oklahoma and has been a member of the SDSU faculty since 1975. He was named Distinguished Professor of English by the South Dakota Board of Regents in 1992. He has also received SDSU's F. O. Butler and Burlington Northern Awards, the South Dakota Peace and Justice Reconciliation Award, the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Service Award, the Dakota State University Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the South Dakota Humanities Council's Distinguished Service Award in the Humanities. He founded SDSU's annual Consider the Century Conference and co-founded the annual Oak Lake Writers' Retreat for Dakota/Lakota/Nakota Writers and the annual Great Plains Writers' Conference. His publications include As Far As I Can See: Contemporary Writing of the Middle Plains; Ancestral Voice, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1989; Shaping Survival: Essays by Four American Indian Tribal Women (Scarecrow Press, 2002, co-edited with Jack Marken); Country Congregations: South Dakota Stories (South Dakota Humanities Foundation, 2002, Editor); and One-Room Country School: South Dakota Stories (South Dakota Humanities Foundation, 1998, co-edited with Norma Wilson). He has also edited or co-edited ten other volumes, and published essays and critical reviews in various anthologies and periodicals. He serves as a consultant for American Indian Studies courses and programs statewide, works collaboratively with colleagues at tribal colleges, and chairs SDSU's Native American Advisory Committee.
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