English Profile

Robert Stubblefield
Lecturer
Email: robert.stubblefield@umontana.eduOffice: LA 211
Office Hours:
Monday 3:00-5:00 p.m.; Tuesday 2:00-3:00 p.m., Wednesday 3:00-4:00 p.m., Thursday 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.; & by appointment
Personal WebsiteCurrent Position
Lecturer
Courses
C&I 194: First-Year Seminar
HUSC 194: Humanities First-Year Seminar
CRWR 115: Montana Writers Live!
WRIT 201: College Writing II, Honors
CRWR 234: The Oval Magazine Design Studio
CRWR 320: The Craft of Revision
CRWR 310: Intermediate Fiction Workshop
CRWR 312: Intermeditate Nonfiction Workshop
Personal Summary
Robert Stubblefield teaches Creative Writing (fiction) and Composition. Robert is the faculty advisor for The Oval, the undergraduate literary magazine at the University of Montana.
Education
M.F.A., University of Montana, 1994
B.A, Eastern Oregon University, 1992
Selected Publications
Fiction
"Easy as Not"--Short story, Talking River Review, Spring 2015
"Orbits"--Short story, HIgh Desert Journal, Fall 2013
“Self Service”—Short story, The Bear Deluxe, November 2007
“Rank Strangers”—Short story, High Desert Journal, Fall 2006
“Preserves”—Short story, High Desert Journal, Spring 2005, and Best Stories of the American West, Vol. 1, 2007
“Northern Cross”--Short story, Open Spaces, Spring 2002
“Lateral Moves”--Short story, Clackamas Literary Review, 1997
“Hunting Rights”--Short story, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 1994
“Pragmatists”--Short story, Fishtrap Anthology, 1991, and Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Fiction of the American West, 1993
Nonfiction
"More Than Five Minutes"--The Whitefish Review, Fall 2019
"The Empty Hand of the Wind"--basalt, Fall 2018
"October"--basalt, Spring 2013
"Minding the Store"--High Desert Journal, Spring 2011
"Better Than You Found It"--Your National Forests, Spring 2009
“Everything Changes: An Interview with William Kittredge”—High Desert Journal, Fall 2006
“The Measure of Water”—High Desert Journal, Fall 2005.
“The Country of Your Hands”--Oregon Humanities, 2000
“Life as a Watershed Leader”-- Cascadia Times, 1999, and Oregon Salmon at the Millennium, 2001
“Weight”--Essay, Left Bank, 1991
Teaching Experience
Summer 2009--Short Fiction Workshop, Fishtrap Writers Gathering, Wallowa Lake, Oregon
Summer 2005—Co-Director of Summer Creative Writing Institute, Montana Writing Project
Summer 2004 and 2005--Master Teacher, Whittenberger Writing Project, Albertson College of Idaho
Spring 2000--Visiting Writer, Willamette University
Spring 1997--Visiting Writer, Clackamas Community College
Spring 1995--Visiting Writer, Clackamas Community College
Professional Experience
Worked as a Watershed Coordinator for the North Fork John Day Watershed Council from 1997-2002. The North Fork John Day Watershed Council is a private nonprofit 501c 3 corporation devoted to protecting the ecology of the North and Middle Forks of the John Day River, a watershed encompassing approximately 1.7 million acres in Grant, Morrow, Umatilla, Union and Wheeler Counties in Eastern Oregon.