Karl L. Lindholm

American Studies

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Karl Lindholm

Assistant Professor

Battell North

Phone: 802.443.3330

Email: lindholm@middlebury.edu

Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Ph.D. (1981); M.A. (1976) American Studies (American Literature), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.; B.A. (1967) English, Middlebury College

Current Position at Middlebury College:
Dean of Cook Commons; Assistant Professor, American Studies

Education:
Ph.D. (1981); M.A. (1976) American Studies (American Literature), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.; B.A. (1967) English, Middlebury College

Other Positions Held at Middlebury:
Dean of Advising (1991-2008); Dean of Students (1988-91); Faculty Head, Atwater Commons (1991-1999); Dean of Off-Campus Study (1976-95)

Research Interests:
Baseball, Baseball Literature and American Culture (specifically the Negro Leagues); The Vietnam War and Vietnam War Literature; Literature and Culture of New England; Literature of Cross-Cultural Experience

Selected Publications (a fuller listing provided upon request):
“’College Boys and Boozers’: Baseball in Vermont’s Northern League, 1905,” Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol.2, No. 2, Fall, 2008
“Rumors and Facts: William Clarence Matthews’ 1905 Challenge to Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Vol. 17, No.1, Fall, 2008
“’A Lefty in the Kingdom,’ A review of Have Glove, Will Travel: Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond by Bill Lee and Dick Lally”; NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Vol. 15, No.1, fall 2006
“The Mind of a Warrior: Some Battle Wounds are Hard to Heal,” Cover story, Middlebury Magazine, Spring, 2006
“Singing on the Run,” Middlebury Magazine, summer 2002 (reprinted as “Mchakamchaka” in Abroad View, fall 2002)
“Vietnam Stories: 1. ‘Sportswriter at Khe Sahn’; 2. ‘Ward Nine, Cardiac Convalescence’”; Elysian Fields Quarterly, Spring 2002
(http://www.efqreview.com/NewFiles/v19n2/fiction-vietnam.html)
"'Dickie, Nick, Varsity Jim, and Bye-Bye': Teaching a True War Story - Vietnam," War, Literature, and the Arts, spring 2000 (www.usafa.af.mil/dfeng/wla/11_2/ current.html)
“William Clarence Matthews: The Jackie Robinson of his Time,” chapter in Cooperstown Symposium – Baseball and American Culture: Jackie Robinson, McFarland Press, June, 2000)
"'A Ball Near his Heart': The Life of Thomas James Lynch, 19th Century 'Base Ballist,'" chapter in The Green Mountain Boys of Summer (Anthology, March, 2000)
"The Fate of the Hero," (review of David Cataneo's Tony C: The Triumph and the Tragedy of Tony Conigliaro), NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives, fall, 1999
"William Clarence Matthews: Life of a Baseball Pioneer 1877-1928," Harvard Magazine, September-October, 1998 (www.harvard-magazine.com/issues/ so98/vita.html)
"'A Jungle in There': The Cross-Cultural Horror of the Vietnam War,"Phi Beta Delta International Review, Spring, 1997
"'Wild Play': Black and White in Jerome Charyn's The Seventh Babe,"NINE, September, 1997

Related Activity:
Columnist-Essayist, Addison County Independent (newspaper); bi-monthly sports column, 1998-present, (www.middlebury.edu/200/addison_independent/social.html )
Presentations on Negro League Baseball (“Baseball, Segregation, and the ‘Atlantis’ of the Negro Leagues”): Champlain Valley Unitarian-Universalist Society, March 2009; Pomfret School (CT), February 2008; Tabor Academy (MA), March 2007

Relevant (recent) Conference Presentations:
“The Dodger’s Yankee: Clyde Sukeforth – Branch Rickey’s Maine Man,” NINE 16th Annual Spring Training Conference, Tucson, AZ, March 2009
“Leo Durocher and the Bricklayer’s Wife,” NINE 15th Annual Spring Training Conference, Tucson, AZ, March 2008
“’Born Too Early’: August Wilson’s Fences and the ‘Deprivation of Possibility’” The Nineteenth Annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, June, 2007
“Pitching’s Moonlight Graham: Frank ‘Socko’ Wurm,” NINE 14th Annual Spring Training Conference, Tucson, March, 2007
“A Shooting Star: Baseball and the Athlete-Hero Archetype: Darryl Brock’s Havana Heat,” The Eighteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, June 2006
“Rumors and Facts: William Clarence Matthews’ 1905 Challenge to Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier,” NINE 13th Annual Spring Training Conference, Tucson, AZ, March, 2006
“College Boys and Boozers: Professional Baseball in the Northern league, 1905,” The Fifteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, June, ‏2003‏
“Baseball Fever,” Henry Sheldon Museum, accompanying exhibition “Work First, Then Play: Leisure Life in 19th Century Vermont,” March, 2003
“Baseball in Cuba,” Havana, January 1, 2001; “An Insider’s View of Cuba” (sponsored by Middlebury College and Barnard College, December 29-January 5, 2001)
"William Clarence Matthews: The Jackie Robinson of his Time," The Ninth Annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, June, 1997

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