Janice Gould

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1949|04|01}}

| birth_place = San Diego, California

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|06|28|1949}}

| death_place = Colorado Springs, Colorado

| nationality = American

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| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley, B.A. in linguistics, M.A. in English; University of New Mexico, Ph.D.; University of Arizona, MA in Library Science, University of Arizona

| occupation = Writer, poet, scholar, musician

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| employer = University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

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| notable_works = Beneath My Heart, Earthquake Weather, Doubters and Dreamers, Seed, The Force of Gratitude

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Janice Gould (1949–2019) was a Koyangk'auwi (Konkow, Concow) Maidu writer and scholar. She was the author of Beneath My Heart,{{Cite web|url=https://www.uccs.edu/west/sites/west/files/inline-files/VITA%2C%20Gould%2C%202016.pdf|title=Janice Gould Curriculum Vitae|last=Gould|first=Janice|date=n.d.|website=University of Colorado, Colorado Springs}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Earthquake Weather and co-editor with Dean Rader of Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry. Her book Doubters and Dreamers (2011) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Binghamton University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award.

Gould's poetic efforts were recognized by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice in 1992.{{Cite web|url=https://ppld.org/whats-new/dr-janice-gould-2014-2016-poet-laureate|title=Dr. Janice Gould - 2014-2016 Poet Laureate|website=Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project|access-date=3 April 2019}}

Biography

Gould was born on April 1, 1949, in San Diego, California, and grew up in Berkeley. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, earning degrees in Linguistics (B.A) and English (M.A.).{{Cite web|url=https://www.uccs.edu/west/sites/west/files/inline-files/VITA%2C%20Gould%2C%202016.pdf|title=Janice Gould Curriculum Vitae|last=Gould|first=Janice|date=n.d.|website=University of Colorado, Colorado Springs}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} She also earned a master's degree in Library Science (M.A) from the University of Arizona. She completed a certificate in Museum Studies. Her Ph.D. (English) was completed at the University of New Mexico. She was the Hallie Ford Chair in Creative Writing at Willamette University. In 2012 Gould completed a residency for Indigenous Writers at the School for Advanced Researchin Santa Fe, New Mexico.{{Cite web|url=https://coloradopoetscenter.org/poets/gould_jamice/index.html|title=Colorado Poets Center : Janice Gould|website=coloradopoetscenter.org|access-date=2019-03-22}} She was also a musician who played guitar and accordion.{{Cite web

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}} Her lesbian identity has been a prominent theme of her work.

Career

Gould taught at over 13 colleges and universities{{Cite web|url=https://www.uccs.edu/west/sites/west/files/inline-files/VITA%2C%20Gould%2C%202016.pdf|title=Janice Gould Curriculum Vitae|last=Gould|first=Janice|date=n.d.|website=University of Colorado, Colorado Springs}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in the fields of English, Creative Writing, Native American Studies and Women's Studies, and served as the Hallie Ford Chair of Creative Writing at Willamette University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uccs.edu/west/janice_gould|title=Janice Gould, Ph.D. {{!}} Women's & Ethnic Studies|website=www.uccs.edu|access-date=2019-03-28}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} At the time of her death, she was an associate professor in Women's and Ethnic Studies, and Native American Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. From 2014 to 2016, Gould served as the Poet Laureate of Pike's Peak. She published 8 books. These books range from collections of her own poetry, chapbooks, art books and anthologies of essays. Her poetry has been published in over 60 journals, reviews and anthologies.

Gould was the recipient of many awards for her literary achievements, including the Ford Dissertation Fellowship, the Astraea Foundation Grant, a "Spirit of the Springs" Award from the City of Colorado Springs, and from Native Literatures: Generations.

Themes

Gould's work contains themes of “love, loneliness, longing for connection, family, history, place, and music”.{{Cite web|url=https://tetheredbyletters.com/author-qa-janice-gould/|title=TBL Q&A Series: Janice Gould|website=Tethered By Letters|access-date=1 April 2019}} She uses the term "Indigenous Assemblage" to categorize race, sex, and gender, as Gould was mixed-blood and identified as a lesbian.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BzB0DwAAQBAJ&q=indigenous+assemblage&pg=PT226|title=The Queerness of Native American Literature|last=Tatonetti|first=Lisa|date=30 November 2014|publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=9781452943275|access-date=3 April 2019}} According to Shanna Lewis, Gould's The Force of Gratitude features the resurgence of traditional Indigenous identity to explain that her father was Two Spirited.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cpr.org/news/story/poet-janice-gould|title=Colorado Springs Poet Explores Life's Landscape Of Longing And Belonging|last=Lewis|first=Shanna|date=14 September 2017|website=Colorado Public Radio}}

Selected bibliography

= Select articles =

American Indian Women's Poetry: Strategies of Rage and Hope[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/495022 American Indian Women's Poetry: Strategies of Rage and Hope]
What Happened to My Anger?[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3346647?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=janice&searchText=gould&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Ffc%3Doff%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3BQuery%3Djanice%2Bgould&ab_segments=0%2Ftbsub-1%2Frelevance_config_with_tbsub&refreqid=search%3A975fd7bb0b9d821e3c027f451a7d6214&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents What Happened to My Anger?]
Lesbian Landscape[http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=1befca87-1308-4582-8888-4bf79032092c%40sdc-v-sessmgr01&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLHVybCxjb29raWUsdWlkJnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=qth&AN=115862974 Lesbian Landscape]

= Selected books =

Seed (2019)[https://squareup.com/store/headmistress-press/item/seed-by-janice-gould Seed (2019)]
The Force of Gratitude (2017)[https://books.google.com/books?id=eiKiswEACAAJ The Force of Gratitude (2017)]
Doubters and Dreamers (2011)[https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/doubters-and-dreamers Doubters and Dreamers (2011)]
Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary Indigenous Poetry (2003, editor with Dean Rader){{Cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/619145/summary|title=Native Literature is Not Post-Colonial|last=Archibald-Barber|first=Jessie|date=December 2015|journal=ESC: English Studies in Canada|volume=41|issue=4|page=14|doi=10.1353/esc.2015.0053|s2cid=163436624}}{{Cite web|url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1262&context=greatplainsquarterly|title=Book Review: Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry|last=Roppolo|first=Kimberley|date=2004|website=Digital Commons: University of Nebraska}}
Earthquake Weather (1996)[https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/earthquake-weather Earthquake Weather (1996)]
Beneath My Heart (1990)
Alphabet (1996)

Grants and scholarhips

Janice Gould is recognized for her poetry and scholarship and therefore has a long list of awards. A few of her most significant accomplishments are as follows:{{Cite web|url=https://www.uccs.edu/west/sites/west/files/inline-files/VITA%2C%20Gould%2C%202016.pdf|title=Janice Gould Curriculum Vitae|last=Gould|first=Janice|date=n.d.|website=University of Colorado, Colorado Springs}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Native Writer-in-Residence, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, Winter 2012.[https://sarweb.org/iarc/indigenous-writer-in-residence/janice-gould/ Native Writer-in-Residence, School for Advanced Research]
Native Literature Generations Award, 2011.
Association of Research Libraries Diversity Scholars Fellowship, 2007.[https://www.arl.org/focus-areas/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/fellowship-digital-inclusive-excellence Association of Research Libraries Diversity Scholars Fellowship]
Knowledge River Scholar, University of Arizona, 2006-2008.
National Museum of the American Indian Internship, 2007.{{Cite web |url=https://americanindian.si.edu/connect |title=National Museum of the American Indian Internship |access-date=2019-04-04 |archive-date=2019-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328195902/https://americanindian.si.edu/connect/ |url-status=dead }}
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1994-95.[http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/index.htm Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship]
ASTREA Foundation Award for poetry, 1992.[https://www.astraeafoundation.org/event/fuelingthefrontlines/ ASTREA Foundation Award for poetry]

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) literary fellowship, 1989.{{Cite web |url=https://www.arts.gov/grants-individuals/creative-writing-fellowships |title=National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) literary fellowship |access-date=2019-04-04 |archive-date=2019-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404224540/https://www.arts.gov/grants-individuals/creative-writing-fellowships |url-status=dead }}