Dr. Lisa Knopp
- Professor
- English
Biography
Lisa Knopp is the author of six books of creative nonfiction. Her most recent, Bread: A Memoir of Hunger, explores eating disorders and disordered eating among older women.What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Misouri, and Platte won the 2013 Nebraska Book Award in the essay category and tied for second place in the 2013 ALSE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) book awards for environmental creative nonfiction. Currently, she's working on a collection of autobiographical essays, Like Salt or Love: Essays on Leaving Home.
Knopp's essays have appeared in numerous journals including Seneca Review, Missouri Review, Michigan Review, Iowa Review, Southern Indiana Review, Gettysburg Review, Northwest Review, Crab Orchard Review, Shenandoah, Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Schooner, Brevity, and Georgia Review. Seven of her essays have been listed as “notable essays” in the Best American Essays series (1990, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010, and 2014).
Knopp joined the UNO Department of English in 2005. Prior to that, she taught in the Masters of Fine Arts programs at the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale and at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.
For more information, please go to her website www.lisaknopp.com.
This professor is available for consultation regarding Sustainability topics.Research Interests
Autobiographical essays, memoir, literary journalism, experimental forms of creative nonfiction.Awards and Honors
Nebraska Book Award, Scholarship/Research - 20232020 Curt Johnson Prose Awards (first prize), Scholarship/Research - 2020
River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Conest, Scholarship/Research - 2020
Pushcart Nomination, Scholarship/Research - 2020
Shortlist for 2021 One Book One Nebraska , Scholarship/Research - 2020
Missouri Review’s 2018 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize contest, Scholarship/Research - 2019
"Leaving" Writing Contest, Scholarship/Research - 2018
Education
Ph D, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, English, Creative nonfiction and American Literature., 1993Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity
Selected Publications
Knopp, Lisa. 2016. Bread: A Memoir of Hunger, University of Missouri Press, 173.
Knopp, Lisa. 2012. What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, University of Missouri Press, 978-0-8262-1974-9, 230.
Knopp, Lisa. 2008. Interior Places, University of Nebraska Press, 978-0-0032-1143-8, 289.
Knopp, Lisa. 2002. The Nature of Home, University of Nebraska Press, 231.
Knopp, Lisa. 1996. Field of Vision, University of Iowa Press.
Service
Department, College and University
- ADWR/CNF concentration program/track committee, Attendee, Meeting, 01/01/2018 - 01/31/2018