Background

Reuben Ellis was born on April 19, 1955, in Oceanside, California. He is the son of Joseph, an entrepreneur, and Elizabeth Ione, a schoolteacher, Ellis.

Education

Reuben Ellis studied at Western State College, where he got a Bachelor of Arts in 1977. Also, he attended the University of Idaho. He got there a Master of Arts in 1985. Reuben received a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1990.

Career

Reuben Ellis started his career at the Colorado Heights University. He was an assistant professor of English in 1991-1994. Then, in 1994 he became an associate professor of English at the Hope College, where he worked for about fo five years. From 1999 to 2007, Reuben Ellis served as an associate professor at Prescott College, and, since 2010, a professor at Woodbury University. He teaches courses in the Professional Writing degree, the first-year composition program, and the College of Liberal Art's Interdisciplinary Studies program. Besides, he is a chair of the Writing Department at Woodbury University. Also, Reuben Ellis is a co-owner of the Ellis Farms since 1978.

In addition to teaching, Reuben is a writer. To date, his work includes Vertical Margins: Mountaineering and the Landscapes of Neo-Imperialism, Stories and Stone: Writing the Ancestral Pueblo Homeland, and Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin, as well as many published essays, short stories, and poems. Reuben Ellis is currently working on a book-length project describing literary representations of ancestral Puebloan peoples and sites.

Achievements

• Reuben Ellis is widely known as a writer and educator. He is a professor and chair of the Writing Department at Woodbury University. As a writer, Reuben's books currently include Vertical Margins, Stories and Stone, Beyond Borders, and others. He is also published many essays, short stories, and poems.

Works

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  • Vertical Margins

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  • Beyond Borders 1996
  • Formula 2019
  • Stories and Stone 1997

Views

Quotations: "My primary interest is how humans interact with the natural world, responding to it, adapting to it, and often riding roughshod over it, constructing it within the framework of their limited cultural contexts."

"My interest in mountaineering literature comes from my love of the wilderness, particularly mountain places. My instinct that mountaineering, like virtually all cultural practices, is bound up in a complex network of political and ideological forces that make what most of us think of like a "sport." Indeed a much wealthier and more complicated experience that speaks to how we impact the natural world and interact with other people on a global scale."

Membership

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  Modern Language Association , United States

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  American Society for Aesthetics , United States

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  Western Literature Association , United States

• Mary Hunter Austin Society , United States

Interests

• mountaineering, archaeology

Connections

Reuben Ellis's first wife was Brenna Ryan. They married on August 13, 1977, and divorced in 2000. Then he married Linda Dove on May 21, 2001. They have two children: Isaac and Daniel.

Father:

Joseph W. Ellis

Joseph Ellis was an entrepreneur and a founder of Ellis Farms in 1976.

Mother:

Elizabeth Ione Ellis

Elizabeth Ione Ellis's maiden name was Bush. She was a schoolteacher.

Wife:

Brenna Ryan

Brenna Ryan was Reuben Ellis's first wife. They divorced in 2000.

Wife:

Linda Dove

Son:

Isaac Ellis

Son:

Daniel Ellis

References

• Reuben Ellis - LinkedIn