Linda Tatelbaum

Education

B.A. Romance Studies, Cornell University, 1968

M.A. Medieval Literature, Cornell University, 1969

Ph.D. Medieval Literature and Philology, Cornell University, 1972 

Areas of Expertise

• Earth-talk
• Organic gardening
• Food and community
• Philosophy of language
• Ecocriticism
• 12th-century France
• Medieval topics, including literature, cultural studies, women, and mystics
• Heloise and Abelard
• Self-sufficient lifestyles
• Self-publishing
• Poetry and essays
• Journal and nature writing

Personal Information

Linda Tatelbaum founded About Time Press in 1996 and has been rewarded with the reader’s reception. The positive response has given her the heart to continue writing and publishing. Tatelbaum came to Colby in 1982. She teaches first-year writing, critical theory, and environmental literature/philosophy. She is also actively involved in community teaching through various projects of the Maine Humanities Council. Linda and her husband came to live in Burkettville (Appleton) in 1977, where they built a solar-powered house on a back road. Their garden produces the family food supply.

Publications

 Linda’s first book, Carrying Water as a Way of Life: A Homesteader’s History (About Time Press, 1997), describes how and why she lives this way. Her second book, Writer on the Rocks: Moving the Impossible (About Time, 2000), explores how physical labor can help us move metaphysical obstacles like writer’s block. Her third book is a novel, Yes & No: recipe for a young woman’s coming of age (About Time Press, 2004).