Paul Lehmberg

Professor
B.A., Concordia College (Moorhead, MN)
M.A., University of Utah
Ph.D., University of Utah
plehmber@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

• Creative Nonfiction
• American Literature
• Nature and Literature
• Composition

Paul Lehmberg received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from Concordia College (Moorhead, MN) in 1968. He then applied, and was admitted, to a Lutheran seminary, but thought better of it, and decided instead to pursue graduate work in English. He received his Ph.D. in American literature in 1977. Lehmberg then worked for a year as feature editor for a business magazine in the trucking industry. Since 1978 he has been teaching creative nonfiction writing, American literature, and composition at NMU. He was instrumental in mounting NMU's M.A. and B.A. programs in writing, and for years he served as Director of English Graduate Studies. Lehmberg is the author of In The Strong Woods: A Season Alone in the North Country (St. Martin's, 1980). He has published literary criticism, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and journalism. Lehmberg is married to Zhuang-Zhong, and they have two young daughters. Currently he is at work on A Guangzhou Journal, a family memoir based on a trip to China. In 1998, Lehmberg was ordained a Zen Buddhist priest. Besides practicing Zen, he writes on Zen topics and is interested in the conjunction of Eastern and Western thought in American literature. He is also active in the Marquette Interfaith Forum.