Welcome!

I’m Evelyn Funda, author of the cultural memoir Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament , about my Czech immigrant family settling in southwestern Idaho, and I am co-author of Farm: A Multimodal Reader, a textbook that introduces students at land grant universities to interdisciplinary overview agrarian culture. I began my career as a literary scholar, and I’ve published a number of works of literary criticism on American author Willa Cather. I am currently writing a book called “Willa Cather and the Czechs.”

Additionally, I’ve taught a number of workshops on writing family history that is inspired by family artifacts, and I’m active in the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International. I invite you to check out my books.

Photo of Emmett, Idaho: the valley where I grew up

“Cherry orchards, farm lands and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho”
Photo by Russell Lee, WPA Photographer, 1941