Erik Fraser Storlie

Position: Lecturer

Office Address
MMC 505
420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Home Address
3217 Humboldt Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408

Office Phone: 612-624-9459
Home Phone: 612-822-8555
Mobile Phone:

Email Address: storl009@umn.edu
Email Address 2: estorlie@visi.com

Web Page: www.beginnerzen.com

Educational Background
Dr. Storlie earned his M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, his B.A. in English and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. His dissertation, Grace and Works, Discipline and Enlightenment (1976), was a cross-cultural study of awakening experience in Puritanism and Zen.

Brief Biography
Erik F. Storlie, Ph.D., M.A., B.A., teaches courses and leads retreats for the Center that approach meditation as both intellectual inquiry and practical discipline of body, mind, and spirit.

Dr. Storlie began a practice of sitting meditation in 1964 with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. After Suzuki’s death in 1971, he studied with Dainin Katagiri Roshi until 1983, helping to found the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in 1973. For the last fifteen years, he has led retreats and given instruction in meditation, assisting students to develop mastery of meditation practice without reference to particular religious forms.

Dr. Storlie earned his M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, his B.A. in English and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. His dissertation, Grace and Works, Discipline and Enlightenment (1976), was a cross-cultural study of awakening experience in Puritanism and Zen. His publications include Nothing on my Mind: Berkeley, LSD, Two Zen Masters (Shambhala 1996), Asking Good Questions, Getting Good Writing: A Teacher’s Handbook (Minnesota State Community College System 1985), "Zen On Ice" (Quest Winter 1998 ), "Earth’s Original Face" (Shambhala Sun March 2001), and "Sawtooth Sesshin" (Shambhala Sun March 2002). Dr. Storlie retired from full-time college teaching in English, Composition, and Humanities in 2000.


Research Interests
Meditation – mastery for health and well-being
Meditation – historical, cultural, and scientific background
Mindfulness-based stress reduction

Selected Publications
Nothing on my Mind: Berkeley, LSD, Two Zen Masters (Shambhala, 1996)
Asking Good Questions,Getting Good Writing: A Teacher's Handbook(Minnesota State Community College System, 1985)
Zen On Ice (Quest Winter, 1998)
Earth's Original Face (Shambhala Sun, March 2001)
"Sawtooth Sesshin" (Shambhala Sun, March 2002)
Notes on a Friendship with James Wright (Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art, Vol. II, No. 3, 2007)