Fiction

“The Barber.” Tusculum Review, 2: (2007): 115
“Delicate Prey.” Tusculum Review, 2: (2007): 116-19.
“Lightning Drips from the Sky,” Black Ridge Review, 3 (2005): 33-5.
“Eighty Cents on the Dollar,” Black Ridge Review, 3 (2005): 37-40.
“A Couple of Polaroids,” Post Road, 9 (2004): 23-9.
“Lion in the Thicket.” Beloit Fiction Journal, 16 (2003): 137-42.
“Morning Comes by Way of Restless Nights.” Fiction International, 34 (2001): 25-27.

Essays

“Jane Bowles.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 26: 2 (2006): 66-87.
“Janet Frame.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 24: 2 (2004): 89-124.
“Javier Marías: The New Spanish Narrative.” Rain Taxi, 8:3 (2003): 17.
“Italo Calvino.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 22:1 (2002): 59-94.
“Dambudzo Marechera.” Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, 3^rd ed. New York: St. James P, 1999.

Reviews

Blackstone, Charles. The Week You Weren’t Here. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 24:2 (2004): 145.
Duncan, Glen. I, Lucifer. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, forthcoming.
Timm, Uwe. Morenga. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 23:3 (2003): 142.
Robinson, Lewis. Officer Friendly. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 23:2 (2003): 152-53.
Nick Arvin. In the Electric Eden. Rain Taxi, 8:1 (2003): 40.
Susan Steinberg. The End of Free Love. Rain Taxi, 8:1 (2003): 41.
Gary Lutz. Stories in the Worst Way. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 22:4 (2002). Reprinted: Context, 13 (2003): 21-2.
Stephen Dixon. I. Hyde Park Review of Books, 1:3 (2002). Visit at <hprob.com>.
Claude Simon. The Trolley. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 22:3 (2002): 153. Reprinted: Context, 11 (2002): 20.
Janice Galloway. Where You Find it. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 22:3 (2002): 144.
William H. Gass. Tests of Time. Hyde Park Review of Books, 1:2 (2002). Visit at <hprob.com>.
Alfred Jarry. Collected Words of Alfred Jarry: Volume 1: Adventures in ‘Pataphysics. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 22:2 (2002): 230-1.
Frederick Busch. War Babies. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 22:2 (2002): 242-3.
Laird Hunt. The Impossibly. Hyde Park Review of Books, 1:1 (2002). Visit at <hprob.com>.
Steven Kotler. The Angle Quickest for Flight. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 22:1 (2002): 147-8.
Luigi Pirandello. Her Husband. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 22:1 (2002): 145-6. Reprinted: Context, 10 (2002): 23.
Mempo Giardinelli. The Tenth Circle. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 22:1 (2002): 136.
Javier Marías. Dark Back of Time. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 21:3 (2001): 200-1. Reprinted: Context, 8 (2001): 22.
Amélie Nothomb. Loving Sabotage. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 21:2 (2001): 170.
Julia Leigh. The Hunter. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 21:2 (2001): 171.
Emily Barton. The Testament of Yves Gundron. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 21:1 (2001): 201.
Padgett Powell. Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 21:1 (2001): 194.
Carla Harryman. The Words after Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 20:3 (2000): 148-9.
Uwe Timm. Midsummer Night. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 20:3 (2000): 135.
Michael Brodsky. We Can Report Them. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 20:2 (2000): 182-3.
Agymah Kamau. Pictures of a Dying Man. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 20:2 (2000): 171.
Patrick McCabe. Breakfast on Pluto. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 20:1 (2000): 185.
Marilyn Krysl. How to Accommodate Men. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 19:3 (1999): 164.
Gordon Lish. Arcade, or How to Write a Novel. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 19:2 (1999): 139-40.
Alicia Borinsky. Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 19:1 (1999): 198-9.
Beth Partin. Microgravity. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 18:3 (1998): 257.
Carol Maso. Defiance. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 19:2 (1998): 229.
Sanford Sternlicht. All Things Harriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom. Journal of Popular Culture, (1997).
Lance Olson. Burnt. The Newsletter of The Council for the Literature of the Fantastic, 1:4 (1997).

Conferences

· “Narratology: The Dialogic Creative Writing Classroom,” to be presented at the AWP conference, spring 2005.

· “Service Learning in the Classroom: Hurdles to Consider for the Successful Development of a Service Learning Program,” presented at the Fifty-Fourth Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY, March 19, 2003.

· “Faculty Presentation: Service Learning Courses and the Benefits to Faculty and Students,” presented at The Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement Faculty Workshop. University of Denver, Denver, CO. August 5, 2002.

· “Approaching the Bleeding Edge: The Best in Experimental Literature Forms Online,” presented at the AWP Conference, New Orleans, LA. March 6-9, 2002.

· “Form and Function: The Active Reader in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales” presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Fort Collins, CO. May 24-26, 2001.

· “The Editorial Logistics of Electronic Publication : Challenges and Rewards,” presented at the AWP Conference, Palm Spring, CA. April 18-21, 2001.

· “The Functioning of Time: Milton, the Reader, and the Persistent Present,” presented at the South-Central Renaissance Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX. April 5-7, 2001.

· “Digger and Other Stories,” stories read at “Reconcilable (In)Difference: The Marriage Between Writers and Theories,” University of Denver, Denver, CO. April 4-6, 1997.

· “‘Today is always here. Tomorrow never’: The Perpetual Present in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Denver’s Bold Steps Forward,” presented at the Interdisciplinary Symposium Sponsored by African American and African Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. February 20-22, 1997.

Journal Experience

Associate Editor, Conjunctions, Bard College, July 2001-present. Visit at <conjunctions.com>.
Contributing Editor, Fiction, Denver Quarterly, University of Denver, August 2003-May 2004.
Guest Editor: Special Prose Issue, Denver Quarterly, University of Denver, Spring 2003.
Associate Editor, Denver Quarterly, University of Denver, February 2002-August 2003.
Fiction Reader, Denver Quarterly, University of Denver, January 2001-February 2002.
Associate Editor, 5Trope, January 2001-March 2002. Visit at <webdelsol.com/5_trope>.
Editorial Assistant, Conjunctions, Bard College, August 1997-July 2001.
Fiction Editor, Cimarron Review, Oklahoma State University, August 1997-May 1999.
Production Assistant, Midland Review, Oklahoma State University, Spring 1997.

Editorial Experience

Editorial Board Member, Unicycle. An independent publisher of chapbooks.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University, August 2004-present.

Visiting Professor, Department of English, Western State College, August 2003-June 2004.

· Academic Writing, Fall 2003, three sections. An introductory writing course, focusing primarily on argument.

· Introduction to Literature: Studies in Travel, Fall 2003, two sections. A theme based introduction to literature. The reading list: Ernest Hemingway, Pico Iyer, Tobias Schneebaum, Paul Bowles, Bill Bryson, and Jack Kerouac.

· Academic Reading and Writing, Spring 2004, two sections. An introductory writing course, focusing primarily on academic reading and argument.

· Introduction to Literature: Studies in Experimental Fiction, Spring 2004. A theme based introduction to literature. The reading list: Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charles Dickens, Jorges Borges, Jane Bowles, Vladimir Nabokov, Lydia Davis.

· Creative Writing Fiction, Spring 2004. An advanced creative writing fiction course, using a workshop model, emphasizing the interrelationship between critical reading and creative writing. The reading list: Italo Calvino, Amy Hempel, Ben Marcus, Anna Kavan, Javier Marias, Gary Lutz, Alphonso Lingis, and Mikhail Bakhtin.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Denver, September 1999-June 2002.

Creative Expression, Spring 2002. An interdisciplinary creative writing course, using a workshop model, emphasizing written and oral expression as an art form. The course included a public reading. There were no genre constraints. (Course evaluation: <du.edu/assessment/evals/core.html>.)
Argument and Research, Winter 2002, two sections. A first-year English research course with a service learning component.
Experiencing the Experiment: Innovative Prose of the 20^th Century, Advanced Standing Seminar, Fall 2001. An advanced writing course where students experienced texts as innovative prose experiments. The reading list: Denis Johnson, Thomas Bernhard, Vladimir Nabokov, Jane Bowles, Italo Calvino, Flannery O’Connor, Jorge Borges, and Janet Frame.
Creative Writing, Spring 2001. An introductory creative writing course, using a workshop model, where critical theory and terminology was stressed alongside the reading and writing of creative works in fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
Persuasive Voice, Winter 2001, two sections. A first-year English argument course with a service learning component.
Notions of Identity: The Outsider in Each of Us, Advanced Standing Seminar, Fall 2000. An advanced writing course where students investigated notions of identity through literary works. The reading list: Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Albert Camus, Kate Chopin, Janet Frame, Elie Wiesel, and Virginia Woolf.
Writing About Literature, Spring 2000. A first-year English introductory course to fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and drama.
Persuasive Voice, Winter 2000, two sections. A first-year English argument course.
Expository Writing, Fall 1999. A first-year English expository writing course.

Service Learning Program Coordinator: First-Year English, University of Denver, Fall 2001-

Spring 2002.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Oklahoma State University, August 1998-May 1999.

Composition II, Spring 1999. An argument and research course.
Composition I, Fall 1998. An expository writing course.

Writing Tutor, Writing Center, Department of English, Oklahoma State University, August 1997-May 1998.

Peace Corps Volunteer, United States Peace Corps, Papua New Guinea, December 1990-December 1992. Taught primarily math and science.

Student Teacher, Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Maine, Spring 1987. Taught chemistry; Maine State Teaching Certificate in Secondary Science.

Volunteer Experience

Creative Writing Instructor, Urban Peak, an adolescent homeless shelter, Denver, CO, July 2001-July 2003.
Coordinator: Graduate Reading Series, University of Denver, August 2000-June 2001.
Mentor, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Stillwater, Stillwater, OK, October 1993-August 1999.
Board Member, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Stillwater, September 1994-August 1999. Served as Board President from June 1997-June 1998 and Administrative Vice President from June 1996-June 1997. Traveled to Minneapolis, MN for national conference, June 1997.
Carpenter, Habitat for Humanity of Stillwater, April 1995-August 1999.
Teacher, United States Peace Corps, November 1990-December 1992.

References

On request.