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John
Engell |
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Fall 2007
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John Engell teaches Colonial
and Nineteenth-century American literature, Film, and Creative
Writing. He directs the Teaching Associate Program for all
graduate students who teach writing. He has a B.A. in English
and History from Hamilton College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in
English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Engell has published stories in Appalachee Quarterly,
The Chattahoochee Review, The South Carolina Review,
American Fiction: Best Unpublished Stories by American
Writers and elsewhere. He has published critical essays
in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Early American
Literature, Studies in American Fiction, Film/Literature
Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Sample Writing
Kate Evans is the
author of a poetry collection, Like All We Love (Q
Press, 2007), and a book about lesbian and gay teachers, Negotiating
the Self (Routledge, 2002). Her stories, poems, and essays
have appeared in such journals as North American Review,
Indiana Review, Santa Monica Review, Cream
City Review, Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly
and Seattle Review. She has been nominated for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and
Pushcart Prizes in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction. A recipient
of both an M.A. and an M.F.A. from San Jose State, and a Ph.D.
from the University of Washington, she is especially interested
in queer literature, contemporary American and British literature,
and the art and craft of creative writing. A former journalist
and high school teacher, she also taught English in Japan,
and literature and writing courses at U.C. Santa Cruz. With
Kelly Harrison, she is the Co-Director of the Center
for Literary Arts.
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Robert
James |
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Fall 2007
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Persis
Karim |
Associate Professor |
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- English 190 (honors) - Seminar in Literature and
Satire
- English 123A: Literature of the Americas
- English 11C - MUSE "Beyond the Headlines: Film
and Literature of the Middle East"
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Persis Karim
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Ethnic American
Literature, World Literature in Translation, Translation,
Poetry and Creative Writing
Courses taught regularly: English 71: Introduction to Creative
Writing, English 123: World Literature, English 122: Topics
in Comparative Literature, English 130: Poetry, English 240:
Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Persis Karim's poetry has been published in Reed Magazine,
Caesura, Alimentum, HeartLodge, and Di-verse-City.
Recent Publications
- Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women
of the Iranian Diaspora (2007, Editor and Contributing
Author - Read
Review)
- A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, Essays by Iranian-Americans
(Persis M. Karim & Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, Eds.)
Co-Coordinator with Professor Kate
Evans, Pomegranate Readings Series, Cafe Pomegranate,
San Fernando Street, San Jose, CA
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Samuel
Maio |
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Fall 2007
Courses |
Samuel Maio is the author
of a book of poems, The Burning of Los Angeles (1997),
a Pulitzer Prize nominee of the Los Angeles Times, and a critical
study, Creating Another Self: Voice in Modern American
Personal Poetry (1995), a Christian Gauss Award finalist.
Both books were published by the Thomas Jefferson University
Press. Maio has published well over 100 poems, short stories,
essays and reviews in periodicals such as: Antioch Review,
Bloomsbury Review, Chariton Review, The Formalist,
Northwest Review, The Southern California Anthology,
and many others. Several of his poems from The Burning
of Los Angeles were featured in the Los Angeles Times
Book Review. The book was subsequently reviewed widely and
is now in its second printing. His essays on modern poets
and poetry appear frequently in The Formalist.
Formally trained in the scholarship of literature, Maio studied
under the direction of renowned Americanists Jay Martin and
Ronald Gottesman at the University of Southern California
(USC), where he earned his Ph.D. in Modern Poetry in 1986.
While at USC, he won the Academy of American Poets Prize.
He is Professor of English at San Jose State University where
he has taught since 1990, having previously been a member
of the English faculty at the University of California at
Davis. He is currently finishing his second book of criticism,
Countermeasures: Metrical Poetry in the Modern Age,
scheduled for 2002 publication, and he is at work on new poems
and stories as well.
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Cathleen
Miller |
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Fall 2007
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Cathleen Miller is an assistant
professor in the MFA program, where she offers courses in
creative nonfiction. For the past decade she has combined
her love of teaching with a professional writing career.
Cathy’s memoir, The Birdhouse Chronicles,
describes her move from San Francisco to a ramshackle farmhouse
in Pennsylvania’s Amish country. Birdhouse,
recently issued in paperback, was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize. Miller is the co-author of the international bestseller
Desert Flower, published in sixteen countries, with
over two million copies in print. Her essays have appeared
in the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle,
Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Salon.com,
Cimarron Review, Old House Journal, and
the anthologies Travelers’ Tales San Francisco
and Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel.
Currently she’s at work on a biography of Dr. Nafis
Sadik, an advocate for women’s reproductive freedom
and the first female director of the United Nations.
Miller was one of the founding members of the popular Bay
Area group, the Wild Writing Women, which hosts a literary
salon in San Francisco. In 2004 she served as the Distinguished
Writer in Residence at St. Mary’s College.
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Gabriele
Rico |
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Gabriele Rico developed clustering in her doctoral
dissertation at Stanford University and has given intensive
creativity workshops to such corporate organizations as Apple
Computer, Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems. Her classic
Writing the Natural Way sold over half a million copies
and is out in a newly revised second edition (March, 2000).
Among her other books are Pain and Possibility: Writing
Your Way through Personal Crisis, and Creating Re-creations:
Inspiration from the Source. With coauthor Hans Paul Guth,
she has also produced Discovering Literature: Stories,
Poems, Plays (Third Edition, 2003), You the Writer:
Writing, Reading and Thinking (1998), Living Heritage:
An Introduction to the Humanities (2003), Discovering
Fiction (1992), and Discovering Poetry (1993).
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Alan
Soldofsky
Director of Creative Writing
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Fall 2007
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Alan Soldofsky is the author
of two collections of poetry, Kenora Station and Staying
Home, both originally published as limited edition artist's
books by Steam Press of Berkeley, intaglio prints by Lyman
Piersma, book design by Alistair Johnston.
A graduate of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, he
joined the San Jose State faculty in 1985 and directed first
the San Jose Poetry Center, then the SJSU Center for Literary
Arts, before being appointed director of the Creative Writing
Program.
His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and quarterlies
including: Antioch Review, Blue Mesa Review,
The Nation, The North American Review, and Poetry
East. A former contributing editor to Poetry Flash,
he has also published criticism and reviews in Chelsea,
Ironwood, and Quarry West as well as articles
and essays on crossings between Modernist and Post-modernist
poetry, one of which, "Nature and the Symbolic Order: The
Dialogue Between Czeslaw Milosz and Robinson Jeffers," is
included as a chapter in Robinson Jeffers: Dimensions of
a Poet, edited by Robert Brophy (Fordham University Press,
1995).
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Scott
Sublett |
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Fall 2007
Courses |
Scott Sublett is
an assistant professor at San Jose State University in the
Dept. of TV, Radio, Film and Theatre, where he teaches screenwriting,
playwriting and film history. He holds an M.F.A. in screenwriting
from UCLA and a B.S. in radio/TV/film from Northwestern. He
is the author of ten screenplays and winner of two screenwriting
prizes: the Carl David Memorial Fellowship and the David Gattone
Award. He wrote the librettos and lyrics for the musical comedies
Die, Die, Diana and Bye-Bye Bin Laden. The
former was mounted at the New York International Fringe Festival
in a production noted in the New York Times, The
New York Daily News and New York Magazine. Bye-Bye
Bin Laden was named "one the top five premieres
of 2004" by The San Francisco Bay Guardian.
The independent feature Pizza Wars: The Movie, which
he co-authored, was screened at the Cinequest film festival
in 2002 and received national DVD distribution. His screenplay
I Was a Teenage Sumo was optioned by Disney. He is
currently working on his irst independent feature as writer-director,
Generic Thriller. For seven years he wrote for The
Washington Times in Washington, D.C., where he served
as film critic, book reviewer and entertainment feature writer.
His free-lance journalism has appeared in The San Francisco
Chronicle and United Press International.
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Nick
Taylor |
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2007 Courses
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Spring
2008 Courses
- English 71 - Creative Writing
- English 130 - Fiction Writing Workshop
- English 133 - Reed Magazine
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Nick Taylor received his MFA in Creative Writing from the
University of Virginia in 2005. He has received fellowships
from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts, and the William R. Kenan Endowment
for Historic Preservation. His first novel, The
Disagreement, will be published by Simon &
Schuster in April 2008.
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