Michelle Disler
Post-Doctoral
Creative Writing: Nonfiction
Office: Ellis 305
Office Phone: 593-2781
Email: disler@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. Creative Writing Nonfiction, Ohio University, 2007
M.A. Literature, Western Michigan University, 2002
B.A. English, B.A. Journalism, Grand Valley State University, 1996
Publications
Selections from The James Bond Alphabet featured online at Wired for Books
Roundtable Discussion on the Classical Essay, Fourth Genre
“‘F’ is for Forgetting,” “‘S’ is for Sum,” The James Bond Alphabet, Painted Bride Quarterly
“‘U’ is for Unspecified,” The James Bond Alphabet, Seneca Review
“‘A’ is for Approx. No. of Times,” “‘G’ is for Guide,” ‘“T’ is for True-False,” “‘V’ is for Vanishing,” The James Bond Alphabet, The Laurel Review
“‘B’ is for Bait,” “‘C’ is for Close shaves, scrapes,” ‘“M’ is for Marriage,” The James Bond Alphabet, Gulf Coast
“Witness,” North Dakota Quarterly
“Blue,” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art
“ar•chi•pel•ago,” Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Conferences
“James Bond Anatomy Project,” panel on Detective Fiction, Mid-Atlantic Popular /
American Culture Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, invited November 2007
“Teaching the Classical Essay: Why, How, and What?” and “Experimental Nonfiction, Inspirations
and Applications,” Associated Writing Program annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, panel
presentations, invited February 2007
“‘Lo-lee-ta’: Highbrow Pornography and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita,” panel on paranoia and
Twentieth Century American Literature, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association,
Charlotte, North Carolina, invited November 2006
“‘Sex for Dinner, Death for Breakfast’: Bluffing, Bourbon and Babes in the ABCs of Ian Fleming’s
James Bond,” panel on Detective Fiction: Screening the Detective, Mid-Atlantic Popular /
American Culture Association, Baltimore, Maryland, invited October 2006
“Somewhere Blue, Somewhere Deep: A Postmodern Memoir in Nine Parts,” presented at the
Southwest Literature Symposium, Arizona State University, invited February 2006
“‘I should have been spiked to the bone and done for’: Discourses of Femininity and Colonial
Travel Writing in Mary Kingsley’s ‘Travels in West Africa,’” presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular
American Culture Association, New Brunswick, NJ, invited November 2005
Awards
2008 Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction Nominee
2006 Nonfiction Prize Columbia Journal
2005 Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Essay Award
2004 Virginia Woolf Prize in the Essay
2004 Associated Writing Programs Intro Award Nominee in Nonfiction
Courses
Eng 395 Creative Writing Workshop: Nonfiction
Eng 363 Creative Writing: Nonfiction
Eng 308J Writing and Rhetoric II
Eng 306J Women and Writing
Eng 306J Women and Writing: "Sex and the City"
Eng 306J Women and Writing: The Bond Girl
Eng 153 Special Topics: Gender
Eng 153 Special Topics: Writing Women's Lives: Letters, Lying, and (Food and) Love
Eng 153 Special Topics: Women and Travel Writing
Eng 153 Special Topics: James Bond
Eng 152 Writing and Reading: Studies in the Essay, Sudden Fiction, and the Prose Poem
Eng 151 Writing and Rhetoric I