Kelley Evans
Post-Doctoral
Creative Writing: Nonfiction
Office: Ellis 307
Office Phone: 593-2745
Email: ke370903@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. English: Nonfiction Writing, Ohio University, 2008
M.F.A. Creative Writing: Nonfiction, Antioch University Los Angeles, 2002
B.A. Sociology, Calvin College, 1998
Publications
“Body Composition,” forthcoming in Fourth Genre (spring 2008)
“Roundtable: Teaching the Classical Essay,” forthcoming in Fourth Genre (spring 2008)
Review of On Looking by Lia Purpura, Brevity (fall 2007)
“And you will be consumed,” Harpur Palate, (summer 2007)
Curriculum Vitae
Awards
Outstanding Teaching Associate Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University (2007)
Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor Scholarship, Ohio University (2006–2007)
Ohio University’s nomination for Associated Writing Program’s Intro Award in Nonfiction (2006)
Second Prize, The Virginia Woolf Prize in the Essay, Ohio University, judged by Chris Arthur, for the essay “My Unbelievable Life, or Three Things That Happened to Me That I Can’t Believe Happened to Me and Other Memories: An Album” (2006)
Presentations
Presenter, Creative Writing Panel for The Women’s Connection: “I Keep My Heart for You: Stories of Women’s Empathy and Giving,” 39th Annual College English Association (CEA) Conference, New Orleans (April 12, 2007)
Panel chair and presenter, “Experimental Nonfiction: Inspirations and Applications,” AWP, Atlanta (March 1, 2007)
Presenter, “Teaching the Classical Essay: Why, How, and What,” AWP, Atlanta (March 1, 2007)
“The Interrogative Self: Implications of the Montaignian Tradition on the Pursuit of Truth in Creative Nonfiction.” Presented at Winter Wheat 2007, Bowling Green State University (Nov. 9, 2006)
Public Reading, Athens Public Library, Athens, OH (May 25, 2006)
“On Birth Control,” Presented at the 38th Annual College English Association (CEA) Conference, San Antonio, TX (April 7, 2006)
Reading, Internal Combustion, Ohio University English Department Faculty, Graduate, and Undergraduate Reading (March 2, 2006)
“My Unbelievable Life, or Three Things That Happened to Me That I Can’t Believe Happened to Me and Other Memories: An Album,” Writing By Degrees Graduate Conference in Creative Writing, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 23 Sept. 2005
“An Investigation of Space in the Essays of Simone Weil and Georges Perec.” College English Association Conference, Indianapolis, 31 March 2005
Affiliations
College English Association (CEA), since 2005
Association of Writing Programs (AWP), since 2000
Courses
English 151: Writing and Rhetoric I
English 305J: Technical Writing
English 306J: Women and Writing
English 363: Creative Writing Workshop: Nonfiction