David Wanczyk
Ph.D Candidate
Creative Writing: Nonfiction
Office: Ellis 334
Office Phone: 593-2743
Email: dw212304@ohio.edu
Degrees
B.A. Holy Cross, English and Theater, 2004
M.A. Ohio University, English (Creative Writing: Poetry), 2006
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Conference Papers
“Framing Gertrude: Photographic Narration and the Complex Subjectivity of the Artist Observer in The Romance of a Shop.” British Women Writers Conference. Indiana University. (March 2008).
“The Ironic Byronic in Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman.” AEGIS: The Power of Form and Forms of Power. Southern Illinois University. (April 2008).
“That Dang Thing: Computers and Older Users.” With Lydia McDermott. Expanding Literacy Studies Conference. Ohio State University. (April 2009).
“Old Breadcrumbs in New Bread: Constructing New Literacies from Familiar Materials.” With Lydia McDermott and Brett Pransky. Expanding Literacy Studies Conference. Ohio State University. (April 2009).
“A Modernist Squirming.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville University. (February 2010)
(Accepted) “‘So they fidgeted’: The Anti-Fascist Twitch of Woolf’s Between the Acts.” NEMLA. McGill University. (April 2010).
Publications
“‘Where Else Could I Go?’: Susan Stewart’s Search for the Intangible.” Spring Literary Festival Tabloid. Spring 2006.
“The Outlasters.” Women’s Adventure Magazine (online). Fall 2009.
Positions
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Quarter after Eight: A Journal of Prose and Commentary (2008-2010)
Awards
-Nominated by the English Department for Ohio University Named Fellowships, 2009-2010
-Won Outstanding TA Award for the English Department, Ohio University, 2008-2009
-Won the Virginia Woolf Prize for Nonfiction, Ohio University, 2008
-Nominated for the Emily Tice Award for Outstanding Graduate Essay, Ohio University, 2008
Courses
English 151: Writing and Rhetoric I
English 152: Special Topics: Reading and Writing
English 201: Critical Approaches to Fiction
English 202: Critical Approaches to Poetry
English 252: English Literature 1689-Present (Teaching Assistant)
English 308J: Writing and Rhetoric II
English 363: Creative Writing Workshop: Nonfiction
English 365: Creative Writing Workshop: Intermediate Nonfiction