David Wanczyk
Post-Doctoral
Director of Special Programs & Adjunct Professor
Creative Writing: Nonfiction
Office: Ellis 305, Lindley 242
Office Phone: 593-2743
Email: davidwanczyk@gmail.com
Degrees
Ph.D. Ohio University, English (Creative Writing: Nonfiction), 2010
M.A. Ohio University, English (Creative Writing: Poetry), 2006
B.A. Holy Cross, English and Theater, 2004
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
“The Ladder.” Miracle Monocle. Forthcoming.
“After the Death of His Father, Simon Grows.” JMWW. Forthcoming.
“After the Death of His Father, Simon Grows.” Preparing the Face: Poems about Shaving. Forthcoming.
“Sentence and Release.” Tusculum Review. Forthcoming.
“Co-Stars.” Prick of the Spindle. Forthcoming.
“My Leading MAN.” Prick of the Spindle. Forthcoming.
“Motel at the Center of America.” Prick of the Spindle. Forthcoming.
“Feeling Slightly Unyoung at 28.” The Catalonian Review. Forthcoming.
“‘So They Fidgeted’: The Modernist Twitch of Between the Acts.” Woolf Studies Annual. Forthcoming.
“Bathing with the Sex Pistols and Air Supply.” New York Quarterly. Forthcoming.
“When Getting Laughs Got You a Grammy.” Splitsider.com. Winter 2011.
“An Ambivalent Kiss-off Note in 78 Beatles’ Titles, 3 ‘Buts,’ and a ‘So’.” Defenestration. Winter 2011.
“Stations.” Lake Effect. Winter 2011.
“Green Hooded Sweatshirt.” Modcloth. Winter 2011.
“Review: Candyfreak by Steve Almond.” Alimentum. Winter 2011.
“Pyramid 118.” Defunct. Fall 2010.
“Review of Ander Monson’s Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir.” Brevity. Fall 2010.
“The Past as Prologue and Play-time: A Review of Robin Hemley’s Do-Over!”.” Bellingham Review. Spring 2010.
“‘This, alone, will save us--this communication’: An Interview with David Shields.”Quarter After Eight. Spring 2010.
“Fortunate Sons.” Shaking Like a Mountain. Winter 2009.
“The Outlasters.” Women’s Adventure Magazine (online). Fall 2009.
“‘Where Else Could I Go?’: Susan Stewart’s Search for the Intangible.” Spring Literary Festival Tabloid. Spring 2006.
Selected Conference Papers
“’The Hackneyed Culture Clash’: The Politics of Mimicry in Karen King Aribisala’s Rewriting of Chaucer.” African Literature Association Conference. Ohio University. (April 2011).
“’Not the Power to Conceal’: Sensibility and Masquerade in Inchbald’s A Simple Story.” British Women Writers Conference. Ohio State University. (April 2011).
“Nonfiction Wow.” Bedell NonfictioNow Conference. University of Iowa. (November 2010).
“The Aesthetics of Friendship and the Nonfiction of Woolf and Wallace.” Defining the New. Ohio University. (October 2010).
“Word as Gold: Malleable Language in Eliot’s Silas Marner.” Louisiana Conference on Language, Literature and Culture. University of Louisiana-Lafayette. (March 2010).
“A Modernist Squirming.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. University of Louisville. (February 2010).
“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).
“That Dang Thing: Computers and Older Users.” With Lydia McDermott. Expanding Literacy Studies Conference. Ohio State University. (April 2009).
“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).
“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).
Positions
Director of Special Programs, English Department. (2010- ).
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 306J: Women in Writing
English 308J: Writing and Rhetoric II
English 363: Creative Writing Workshop: Nonfiction
English 395: Creative Writing Workshop: Intermediate Nonfiction
English 483: Form and Theory, Nonfiction
English 499H: Honors Project, Advanced Nonfiction