Dr. Rachael Peckham. Curriculum Vitae

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1 Dr. Rachael Peckham Curriculum Vitae English Department 1739 Wiltshire Blvd. Marshall University Huntington, WV Huntington, WV (781) (304) EDUCATION PhD in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction, Ohio University, Athens, OH MFA in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA BA in English Literature and Creative Writing, Hope College, Holland, MI ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of English, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, 2009-present. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Managing Editor, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, Ohio University, spring Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA, Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor, Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture, Georgia College & State University, Reviewed and coordinated the journal's nonfiction submissions Assisted in the copy-editing and publication of the journal Writing Center Tutor, Georgia College & State University, Worked with undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines at every step of the writing process Web-page Editor and Production Assistant for The Anchor, Hope College, Submitted the student newspaper online every week

2 Rachael Peckham Page 2 Oversaw and updated the newspaper's website Writing Center Tutor, Hope College, Worked with undergraduate students from all disciplines at every step of the writing process COURSES TAUGHT Marshall University English 101: Composition I English 210: Autobiography & Memoir English 242: Women Writers English 360: Introduction to Creative Writing English 379: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction English 424: American Literature after 1914 English 5/480: Special Topics: Twisted Nonfiction English 485: Special Topics: Politics, Place, and Identity in Western Literature since 1914 English 5/493: Advanced Creative Nonfiction English 650: Special Topics: The Creative Writing Market: Studies and Contemporary Practice in Multiple Genres English 675: Professional Topics in Creative Writing: The Creative Writing Market Writing mentor for Honors 290: Yeager Seminar I: Self & Society (Communication and Political Science) Writing mentor for Honors 291: Yeager Seminar II: Math & Art: A Love/Hate Relationship (Math and Art) Writing mentor for Honors 292: Yeager Seminar III: The Natural History & Eradication of Small Pox (Anthropology and Biology) Writing mentor for Honors 293: Yeager Seminar IV: Alchemy & Human Growth (Religious Studies and Philosophy) Ohio University English 151: Writing & Rhetoric English 153: Writing/Reading Special Topics English 306J: Women & Writing English 363: Creative Writing: Nonfiction T.A. for English 251: English Literature to 1688 Georgia College & State University English 1101: English Composition English 1102: English Composition II English 2110: World Literature

3 Rachael Peckham Page 3 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Departmental: Faculty Advisor, Et Cetera, Marshall University, 2009-present. Oversee and advise students on all aspects of the promotion and publication of the magazine. Coordinator, A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series, Marshall University, Fall 2012-Spring Contact and invite writers to visit campus; apply for funding through grants and contests at the university, state, and national-levels; conduct fundraising in the community; schedule class visits, craft talks, and public readings; collaborate with other departments, programs, and organizations on campus and in the community; coordinate student and faculty volunteer activities; prepare press releases and publicize the series on campus and in the community through print and broadcast media. Faculty Mentoring & Support Committee, Fall 2013-Spring Offers confidential and non-evaluative support and mentorship for any faculty member, tenure eligible or not, full to part-time, tenured or not. Mentors set up meetings with mentees; plan and offer workshops on matters of professional development; guide mentees through review processes; offer classroom observations; and offer a safe space to hear all other professionally-related concerns. Peer Observation of Teaching, Marshall University, February 26, Peer Observation of Teaching, Marshall University, October 14, Peer Observation of Teaching, Marshall University, March 5, Chair's Advisory Committee, Fall 2012-Spring T.A. Teaching Observation, Marshall University, November 7, Graduate Fair, Marshall University, October 24, Events Planning Committee, Marshall University, Fall 2011-Spring Graduate Program Committee, Marshall University, Fall 2011-Spring 2012.

4 Rachael Peckham Page 4 Interim Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, Marshall University, Fall 2010-Spring Chaired the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee; executed the decisions recommended by the committee and approved by the voting faculty in revising and implementing a new core curriculum for the English Major. Peer Observation of Teaching, Marshall University, November 15, Majors, Minors & More Event, Marshall University, September 29, First-Year Writing Committee, Marshall University, Spring Graduate Program Committee, Marshall University, Spring University: Academic Appeals Hearing Panel, Fall 2014-Spring S.C.O.R.E.S. Academic Festival, Marshall University, April 5, College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee, Faculty Advisor, Glee Club, Marshall University, 2009-present. Oversee and advise students on organizing and promoting the Glee Club. Birke Fine Arts Symposium Planning Committee, Fall 2012-Spring Plan and coordinate all aspects of the themed, multidisciplinary six-week long festival featuring a multitude of visiting artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and actors. Yeager Application Review, Marshall University, Spring Read and rated applications to the Yeager Society of Scholars. Workshop Leader, Birke Fine Arts Symposium: Veterans Tell Their Stories, Marshall University, Staff Editor, New Ohio Review (/NOR), Ohio University, Read and evaluated creative nonfiction submissions. Student Coordinator, Dogwood Bloom Graduate Student Reading Series, Ohio University, Planned, advertised, and facilitated quarterly readings that showcase graduate students' creative writing. Student Coordinator, Hope College Visiting Writers Series, Hope College,

5 Rachael Peckham Page 5 Professional: Assisted in the planning of the reading series; delivered introductions on stage; facilitated the "After-words" discussions; hosted receptions held in honor of the writers; visited classrooms on campus to promote the series and publicize upcoming readings. President, West Virginia Association of College English Teachers (WVACET), Spring 2010-Fall Presided over the organization and coordinated its fall and spring conferences. Writing Contest Judge, "AWP Intro Awards,"Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, Substitute Teacher, Intermediate School District, Hillsdale, MI, Student Intern, The Daily Reporter, Coldwater, MI, Staff Editor, Opus, Hope College, AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS Finalist, National Poetry Series Competition, Finalist in the TQ4 Open Prose Contest at Tupelo Quarterly, Cited for a "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays 2012, ed. Robert Atwan (Mariner Books, 2012). Love of Learning Award, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, nd Place, Women Who Write International Poetry & Short Prose Contest, Winner of the Marshall University Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award, Winner of the Robert Watson Poetry Award, Spring Garden Press, Finalist in the Inkwell Poetry Competition, Creative Nonfiction nominee for the AWP Intro Awards, Ohio University, Winner of the Briar Cliff Review Nonfiction Contest, 2006.

6 Rachael Peckham Page 6 Ohio University Stipend Enhancement Award, Flannery O Connor Scholarship, Georgia College & State University, Hope College Alumni Honors Scholarship, Finalist in the Women s Issues Organization Annual Gender Issues Paper Contest, Co-winner of the Mary Van Tamelen Prize for Creativity in the Arts, Co-winner of the Clarence De Graaf English Award, Elected member of the scholastic honorary society, Phi Beta Kappa, Finalist in the 20 th Annual Howard Plaggemars Essay/Poetry Competition, Erika Brubaker (Class of 1992) Award for Promising Achievements in the Study of Literature, PUBLICATIONS Scholarship: "The Elephants Evaluate: Some Notes on the Problem of Grades in Graduate Creative Writing Programs." Composition Studies (Fall 2011). "Identity Anxiety and the Problem and Power of Naming in African American and Jewish American Literature." Xavier Review (Fall 2009). Creative Nonfiction: "Graven Images." Southern Indiana Review. (Forthcoming.) "You Won't Recognize Yourself." Emerge Literary Journal. (Forthcoming.) "Navigating with Harriet Quimby." Phi Kappa Phi Forum (Summer 2014). "Digging Myself a Little Hole." Calliope: 17th Annual Anthology of Women Who Write (November 2012). "Beside Sam." Hotel Amerika (Summer 2012). "On Wayne Street." Under the Sun: A Journal of Creative Non-fiction (Summer 2012).

7 Rachael Peckham Page 7 "Happy Dodransbicentennial, Pridgeon Farms." Cappers (January/February 2012). "Grandpa Finds Fortune After All." Michigan Farmer (October 2011). "Apple, Daydream, Memory." Under the Sun: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction (Fall 2011). "Taps, or Some Notes on Summer Camp." DIAGRAM (Spring 2010) "Of Saints and Neighbors: The Pathology of Ray." Oxford Magazine (Summer 2008). "Appeal." So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art (Spring/Summer 2007). "On Calluses." Passages North (Winter/Spring 2007). "Weather." Briar Cliff Review (2006). "On the Origin of Sausage." Brevity: The Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction (Fall 2006). "So You Grew Up on a Farm? (A Conversation in Ten Parts)." Southeast Review (Fall 2006). "Six Movements in the Career of a Lifeguard." Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts (Fall 2004). Prose Poetry: "Life Flight." Storm Cellar: A Literary Arts Magazine (forthcoming). "Fields of Vision: Selected Prose Poems." Tupelo Quarterly (July 2014). Muck Fire. Spring Garden Press (2011). "Heirlooms." Stone Highway Review (June 2012). "Proof." Dos Passos Review (Fall 2011). "Ew(e)." Dos Passos Review (Fall 2011). "Fugue for the Fair: Part I." EDGE (Fall 2011). "Fugue for the Fair: Part II." EDGE (Fall 2011). "Fugue for the Fair: Part III." EDGE (Fall 2011).

8 Rachael Peckham Page 8 "C-Section in Renaissance Center." South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art Online (Spring 2010). "Muck Fire." South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art Online (Spring 2010). "Rendering." South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art Online (Spring 2010). "Third Degree." SENTENCE. (Fall 2009). "Pigtails." Inkwell (Spring 2008). "Autobiography: Exhibited." Oxford Magazine (Summer 2008). "Stealth." Gander Press Review (Fall 2008). "Dry." Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (Winter/Spring 2006). "Hired Hand." Dos Passos Review (Spring 2005). Anthologies: "Burnett's Roots." New from the Midwest: Poetry. New American Press (forthcoming). "Heirlooms." New from the Midwest: Poetry. New American Press (forthcoming). "Moreen's Confession." New from the Midwest: Poetry. New American Press (forthcoming). A Lesson in Merging. Southern Sin, ed. Lee Gutkind and Beth Ann Fennelly. Pittsburgh, PA: In Fact Books, Moreen s Confession. Not Somewhere Else but Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place, ed. Erin Elizabeth Smith. Knoxville, TN: Sundress Publications, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Scholarly / Pedagogical: "Take this Compass: An Essay in Digression." West Virginia Association of College English Teachers (WVACET). Montgomery, West Virginia, November "The Elephants Evaluate: Some Notes on the Problem of Grades in Graduate Creative Writing Programs." West Virginia Association of College English Teachers (WVACET). West Liberty, West Virginia, October 2010.

9 Rachael Peckham Page 9 "The Contradiction of Containment/A Containment of Contradictions: The Curious State and Site of the Prose Poem." Defining the New: Experiments and Innovations in English Studies. Athens, Ohio, October "From Where the Watchers Wait: A Reading of Creative Nonfiction." West Virginia Association of College English Teachers (WVACET). West Liberty, West Virginia, April "Of Saints & Neighbors: Revisiting the Pathology of Ray, Indiana." The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since Louisville, Kentucky, February "Identity Anxiety and the Problem and Power of Naming in African American and Jewish American Literature." Midwestern Conference on Language, Literature and Media (MCLLM). DeKalb, Illinois, February, "Of Saints and Neighbors: The Pathology of Ray." Religion and Literature Forum. Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, April, Participant (and group facilitator in 2007) in the Pedagogy Forum and contributor to the AWP Collection of Pedagogy Papers. Associated Writing Programs Conference, "Material Autobiography: A Tour of the Wing House." Arts & Humanities Student Colloquium. Hope College, Public Readings: Loyal Jones Appalachian Center Community Writers Workshops & Readings, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, Black Sheep Reading Series. Huntington, West Virginia, An Evening with English: A Faculty Reading & Reception. Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, College of Liberal Arts Celebration of Faculty Authors & Award Winners. Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, Writer's Harvest. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Visiting Writers Series. Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, Dogwood Bloom Graduate Reading Series. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Creative Writing Student Reading for the nominees of the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Intro Awards. Georgia College & State University, 2003.

10 Rachael Peckham Page 10 REFERENCES Dr. Jane Hill, English Department Chair Full Professor of English 344 Corbly Hall Marshall University Huntington, WV (304) Dinty W. Moore, Director of Creative Writing Full Professor of English 353 Ellis Hall Ohio University Athens, OH (740) Dr. Martin Lammon, Fuller E. Callaway/Flannery O'Connor Chair in Creative Writing Associate Professor of English Campus Box 44 Georgia College & State University Milledgeville, GA (478) Dr. Catherine Taylor Associate Professor of English 412 Smiddy Hall Ithaca, NY (607)