Lasek 1 CHRISTINE MAURA LASEK christine@christinemlasek.com http://www.christinemlasek.com/ Twitter: @cmlasek EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts, Fiction University of South Florida, Tampa, FL April 2014 Online Instructor Certification May 2015 Bachelor of Arts degree, English University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI April 2003 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Academic Professional Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA January 2016 to Present Assistant to the Creative Writing Program Director Creative Writing Department at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL August 2014 to December 2015 Visiting Instructor University of South Florida, Tampa, FL August 2014 to December 2015 Creative Writing Program Assistant Creative Writing Department at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL August 2011 to May 2014 Graduate Assistant University of South Florida, Tampa, FL August 2011 to April 2014 Writing Center Consultant University of South Florida, Tampa, FL June 2012 to May 2013 BOOK PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming April 2016: Love Letters to Michigan from ELJ Publications FICTION PUBLICATIONS The Makeshift Carrier from The Magnolia Review 1:2 The Magnolia Review, 14 July 2015. Web. Retrieved from: https://themagnoliareview.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/tmrvolume-1-issue-2-july-20151.pdf
Lasek 2 I Don t Belong Here. Coe Review 45:2 (2015): 85-102. Print. Precious Blood. Sierra Nevada Review 25 (2014): 71-81. Print. The Elephant Motif. Coal City Review 32 (2013): 46-52. Print. Reaching Imago. The Bear River Review, an Anthology of Poetry and Prose by Bear River Writers 2010 (2011): 83-89. Print. A Biography in the Style of Ann Beattie. Pearl Literary Magazine 42 (2010): 42-44. Print. NONFICTION PUBLICATIONS Worm Soup. VIA: Voices in Italian Americana 25-1 (2014): 77-80. Print. A Sweet Birthday (interview). Brevity s Nonfiction Blog. Dinty Moore: 12 Nov. 2013. Web. Retrieved from: http://brevity.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/a-sweet-birthday/ Smells Like Moss Man. Tampa Review Online Issue 8. Tampa Review Online, 1 Aug. 2013. Web. Retrieved from http://tampareviewonline.org/non-fiction/smells-like-moss-man/ Champion of Detroit s Arts Scene (interview). The Clever Title: The Creative Writing World Made Small. Ira Sukrungruang: 14 Jan. 2013. Web. Retrieved from http://theclevertitlebookreviews.blogspot.com/2013/01/champion-of-detroits-artsscene.html Fertility Goddess. The Tripod Cat. The Tripod Cat: 1 Aug. 2012. Web. Retrieved from https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tripod-cat-journal/id549824183?mt=2&ignmpt=uo%3d4 COURSES TAUGHT Composition I Students wrote three essays, each with three drafts, and all grading was completed using My Reviewers, a document management system and e-learning environment, which has received national recognition by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Narration and Description: Introduction to Creative Writing Students completed a fiction project, a nonfiction project, and a poetry project, as well as several short in-class writing assignments and participated in one small group workshop and one whole class workshop. Form and Technique of Fiction Students studied fiction forms such as flash, graphic narrative, and epistolary fiction, among others and completed two fiction projects, as well as several short in-class writing
Lasek 3 assignments. Students also completed a Literary Magazine Presentation project, in which they chose one literary journal, read several issues, created an informational handout, and gave a 3-5 minute presentation about the magazine to the class. For the final submission project, students researched literary magazines, chose one, and readied one revised short story for submission, including crafting a cover letter and a short author bio. Each student also had two opportunities to be workshopped by the whole class. Technical Writing for Health Science Majors Students completed three major projects: an Employment Project, a Case Project, and a Research Project, with the deliverables going through two rounds of review before final submission. The Case Project and the Research Projects were group projects, in which students were responsible for using the skills highlighted in Joanna Wolfe s Team Writing. Students also completed peer reviews on each major project. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Publicity Manager for Southside Buddhist Ira Sukrungruang, Tampa, FL May 2014 to Present Communications Officer SWEET: A Literary Confection (Literary Magazine), Brandon, FL September 2012 to March 2014 Graduate Student Adviser thread: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Inquiry (Literary Magazine), Tampa, FL August 2013 to April 2014 Managing Editor Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art (Literary Magazine), Tampa, FL July 2012 to December 2012 Communications Officer Think Detroit PAL (Police Athletic League), Detroit, MI October 2010 to July 2011 Web Editor Crain s Detroit Business (Crain s Communications), Detroit, MI July 2008 to October 2010 Online News Producer MLive.com (Advance Publications), Ann Arbor, MI July 2006 to June 2008 Web Content Producer WXYZ Channel 7 (an ABC affiliate), Southfield, MI August 2003 to July 2006 AWARDS Estelle J. Zbar Award for Teaching & Academic Excellence in English, 2013 Prairie Center of the Arts Residency, July, 2013
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Lasek 5 CONFERENCE PANELS AND READINGS Publishing Panel School Literary Magazines. Blank Pages University of South Florida Creative Writing Symposium, February 2014 Hear Me Roar: Women Writers on Travel. Blank Pages University of South Florida Creative Writing Symposium, February 2013 Culture Shock: The Writer Abroad. Florida Literary Arts Coalition Other Words Conference, November 2012 Young Adult Literature: Not Just for Young Adults. Blank Pages University of South Florida Creative Writing Symposium, February 2012 Profanity in Literature. Florida Literary Arts Coalition Other Words Conference, November 2011 Echoes. English Graduate Student Association Fall Colloquium, November 2011 AFFILIATIONS Association of Writers & Writing Programs Florida Literary Arts Coalition Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers Modern Language Association University of South Florida English Graduate Student Association May 2012 to May 2013 Secretary
Lasek 6 REFERENCES Rita Ciresi Director of the Creative Writing Program Department of English University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Ave CPR-320 Tampa, FL 33620-5550 rciresi@usf.edu (813) 974-9570 John Henry Fleming Professor Advisory Editor of Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art Department of English University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Ave CPR-318 Tampa, FL 33620-5550 johnfleming@usf.edu (813) 466-0581 Ira Sukrungruang Associate Professor Department of English University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Ave CPR-332 Tampa, FL 33620-5550 isukrung@usf.edu (315) 591-4707