Sandra L. Giles Vita Work Address: Department of Literature and Language School of Liberal Arts Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Tifton, GA 31793 229-391-4961 sgiles@abac.edu EDUCATION PhD in English (Creative Writing and Composition/Rhetoric), 2008, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida MA in English, 1991, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia BA in English, 1989, Valdosta State University AA in English, 1987, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, Georgia TEACHING EXPERIENCE Creative Nonfiction Writing (Writing the Rural Life) Fiction Writing Introduction to Creative Writing (Multi-Genre) Literary Magazine Production Capstone/Senior Project (Rural Studies Writing and Communication) Professional Writing/Business Writing World Literature II and III (incl. III Honors) American Literature II Composition I and II (incl. II Honors) Freshman Learning Communities Learning Support/Remedial English I and II Freshman Seminar TEACHING POSITIONS--PRESENT Professor of English Fall 1997-Spring 2000, Fall 2003-Present, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC), Tifton, Georgia
Online English Instructor Fall 2013-Present, University System of Georgia s ecore (administered through the University of West Georgia, Carrollton) TEACHING POSITIONS--PAST Teaching Assistant, English Fall 2000-Summer 2003, Department of English, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Full-Time Temporary Instructor of English Fall 1991-Spring 1992, Fall 1993-Summer 1997, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia Part-Time Instructor of English Fall 1992-Summer 1993, Valdosta State University TEACHING AWARDS W. Bruce and Rosalyn Ray Donaldson Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, 2012 ABAC Nominee for Georgia Governor s Teaching Fellows, 2009 Robert O. Lawton Award for Excellence in Teaching First-Year Writing, Spring 2002, English Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida CERTIFICATION Online Teaching Certification, University System of Georgia s ecore, July 2013 SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Creative Nonfiction Publications/Awards Review of Rick Bragg s The Most They Ever Had. Pegasus 41 (Spring 2014): 75. He Said He d Be There, First Place, Inspirational Writing, Southeastern Writers Association, 2013. Saddlebags and Circuit Riders, Second Place, Cappy Award for Humor, Southeastern Writers Association, 2013. Consider the Seeds, Tifton Gazette 20 December 2012: 6A. Defining Creative Nonfiction. Purple Pros 21.8 (August 2012): southeasternwriters.org. Review of Terri Cheney's Manic: A Memoir. Pegasus (Spring 2011): 72. 13 in 1980, Writer Advice, January-March 2011: writeradvice.com/reader.html.
They Get Mad When You Save Yourself, Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings Nonfiction Contest, Winter 2009. The Mediums, Their Message, On Writing: A Process Reader. Ed. Wendy Bishop. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004. 289-93. Fiction Publications/Awards Rawhead and Bloody Bones. Rose Red Review 6 (Autumn 2013): roseredreview.org/2013-autumn-sandra-giles/. The Unicorn, Third Place, G.T. Youngblood Short Fiction Award, Southeastern Writers Association, 2012. Cowboy Boots, Wilderness House Literary Review 6.2 (Summer 2011): www.whlreview.com. Review of Earnest Gaines s Mozart and Leadbelly: Essays and Stories. Dead Tree Notes (Spring 2007): 1-2. Review of Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur s Discovering The World: Thirteen Stories. Southeast Review 22.2 (Spring 2003): 142-4. Poetry Crossing the Fall Line, First Memory, and At the Aquarium, Shout Them From the Mountaintops II: Georgia Poems and Stories. Eds. Jean B. Copland, et al. GCTAE: Legacy Press, 2012. 148-9. After Mowing, Pegasus 31 (Spring 2004): 8. Photography St. Simons Island #1 and St. Simons #2. Rose Red Review 6 (Autumn 2013): roseredreview.org/2013-autumn-lynne-williams/ and roseredreview.org/2013- autumn-ken-poyner/. Pedagogical Publications Co-Authored with Tom C. Hunley. Rhetorical Pedagogy in A Guide to Creative Writing Pedagogies, eds. Tom C. Hunley and Alexandria Peary. Forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press Winter 2015. "Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?" Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Vol. 1. Eds. Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2010. 191-204. Also available at writingspaces.org. Reading and Writing in Bad Decline? Creative Writing and the AWP Conference 2007, Blackwater Reflections 2.1 (October 2007): 2. More Than Just the Pedagogy, Blackwater Reflections 1.1 (October 2006): 6.
Co-Authored with Tom C. Hunley. What To Do When You re Not Really New, Feeling Our Way: A Writing Teacher s Sourcebook. Eds. Wendy Bishop and Deborah Coxwell-Teague. Houghton-Mifflin, 2004. 18-29. Letter to the Reader: An Assignment in Metacognition, Pedagogy Papers 2004. Associated Writing Programs. Spring 2004-Spring 2005: awpwriter.org. Conference Presentations Panel Discussion, Rural Studies Roundtable, Georgia Museum of Agriculture, Tifton, Georgia, 14 November 2012. Co-Presented with Jeff Newberry and C.D. Mitchell. Literary Magazine Pedagogy, Other Words: A Conference of the Florida Literary Arts Coalition, St. Augustine, Florida, November 6, 2010. Co-Presented with Jana Williams and Mike Williams. Recess For Writers: Playing with Language and Laughter, Student Success In First-Year Composition Conference, Statesboro, Georgia, February 4, 2005. Generative Forms for Prose Writing: The Greeks Invented That Wheel, Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, Texas, March 24-7, 2004. Using Process Memos To Respond to Student Writing, Responding to Creative Writing. Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, February 26-March 1, 2003. Recent Seminars and Workshops Thriller 101: Horror Writing, Moultrie-Colquitt County Library, 26 October 2013 How to Make Memoirs More Than Just Mem ries, Sunbelt Writers Association, Moultrie-Colquitt County Public Library, Moultrie, Georgia, 18 August 2012 ABAC Center for Teaching and Learning workshop (as member of Faculty Learning Community) Alternatives to Quizzes, 28 March 2011 ABAC Center for Teaching and Learning workshop Reflection, Self-Assessment, and the Learning Process 27 Sept 2010 Pegasus Literary Magazine workshop on Prose Writing, 24 Feb 2010 and 4 March 2009 Literary Readings and Other Speaking Engagements Featured Reader (with Brian Ray, Erin Campbell, Peter Pinnow) during Reader s Theatre: Literature and the King James Bible during Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible, Tifton-Tift County Public Library, 5 May 2013 Alumni Address at ABAC Freshman Convocation, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, 12 August 2012. Available on YouTube.com
Read original flash nonfiction 13 in 1980, Love Affair Fine Arts Festival Jazz and Poetry Café, Tifton, Georgia, 29 April 2011 Read original short fiction The Hardest Part for Lunch N Learn series, Tift Public Library, 2 July 2010 Read original flash fiction Cowboy Boots Love Affair Fine Arts Festival, Tifton, Georgia, May 2010 Read original creative nonfiction They Get Mad When You Save Yourself ABAC Writers Harvest, 29 October 2009 Read original creative nonfiction Soldiers Love Affair Fine Arts Festival, Tifton, Georgia, 1 May 2009 Read from original novel, The Eight Of Swords, George Scott Day Celebration of Arts and Humanities, ABAC, 13 April 2006 Read from original creative nonfiction They Get Mad When You Save Yourself George Scott Day, ABAC, 21 April 2005 Read original short fiction, Love and Madness, during Florida State University s Warehouse Readings Series, Tallahassee, Florida, 10 September 2002 SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Board of Directors, Secretary/Registrar, Southeastern Writers Association, Summer 2014-Present Teacher-Consultant for the Blackwater Writing Project, a unit of the National Writing Project through Valdosta State University, Fall 1999-Spring 2013 E-Responder for National Writing Project s E-Anthology, June 2011 SELECTED SERVICE TO INSTITUTION AND COMMUNITY Coordinator, Oral History Workshop in conjunction with Lewis Hine/Young Family Exhibit, Georgia Museum of Agriculture, 15 March 2014 Coordinator, Back Roads of Georgia Creative Nonfiction Contest, Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Tifton-Tift County Arts Council, Summer-Fall 2013 Guest Lecturer, Julie Rucker s Tift County High School Sophomore World Literature Class, ABAC Takes Over TCHS Day, 19 February 2014 Tifton-Tift County Arts Council, Summer 2013-Present Founder, Tiftarea Writers Haven, Summer 2005-Fall 2008 Chair, Stafford School of Business Promotion and Tenure Committee, Fall 2013 School of Liberal Arts and Dept. of Literature and Language Promotion and Tenure Committees, Fall 2013 and Fall 2010 Chair, College-wide Promotion and Tenure Committee, Spring 2013 Chair, Humanities Division Promotion and Tenure Committee, Fall 2008 Chair, Search Committee for Department Chair, Literature and Language, Spring 2014
Chair, Search Committee for English Faculty, Summer 2014 Chair, English Search Committee, Spring 2008 Selection Committee for Carson Lanier Service Award for Staff Excellence, Spring 2014 College-wide Curriculum Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 CTL Faculty Learning Community, Fall 2010 with presentation Alternatives to Quizzes in Literature Classes, 28 March 2011 President s Team on Professional Development and Engagement, Spring 2008 Faculty Senate, Fall 2006-Spring 2008, and Sub-Committee on Student Evaluations, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Chair, Professional and Creative Writing Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2012 Co-Chair, Sophomore Literature Committee, Fall 2012-Spring 2013 Co-Chair, department Faculty Success Committee, Spring 2012 Committee to design and propose 4-year Bachelor s Degree in English, Fall 2010 Chair, Committee to design the Writing and Communication track for the Rural Studies Bachelor s Degree, Fall 2009 Chair, First-Year Writing Committee, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 Academic Advising, Fall 1998-Spring 2000, Fall 2003-Present Faculty Co-Advisor, Pegasus Student Literary Magazine, Fall 1998-Spring 2000, Spring 2009-Present Co-Coordinator of the Conference of the College Literary Magazine Association, April 13, 2007 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers NCTE (National Council for Teachers of English) Southeastern Writers Association Phi Kappa Phi RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE Technical Writer/Editor Goldleaf Technologies, Inc., Hahira, Georgia, June 1992-August 1993. Responsibilities included the following: Writing and/or editing, overseeing production of technical documentation (computer manuals, workshop and seminar manuals) Serving as contributing editor for the Goldleaf Exchange (newsletter) Designing, composing, and producing marketing materials (press releases, brochures, announcements, fliers) Teaching in-house seminars on writing skills and on training techniques
Paralegal Morris and Webster Law Firm, Tifton, Georgia, Summers of 1989 and 1990. Responsibilities included the following: Acting as Paralegal in the areas of Criminal Law and in Workers Compensation, Insurance, and Personal Injury Law Conducting legal research and composing briefs Composing deposition and transcript summaries Assisting lawyers in court