Curriculum Vita
Charles J. Carlise, Jr.
chuckcarlise@hotmail.com
EDUCATION
PhD in Literature and Creative Writing University of Houston: 2012M.A. in English (Creative Writing Emphasis) University of California at Davis: 2003
B.A. in English Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH: 1999
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Santa Cruz (2012)
Lecturer, Merrill College Merril 80 – “Cultural Identities & Global Consciousness” (*note: responsibilities included training first-time TAs and coordinating undergraduate Writing Tutors)
University of Houston (2007-12)
Teaching Fellow Senior Honors Thesis (committee member) Creative Writing Workshop “Multi-Genre Workshop” Literature & Culture: “The Beat Generation & American Culture” Introduction to Drama Introduction to Poetry Composition II: Rhetoric & Argument Composition I: Expository Writing Tutor: UH Writing Center Writing Tutor Small Group Composition Tutor (in coordination with HRMA program) Teaching Assistant: UH College of Technology Master’s Thesis Workshop
Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth (2006-07)
Online Writing Instructor “Crafting the Essay”
University of California, Santa Cruz (2004)
Lecturer, Porter College Porter 80 – “Art in a Multi-Cultural Society” (*note: responsibilities included training first-time TAs)
University of California, Davis (2001-03)
Teaching Fellow Introduction to Literary Criticism: “Foundations: Plato to Wilde” Topics in Literature: “The 20th Century Novel” Introduction to Poetry & Poetics Creative Writing Workshop: “Poetry” Humanities I: “Gender & Genesis” Humanities I: “The Divine Comedy” Humanities I: “The Year 1968”
COMMUNITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
BoldFACE Writer’s Conference, Houston, TX (2010-11)
Instructor: Non-Fiction Workshop: “Finding the Heartbeat” Instructor: Poetry Workshop: “Learning Your Own Voice” (*note: conference serves primarily post-baccalaureate/pre-MFA writers)Summer Creative Writing Workshops, Houston, TX (2009-11)
Writer-Teacher: Creative Writing
Writers in the Schools (WITS), Houston Independent School District (2007-12)
Writer-Teacher: Creative Writing
Lawrence (KS) Public Schools (2004)
Writer-in-Residence: Creative Writing
PUBLICATIONS
Poetry Chapbooks
A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs (Concrete Wolf, 2011)
Casual Insomniac (Bateau, 2011)
Books on Pedagogy
Starting to Learn the Question: A Training Manual for Teachers
(commissioned by Writers in the Schools for national distribution within WITS Alliance, 2011)Poems in Anthologies
Best New Poets 2012 - “A Compendium of Photographs: l’Inconnue de la Seine” (University of Virginia Press, p.27-35)
Poems in Journals
Whiskey Island – “Let Me Tell You a True Story” (forthcoming)
Iron Horse Literary Review – “A Dozen Riders Arrive on the Binghamton Greyhound” (14.2: National Poetry Month 2012, p.3)
Gigantic Sequins – “The Subject in Context” (3.1: Winter 2011, p.9)
minnesota review – “Antiphony” (77: Winter 2011, p.27)
minnesota review – “One Reason I Don’t Believe in Hell” (77: Winter 2011, p.25-26)
Southeast Review – “Street Ghazal” (Contest Finalist; 29.1: Winter 2011, p.20)
American Literary Review – “Questions for the Paris Morgue, 1880” (22.1: Spring 2011, p.49-50)
Southeast Review – “What the City Knows” (28.2: Fall 2010, p.8-9)
DIAGRAM – “A Death Mask is a Way to Perpetuate the Transitory” (10.3: Summer 2010)
Hayden’s Ferry Review – “Nudie Photo Hunt” (46: Summer 2010, p.155)
Hayden’s Ferry Review – “Across the Aisle, the Highway Beats as Loud” (46: Summer 2010, p.154)
Quarterly West – “Mechanics” (68: Spring/Summer 2009, p.68)
Confrontation – “Where We Are, Where We Are Not” (105/106: Winter 2009/Spring 2010, p.270)
Fourteen Hills – “Katie Calls on an Evening I Am Not Expecting” (16.1: Spring 2010, p.14-15)
Southern Review – “Certainty of Repetition” (45.4: Autumn 2009, p.716)
Cimarron Review – “Proximity to What Comes Next” (167: Spring 2009, p.10-11)
Beloit Poetry Journal – “Breaking Up With Katie Over 8000 Miles” (59.3: Spring 2009, p.33)
Harpur Palate – “After Buying Lunch for a Girl My Age Who I Met on a Greyhound Bus an Hour Ago” (6.2: Winter 2007, p.98)
Red Rock Review – “Night Binghamton” (18: Winter 2006, p.68)
Red Rock Review – “The Edge of Sleep” (18: Winter 2006, p.69-70)
Maverick Magazine – “A Framework” (12: Winter 2005)
Poet Lore – “We Name These Things Ourselves” (99.3/4: Fall/Winter 2004, p.43)
Poet Lore – “What Follows” (99.3/4: Fall/Winter 2004, p.90)
Skidrow Penthouse – “Tuesday” (6: Spring 2004, p.190-191)
Adagio Verse Quarterly – “Andy and I Share a Smoke” (Summer 2004)
Adagio Verse Quarterly – “Omaha Transfer” (Summer 2004)
Adagio Verse Quarterly – “My Father Outlives His Father in Years” (Summer 2004)
Rearview Quarterly – “Showing My Girlfriend a Photo of the House My Parents Wanted to Build” (2.1: Spring 2003, p.14)
Wittenberg Review – “Something in Memory” (26: 1998, p.14-16)
Wittenberg Review – “This Morning” (26: 1998, p.32-33)
Creative Non-Fiction
Gulf Coast, Online – “Making Sense of Things” (April 2012)
Pleiades – “A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs” (31.1: Winter 2011, p.68-74)
Pebble Lake Review – “Bosnia by Bus, 2004” (5.2: Spring 2008)
Interviews Conducted
Gulf Coast – Chuck Klosterman, “Do You Think We’ll Be Able to Love Again?” (22.1: Spring 2010, p.224-34)
Interviews Given
“The Front Row”: KUHF 88.7 FM. Interview and Reading. Houston, TX (2008)
Academic Essays
American Library Encyclopedia of Beat Literature. K. Hemmer, ed. Facts on File: four entries (2006)
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Jay Parini, ed. Oxford Press: three entries (2004)
AWARDS / RECOGNITION
2013
Phillip Levine Book Prize in Poetry, Anhinga Press: short-list Finalist (Judge: Cornelius Eady) Colorado Prize for Poetry, University of Colorado Press: Finalist (Judge: Stephen Burt) Brittingham and Pollak Book Prizes in Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press: Semi-Finalist2012
Best New Poets 2012 InPrint/Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry (Judge: Matthew Dickman) Iron Horse, National Poetry Month Issue2011
Pushcart Prize Nomination (six poems nominated) Bateau Press “Boom Chapbook Contest” Winner (Casual Insomniac) Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series (A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs) Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series, Finalist (Proximity to What Comes Next) Carson McCullers Center, “Smith Writing Fellowship” First Runner-Up Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Residency Fellowship Semifinalist UH Dissertation Completion Grant, C.L.A.S.S., CWP Nominee UH Teaching Excellence Award: First-Year Composition, Finalist Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, Poetry Prize InPrint Writing Fellowship2010
Omnidawn Chapbook Contest, Finalist (A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs) Omnidawn Chapbook Contest, Finalist (Proximity to What Comes Next) Southeast Review Poetry Contest, Finalist Tin House Summer Writing Workshop, Scholarship Award The Pinch Poetry Contest, Finalist Phoebe/Greg Grummer Poetry Contest, Finalist (two poems recognized) Summer Literary Seminars, Scholarship Award Squaw Valley Writers Workshops, Scholarship Award St. Petersburg Review International Poetry Contest, Finalist2009
Phoebe/Greg Grummer Poetry Contest, Finalist (two poems recognized) Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, Finalist2008
Wildacres Retreat, NC, Residency Fellowship Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, AR, Residency Fellowship Indiana Review Open Poetry Contest, Semi-Finalist Nimrod Open Poetry Contest, Semi-Finalist2007
InPrint Writing Fellowship Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fellowship2004
Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition, Honorable Mention Adagio Verse Quarterly, Editor’s Choice Award ByLine Magazine Winter Poetry Contest, 2nd Place ByLine Magazine Free Verse Poetry Contest, 3rd Place2003
New Letters Poetry Prize, First Runner-Up (Judge: Albert Goldbarth) Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Award (Academy of American Poets) University of California “Poet Laureate Award” Honorable Mention1999
Wittenberg University Poetry Award Sherwood Anderson Award for Fiction, Wittenberg University Ostrum Award for Expository Writing, Wittenberg University Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society, Wittenberg University Phi Sigma Tau National Philosophy Honor Society, Wittenberg University
EDITORIAL and OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Tin House Summer Workshop, Portland, OR (with D. A. Powell) (2010)
Non-Fiction Editor, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts (2008-10)
Writer-in-Residence, “Wildacres Retreat,” Wildacres, NC (2008)
Writer-in-Residence, “Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow,” AR (2008)
Nebraska Summer Writer’s Conference, Lincoln, NE (with Kim Addonizio) (2008)
UH Studio Series Residency: with Lisa Lewis (2008)
Reader, Fiction and Poetry, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts (2007-11)
UH Studio Series Residency: with Maurice Manning (2007)
Tin House Summer Workshop/Mentorship, Portland, OR (with Nick Flynn) (2006)
Poet-in-Residence, Lawrence Public School System, Lawrence, KS (2004)
Babilonia Language School, student, Taormina, Italy (2003)
Senior Editor, Swan Scythe Press Poetry Chapbook Competition (2002, 2003)
“Talking to the Animals” Group Study, UCDavis Nature & Culture Center (2002)
Witt Series Writing Residency: with Martin Lamon (1999)
Editor in Chief, Wittenberg Review of Literature and Art (1999)
SERVICE / TRAINING
Curriculum Development, UH Center for Teaching Excellence (2011-12)
Advisor, Senior Honors Theses, UH Creative Writing Program (2011-12)
Pedagogy Presentation and Panel, UH Teaching Conference (2011)
Training Seminar for Teachers (facilitator) WITS, Houston, TX (2011)
Elected CWP Graduate Student Representative, Univ. of Houston (2008-10)
CWP Faculty Hiring Committee, Univ. of Houston (2008-10)
Development Intern, University of Houston Writing Center (2008)
Board of Directors, “The Next Word Literary Center,” Portland, OR (2005-07)
Judge, Ina Coldbarth Memorial Prize for Poetry, Davis, CA (2003)
READINGS, LECTURES and PRESENTATIONS
*Lectures and Papers Presented
“Debates & Dry-Runs: Teaching Composition by Not Teaching Composition” University of Houston, Teaching Conference, Houston, TX (2011) “Tiny Beautiful Things: Teaching the Four-Part Writing Lesson” WITS Fall Writer’s Training, Houston, TX (2011) “Thresholds & Collisions: Toward Urgency in Poetry Writing” University of Houston, Guest Lecture/Craft Talk, Houston, TX (2011) “Let Me Tell You a Little About Me: Narcissism, Non-Fiction & Finding a Story to Tell” BoldFACE Writer’s Conference, Craft Talk, Houston, TX (2011) “This Exact Spot in Space: Lyric, Fragmentia, & the Poem as Constellation” BoldFACE Writer’s Conference, Craft Talk, Houston, TX (2010) “The Best Minds of Whose Generation?: Relevance & the Beats in the 21st Century” Wittenberg University, Guest Lecture, Springfield, OH (2004) “Rebellion, the Dead, & the Culture of Cool: Counterculture & Credibility in America” Southwest/Texas Pop Culture & American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Albequerque, NM (2002) “De-Composing Naomi: Grief & Resolution in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Kaddish’” National Undergraduate Literature Conference, Ogden, UT (1999)
*Selected Poetry/Literary Readings
Poetry Night, Featured Reader, Bellingham, WA (2012)
InPrint Prize Winners Reading. Houston, TX (2012)
This is Beautiful, This is Beautiful: Six Small Presses. Simone’s, Chicago, IL (2012)
Word for Word Series (with Kevin Prufer and Edward Porter). 14 Pews, Houston, TX (2011)
BoldFACE Faculty Reading (with Rebecca Wadlinger). Honors College, M.D. Anderson Library, Houston, TX (2011)
Gulf Coast Reading Series, (with Ryler Dustin and Quincy Flowers). Brazo’s Bookstore, Houston, TX (2011)
BoldFACE Faculty Reading (with Adam Peterson). Honors College, M.D. Anderson Library, Houston, TX (2010)
Poison Pen Reading Series: Gulf Coast Editors’ Reading. Poison Girl. Houston, TX (2009)
Poison Pen Reading Series (with Michael Dumanis). Poison Girl. Houston, TX (2009)
Dairy Hollow Fellows Reading. Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR (2008)
Poison Pen Reading Series: Gulf Coast Editors’ Reading. Poison Girl. Houston, TX (2008)
KUHF 88.7 FM, “The Front Row” Interview and Reading. Houston, TX (2008)
Gulf Coast Reading Series (with Jeanine Walker and David Lombardi). Brazo’s Bookstore, Houston, TX (2008)
Alberta Street Readers, (with Arlo Voorhies). Alberta Street Public House, Portland, OR (2007)
Bold-Sky Poetry Series (with Brittany Baldwin). Bold-Sky Café, Portland, OR (2006)
Poet-in-Residence Readings. Various locations, Lawrence, KS (2004)
Winter Reading Series (with Kirsten Lundstrum and Christien Gholson). Café Roma, Davis, CA (2003)
Winter Reading Series (with Mark Pearson and Jodi Angel). Café Roma, Davis, CA (2002)
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Field Manager, Working America (2006) Training and campaign coordination during 2006 mid-term elections Portland, OR
Assistant Director, Fund for Public Interest Research (2005) Hiring, training, and supervision of sixty-member staff and $450,000 budget Portland, OR
Housemaster/Instructor, Summer Institute for the Gifted (1999-2004) Residential director of forty high school boys; training and coordination for staff of six counselors; primary instructor for four academic courses/session Various campuses
REFERENCES
References available upon request
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