wconnolly@centurytel.net or aconnolly@fontbonne.edu
Education: PhD English, University of Missouri, 2009
MFA Creative Writing, Goddard College, 2002
BA Sociology, University of Winnipeg, 1987
Citizenship: Canadian
Residence: USA, Permanent Resident Status
Dissertation:
The Eight Leaves
Dissertation is a creative nonfiction, or belles-lettres, spiritual
memoir with a critical/theoretical introduction exploring
narratology, mimesis and expressions of the divine. Dissertation
director: Ms Maureen Stanton. Defended: November, 2009.
Publications:
Books – Novels:
The Obituaries. Lake Forest, California: Behler Publications, 2005
The Jenny Muck. Houston, Texas: Panther Creek Press, 2001
“The Strange Loop.” FragLit. Olivia Dresher, ed. Washington. http://www.fraglit.com/. September 2009.
“Twain,” O Tempora Magazine. Nick McRae, ed. Georgia. http://otemporamagazine.blogspot.com/ July 2008.
“Anatomy of a Search,” (a review) Impassioned. Olivia Dresher, ed. Washington. http://www.fraglit.com/impassioned/reviews/reviews-fs.htm?tall.htm&mainframe. June 2008
“Dead Me Scrolls,” Life Writing Connection. Olivia Dresher, ed. Washington. http://fraglit.com/lwc/archives/42 March 2008.
“Tir na Nog,” Halfway Down The Stairs, Stacy Brazalovich, ed. Michigan.http://www.halfwaydownthestairs.net/viewstory.php?storyID=82. March 2008.
“Confession: Lacunae” Copper-Nickel: A Journal of Art and Literature, No 9. Jake Adam York, ed. University of Colorado at Denver: Denver. March 2008.
“In Media Res,” (a review) Impassioned. Olivia Drescher, ed. Washington. http://www.fraglit.com/impassioned/reviews/reviews-fs.htm. March 2008.
“Zugunruhe” Relief. Vol. 1, No. 1. Kimberly Culbertson, ed. Michigan. October 2006.
“The Alphabet of Grace” Rock and Sling. Vol. 2, No. 2. Susan Cowager, ed. Washington. February 2006.
“Thin Place” Catapult Magazine. Vol. 5, No. 9. Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma, ed. <http://www.catapultmagazine.com> January 2006.
“Open Heart” Catapult Magazine. Volume 3, Number 22
“This Must Be The Place” Catapult Magazine. Volume 4, Number 10
“Failure and Hope” Catapult Magazine. Volume 3, Number 11
“Inevitable” Catapult Magazine. Volume 3, Number 10
“Mountains: The Substance of Things Hoped For” Calgary This Winter. Heather Nelson, ed. 1996
“Rumgumption” Catapult Magazine. Volume 4, Number 12
“Miss Firefly Deserves An Answer” Zygote. Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1995
“Leaves of the Abyss” Dateline Arts: Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1989
“Stain” in Grain, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1988
“Levaya” TimeSlice: Houston Poetry 2005. Carolyn Tourney Florek, ed. Houston: Mutabulis Press, 2005.
“Levaya” and “Succor” The Clockhouse Review. Tim Kenyon, ed. Plainfield: Clockhouse Press, 2004
“Cigarettes and Altoids,” “Ice Story” and “Sweetness” at Nieve Roja, Colorado State University. http://nieveroja.colostate.edu/issue7/connolly.html 2001.
“The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Alberta Anthology, national broadcast, 1991
“Blue Note Table Napkin Sex” (set of four poems) Rampike, Toronto, Ontario, 1989
“The Beginning of the End of You and Me” Cunningham’s Grocery, University of Winnipeg: Winnipeg, Manitoba. 1984
Plays:
“Kate & The Writer” staged, Theatre Southwest, Houston, April 2006.
“Breadcrumbs and Table Legs” at the Manitoba Association of Community Theatre’s One-Act Play Festival, 1995
Works in Progress:
Kingdom of Snow, a novel [currently being read by publishers]
Hurricane Rothko, a novel
Awkward Instruments, poetry
Conference Presentations:
“Divine Poetics: Meister Eckhart, Cloud of Unknowing author, Simone Weil and the Language of Mystical Union.” presentation at “Alternative Expressions of the Numinous,” University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, August 2008.
“Left Meets Right: The Art of Creative Writing," presentation at the American Agriculture Editor Association Ag Media Summit, Portland, Oregon, USA, July 2006.
Committtees:
Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Academic Honors and Distinctions:
Creative Writing Award, Best Creative Nonfiction Essay,
University of Missouri, $200, First 2009.
The Elizabeth T. Barnes Memorial Graduate Fellowship,
University of Missouri, $700, co-winner 2008.
Co-Founder and Inaugural Host. Hearing Voices. Literary salon at Orr Street Studios in Columbia, MO. 2007.
Founder and Inaugural Editor. Pitkin in Progress Literary journal for Goddard College Master of Fine Arts students. Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. 2000. [journal now entitled Pitkin]
Teaching Experience:
Fontbonne University, Saint Louis, Missouri
Assistant Professor of English (Affiliate) - Present
English 101: Composition and Rhetoric
English 120: Introduction to Litature
Fontbonne University, Saint Louis, Missouri
Adjunct Lecturer (08/2009 – 05/2010)
English 101: Composition and Rhetoric
English 120: Introductio to Literature
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Graduate Teaching Assistant (09/2007-05/2009)
English 1000: Exposition and Argumentation
English 1310: Introduction to American Literature
English 1520: Introduction to Fiction Writing
English 1510: Introduction to Nonfiction Writing
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Faculty Resident Instructor (01/2006-05/2007)
English 1000: Exposition and Argumentation
Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Faculty Lecturer (2004-2006)
English 104: Rhetoric and Composition
English 301: Technical Writing
University of Houston/Downtown, Houston, Texas
Adjunct Instructor (2002-2004)
English 1300: Developmental English
English 1301: Composition I
English 1302: Composition II
English 2312: Survey of American Literature 1864-Present
English 3302: Business and Technical Report Writing
English 3305: Essay Writing
English 3312: Studies in Fiction
Lone Star College (formerly Montgomery College), Conroe, Texas
Adjunct Instructor (2002-2003)
English 1301: Composition I
English 2311: Technical Communication