Resume

• 1994

  Master of Fine Arts - MFA

  Creative Writing

  McNeese State University

• 1988

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Just Visiting

  A blog by John Warner

  author of the story collection Tough Day for the Army

  and a novel

  The Funny Man

  on teaching

  writing and never knowing when you're going to be asked to leave.

  Just Visiting

  John Warner

  One great thing about books is that even when the writer is no longer with us

  her voice remains

  and we can revisit them and have a brief encounter with an old friend. But sometimes those visits result in a desperate longing that certain people were...

  John Warner

  Creative Writing

  Higher Education

  Humor Writing

  Editing

  Public Speaking

  Writing

  Teaching

  So You Want to Be President

  So You Want to Be President

  Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

  The Funny Man

  Novel/literary fiction

  The Funny Man

  Kevin Guilfoile

  Political satire

  My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook of George W. Bush

  Satirical writing advice

  Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice from a Published Author to the Writerly Aspirant

  Tough Day for the Army

  The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing

  Warner

  John

  Warner

  Virginia Tech

  Chicago Tribune Media Group

  McSweeney's

  Leo J. Shapiro & Associates

  Willow Research

  LLC

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Inside Higher Ed

  College of Charleston

  Clemson University

  Leo J. Shapiro & Associates

  Freelance Columnist

  Weekly column on books and reading

  The Biblioracle.

  Chicago Tribune Media Group

  Editor

  2003 - 2008: Editor

  McSweeney's Internet Tendency\n2008 - Present: Editor at Large

  McSweeney's Internet Tendency

  McSweeney's

  Freelance Blogger

  Just Visiting Blog

  Inside Higher Ed

  Faculty Affiliate

  College of Charleston

  College of Charleston

  Charleston

  South Carolina Area

  Composition

  Fiction Writing

  Visiting Instructor

  Willow Research

  LLC

  Clemson University

  Clemson

  South Carolina

  Courses Taught: Fiction Writing

  Contemporary Literature

  Technical Writing

  Business Writing

  American Humor

  Humor Writing.\n\nFaculty Advisor: The Rapscallion (campus humor publication)

  Lecturer

  Urbana-Champaign

  Illinois Area

  Courses Taught: Rhetoric (First-Year Writing)

  Introduction to Literature

  Lecturer

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Courses Taught: Communication Skills

  Public Speaking

  Virginia Tech