Paul D. Adams
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- School: Texas State University
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- Department: English
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Location:
601 University Dr
San Marcos, TX - 78666 - Dates at Texas State University: October 2017 - May 2018
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Would take again: Yes
For Credit: Yes
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Professor Adams was excited about English but was a very jittery teacher. He is lenient with grading and there was only five essays. You do need the textbook because he will do quizzes based from the readings, but the quizzes are not difficult and the readings aren't long. I recommend this professor if you want an easy A!
Biography
Texas State University - English
Author, Editor, Judge-Penitent
Paul
Adams
Florence, Texas
I am an MFA student and Graduate Instructional Assistant at Texas State University. As an MFA student I attend regular graduate-level classes in Literature, Pedagogy, and Theory as well as Creative-Writing Workshops and Master Classes. The IA position involves aiding faculty in teaching classes and grading student tests and essays; it is a feeder position to Teaching Assistant and ultimately Adjunct Faculty. I have also received the University of Cambridge's CELTA certification, and am qualified to teach English as a foreign/second language to beginning, intermediate, and advanced adult learners.
My book reviews have appeared in The Austin Review and Texas Books in Review and I have been a contributing editor of TBR and Awst Press as well as a Fiction reader for the Front Porch Journal and Fiction Editor at Southwestern America Literature. For Awst I have conducted interviews with Amelia Gray, Susanna Childress, David Olimpio, Lillian Kwok, and Dan Bevacqua. I am the author of many dozens of short stories and an idiosyncratic collection of other hitherto unpublished works, including a novel about Hellenistic kings, a series of flash non-fiction essays, and a pop-history book on the identity of the last Roman emperor.
My research interests include Classical language and culture, especially the transition of Rome to Byzantium in Late Antiquity and the meteoric rise and fall of the Greco-Macedonian successor kingdoms. More generally, I am interested in the history and literature of empires in decline, including the Ottoman, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian in the modern era. In particular, I am interested in the region of Southeastern Europe, especially the Western Balkans and former Yugoslavia. I am also interested in the literature of cultural trauma, including Holocaust narratives and memoirs. In terms of contemporary writing, I am most interested in experimental/innovative forms and the exploration of mental illness, disability, and trauma survival in literature.
Experience
Education
Austin Community College
Non-Degree Credit (Research)
Latin
I studied Latin at ACC with Dr. James Burleson; this was an independent educational experience undertaken for research (historical writing) and general character-building.West Virginia University
Bachelor’s Degree
English (Creative Writing Concentration)
During my time at WVU I won several prestigious scholarships in Philosophy, including the Daniel B. Purinton and others in English and Creative writing, like the the Virginia Butts Sturm Creative Writing Scholarship. I was the winner of the statewide Benedum Lecture Series Student Essay Contest Grand Prize. As a creative-writing focused student, I had the opportunity to work with visiting writers like Dean Young, Patricia Henley, and Michael C.White as well as regular creative-writing faculty like Mark Brazitis, Jim Harms, Ben Doyle, and Mary-Anne Samyn.Texas State University
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Creative Writing - Fiction
Among the top MFA programs in the country, Texas State's Fiction program has an excellent regular faculty, including Doug Dorst, Debra Monroe, Jennifer DuBois, and Tom Grimes (briefly on sabbatical). We also work with endowed chairs like Ben Fountain and Karen Russel for a period of 2 years and workshop and attend craft talks and master classes with visiting writers like Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, Philip Lopate, and Adam Johnson. Next year we'll have Lydia Davis (!) and Stuart Dybek (!!), as well as visiting poets Terrance Hayes and Mary Szybist.Texas State University
Instructional Assistant - English
The IA position involves aiding faculty in teaching classes and grading student tests and essays; it is a feeder position to Teaching Assistant and ultimately Adjunct Faculty.Freehand Arts Project
Teacher
Conducting writing workshops with students currently incarcerated in the Travis County Correctional System. These follow the collaborative Read-Write-Share model rather than the more critical Iowa Workshop model, but the students are able to express themselves creatively and receive a certificate of completion and are encouraged to contribute to an anthology of their own work. I will start this position in Summer 2015, after completing orientation and training.
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