Chauna J. Craig
Department of English1354 Trim Tree Road
Leonard Hall 110BIndiana, PA 15701
Indiana University of Pennsylvania(724) 349-9694
Indiana, PA
Education
Ph.D., English. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. August 1999.
Dissertation: Harm’s Way: Stories, directed by Gerald Shapiro.
Areas of Concentration: Creative Writing, Women’s Literature, Composition Pedagogy, Literature of the American West.
M.A., English. Arizona State University, 1995.
Thesis: The Marginal Deviant: Social Categories and the Exclusive Community in the Fiction of John Steinbeck.
B.A., English. Highest Honors. Montana State University, 1992.
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Fall 2005-present.
Assistant Professor of English, IUP. 2000-2005.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Arkansas-Monticello. 1998-2000.
Teaching Assistant/Writing Center Tutor, University of Nebraska. 1995-1998.
Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University. 1992-1995.
Courses Taught (at IUP)
ENGL 101: College Writing, 121: Humanities Literature, 202: Research Writing, 221: Creative Writing (regular and honors sections), 214: The Novel, 216: Short Fiction, 310: Public Speaking, 326: Writing of Fiction (regular and honors sections), 335: The Essay, 480: Distinction in English Seminar, LBST 499 Senior Synthesis: Heroes (co-taught)
Selected Fiction Publications
“The Man with the Shovel” forthcoming in Best American Flash Fiction of the 21st Century (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press).
“On Holiday” forthcoming in Best American Flash Fiction of the 21st Century (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press).
“Walk with the Animals” forthcoming in Snake Nation Review.
“The Stroke of Midnight.” Seattle Review 26:2 (2004).
“The House, Settling.” River City (Summer 2003).
“Scrap Moon.” Fugue (Summer 2003).
“The Genius of Apples.” Natural Bridge 9 (2003).
“To Taste.” Crab Orchard Review 8:2 (Spring/Summer 2003).
“Bait.” descant 42 (Spring 2003).
“The Nannies Gather to Study the Stars.”Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fiction. DuBois, Pennsylvania: Mammoth Books, 2003.
“This Is History.” Green Mountains Review 14:2 (2002). Cited as “Special Mention” in Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses. Ed. Bill Henderson. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
“Cast Again.” South Dakota Review 39:4 (Winter 2001).
“All the Birds Vanish.” Passages North 22:1 (Winter/Spring 2001).
“Harm’s Way.” Prairie Schooner 74:4(Winter 2001).
“Romance.” Nebo, Fall 2000.
“Big Sky Blue.”Phoebe 28:2 (Fall 1999). Reprinted in Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace: Writing by Women of the Plains. Omaha, Nebraska: Backwaters Press, 2002.
“Thirsty.” Ascent 22:2 (Winter 1998).
“Cling.” Quarterly West (46). Spring/Summer 1998.
"Caramelli Crosses Himself." Lines in the Sand. May/June 1996.
Selected Creative Nonfiction Publications
“Win a Trip to Heaven (Details Inside).” Fourth Genre 8.1 (Spring 2006).
“Because It Fails Us.” Connecticut Review 25:2 (Fall 2003). Cited in the Best American Essays 2004 (Houghton Mifflin, 2004).
“Pluma Piluma and the Utopian Turtletop.” CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (21:2), Summer 2003.
“Leaving Eden.” Sycamore Review 15 (Winter/Spring 2003).
“Writing the Bully.” The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning. Volume 8 (Winter 2002-03).
“Undertow.” Under the Sun 7:1 (Summer 2002).
Selected Poetry Publications
“Because Star Trek Is Love in Another Language.” Crab Orchard
Review 7:2 (Spring/Summer 2002).
“In the Museum of American Clowns.” Eclipse 13 (Summer 2002).
“Even the Prairie.” The Heartlands Today: Midwest Sirens and Muses,
Volume 8 (Fall 1998).
Articles and Reviews
“Comfort Among Strangers: The On-Campus Teaching Demonstration.”
Associated Writing Programs Job List, September 2001.
“Evolving Pedagogies: Four Voices on Teacher Change and the Writing Center.” The Writing Lab Newsletter 22:10 (June 1998). Co-authored with Dale Jacobs, Heidi Jacobs, and Jennifer Dane.
Review of Brady Udall’s Letting Loose the Hounds, Prairie Schooner 73:3 (Fall 1999).
Conference Presentations
“Rocking the Cradle: Disruptive Mother Figures in Film and Literature.” Twenty-Ninth Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film. West Virginia University. Sep. 30-Oct. 2, 2004.
“Creative Writing and Creation Myths.” Pedagogy Forum. Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. March 25-27, 2004.
“Breaking Camp: Transforming Professional Identities.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 23, 2003.
“Same Old Story: Creativity in the 21st Century.” Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD. February 26-March 1, 2003.
“Intro to Everything: Teaching the Multi-Genre Workshop.”
Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. March 5-8, 2002.
“At Play in the Field of Genre Studies: How Creative is Too Creative?”
Pennsylvania College English Association Conference. Punxsatawney, PA. March 24, 2001.
“Composing and Complicating Community Through Truth-telling.” Feminist
Workshop Presentation at Conference on College Composition and Communication in Denver. March 14, 2001.
“Creative Portfolios.” Pedagogy Forum. Prairie Schooner 75th Anniversary Celebration and Conference, Lincoln, NE. October 11-13, 2001.
“Minding the Classroom: Theory and the Creative Writing Classroom.” Chair and Panelist. Conference on College Composition and Communication in Minneapolis. April 2000.
“The Art of Creative Writing.” Panelist. Arkansas Festival of Poetry. March 31, 2000.
“That Little Girl in English: A Feminist Goes South.” Women’s Caucus, South Central Modern Language Association in Memphis, TN. October 30, 1999.
“But We Love Writers: Writers Negotiating Identity in Academic Communities.” Moderator and Panelist, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference in Albany, NY. April 14-17, 1999.
“Johnny With the Red Hat: Exercises in Point of View.” Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference in Portland, OR. March 26-28, 1998.
"Creative Writing Pedagogy in the Composition Classroom." UNL English Graduate Students Conference. March 12, 1997.
"Evolving Pedagogies: Teacher Change and the Writing Center." Midwest Writing Centers Conference in Minneapolis, MN. October 4-5, 1996.
Awards and Honors
Finalist, Flume Press 2006 Fiction Chapbook Contest for manuscript Children, Gamblers, Drunks, and Saints.
“Cast Again” selected for Writing Aloud2005-06. InterAct Theatre. Philadelphia, PA. Award-winning theater series in which professional actors collaborate with writers to bring short fiction to the stage. Juried. Performed April 10, 2006.
Distinguished Faculty Award at IUP (Creative Arts Category). 2005.
University Senate award, competitive.
Heinz Foundation Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Sweetbriar, VA. June 2-22, 2004.
The Sandra Brown Short Fiction Award for “Bait” in descant 42. ($250).