Colatosti 1
Jennifer M. Colatosti
PO Box 1235
Pine Lake, GA 30072
(706) 380-1640
EDUCATION:
PhD in English, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, August 2015
Concentration: Creative Writing
Dissertation: A Loving Mother, A Devoted Wife
Director: Joseph Harrington
M.A. in English, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, June 2008
Concentration: Creative Writing (Fiction)
Thesis: Genealogy: Short Stories
Director: Joan Connor
B.A. in English, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, August 2004
Minor: History
AWARDS AND HONORS:
Vic Contoski Creative Writing Award in Fiction, May 2015
Press 53 Short Fiction Contest (book manuscript), Finalist, April 2015
Outstanding Instructor Award, May 2014
Vic Contoski Creative Writing Award in Fiction, May 2014
Thomas J. O’Donnell Award in Creative Nonfiction, May 2014
Pushcart Prize in Fiction, Nominated October 2013
Best American Short Stories, Nominated October 2013
Andrew Debicki Award for International Dissertation Research Travel, December 2012
Vic Contoski Creative Writing Award in Fiction, May 2012
William P. Albrecht Memorial Scholarship, May 2012
Vic Constoski Creative Writing Award in Fiction, May 2011
Summer Literary Seminars Contest, Fiction Finalist, April 2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor of English, Perimeter College of Georgia State University, August 2015-present.
Courses Taught:
ENGL 0989: Foundations for English Composition (3 sections)
ENGL 1101: English Composition I (4 sections)
ENGL 2132: American Literature 1865-present (1 section)
Graduate Teaching Assistant; University of Kansas Department of English, August 2010-July 2014
Courses Taught:
ENG 101: Composition (4 sections)
ENG 102: Critical Reading and Writing (7 sections)
ENG 209: Introduction to Fiction (4 sections)
ENG 351: Fiction Writing I (2 sections)
ENG 355: Creative Nonfiction Writing I (1 section)
Graduate Writing Consultant; University of Kansas Writing Center, January 2013-July 2014
Writing Tutor; Ohio University Student Writing Center, January 2010 – June 2010
Writing Assistant; Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences Scholars Program; Fall 2009 – June 2010
Responsible for planning lessons and leading workshops tailored to specific writing assignments for students in the undergraduate Scholars Program
Adjunct Faculty, Ohio University; July 2008 – March 2010
Courses Taught:
ENG 151: Writing and Rhetoric I(4 sections)
ENG 152: Reading and Writing; Fact and Fiction (1 section)
ENG 306J: Women and Writing; Reading Women’s Sexuality (1 section)
ENG 306J: Women and Writing; Women, Place, and Identity (2 sections)
Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio University; Fall 2006 – Spring 2008
Courses Taught:
ENG 151: Writing and Rhetoric I (3 sections)
ENG 152: Reading and Writing; War Stories (2 sections)
ENG 306J: Women and Writing; African-American Women Writers and Constructions of Black Womanhood (1 section)
ENG 308J: Writing and Rhetoric II: Rhetoric and Representation of War
(1 section)
PUBLICATIONS:
Fiction:
Midwestern Gothic, “Compass Rose,” Spring 2013
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, “We Can Start There,” March 2012
The MacGuffin, “Not Even Goddesses,” Fall 2011
Nonfiction:
The Intentional, “In Migration,” August 2015
Southeast Review, “Revolution,” Spring 2015
Hybrid:
Sequestrum, “Conception: Contact/Absence,” December 2015
Reviews:
Review of Front Porch, Portal del Sol, September 20, 2011
Review of Memorious, Portal del Sol, August 9, 2011
Interviews:
Southeast Review, “Buffalo, Truth, and Slugs: An Interview with Dinty W. Moore,” Spring 2012
Guest Blogs:
“Miracles Can Happen When You Make a Human Connection,” Feronia’s Frolic, December 2015
“Characteristics of Negro Expression: Kenton Rambsy on the Importance of Digital Humanities in Understanding African American Short Stories,” Project on the History of Black Writing, March 2015
“Outfaulknering Faulkner: Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth,” Project on the History of Black Writing, April 2011
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
“Fiction, Memory, and the Narrative Impulse,” Presenter, Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop, Hall Center for the Humanites, Lawrence, Kansas, November 2014
“Blissful Integration of Identity: Reclaiming the Past and (Re)Writing History in Ralph Ellison’s Essays and Juneteenth,” Presenter, MELUS Conference, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March 2014
Summer Literary Seminars, Montreal, June 12-25 2011
Participant in Fiction and Nonfiction workshops
“The Social Contract of Shame: PCOS and the (Un) Marking of Difference,” Presenter, Mid-America Humanities Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, March 2011
EDITORIAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Beecher’s, Lawrence, Kansas, August 2013-June 2014
Fiction Editor
Beecher’s, Lawrence, Kansas; July 2012-July 2013
Managing Editor
Beecher’s¸ Lawrence, Kansas; May 2011-June 2012
Assistant Fiction Editor
Portal del Sol, Lawrence, Kansas; August 2011-December 2011
Contributing editor
Beecher’s, Lawrence, Kansas; December 2010-May 2011
Fiction Submission Reader
/nor (New Ohio Review), Athens, Ohio; Fall 2007 – June 2010
Fiction Submission Reader
South Asian Book Project, Proofreader; January 2010 – May 2010
Under direction of Dr. Amritjit Singh, Ohio University
Proofread Word documents that had been scanned and converted from original sources for inclusion in a documentary history of South Asians in the Americas, comparing the converted files to the originals and correcting errors.
South Asian Book Project, Research Assistant; September 2009 – December 2009
Under direction of Dr. Amritjit Singh, Ohio University
Reviewed and compiled historical information regarding the immigration of South Asians to the North America
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Program Assistant, Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences Scholars Program; February 2009 – June 2010
Responsible for:
Promoting the Scholars Program to potential incoming students and organizing student volunteers to help promote the program at University events.
Corresponding with potential incoming students regarding the Scholars Program.
Corresponding with admissions and housing departments regarding incoming students eligible for the Scholars Program.
Processing applications to the program, tracking program and University admission status, coordinating the sending of acceptance letters, and maintaining contact with accepted students.
SERVICE
ENGL Learning Support Curriculum Committee, Perimeter College of Georgia State University English Division, 2015-2016 Academic Year
ENGL 1101/1102 Curriculum Committee, Perimeter College of Georgia State University English Division, 2015-2016 Academic Year.
Lecturers and Readers Committee, University of Kansas Department of English,
Student Association of Graduates in English (SAGE) representative, 2014-2015 Academic Year
Advisory Committee, University of Kansas Department of English,
SAGE representative, 2013-2014 Academic Year
SAGE, University of Kansas
Co-President, 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 Academic Years
Graduate Student Advisory Board, University of Kansas
SAGE representative, 2012-2013 Academic Year
Graduate Teaching Assistants and Lecturers Committee, University of Kansas Department of English
SAGE representative, 2011-2012 Academic Year
SAGE, University of Kansas
Treasurer, 2011-2012 Academic Year