Thesis Title: Lessons in Subtraction: Writing Through Absence in the Postmodern

Amy L. Ellison

EDUCATION

M.A. in English. University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia. May 2008.

Thesis Title: “Lessons in Subtraction: Writing Through Absence in the Postmodern

Lyric Moment”

B.A. in English, Summa Cum Laude. University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia. May

2005.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Graduate:

Most Outstanding Graduate Student, 2008

James Matthews Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay, 2008

Essay Title: “Hymnody and the Blazon: The Fetishization of Jesus in the Moravian Church”

Reader’s Choice Award for “Cuttlefish: Ars Poetica,” 2007

from The Eclectic (chosen by poets Terri Witek and Paul Guest)

Undergraduate:

Gordon Watson Award, 2005

Most Outstanding Contribution to a Senior Seminar, 2005

Seminar Thesis Title: “The Wonderland Novels: Alice, the Holy Grail, and

the Indefinable Self”

Kay Magenheimer Poetry Prize, 2004

George W. Walker English Scholarship

Willie Maude Thompson Scholarship in English

H. O. Lovvorn Scholarship in the Humanities

Other Awards:

Finalist in the Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival for “After Carnival,” 2008

PUBLICATIONS

“After Carnival.” Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Magazine (2008): 2.

“Binding” and “1932: A Refrain.” The Eclectic (2008): 41-42.

“Cuttlefish: Ars Poetica,” “Quietly,” and “So Not Norman Rockwell.” The Eclectic

(2007): 9-11.

“Pickets.” 32 Poems. 3.2 (Fall/Winter 2005): 6.

“The Mime,” “Headhunter,” and “Lessons in Subtraction.” The Eclectic (2005): 13-16.

“White Pickets” and “Letter from an Ex-Boyfriend.” The Eclectic (2004): 14-15.

CONFERENCE PANELS

“First Year Writing: Poetry.” Organizer and Chair of Two Panels. University of West Georgia

Undergraduate Conference. University of West Georgia, April 2008.

“Creative Writing: Poetry at West Georgia.” Organizer and Chair. University of West Georgia

Undergraduate Conference. University of West Georgia, April 2008.

“Creative Writing: Poetry.” Organizer and Chair. University of West Georgia Undergraduate

Conference. University of West Georgia, April 2007.

“Hymnody and the Blazon: The Fetishization of Jesus in the Moravian Church.” Presenter.

Celebration of Graduate Student Research. University of West Georgia, April 2007.

MEMBERSHIPS

Sigma Tau Delta. 2003-Present.

Phi Kappa Phi. 2004-Present.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Composition and Rhetoric

Studies in Poetry: Critical and Creative Writing

Postmodern Literature (British and American)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of West Georgia, Department of English. Teaching Assistant, August 2006-Present.

First Year Writing: English 1101

Writing Center Tutor

Central High School, Department of English. Carrollton, Georgia, July 2005-August 2006.

American Literature

11th Grade Literature and Composition

Drama

university service

Student Advisory Committee, 2004-05, 2007-08.

English Department Expo. Writing Center and Graduate Studies Information Tables, 2008.

Co-Organizer of the University of West Georgia Undergraduate Conference, 2006-08.

OTHER EMPLOYMENT

Staples, Sales Associate. Carrollton, Georgia 30117. July 2001-July 2005, June 2006-Present.