Department of Languages, Literature, and Mass Communication             Colorado Mesa University                                                                                                                                

1100 North Avenue  

Grand Junction CO 81501  

970.248.1832     

jhancock@coloradomesa.edu                                                                                                                         

Education

  • Ph.D.                                      Oklahoma State University, 2001 (Stillwater, Oklahoma)     
  • English                                   Dissertation: Wintering at Mooltunya (original poetry and critical introduction)
  •                                                 Director: Lisa Lewis Examination Subjects: Practical Poetics and Modern Literature in English
  • M.F.A.                                   Sarah Lawrence College, 1994 (Bronxville, New York)
  • Creative Writing                   Thesis: A Clean, Black Line (original poetry)
  •                                                 Director: Thomas Lux
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  • B.A.                                       Oklahoma State University, 1992 (Stillwater, Oklahoma)
  • English                                  

 Teaching Experience

August 2008-Present         Assistant Professor of English, Colorado Mesa University (Grand Junction, CO)

  •                                                 English 111:          English Composition I / Honors English Composition I
  •                                                 English 112:          English Composition II / Honors English Composition II
  •                                                 English 250:          Introduction to Creative Writing
  •                                                 English 262:          Survey of American Literature II
  •                                                 English 370:          Major Authors (Plath and Rich)
  •                                                 English 370:          Major Authors (Virginia Woolf)
  •                                                 English 382:          Crafting Fiction
  •                                                 English 388:          Crafting Poetry
  •                                                 English 423:          Genre Studies (Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction) (Food Writing)
  •                                                 English 436:          American Lit 1945-Present
  •                                                 English 438:          Ethnic Lit in America
  •                                                 English 492:          Seminar in Writing
  •                                                 English 494:          Seminar in Literature (Postmodern Novel)

 2007-2008                            Associate Professor, Colorado Mountain College (Rifle, CO and Glenwood Springs, CO)

  •                                                 ENGL 121:           English Composition I
  •                                                 ENGL 122:           English Composition II
  •                                                 ENGL 221:           Creative Writing I
  •                                                 LIT 201:                               Masterpieces of Literature I
  •                                                 LIT 212:                Survey of American Literature II

 2003-2006                            Visiting Assistant Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL)

  •                                                 ENGL 101:           Introduction to Creative Writing
  •                                                 ENGL 170:           Special Topics in Literature:
  •                                                                                 The Short Story
  •                                                                                 Baseball as Literature
  •                                                                                 Contemporary American Poetry
  •                                                 ENGL 201:           Fiction Writing
  •                                                 ENGL 202:           Poetry Writing
  •                                                 ENGL 485:           Senior Directed Study (Independent Study, Novel Writing)

 2004                                       Teacher, Leysin American School (Leysin, Switzerland)

  •                                                 High School Creative Writing
  •                                                 College Essay Preparation for High School Students (IB Program)
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2002                                       Instructor, University of Illinois at Springfield (Springfield, IL)

Abraham Lincoln and Leadership Summer Institute for Illinois High School Students

                                                The Figure of Lincoln in American Poetry

 2001-2003                            Visiting Assistant Professor, Millikin University (Decatur, IL)

  •                                                 EN 440:                 Senior Capstone / Independent Study (Novel Writing)
  •                                                 EN 300:                 Advanced Creative Writing
  •                                                 EN 366:                 Studies in Literary History / IN 250: Global and Non-Western Studies:
  •                                                                                 Poetry, Politics, Prosperity: The Harlem Renaissance and the Talented Tenth
  •                                                                                 Celtic and Political Influence on the Literature of the Irish Renaissance                                                                             
  •                                                 EN 201:                 Creative Writing
  •                                                 EN 150:                 Approaches to Literature (Introduction to Critical Theory)
  •                                                 IN 150:                  Critical Reading, Writing, and Research I(Composition I):
  •                                                                                 The Search for Self in Landscape
  •                                                                                 Contemporary Short Stories
  •                                                 IN 151:                  Critical Reading, Writing, and Research II (Composition II):
  •                                                                                 Plagues and Epidemics in the Western Tradition
  •                                                                                 The Legacy of “Civil Disobedience”
  •                                                 IN 151:                  Honors Freshman Research: Gender and Identity
  •                                                 PACE:                    Adult Continuing Education (College Research Skills and Writing)
  •                                                 Tutor:                     Millikin University Writing Center

 1996-2001                            Graduate Teaching Assistant, Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK)

  •                  Engl 2513:            Introduction to Creative Writing (General Education Credit/Fine Arts)
  •                                                 Engl 1113:            Freshman Composition I
  •                                                 Engl 1213:            Freshman Composition II
  •                                                 Engl 2413:            Introduction to Literature

 

1993-1994                            Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant, Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)

  •                                                 Poetry Workshop

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Between Hurricanes. Lithic Press. Forthcoming 2015. Book of poetry.
  • “Contingency Plan: Aquarium of the Americas” Crab Orchard Review, Summer 2015. Original poetry.
  • “After the Rain, the Earth Smells Like a Mouth” Fruita Pulp, May 2014. Original poetry.
  • “Childhood and its Rattlesnakes” Fruita Pulp, May 2014. Original poetry.
  • “Mother My Worry Stone” Fruita Pulp, May 2014. Original poetry.
  • “The Bigot’s Funeral” Crab Orchard Review, Summer/Fall 2013. Original poetry.
  • “St. Mary’s Orphanage: Galveston Island, September 8, 1900” Crab Orchard Review, Summer/Fall 2013. Original poetry.
  • Review of Wonder Cabinet by David Barber. American Book Review 27.6 (Sept/Oct 2006). Book review.
  • “Prologue: Sandpipers” Ecotone, Spring 2005. Original poetry.
  • “My Parents’ Old Acting Troupe, the Alpha Omega Players, Comes to Town,” Victory Park 3.1 (Spring/Summer  2000): 39-40. Original poetry.
  • “First Kiss: Portuguese Man O’War,” (reprint) Poetry Daily (http://www.poems.com), January 4, 2000. Original poetry.
  • “After Seeing Anne Sexton’s Checkbook in a Museum,” Victory Park 2.2 (Fall/Winter 1999): 43-44. Original poetry.
  • “I Never Wanted to Say,” and “First Kiss: Portuguese Man O’War,” Third Coast 9 (Fall 1999): 11-13. Original poetry.
  • “Hangi Feast: Rotorua, New Zealand,” Puerto del Sol 34.2 (Summer 1999): 66-67. Original poetry.
  • “Echo Point, Blue Mountains,” Faultline 8 (1999): 82. Original poetry.
  • “Wintering in Mooltunya,” The Spoon River Poetry Review 24.1 (Winter/Spring 1999): 16-17. Original poetry.
  • “Bone Collector,” Quarterly West 47 (Autumn/Winter 1998-99): 158-59. Original poetry.
  • “Driving Home,” The Antioch Review 53.2 (Spring 1995): 191. Original poetry.
  • “Apologies to My Mother,” and “Baking,” New Plains Review 2.4 (Fall 1994): 52, 80. Original poetry.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS / ATTENDANCE

  • Original Poetry Reading, Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association National Conference (Boston, MA 2012)
  • Original Poetry Reading, Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association National Conference (San Antonio, TX 2011)
  • Original Poetry Reading. Rocky Mountain MLA Conference (Snowbird, UT 2009).
  • “To Abstraction and Beyond!” and “The Magic of Metaphor”. Mesa State College Writing Conference (Grand Junction CO, 2009).
  • Conference Attendee. The Associated Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference (Chicago, IL 2009).
  • “The Tarot Deck Poem.” Mesa State College Writing Conference (Grand Junction, CO 2006).
  • “On Chapman’s Homer: The Challenges of Writing About Baseball Creatively.” Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture Annual Spring Training Conference (Tucson, AZ 2006).
  • Conference Attendee. Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture Annual Spring Training Conference (Tucson, AZ 2005).
  • “Energetic Editing for Poetry.” Tongue & Ink Undergraduate Writing Conference (Bloomington IL, 2005).
  • “Using the Poetry Slam Format as Development for Workshop Evaluation Criteria.” Associated Writers and Writing Programs National Conference (Pedagogy Forum) (Chicago, IL 2004).
  • “Confessions of a Modernist: Re-Reading Elizabeth Bishop Since the Publication of Her Letters.” Elizabeth Bishop: The Geographical Mirror. The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (December 1999).
  • “From Troy to Marthatown: Sheri S. Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association (Albuquerque, NM 1999).
  • “Peter Weir’s Feminist Interpretation of The Year of Living Dangerously.” South Central Modern Language Association (Dallas, TX 1997).

 UNIVERSITY SERVICE

  • 2013-Present                        Faculty Advisor, CMU Association of Feminists
  • 2013-Present                        LLMC Representative, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  • 2013-Present                        LLMC Representative, Student Showcase Conference Committee
  • 2013-Present                        Coordinator, English Department Student Internships
  • 2010-Present                        Co-Director, CMU High School Writers Conference
  • 2010-Present                        Faculty Judge, The Literary Review Literary Awards
  • 2009                                       Faculty Advisor, Black Student Alliance, Mesa State College
  • 2009                                       Faculty Reader, The Literary Review
  • 2007                                       Member, Scholarship Committee, CMC West Garfield
  • 2007                                       CMC Representative for Literature Discipline, 2:2 Conference, Front Range Community College
  • 2006                                       Poetry Reading / Faculty Talent Show (Honor Society Charity Event)
  • 2006                                       Presenter, Faculty Workshop: “Conferencing With Students”
  • 2005                                       Faculty Advisor, Tributaries (Illinois Wesleyan’s Undergraduate Literary Journal)
  • 2004                                       Sigma Tau Delta Graduate School Panel, Illinois Wesleyan University
  • 2002, 2003                           Honors’ Day Interviews/Freshman Recruitment, Millikin University
  • 2002, 2003                           Judge, Millikin University Conant Awards: Creative Writing
  • 2002-2003                            English Department Curriculum & Advising Subcommittee, Millikin University
  • 2002-2003                            Faculty Academic Advisor, English Writing Majors, Millikin University
  • 2001-2003                            Faculty Grader, Scoring Sessions, Incoming Freshmen Placement Essays
  • 2001-2003                            Faculty Advisor, JMS Honors Projects (Bri Hill, Danielle LaSusa, Ryan Jones)
  • 2001-2003                            Faculty Advisor, Collage (Millikin University’s Undergraduate Literary Journal)
  • 2001-2002                            English Department Policies & Procedures Subcommittee, Millikin University
  • 2001                                       Judge, Collage Writing Awards, Millikin University
  • 2000                                       Co-Presenter, TA and Lecturer Orientation, Oklahoma State University “In-Class Writing Assignments”
  • 2000                                       Teaching Assistant Mentor, Oklahoma State University

EDITORIAL Experience (In NON-FACULTY CAPACITY)

  • 2009-Present                        Manuscript Reader, Poetry Book Contest, Pinyon Press
  • 1999-2000                            Editorial Intern, Crazyhorse.
  • 1999-2000                            Fiction Editor, Cimarron Review.
  • 1997-1999                            Poetry Editor, Cimarron Review.
  • 1996-1998                            Associate Editor, Cimarron Review.
  • 1990-1992                            Poetry Editor, Midland Review.

 HONORS

  • 2014                                       Exemplary Faculty Award

  • 2012                            Finalist, Wabash Poetry Award (Sycamore Review)

  • 2003                                       Appreciation & Achievement Award, Millikin University Office of Multicultural Affairs Student Roundtable

  • 1999                                       Pushcart Prize Nomination, Editors of Third Coast

  • 1998                                       Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Project Award, Poetry

 PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

  • 2010-Present                        Reader, CMU Poets and Writers Series
  • 2012-Present                        WCWF Poetry Reading “Poetry on the Air” with KAFM
  • 2012-Present                        Member, Western Colorado Writers’ Forum
  • 2012                                       CMU Representative, Advisory Board for Western Colorado Writers’ Forum
  • 2010                                       Guest Lecture on The Harlem Renaissance, Western Colorado Center for the Arts
  • 2008-Present                        Poetry Reading, Poets & Writers of Colorado Mesa University Reading Series
  • 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010     Reader, College Board Advanced Placement Exams, Daytona, FL
  • 2005                                       Poetry Reading, Bloomington, IL
  • 2002                                       Judge, Springfield Area Arts Council City Arts Grants (Illinois Arts Council)
  • 2002                                       Poetry Reading, Illinois College Writers Festival, Jacksonville, IL
  • 2002                                       Poetry Reading, Highway 51 Poets Series, Decatur, IL
  • 2000                                       Poetry Reading, Oklahoma State University
  • 1999, 2000                           Judge, Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute: Poetry Application Portfolios
  • 1999                                       Guest Writer/Lecturer, Tulsa Summer Arts II
  • 1997-2002                            Archaic Windows, collaborative exhibit with serigraph artist Carolynne Whitefeather (original poetry and art):
  •             Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, 2000-2002.
  •             Gallery Ten, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2000.
  •             McCray Gallery, Western New Mexico University, 1999.
  •             Accent Art Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, 1999.
  •             Corbett Center Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, 1998.
  •             Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, Oklahoma City, 1998.
  •             Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma, 1997.
  • 1998-1999                            President, Creative Writers Association, Oklahoma State University: Wrote funding proposals, co-organized student and faculty readings, and co-organized guest readings: Bret Lott and Louise Glück, among others.
  • 1998                                       Poetry Reading, Oklahoma State University.
  • 1998                                       Secretary, Australasian Film and Literature Panel. South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA.
  • 1997-1998                            Secretary, Creative Writers Association, Oklahoma State University.
  • 1996                                       Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Poetry. Jane Hirschfield, Instructor. Napa, CA.
  • 1994                                       Counselor, Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute
  • 1994                                       M.F.A. Thesis Reading, Sarah Lawrence College.
  • 1994                                       Poetry Reading and Interview, The Bon Mot Show, KUNH, University of New Hampshire.
  • 1992-1994                            Graduate Poetry Assistant, Sarah Lawrence College: Wrote grant proposals, co-organized student and faculty readings, and co-organized guest readings: David St. John, Philip Levine, and Diane Wakoski, among others.