April Fallon
Division of Literature, Languages, & Philosophy
Kentucky State University
Frankfort, KY 40601
(502) 597-6316
Education:
Ph. D., 1995, Creative Writing and Twentieth-Century American Literature,
University of Louisiana
Minor areas: Sixteenth- to Nineteenth-Centuries American Literature, Romantic
and Victorian Literature, Folklore.
Dissertation Director: Dr. Willard Fox
Dissertation: Breaking of Linear Space, a book-length collection of poetry
with a three chapter critical introduction, “The Aesthetics of ‘Meaningful
Flux’,” an analysis and history of aesthetics that values both order and disorder.
M.F.A., 1991, Creative Writing, University of Pittsburgh
Thesis Director: Prof. Lynn Emmanuel
Thesis: Shadows of the Fires, a book-length collection of poetry.
M..A. Program, 1987-1989, English and American Literature, Northern
Illinois University
21 course hours completed (transferred to U of Pitt Creative Writing Program).
B.A. (cum laude), 1987, English and American Literature, North Central
College
Minors: Sociology, Anthropology.
A.A. (with honors), 1985, English and American Literature, College
of DuPage
A.S. equivalent course work in Biology.
Honors:
2004 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Service Award, Kentucky State
University.
1994 Webb Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Louisiana.
Teaching Experience:
8/02-pres. Associate Professor of English (with tenure), Kentucky State University
Courses taught: Rhetoric Composition I and II, Foundations of Cultures (Integrative
Studies), Persuasive Writing, British Literature I and II, Writing Poetry,
Special Topics: Satire, Literary Heritage: Modernism.
8/97-5/02 Assistant Professor of English, Kentucky State University
Courses Taught: Rhetoric Composition I and II, Foundations of Cultures (Integrative
Studies), Introduction to Literature, Persuasive Writing, American Literature
I and II, British Novel, American Novel, Contemporary Literature, Special
Topics: Women and Madness.
8/96-5/97 Instructor of English, Louisiana State University
Courses Taught: Rhetoric and Composition I and II, Introduction to Poetry.
1/96-5/96 Adjunct Instructor in English, University of Louisiana
Courses taught: Rhetoric and Composition I and II, American Literature II.
8/91-12/95 Graduate Teaching Fellow in English, University of Louisiana
Courses taught: Rhetoric and Composition I and II, Introduction to Creative
Writing, English Literature I, American Literature I and II.
6/92-8/92 Instructor of Writing, Continuing Education Program, University
of Louisiana
Course taught: Writing Creative Nonfiction.
1/90-5/90 Instructor of Composition, Community College of Allegheny County
Courses taught: Developmental Composition, Rhetoric and Composition I and
II, Argumentation.
8/89-12/89 Adjunct Instructor of Composition, Community College of Allegheny
County
Courses taught: Developmental Composition, Rhetoric and Composition I and
II.
8/87-5/89 Graduate Teaching Assistant in English, Northern Illinois University
Courses taught: Rhetoric and Composition I and II.
Related Experience:
8/00-pres Coordinator of Composition, Division of LLP, Kentucky State University
Duties of position: design, coordinate, and implement curriculum for four
composition courses (two developmental and two regular freshman composition
courses), serve as chair of composition committee, design and coordinate exit
and mass exams for composition program.
02/02 Reader/Judge, Henry Leadingham Poetry Prize (annual prize given by the
Frankfort Arts Foundation).
8/93-6/94 Editor, The Southwestern Review, University of Louisiana
Duties of position: design, edit, and proofread literary magazine.
5/90-8/91 Academic Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Duties of position: primary advising for 150 freshman and sophomore students,
including choosing courses, planning major areas of study, and registering
for classes, as well as processing computer registration and add/drop, and
acting as a liaison between students and the administration.
Publications:
Journal Articles
“Poetry and Process” vol. XLV, issue 3, Spring 2004, The Midwest Quarterly.
“e e cummings, High Modernist: A Defense or ‘Little Estlin, Our Nonhero, Modernist
Faiteur’” Fall 2002, Journal of Kentucky Studies.
“Elements of Chaos in Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’” “Editor’s Choice
Award,” vol. 17, 2002 issue, Kentucky Philological Review.
Creative Works
Chapbook
Learn to Hate Yourself: An Inspirational Sequence of Poems mini-book, published
under pseudonym Jane Dog, Edible Entrails Press, 7/97.
Poems
“Doubt,” Spring 04 issue, The Kentucky River.
“Recur” Spring 03 issue, The Kentucky River.
“Hard Sell” Winter 02 issue, Meat Whistle Quarterly.
“Two” Winter 02 issue, Lilliput Review.
“It was the morning,” “Dive,” and “You, me, the cemetery, and the time between,”
2002 issue, Mojo Risin’.
“Where You Are,” 2001-2002 issue, Limestone: A Literary Journal.
“Planetesimals,” “The Faltering Edge,” “Plain of Plane,” Fall 02 issue, Journal
of Kentucky Studies.
“Planetesimals” Spring 01 issue, The Kentucky River.
“Quest for the Raison d’Etre,” (with Gary Jurechka), # 10 issue, Jan 01, The
Cracked Mirror.
“Lives of the Poets,” honorable mention in Literary LEO Poetry Contest, 9/13/00
issue LEOweekly.
“Decay” summer 00 issue, Lilliput Review.
“The crest of the hill” Spring 00 issue, The Kentucky River.
“Song of Obscurity,” “ Universe of Discourse,” “‘All that is solid melts into
the air, all that is holy is profaned’” Winter 00 issue, Precholonian.
“Universe of Discourse” Winter 00 issue, Edgar.
“Like a Fish in Coral” Winter 00 issue, Pitchfork.
“Breaking,” “Body Memory,” Fall 99 issue Cement Squeeze.
“Resistance is Futile,” Fall 99 issue Alpha Beat Press.
“Repository,” “The air that carried” Summer 99 issue, The Web.
“Submersion,” “Lives of the poets” Spring 99 issue, The Kentucky River.
“The Ice King,” “God’s folly falls,” “Nothing Needles Night” Fall 99 issue,
Liquid Ohio.
“What’s the Word?”June 99 issue, Cokefish/Alpha Beat Soup.
“Werner and the Gremlin,” “Fiona Verborgen’s Room”issue #12, Summer 98, Dirigible.“The
Ice King”#14 issue, Summer 99, Earspank.
“Fires of the City” #13 issue, Best of 1998, Earspank.
“Fires of the City” #2 issue, Spring 98, Earspank.
“Courting Sleep”Spring 96 issue, Atelier.
“Song of Obscurity,” “You, me, the cemetery, and the time between” Spring
96 issue, The Southwestern Review.
“Lead (Poisoning)”2/96 issue, Tight.
“It was the morning,” “Lead (Poisoning)” Spring 95 issue, The Southwestern
Review.
“Grief,” “The Good Parents”1995 Pig Iron Press annual anthology, Family.
“It is not ghosts,” “Saved”Winter 94 issue Tight.
“Preservation”Summer 94 issue, Cripes!.
“In the Flesh”Fall 94 issue, BullHead.
“The Impossibility of Extra Dimensional Images Presses the Question of the
Sanity of My Sensations”
#4 issue, Fall 94, Mirage/Period(ical).
“Submersion,” “Convention” Spring 93 issue, The Southwestern Review.
“Puncture,” “Mother Lazarus” Fall 93 issue, Fuel.
“Scavengers”Spring 93 issue, Meat Scientist.
“Father's Shadow”Spring 93 issue, Poetry Motel.
“Fires of Sleep,” “Fires of the City,” “Prayer Wheels” Spring 92 issue, The
Southwestern Review.
“Rape,” “I Was a Typical Kid” Fall/Winter 91 issue, Pearl.
“Evening in Paris,” Morning Glory,” “The Toad,” Towers Fiftieth Anniversary
Issue: 1939-1989.
“Lake Stone” Spring 88 issue, Towers.
“Agarwaen” The Cardinal: A Retrospective, 1936-1991.
“Concrete Mary” Spring 87 issue, The Cardinal.
“Agarwaen” Spring 86 issue, The Cardinal.
Short Stories/Nonfiction/Visual Art
“The Walk,” (short story), Spring 02 issue, The Kentucky River.
“Tracks,” (photograph), Spring 94 issue, The Southwestern Review.
“e,” (pen and ink), Spring 93 issue, The Southwestern Review.
“Zymosis Plasia,” (pen and ink), Spring 93 issue, The Southwestern Review.
“Convention,” (essay), Spring 93 issue, The Southwestern Review.
Book Reviews
Vestiges of Mortality and Remembrance: A Bibliography on the Historical Archaeology
of Cemeteries. Bell, Edward L. Mar 98, Bulletin of Bibliography.
The Travelers: Canada to 1900: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in English from 1577. Waterston, Elizabeth, et. al.. Bulletin of Bibliography. vol. 49, 6/92, p. 166.
Conference Papers:
“Southern Women Writers and Satire: The Grotesque as a Feminist Tool in the
Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O’Connor.” Popular
Culture in the South/American Culture in the South Conference, New Orleans,
LA. Sep 2004.
“ Toward a Poetics of Process: Balancing Novelty and the Cantus Firmus.” (Co-written with Dr. George Shields.) Kentucky Philological Association Conference, Kentucky State University, March 2003. (Voted “Best of Section.”)
“Elements of Chaos in Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market.’” Kentucky Philological
Association Conference, Ashland Community College, March 2002.
“ The Grotesque as Feminist Revision of the ‘Southern Lady’ in the Writing
of Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
University of Louisville, Feb 2002.
“Dance of the Titans: The Necessity of Order and Disorder in Creativity” Institute
for Liberal Studies Conference at Kentucky State University, Apr 2001.
“e e cummings, High Modernist: A Defense.” Kentucky Philological Association Conference, Georgetown College, March 2001. (Voted “Best of Section.”)
“Philosophy, Chaos Theory, and Poetry: The Interdisciplinary Nature of the Creative Process.” Association for Integrative Studies Conference, North Central College, Oct 1999.
“Consciousness and the Natural World in the Poetry of Li Po.” Annual Conference on World Literature, Appalachian State University, Apr 1998.
“‘A Chaos of Sensations’: The Nietzschean Influence on Modernism and on Allen Ginsberg and Sylvia Plath.” National Poetry Foundation Conference “Poetry of the 1950's,” University of Maine, June 1996.
“Vessels of the Decadent Garden: The Myth of the ‘Southern Lady’ and Faulkner’s Male Characters.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb 1994.
“Ontology and the Puritans: A Heidegerrian Interpretation of Guilt in The Scarlet Letter.” Popular Culture in the South/American Culture in the South Conference, Augusta, GA. Oct 1992.
“Representational Sculpture and Statuary: Five Lafayette Cemeteries.” Louisiana
Folklore Society Conference, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Apr 1992.
Poetry Readings:
Celebration for Dr. Darell Bourque, University of Louisiana at Lafayette,
LA, 5/03.
Kentucky Philological Association Conference, Ashland Community College, Ashland,
KY, 3/02.
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville,
KY, 2/02.
Frankfort Arts Foundation Leadingham Prose/Poetry Event, Old State Capitol,
Frankfort, KY, 4/00.
Lexington Baking Company, Lexington, KY 3/00.
Fest For All, Baton Rouge Arts Council, 5/97.
Johnnie Harris Writers Conference (featured writer), Houston Community College,
Houston, TX, 3/96.
Cornwell’s Cafe, Lafayette, LA,
10/95.
City Cafe, Lafayette, LA, 9/94.
Blue Reading, Cafe 101, Lafayette, LA, 4/94.
City Cafe, Lafayette, LA, 10/93.
Cafe des Artistes, Lafayette, LA, 10/92.
Writers Harvest for the Homeless Benefit, Lafayette, LA, 9/92.
Cafe des Artistes, Lafayette, LA, 3/92.
Deep South Writers Conference, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 9/91.
Hemingway's Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA, 4/91.
Academic Service:
8/00-pres Coordinator of Composition, Division of LLP, KSU.
3/03-pres Member, English Major Committee, Division of LLP, KSU
3/00-pres Evaluator, Education Program Application Review (TEP), KSU.
8/98-pres Member, LLP Creative Arts Club/ Recruitment Committee, Division
of LLP, KSU.
8/98-pres Faculty Advisor, Kentucky River Literary Magazine, Division of LLP,
KSU.
8/04-10/04 Chair, Division of LLP Tenure and Promotion Committee, KSU.
1/04-5/04 Member, Division of LLP Search Committe, KSU.
6/03-12/03 Member, Liberal Studies Core Curriculum Committee, KSU
5/02-4/03 Member, KPA Conference 2003 Host Committee, Division of LLP, KSU
8/01-5/02 Member, Student Life Planning Committee, KSU.
8/01-5/02 Textbook Committee, Division of LLP, KSU.
1/01-/03 Member, Institute for Liberal Studies Conference Committee, KSU.
8/00-5/01 Member, Professional Concerns Committee, KSU.
8/00-12/00 Member, University Program Review Committee, KSU.
8/00-12/00 Member, Political Science Senior Thesis Committee for Eric Smith,
KSU.
1/00-5/00 Member, Search Committee for Dean of College of Arts and Sciences,
KSU.
9/99-5/03 Member, First Year Experience Advisory Board, KSU.
8/98-5/00 Chair, LLP Composition Committee, KSU.
5/98-5/00 Division of LLP Senator, KSU Faculty Senate.
1/98-5/98 Member, Whitney Young College Senior Thesis Committee for Erika
Quarles, KSU.
8/97-12/98 Editor, SACS Editorial Board, KSU Accreditation Self-Study Report.
8/97-5/02 Judge, Rising Junior Exam, Division of LLP, KSU.
8/97-5/98 Member, LLP Textbook Committee, KSU.
8/97-5/98 Member, LLP Composition Committee, KSU.
3/98 LLP Representative, KSU Open House for HS Seniors.
1/92-12/95 Liaison between UL's Creative Writing Program and Lafayette area
high schools.
Professional Service:
Session Chair, Gender II Session, Popular Culture in the South/American Culture
in the South Conference, New Orleans, LA. 9/04.
Session Chair, Social Class Issues in Literature, Kentucky Philological Association
Conference, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, 3/04.
Forum Member, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Forum for Professors of
American Art and Literature, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 9/03.
Session Chair, Institute for Liberal Studies Conference, Kentucky State University,
Frankfort, KY, 4/03.
Session Chair, Poetry, Kentucky Philological Association Conference, Kentucky
State University, Frankfort, KY, 3/03.
Reader/Judge, 2002 Frankfort Arts Foundation Leadingham Poetry Contest.
Session Chair, Victorian Literature, Kentucky Philological Association Conference,
Ashland Community College, Ashland, KY, 3/02.
Book Reviewer, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Bedford/St. Martin’s
Press, 5/00.
Session Chair, African Literature and Culture, Southern Interdisciplinary
Roundtable for African Studies Conference, Kentucky State University, Frankfort,
KY, 4/00.
Book Reviewer, Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers, Longman Publishing, 5/99.
Member, Frankfort Arts Foundation Board of Directors, 1999-2000.
Reader, 1998 Frankfort Arts Foundation Anthology in Honor of Henry Leadingham.
Memberships:
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Modern Language Association
The American Society for Aesthetics Association for Integrative Studies
American Folklore Society
Kentucky Philological Association
References:
Dr. George Shields, Chair, Division of Literature, Languages, & Philosophy,
Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY, 40601, (502) 597-6991.
Dr. Willard Fox, P. O. Box 44691, Professor of English, Department of English, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, (337) 482-5491.
Dr. Marcia Gaudet, Department Head, Department of English, P. O. Box 44691,
University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 70504, (337) 482-5505.
Dr. James McDonald, Graduate Coordinator, Department of English, P. O. Box
44691, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, (337) 482-6117.
Dr. Joseph Andriano, Professor of English, Department of English, P. O. Box 44691, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 70504, (337) 482-5465.
Credentials: A complete dossier is available. Contact: Career Services, University of Louisiana, Box 41730, Lafayette, LA, 70504, (337) 262-5300.
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