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Mark LaRue Mark LaRue received an MA
in English from Syracuse University and is a Northeastern native who wandered
to the Southwest, where he lived a desultory life before picking up and
settling down to complete doctoral studies at UL Lafayette. He's taught
part-time at four or five colleges, has written poems since he was 16 or so,
though has no memory of that year, has published some of them, in APR
and in other places, and has submitted some of them, from a recent chapbook,
to this website. Though some in his current profession have suggested he is
in the FBI Witness Protection Program, he neither confirms nor denies. |
Mark LaRue So Far
EDUCATION
University
of Louisiana at Lafayette, doctoral study (University Fellowship)
University of Houston – doctoral
study
Syracuse
University – MA English, Creative Writing (1984)
Syracuse
University – BA English (1980)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Assistant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Fall
‘01: Freshman Composition
Teaching Fellow, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Fall
‘99—Spring ‘00: Sophomore Creative Writing and Early American Literature
Lecturer, University of
Houston—Downtown, Spring ‘90—Spring ‘98: Freshman and Fundamentals Composition,
native and non-native speakers courses, fundamentals tutoring, computer
assisted instruction, participation in curriculum design and peer tutor
training in Fundamentals program
Tutor, Writing Center, University of Houston—Downtown, Spring
‘97—Spring ‘98
Tutor, Houston Community College, Fall ‘95—Summer ‘98
Grader, University of Houston, Central Testing Services, Fall
‘97—Summer ‘98, evaluating foreign speakers’ spoken facility
Proctor, TOEFL, University of Houston, Spring ‘98
Instructor of English, part-time, Houston Community College,
Summer ‘86—Summer ‘98: Freshman and Fundamentals Composition, Sophomore
English, computer assisted instruction
Lecturer, University of Houston—University Park, Fall ‘89—Spring
‘93, Fall ‘96—Summer ‘98: variety of Sophomore English, Freshman English,
Fundamentals Composition,
native and non-native speakers courses, Honors sections; computer assisted
instruction
Tutor, University of Houston English Department Computer Writing
Lab, Fall ‘91— Spring ‘92
Teaching Assistant, University of Houston, Fall ‘84—Summer ‘89:
Sophomore and Freshman English, Fundamentals Composition, including some
non-native speakers courses
Grader, University of Houston Art Department, Summer ‘87—Fall
‘89; also served as supervisor on team of four graders
Teacher/Writer, Writers in the Schools Program, Houston, Texas,
Fall ‘87, ‘88: teaching creative writing in local public elementary schools
Instructor of English, part-time, Syracuse University, Spring
‘83—Spring ‘84: Freshman English
Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University, Spring ‘81—Fall ‘82:
Freshman English
Tutor, Syracuse University Academic Support Center, Fall
‘78—Spring ‘79
PUBLICATION
Poems, JAMA (Journal of the AMA), 2001 or 2002
Poems,
self-created chapbook, computer layout, 2001
Poems, Southwestern Review, 2001, 2000, 1999
Poem, Gulf Coast magazine, Summer ‘95
Poem, American Poetry Review, Sep/Oct ‘93
Poem, American Poetry Review, Nov/Dec ‘92
Poem,
Honorable Mention: ‘90 Billee Murray Denny Award, anthology publication
Poems, Gulf Coast magazine, Winter ‘89, Fall
‘87
AWARDS
University
Fellowship, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Fall ‘98—Summer ‘01
Felix
Voorhies Creative Writing Award, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Spring
‘00
Honorable
Mention: Billee Murray Denny Awards, poetry, ‘90
EDITORIAL / PRESENTATION EXPERIENCE
Editor, Chapbook of the
Deep South Writers Conference 1999, computer layout
Readings recently: UL Graduate Student Series: October ‘98,
March ‘00, April ‘01
Assistant Editor, Southwestern
Review magazine, 2000
Judge and coordinator of
judges, creative and expository entries in St. Martin Parish School District
Language Arts Fair Writing Contest, grades 7 through 12, Sp. ‘99
Administrative assistance, Deep South Festival of Writers 1999
Reader, Deep South
Festival of Writers, Fall ‘99
Member, AEIGIS Committee, Spring ‘90: selecting participants in University of Houston English Department annual graduate level academic conference
Editor, Gulf Coast
magazine, Spring/Summer ‘88
Sales / Distribution (to local bookstores, galleries), Gulf Coast magazine, ‘88 —‘89
Member, Gulf Coast
magazine Advisory Board, Summer ‘88—Spring ‘89
Mark LaRue on UL-Lafayette
As you've likely heard by
now, the UL Lafayette experience is part UL and part Lafayette. The Lafayette
part has to do mainly with the Acadiana culture; these people have made festivals
out of anything that moves—frogs, ducks, eggs, crawfish . . . and especially
Louisiana's varietal music. Attending all of these festivals has been
time-consuming, it's true, but that's the good part. The UL side of my
experience has been composed of literary study, of course, and also of a useful
environment for writing. Small, friendly, positive workshops and big-hearted,
open-minded writing professors create an atmosphere that encourages output.
I've gotten serious work done here.
See a Sample of Mark LaRue’s Poetry
Creative
Writing Home Page
Go to the UL Lafayette Creative Writing Anthology
This site designed and maintained by The Creative Writing
Concentration of the English Department of the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette.
To contact us by mail: Director of Creative Writing, English
Department, Box 44691, UL-Lafayette, Lafayette LA 70504-4691; by telephone,
337-482-5478;
by email, jlm8047@louisiana.edu.
Last updated: May 1, 2001.