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Jared Pearce
Jared spent most of his youth in Anaheim, California in a racially diverse community with easy access to beaches, mountains, and deserts, cultural and sporting events, and Hollywood’s and Disney’s imaginations, and spent many summers and winters on his grandfather’s ranch in northwestern Colorado where he experienced first hand the cycle of seasons and some of the starker and more beautiful realities of animal, vegetal, ecological, and human existence. He credits living in Utah and Louisiana with contributing to his appreciation of the world and the beings in it, whether in the caves and summits of Timpanogos and the Black Box Narrows or the crowded New Orleans streets and muddy waters of the bayous. Interacting with people in and of various environs has helped make him aware of the beauties and wonders that exist everywhere, and the vital importance of recognizing and enjoying such luminous existences. But his interests extend beyond the natural world to the philosophical and mythic ideas and stories that help weld planet, individual, and community. He and his wife of seven years, Jaime, have three sons, Washington, Soren, and Elijah. |
Jared Pearce So Far
Education
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana;
University Fellow, August 2000 to May 2003.
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; MA in English with emphasis
in Victorian Literature; awarded August 2000, BA in English; awarded April
1998.
Teaching
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, English Department,
Lafayette, Louisiana. Introduction to Creative Writing, January through May
2002; British Literature Survey, 1800-Present, August through December 2001.
Brigham Young University, English Department, Provo, Utah.
Teaching Intern for Dr. Susan Howe, Poetry Writing, Fall Semester, 1999;
Freshman Composition, August 98 through August 2000. Teaching Substitute for:
Dr. David Cowles, Victorian Lit. Oct, 98; Rachael Lott, Literature and Theory.
Sept. 99. Instructed students in critical theory and its application to
literature.
Publications and
Writing Contests
2001 “Architecture” (poem), LACC second place.
2000 “Chastity” (poem), Breech (Winter).
2000 “Breakfast Catechism” (poem), Inscape (Winter).
1999 “Dialectic #4” (poem), Journal of New England Writers
(Fall).
1999 “A Look at People Inside Their Tombs” (fiction), KBYU
(Spring).
Conferences and Readings
2000 “Inbetween” (poetry). Brigham Young University conference: The
Ethics of Identity.
1999 “Autumn Poems” (poetry). Brigham Young University’s
Reading Series.
1999 “Art and Belief: Religion, Philosophy, and Poetics” (poetry).
University of Oklahoma conference: Hybridity: Between Identities, Cultures,
Genres, and Disciplines.
1999 “Kierkegaard and Albuquerque and Other Poems” (poetry).
Brigham Young University conference: Community and Text.
1999 “Silent Voices,” “Research Radio,” and “Chess as Party
Game.” Brigham Young University Teaching Fair.
Research
1998 Research Assistant, Dr. David Cowles. Research topics
included: Robert Browning, the Pope in Browning’s The Ring and the Book,
the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the study of liminality in literature.
Activities
2001 Thesis Club President. June to December. Led graduate
students in discussing concerns and insights regarding teaching, preparing for
foreign language and comprehensive exams, and prospectus, thesis, dissertation,
and article writing.
2001 Deep South Festival of Writers. July to October. Assisted
faculty in acquiring funding for the festival, and also assisted at various
venues during the festival.
2000 Internship: Interdisciplinary Graduate Coordinator. January
to April. Formulated interdisciplinary graduate council goals and purposes.
Coordinated information between graduate student departments for BYU.
1999-2000 Graduate Student Association President. Liaison
between graduate students and English department faculty; organized and
sponsored a graduate conference, and other activities.
1999-2000 Creative Writing Editor and Co-Founder of Amalgamation
(an on-line graduate student journal). Formulated journal’s purpose and goals, helped
maintain website, and edited creative writing submissions.
2000 WIM (Weekly Instructor Meeting) Leader. Led group of
graduate instructors in weekly discussion of teaching ideas, approaches,
problems, and successes.
1999-2000Thesis Club Vice President. Assisted graduate students
in planning, researching, and writing prospectuses, theses, and applications to
graduate programs.
2002 Member of the UL Lafayette Graduate Conference Committee.
Reviewed submissions for presentations at the conference.
1998 Member of the BYU Graduate Conference Committee. Helped
organize various aspects of the BYU Graduate Conference.
1997-2002 Community Religion Instructor. Weekly class
instructing youth and adults in Bible hermeneutics.
1992-94 National Representative for Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. Covered the Great Lakes area, portions of Missouri,
Colorado, and California teaching Bible hermeneutics, coaching youth programs
(sports, service projects, etc.), and serving religious and civil communities
in various capacities.
Special Skills
2001-2002 Judge for the Region IV Social Studies Fair. Judged
student presentations for advancement to the State competition.
1998 Editor for Insight, BYU’s Honors Journal. Worked
with authors to prepare manuscripts for print.
1997 Editor for BYU’s Independent Study. Edited manuscripts and
worked with instructors to prepare university and High school-level
correspondence courses.
1996-2000 Weekly written business report for Oak Plus Furniture.
Eagle Scout.
Jared Pearce on
UL Lafayette
The Creative Writing Program at UL
Lafayette is great. Before I came here my poems were starting to sound very
much the same, and that sound was tired. For me one of the greatest aspects of
UL Lafayette’s Creative Writing Program is the openness of the faculty and
students toward experimentation. My first workshop here encouraged me to
experiment with rhythms, transitions, and the manipulation of ideas through
space in ways I was reluctant to before, and such freedoms, although not
necessarily always successful, always contributed to my understanding of
poetics and my store of poetic techniques. As far as my writing is concerned, I
feel that my coming to UL Lafayette has benefited me in ways that will resonate
through all my future writing by facing me not toward the acceptable norms of
poetry, but toward more uncharted fields of creative endeavor.
Also, the general degree
requirements are helpful in understanding historic trends and contexts in
artistic writing. I think I’ve always been a bit of a generalist, and the
degree programs here allow and require students to study several genres over
several historic periods. Such contextualization grants a more full view of one’s
present art, techniques, and position in the greater artistic tradition.
Read a Sample of Jared Pearce’s Poetry
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Last updated: May 1, 2002.