David Kress
Assistant Professor of English
307 Neville Hall
(207) 581-3815
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***Office Hours for Spring 2009: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:30.***
Introduction:
Frame, from which all things spring but about which we can never know even a single thing—all my writing, teaching, and time spent by the grill are attempts to weigh this nothing, to trace its effects, its heft, its hem and haw.
Education:
PhD Twentieth Century American Literature, Penn State University, 2001
MFA, Fiction Writing, Penn State University, 1995
MA, English, University of New Hampshire, 1986
BA, English, University of Connecticut, 1980
Professional Experience:
Research chemist, musician, forklift operator, musician, technical writer, musician, editor.
Time at University of Maine:
Since fall 2005
Courses Taught:
Graduate
ENG 505: Graduate Creative Writing Workshop
ENG 507: Graduate Writing Workshop - Fiction Writing
ENG 529: Studies in Literature - A Postscript to Transgression
ENG 529: Studies in Literature - Gravity's Rainbow
ENG 546: Modern American Literature
Undergraduate
ENG 205: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 229: Topics in Literature - Hopscotch to Oblivion: Dark Humor in American Fiction
ENG 307: Writing Fiction
ENG 405: Topics in Creative Writing - Altered Texts
ENG 406: Advanced Creative Writing
ENG 407: Advanced Fiction Writing
ENG 429: Topics in Literature - The State(s) of the Novel in World English
ENG 440: Major American Writers
ENG 444 : Contemporary American Fiction - Twenty-First Century Novels
HON 314: Honors Tutorial
Selected Works:
Counting Zero, a novel, 1999
Martians, a creature 2004
Glorified, a novel 2008 (forthcoming)
Current Research:
A novel about Mark Twain, Friedrich Nietzsche, and baseball
Short fiction about carnivorism, vivisection, and terrorism
Short fiction about soccer and revolution
A series of nature proems
Critical work on intersections between science and literature
Critical work on nothing, anonymity, and amnesia
Current Activities:
Chair, Speakers and Events Committee
Steering Committee, New Writing Series
Faculty Advisor to Stolen Island Review and The Beggar
Interests:
Kimchi, sailing, world barbecue, the 1962 Ford Falcon, Frame, model airplanes, painting
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