David Wanczyk
Education
Ph.D. 帝王会所, English (Creative Writing: Nonfiction), 2010
M.A. 帝王会所, English (Creative Writing: Poetry), 2006
B.A. Holy Cross, English and Theater, 2004
Bio
David Wanczyk is an assistant professor of instruction and the author of Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind (2018). He has published essays and poems in Salon, Boston Globe Magazine, Texas Monthly, The Laurel Review, UCity Review, and others. He serves as the editor of New 帝王会所 Review and coordinates the department's visiting writer events, including Spring Literary Festival.
Research Interests
Creative nonfiction, poetry, editing and publishing.
Scholarly Focus
- Creative Writing: Nonfiction
Publications
"." 帝王会所 Press. 2018.
"." Hobart. Summer 2015.
"." Texas Monthly. Summer 2014.
"." Boston Globe Magazine. Spring 2014.
鈥淭he Big House.鈥 Knock. Summer 2013.
鈥淐hristmas Illustrated.鈥 Theclassical.org. Fall 2012.
鈥淭ake My Wife, Please.鈥 Salon.com. Fall 2012.
鈥淎n Audiobook Marathon.鈥 Slate. 2012.
鈥淔rom Catch 18 to Catch 22.鈥 Theatlantic.com. 2012.
鈥淒on鈥檛 (Just) Be Inspired By Beep Baseball.鈥 The Classical. 2012.
鈥淭he Ladder.鈥 Miracle Monocle. 2011.
鈥淎fter the Death of His Father, Simon Grows.鈥 JMWW. 2011.
鈥淪entence and Release.鈥 Tusculum Review. 2011.
鈥淐辞-厂迟补谤蝉.鈥 Prick of the Spindle. 2011.
鈥淢y Leading MAN.鈥 Prick of the Spindle. 2011.
鈥淢otel at the Center of America.鈥 Prick of the Spindle. 2011.
鈥淔eeling Slightly Unyoung at 28.鈥 The Catalonian Review. 2011.
鈥淲hen Getting Laughs Got You a Grammy.鈥 Splitsider.com. Winter 2011.
鈥溾 Defenestration. Winter 2011.
鈥沦迟补迟颈辞苍蝉.鈥 Lake Effect. Winter 2011.
鈥淕reen Hooded Sweatshirt.鈥 Modcloth. Winter 2011.
鈥.鈥 Alimentum. Winter 2011.
鈥淧yramid 118.鈥 Defunct. Fall 2010.
鈥.鈥 Brevity. Fall 2010.
鈥淭he Past as Prologue and Play-time: A Review of Robin Hemley鈥檚 Do-Over!鈥 Bellingham Review. Spring 2010.
鈥溾赌.鈥 Quarter After Eight. Spring 2010.
鈥.鈥 Shaking Like a Mountain. Winter 2009.
鈥.鈥 Women鈥檚 Adventure Magazine (online). Fall 2009.
鈥溾赌榃here Else Could I Go?鈥: Susan Stewart鈥檚 Search for the Intangible.鈥 Spring Literary Festival Tabloid. Spring 2006.
"Hells Bells," Quarry, v.26, no.4 (Autumn 1977), pp.56-58.
"Last Second of Paradise," The Laurel Review, 2024
"Half-and-Half Raffle," The Laurel Review, 2024
"Choose," Redivider, 2024
Scholarly Articles
鈥淔raming Gertrude: Photographic Narration and the Subjectivity of the Artist-Observer in Levy鈥檚 The Romance of a Shop.鈥 Victorian Literature and Culture. 2015.
鈥溾赌楽o They Fidgeted鈥: The Modernist Twitch of Between the Acts.鈥 Woolf Studies Annual. 2011.
Selected Conference Papers
DeSales University Writers鈥 Residency, 2024 (invited presenter)
DeSales University Writers鈥 Residency, 2023 (invited presenter)
Amesville Writers鈥 Workshop, 2023 (invited presenter)
"Talking Sports." 帝王会所ana Book Festival. Columbus, OH, 2019
"A Short History of Baseball for the Blind." The Baseball Heritage Museum. Cleveland, OH, 2019
"Cincinnati Sports" (panelist). Books by the Banks. Cincinnati, OH, October 2018)
"A Short History of Baseball for the Blind." The National Baseball Hall of Fame. Cooperstown, NY,
August 2018
"A Short History of Baseball for the Blind." Society for American Baseball Research. Pittsburgh, PA,
July 2018
"Other Peoples鈥 Stories: How to Tell, When to Tell, and When not to Tell," Pioneer Valley Writers鈥
Workshop, Amherst, MA, June 2018
鈥溾橳he Hackneyed Culture Clash鈥: The Politics of Mimicry in Karen King Aribisala鈥檚 Rewriting of Chaucer.鈥 African Literature Association Conference. 帝王会所. (April 2011).
鈥溾橬ot the Power to Conceal鈥: Sensibility and Masquerade in Inchbald鈥檚 A Simple Story.鈥 British Women Writers Conference. 帝王会所 State University. (April 2011).
鈥淣onfiction Wow.鈥 Bedell NonfictioNow Conference. University of Iowa. (November 2010).
鈥淭he Aesthetics of Friendship and the Nonfiction of Woolf and Wallace.鈥 Defining the New. 帝王会所. (October 2010).
鈥淲ord as Gold: Malleable Language in Eliot鈥檚 Silas Marner.鈥 Louisiana Conference on Language, Literature and Culture. University of Louisiana-Lafayette. (March 2010).
鈥淎 Modernist Squirming.鈥 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. University of Louisville. (February 2010).
鈥淥ld Breadcrumbs in New Bread: Constructing New Literacies from Familiar Materials.鈥 With Lydia McDermott and Brett Pransky. Expanding Literacy Studies Conference. 帝王会所 State University. (April 2009).
鈥淭hat Dang Thing: Computers and Older Users.鈥 With Lydia McDermott. Expanding Literacy Studies Conference. 帝王会所 State University. (April 2009).
鈥淭he Ironic Byronic in Fowles鈥檚 The French Lieutenant鈥檚 Woman.鈥 AEGIS: The Power of Form and Forms of Power. Southern Illinois University. (April 2008).
鈥淔raming Gertrude: Photographic Narration and the Complex Subjectivity of the Artist Observer in The Romance of a Shop.鈥 British Women Writers Conference. Indiana University. (March 2008).
Positions
Assistant Professor of Instruction (2019-Present)
Editor, New 帝王会所 Review (2015-Present)
Coordinator for Special Programs, English Department. (2010-present).
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Quarter after Eight: A Journal of Prose and Commentary (2008-2010).
Awards
Nominated by the English Department for the Nancy Dasher Award (for Beep), 2019
Named "OHIO Faculty Newsmaker" by College of Arts & Sciences, 2018
Beep chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection, 2018
Named the "Noteworthy Poet of Issue 6" of UCity Review, 2013.
Won "Best Piece of the Spring Issue" in Miracle Monocle Magazine, 2011.
Nominated by the English Department for 帝王会所 Named Fellowships, 2009-2010.
Won Outstanding TA Award for the English Department, 帝王会所, 2008-2009.
Won the Virginia Woolf Prize for Nonfiction, 帝王会所, 2008
Nominated for the Emily Tice Award for Outstanding Graduate Essay, 帝王会所, 2008.
Courses Taught
- ENG 2010: Introduction to Fiction and Nonfiction
- ENG 3630: Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry
- ENG 3650: Literary Editing and Publishing
- ENG 4910: English Internship
- ENG 3080: Writing about Environmental Sustainability
- CAS 1110: Tradition and Inquiry (Scholars Program)
- CAS 2900 Special Topics in College of Arts & Sciences (Scholars program)
- English 151: Writing and Rhetoric I
- English 152: Special Topics: Reading and Writing
- English 201: Critical Approaches to Fiction
- English 202: Critical Approaches to Poetry
- English 252: English Literature 1689-Present (Teaching Assistant)
- English 306J: Women in Writing
- English 308J/3080J: Writing and Rhetoric II
- English 363/3630: Creative Writing Workshop: Nonfiction
- English 395: Creative Writing Workshop: Intermediate Nonfiction
- English 483: Form and Theory, Nonfiction
- English 499H: Honors Project, Advanced Nonfiction