NICHOLAS JAMES WHITTINGTON
n.j.whittington@gmail.com
Education
Ph.D., Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz – ABD
Creative/Critical Concentration, Dissertation-in-progress: Community of Inquiry: New College Poetics, 1980-1987
M.A., Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2017
M.F.A., Creative Writing, San Francisco State University, 2014
B.A., American Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007
Relevant Experience
Associate Instructor, 2015-present
University of California, Santa Cruz
Courses: Introduction to Creative Writing; Intermediate Poetry Writing
Teaching Assistant, 2014-present
University of California, Santa Cruz
Courses: British Cannon; Theory and Interpretation: Post-Colonial Theory; Theory and Interpretation: Lov(in)g Theory; Topics in American Culture: The Road Novel; Contemplative Reading; American Poetry Since World War II: Contemporary Eco-Poetry;
Editor, 2016-present
SLUG.DOCS chapbook series
University of California, Santa Cruz
Editor, 2009-present
AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review, and Bird & Beckett Books
Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project, San Francisco, CA
Grant Writer / Consultant, 2008-present
Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project, San Francisco, CA
Publication Credits
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, REVIEWS
“Daily Vivisection: On Lisa Jarnot’s Joie de Vivre,” in Galatea Resurrects #22, June 2014
“Obscurity, Contense, and Other Thoughts,” in AMERARCANA 2011
POETRY
Books and Chapbooks: Creances (Bootstrap, forthcoming, 2018); Provisions (PUSH, 2017); Indefinite Sessions (Gas Meter, 2016); Scoria (Bird & Beckett, 2012); Slough (Bird & Beckett, 2010)
Selected Magazines and Anthologies: Ambush Review; AMERARCANA; Beatitude; Beloit Poetry Journal; Big Bell; Dusie; Emerald Tablet; Felucca; Flying Fish; Greetings; HamsterRad; High Noon; Illuminations; Marginalia; New American Poetry; Oxalis; Ping Pong; Poems by Sunday; Polis: Este Jardín; spoKe; StreetNotes