124 Humanities
University of Minnesota, Morris
Morris, Minnesota 56267
Work Phone: 320-589-6257
E-mail: manolis@morris.umn.edu

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, May 1999. Thesis: The Same Cold Water Pushing Us Forward, a collection of poetry.

Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1994. Honors Thesis: Dancing the Kariotiko, a collection of poetry and a personal narrative.

TEACHING AND ADVISING

Teaching Experience and Courses Taught

Instructor, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, Minnesota, 2000-present. Courses taught include Introduction to Creative Writing (multi-genre), College Writing (first-year composition), and Fundamentals of Writing (remedial writing). All courses are taught in conjunction with a service learning project in which students plan activities for residents of a long-term care facility who suffer from Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia and write a series of journals and essays about the experience. Creative writing students write found poetry from the residents' words. More than 150 students have participated in this project, and more than 300 poems have been collected.

Faculty Associate, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1999-2000. Courses taught include English 101 (narrative and observational writing), English 102 (argument and research-based writing), Business and Technical Writing, Writing in the Disciplines (academic, discipline-specific research-based writing).

Adjunct Faculty, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Gilbert, Arizona, 1999-2000. Courses taught include English 101 (narrative and observational writing) and English 102 (argument and research-based writing).

Adjunct Faculty, South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, 1999-2000. Taught first-year composition to at risk high school juniors and seniors.

Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1996-1999. Courses taught include Introduction to Creative Writing-poetry, English 101, English 102, Personal and Exploratory Writing, and Writing about Public Issues.

Advising and Instruction-Related University Activities

Minority Mentorship Program Mentor to one student working on fiction, fall 2001 and spring 2002.
Supervisor for Morris Academic Partner who pursued research related to the Alzheimer's Service Learning Project, summer and fall 2001, spring 2002.
Directed Study, Advanced Expository Writing about Service Learning, with one student, spring 2002.
Directed Study, Expository Writing about Service Learning, with four students, spring 2002.
Conducted three workshops for University Register, campus newspaper, fall 2001.
Directed Study, Writing and Editing Oral Histories, with two students, fall 2001.
Directed Study, Found Poetry and Service Learning, with nine students, fall 2001 and spring 2002.
Presentation about found poetry in Analysis of Poetry course, April 2001.
Directed Study, Essay Writing, with one student, Spring 2001.
Supervisor for Student Employee who helped facilitate the Alzheimer's Service Learning Project during its first year, fall 2000 and spring 2001.
Safe Haven Training, Spring 2001.
Intergenerational Communication Workshop, Blandin Foundation, Spring 2001.
Directed Study, Writing Children's Literature, with Leane Perius, Fall 2000.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Editor, F&W Publications, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994-1996
Intern, F&W Publications, Cincinnati, Ohio, summer 1993.
Intern, Contemporary Long-Term Care Magazine, spring 1993.
Intern, Coin World, summer 1992.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND HONORS

Professional Organization Memberships:
Associated Writing Programs

Professional Honors and Awards:
Minnesota Student Services Award for service learning, 2000.
Learn and Serve Mini-Grant for Service Learning, Fall 2000 and Spring 2001
Honorable Mention, Human Equity for the Arts poetry contest, 2000

Graduate Honors and Awards:
Mammoth Press Poetry Award, 1999
Honorable Mention, Associated Writing Programs Intro Awards, Fiction, 1998
Graduate Academic Scholarship, 1996-1999
Graduate College Travel Grant, 1997
English Department Travel Grant, 1997
Collaborative Teaching Service Award, 1997, 1998

SCHOLARLY, PROFESSIONAL, AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

Articles:
"Writing the Community: Found Poetry and Service Learning," accepted in spring 2001 for Cultivating Our Voices, a book about creative writing pedagogy.
"The Writer as Witness: An Interview with Demetria Martinez," Hayden's Ferry Review, Issue 24, Spring/Summer 1999.

Poems:
"On the Day After Any Party in the World," forthcoming in Mochila Review.
"My Father's Secret," poem, forthcoming in an anthology of poems about Ohio from Akron University Press.
"Coffee" and "Agios Phanourios," poems, forthcoming in Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry.
"Loving in Secret: Daphne and Artemis," poem, forthcoming in Mockingbird.
"Luna Park," "Leaving Ikaria," and "Fishing for Kalamari," poems, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Volume 25, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2000.
"Erasure of the Mother Tongue," poem, Human Equity Through the Arts Journal, Volume 3, Number 4, Spring 2000.
"This is a Story About Finding Our Way" and "Waltzing to the Scent of Blood," poems, anteup, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1999.

Conference Papers and Presentations

"Storytelling and Community Development," panel with UMM students Erin Scherbring and Kate Perdoni and Villa of St. Francis Activity Director Lisa Denzer on service learning methodology in composition and creative writing, will be presented at the National Service Learning Conference, 2002.

"Beyond the Workshop, Beyond the University: Found Poetry and Service Learning," panel with UMM students Annie Olson and Nicole Zanin on service learning in creative writing and what found poetry reveals about community, will be presented at the Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, 2002.

"Service Learning in Morris, MN," Presentation at the Blandin Foundation Annual Community Celebration.

"Service Learning as a Community Development Tool," panel at the International Rural Development Summit, summer 2001.

Poster, "Voices on the Prairie: Found Poetry and Service Learning," Invisible College Conference, summer 2001.

"An Intergenerational Service Learning Project: Perspectives from Instructor, Community Partner, and Students," Minnesota Service Learning Conference, April 2001.

"What They Took With Them On the Road: From the MFA to Antarctica," panel on post-graduate teaching, research, and writing opportunities, to be presented in a panel discussion at the Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, April 2001.

"The Teacher-Student Dynamic and the Exploration of Queer Issues in the Classroom," panel on Queer Issues in composition classrooms, presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1999.

"Writing With Alzheimer's Patients: An Outreach Program," panel on creative writing outreach opportunities, presented at Associated Writing Programs Conference, 1999.

"What We Talk About When We Stop Talking About Craft," presented as part of the pedagogy forum, Associated Writing Programs Conference, 1998.

Artistic Presentations and Exhibitions
Reader and Co-Organizer, Poetry and Jazz Night, Morris, MN, March 2002.
Reader, Martin Luther King Jr. Poetry Reading, Morris, MN, January 2001 and January 2002.
Featured poet, University of Minnesota-Morris poetry reading, Morris, Minnesota, 2000.
Featured poet, Lesbian Resource Center Reading, Phoenix, Arizona, 1998.
Featured poet, Arizona State University Creative Writing Series Reading, Tempe, Arizona, 1997.
Featured poet, Women Writing for (A) Change Reading, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1996.
Featured poet, Bisbee Poetry Festival, Bisbee, Arizona, 1991.

Theatrical Performances
Performer, The Vagina Monologues performance at University of Minnesota, Morris, Minnesota, 2001, 2002.
Performer, The Circle and the Light: A Performance Poetry Piece, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995.

Grants Received
Learn and Serve Mini-Grant from Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Fall 2000 and Spring 2001

SERVICE

Facilitator, Laramie Project discussion, March 2002.
Faculty Advisor for Chronicle Alternative, campus literary magazine, Fall 2001-present.
Teaching and Learning in the Liberal Arts Presentation for Parents of Prospective Students, August 2001.
Faculty-Student Panel for Prospective Students, UMM, April 2001.
Chair, Queer Issues Subcommittee of the Student Services Committee, UMM, Fall 2000-Spring 2002.
Faculty Advisor for E-Quality, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied student organization, Spring 2001-present.
Member, Service Learning Project Team of the Faculty Center for Learning and Teaching, UMM, Spring 2001-present.
Secretary, Stevens County American Cancer Society, August 2000-August 2001.
Tutor, Literacy Volunteers of America, August 1999-December 2000.