Work Experience State University of New York

[Pages:4]Thomas DeMarchi

10501 FGCU Blvd. Fort Myers, FL 33965 Office: (239) 590-7421 tdemarch@fgcu.edu

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Work Experience

Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL Instructor, College of Arts & Sciences

State University of New York ? Cortland, NY Professional Academic Tutor/Supplemental Instruction Supervisor Adjunct Professor of Composition

Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY Adjunct Professor of Composition

Florida International University, Miami, FL Adjunct Professor/Teaching Assistant

California State University ? Fresno, CA Teaching Assistant Writing Tutor

Merrimack College, North Andover, MA Writing Tutor

August 2004--Present

January 2000--July 2004 January 1999--December 1999

January 1999--May 1999

August 1996--May 1998

August 1995--May 1996 August 1994--May 1996

August 1992--May 1993

Writing Courses:

Courses Taught

Composition 1 & 2; Expository Writing; Business Writing; Advanced Fiction Writing; Professional Writing; Introduction to Literature; Intro to Creative Writing; Special Topics: Sanibel Island Writers Conference; Narrative Techniques; Writing Theory & Practice. Developed syllabi crafted for courses on logic, analysis, creativity, imagination, critical thinking, persuasion, and writing fundamentals, tailored to varying ability levels, using prose models, films, speakers, and PowerPoint technology to develop skills. Classes conducted according to workshop paradigm, inclusive, discussion-based. Goals and standards expressed clearly from day one and reinforced through consistent written and verbal comments.

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Education

Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing--Florida International University, 2001 Thesis: Evolution and Eleven Other Stories.

Master of Arts, English, Creative Writing--California State University - Fresno, 1996 Thesis: Locked In: A Novel.

Bachelor of Arts, English--Merrimack College, 1993 Associate of Arts, Liberal Arts--North Shore Community College, 1990

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Publications

? "Mobius Strips" (short story reprint). The Best Small Fictions: 2019 Anthology. Edited by Rilla Askew and Nathan Leslie. Sonder Press, November 5, 2019. ISBN: 978-0999750162

? Mobius Strips and Other Stories. Rain Chain Press. 2019. ISBN-13: 978-0-9888978-2-3 ? "Mobius Strips" (short story, reprint). Flash! Writing the Very Short Story. Norton & Norton. 2018. ? "Milk of Magnesia" (short story). Flash! Writing the Very Short Story. Norton & Norton. 2018. ? "Inside Aisles" (short story). Cheap Pop.

aisles-tom-demarchi. March 18, 2014. ? "Conference Scene" (interview/conference spotlight). Writer's Digest. October 2013. 62-63. ? "When Good Words Rise to the Top" (interview). Florida Weekly. August 2013. ? "Flash Interview." Flash Fiction. .

June 2012. ? "Fog" (short story). Belletrist Coterie. Issue 1. Spring 2012. ? "An Interview with John K. Samson." Belletrist Coterie. Issue 1. Spring 2012. ? "Old Sneakers" (short story). Tigertail, A South Florida Annual: Florida Flash. 2011. ? "The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #36: Tom DeMarchi in Conversation with Angie Lucas." The

Rumpus. December 29, 2010. ? "Drooling Fanatic: An Interview with Steve Almond." Bibliobuffet. June 2010. ? "Birdman" (short story). The Pinch. Vol. 29.2, Spring 2009. ? "Writers Write: An Interview with John Dufresne." The Southeast Review. Vol. 27.1, Spring 2009. ? "An Interview with Henry Rollins." Gulf Stream Magazine Online. Issue 29.1. December 2008. ? "Mobius Strips" (short story). Quick Fiction. Issue 14. Fall 2008. ? "Behind the Scenes: Building the Sanibel Writers Conference." The Southeast Review. August 2008. ? "An Interview with Richard Grayson." Florida Book Review. January 2008. ? Monthly restaurant reviews for Gulfshore Life Magazine. 2006-2012. ? "It's Like Razor Blades Out There: An Interview with AC/DC's Cliff Williams." Gulfshore Life.

April 2007. ? "Rhythm and Clues." Gulfshore Life. January 2007. ? "Convocation: The Long and Short of It." Eagle News. Fall 2006. ? "Ruby, My Dear (short story)." Street Weekly/Miami Herald. July 2004. ? "An Interview with Poet Philip Levine." AWP Writer's Chronicle. May 2003. ? "An Interview with Novelist Nick Hornby." AWP Writer's Chronicle. February 2003. ? "How Not To Drown: An Interview with Short Story Writer Ron Carlson." Gulfstream. Fall/Winter

2002. ? "Dancing About Architecture: Popular Music and Creative Writing." AWP Writer's Chronicle.

2001. ? "Itch" (short story), "Physics" and "Evolution" (poems). Em. 2001. ? "Stealing Home" (short story). Miami Herald. 1996.

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Scholarship

? Successful completion of OIEC Training: "Discrimination and Harassment," "Compliance and Ethics," and "Reasonable Accommodations and Disability Discrimination," March 27, 2020.

? Fort Myers Development Council Events Marketing Workshop, March 28, 2013. ? Recruited authors and participants for the Sanibel Island Writers Conference at the annual AWP

Annual Conference, 2006-present. ? Trained with and became a certified member of The Grantsmanship Center. Boca Raton, FL,

December 2007.

Presentations

? Featured Reader. Miami Book Fair. Miami, FL. November 2019. ? Featured Speaker. Authors and Friends Event, Manchester, MA. June 30, 2019. ? Featured Reader. "Forest Avenue Small Press Showcase at AWP." Broadway Books. Portland, OR.

March 2019. ? Featured Reader. FGCU's Sam Pepys Reading Series, March 2019. ? Featured Reader. Macintosh Books, Sanibel Island, FL, March 2018. ? Featured Panelist. "Trusting the Process: The Work of John Dufresne." AWP Conference, Tampa,

FL, March 2018. ? Featured Reader. Books and Books, Coral Gables, FL, February 2018. ? Featured Reader. Sigma Tau Delta's "Horror on the Lawn," October 2016. ? Featured Workshop Leader. "Write Here, Write Now." FGCU's Conversations in the Living Room

Series. Lucas Center for Faculty Development, October 2015. ? Featured Reader. FGCU's Show Me Your Story Series, Fall 2012. ? Featured Reader. FGCU's Sam Pepys Reading Series, Fall 2012. ? Featured Reader. Miami International Book Fair, November 2011. ? Featured Reader. FGCU's Sam Pepys Reading Series, Fall 2011. ? Featured Panelist. Saturday Hour of Power: "The Grubbie Guide to Conferences and Residencies."

Muse & the Marketplace. Grub Street Writers, Boston, MA. April 30, 2011. ? Film Commentator. Morning Blend. FOX-TV, Fort Myers, FL, 2011. ? Featured Panelist. "We Eat Our Young: A Short Story." Southern Humanities Council. Jacksonville,

FL, February 2011. ? Featured Reader. FGCU. Creative Writing Club Fundraiser, Fall 2008. ? Film Commentator. Hello Southwest Florida. WINK-TV, Fort Myers, FL, 2007-2011. ? Restaurant Commentator. Morning Blend. FOX-TV, Fort Myers, FL, 2007-2011. ? Featured Reader. FGCU's Samuel Pepys Reading Series, January 2008. ? Featured Speaker. FGCU's 10th Anniversary Community Day, October 2007. ? Featured Speaker, Honors Banquet, FGCU, April 19, 2007. ? Conference Presentation, "The Adventures of Ned Fliederjohnnerson." Southern Humanities

Council. Asheville, NC, February 4, 2006. ? Conference Presentation, "Someone Else's Shoes: Identity and Empathy in Fiction and in the

Classroom." Southern Humanities Council. Asheville, NC, February 4, 2006. ? Panelist, "Creative Approaches to First Year Composition at Florida Gulf Coast University: A

Panel/Roundtable Discussion." Florida College English Association. Daytona, FL, November 4, 2005. ? Featured Speaker, "All Writing is Creative." St. Petersburg Palm of the Florida Writers Association. St. Petersburg, FL, September 8, 2005. ? Poetry Reader. FGCU's Samuel Pepys Reading Series, Blackhawk Caf?. January 2005.

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? Featured Speaker, "Why Do I Write?" Gulf Coast Writer's Association. Fort Myers, FL, February 26, 2005.

? Conference Presentation w/Rickie McClure. "Supplemental Instruction: It's All in the Training, People," April 2004.

Awards

? Professional Development Leave request granted, 2013-2014. ? Senior Instructor Teaching Excellence Award, Florida Gulf Coast University, Spring 2011. ? "Angel of the Arts: Organization Leader of the Year." Alliance of the Arts, April 2009. ? "Last Lecture Series." Awardee. FGCU University Honors Program, 2007. ? Awarded a month-long residency at Fundaci?n Valparaiso in Almeria, Spain, May 2007.

Service

? Director, Sanibel Island Writers Conference, 2006-present. ? Advisor, Alliance for the Arts. Fort Myers, 2016-2017. ? Writing Awards Contest Judge--Creative Nonfiction. Office of Undergraduate Studies. FGCU,

Spring 2016. ? CRW Teaching Cell and Outcomes Task Force, 2011-present. ? Step Ahead Summer Program Instructor, 2008 & 2010. ? Committee Member, College of Arts & Sciences Student Affairs Committee, 2006-2008. ? Nominated for Outstanding Service Award, Spring 2008. ? Faculty Advisor, Creative Writing Club, FGCU, 2007. ? Learning Academy Cohort Leader, Fall 2006-Spring 2007. ? Search Committee, Public Relations Instructor Position, Department of Communications, Spring

2007.

Grants ? Event Marketing Program Grant, Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau. 2018-2019. ? Event Marketing Program Grant, Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau. 2017-2018. ? Event Marketing Program Grant, Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau. 2016-2017. ? Event Marketing Program Grant, Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau. 2015-2016. ? Event Marketing Program Grant, Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau. 2014-2015. ? Event Marketing Program Grant, Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau. 2013-2014.

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