Joey Connelly, MFA, Assistant Professor of English jconnelly@kwc.edu (270) 852-3214 Faculty Office Building #24

 

Education

M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Ashland University, Department of English, August 2010.

Thesis: The Word and This Flesh. Defense Committee: Dr. Stephen Haven-chair, Dr. Kathryn Winograd, Peter Campion. Defense Date: August 3, 2010.

B.A. in English and Religion/Philosophy, Magna cum Laude, Kentucky Wesleyan College, May 2006.

Publications

 

Creative Nonfiction

- "Postmodern Bedtime Story," Peripheral Surveys, July 2011

 

Literary Criticism

- "The Last Poem I Loved," The Rumpus, June 2011

 

Poetry

- "Self-Portrait as the Holy Family," Medulla Review, September 2011

- “Acupuncturist’s Lobby,” Open 24 Hours, Spring 2011
- “A Winter Song,” Floorboard Review, December 2010
- “A New Thinking,” The Louisville Review, November 2010
- “Killing Moles,” Open 24 Hours, March 2009
- “Nighttime Consumption,” Nibble Magazine vol. 10, December 2009
- “December Carnation,” cafepress.com publication, November 2009
- “In the Burning Orchard,” Abandoned Towers, February 2009

Teaching Experience

Visiting Professor, Kentucky Wesleyan College, 2010-2011
• English 1301: Sections A, B, D
• English 2330: Section B, Readings in World Literature
• English/Religion 3377, Bible and Literature
• English 2306, American Literature (Online Course)
• English 1302: Sections A and B
• English 4350, Senior Creative Writing Seminar
• English 3320, Beginning Literary Theory
• English 3346, Poetry Workshop

Assistant Professor of English, Kentucky Wesleyan College, 2011-
• English 1301: Section H
• English 1401: Sections D and H
• English 2302: Creative Writing Survey
• English 3311: Confessional Poets

Presentations
• “Merrill’s Postmodern Mythos.” Kentucky Philological Association Conference, March 2010.

• “Mythology and Modernism: Yeats’ ‘Leda and the Swan’ and Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland.’” Kentucky Philological Association Conference, March 2006.

Experience

Organizer
• “KWC Presents: Poetry Reading with Angie Estes, Sponsored by Lyceum Committee, the Elle Magnuson Lecture Series, and the English Department,” March 30, 2011.

Editor
• Editorial board member of Floorboard Review, 2010.

Student Coordinator
• Kentucky’s Retreat for Women Writers, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, KY.  2005-2007.

Sponsor
• Parnassus Literary Club, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, KY. 2009-2011.  

Proofreader
• Moffett, Joe. Search for Origins in the Twentieth Century Long Poem. West Virginia University Press, 2007.

Reader
• Moffett, Kelly.  Waiting for a Warm Body to Fill It.  Cinnamon Press, 2008.

Volunteer
• Kentucky Philological Association Annual Meeting, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, KY. 2009.