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MICHAEL BROOKS CRYER
506 W. 5th^ St. Apt. A Tempe, AZ 85281 [email protected]
EDUCATION
University of Arizona, Tucson 1997- Master of Fine Arts, Poetry/Creative Writing
University of Arizona, Tucson 1993- Bachelor of Arts, Classics/Creative Writing
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Arizona State University (Downtown) (2008-present) The School of Letters and Sciences, Languages and Cultures, ASU, Phoenix, Arizona
Instructor, Arizona State University (Tempe) (2007-2008) Department of English, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
Faculty Associate, Arizona State University (2004-2007) Department of English, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
ENG 101 : First Year Composition
- Focus on critical thinking and expository strategies.
ENG 102 : First Year Composition
- Focus on critical thinking and expository strategies.
- Focus on research-based expository strategies and arguments.
ENG 105 (hybrid) : Advanced First Year Composition
- Focus on research-based expository strategies and arguments.
- Use online journals (blogs) for expository exercises.
- Post assignments online with the use of ASU's blackboard.
- Respond to students work electronically.
ENG 301: Technical Communication (hybrid)
- Writing for the Professions is an advanced interdisciplinary writing course emphasizing workplace and technical communication and editing appropriate to diverse professions.
- Practice and study of selected types of discourse employed in professional writing situations, preparing students for different systems of writing in their professional lives.
- Examples from the writing of workplace professionals are analyzed and used as models to demonstrate the transition from academic to professional writing.
Adjunct Faculty, Mesa Community College (2003-2007) Department of English, Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona
ENG 071 : Fundamentals of Writing
- Focus on basic sentence and paragraph structure and expository strategies.
ENG 101 : First Year Composition
- Focus on critical thinking and expository strategies.
ENG 102 : First Year Composition
- Focus on research-based expository strategies and arguments.
ENG 170 : Introduction to Writing Fiction
- Course and syllabus design.
- Focus on writing fiction, reading and learning to be a careful and useful critic.
- Lead workshop discussions.
EDU 250 completed Fall 2006.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, (1998-99) Department of English, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
ENG 209 : Intro to Poetry Writing
- Course and syllabus design.
- Lectured on individual poets and poetics.
- Focus on writing poetry, reading and learning to be a careful and useful critic.
- Lead workshop discussions.
- Evaluated students' poems, essays, journals, portfolios and group work.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Music Critic, Get Out Magazine (2005-present) Get Out is the East Valley Tribune's weekly entertainment guide. Responsibilities include writing CD reviews and feature-length articles for the music section.
before Traveling” and “Sympathetic Nervous System” (2002)
Quarterly West : “Ceci nes pas une vie (a preview)” (2001)
Cortland Review : “Small Things” (2000)
EVO : “The New Moral Climate” and “The Most Fascinating Chair” (2000)
pith : “Warbler” (2000)
----: “Dolphin Facts” (2000)
Brown Dog Review : “It’s Hard Being a Symbolist” (1998)
South Ash Press : “Poem” (1997)
FEATURE STORIES
Phoenix New Times : "Rum Pum Pum Pum" (2004)
----: "No Flags Here" (2003)
----: "Milling down the Block" (2003)
BOOK REVIEWS
Phoenix New Times : Review of Arthur Edward's Stuck outside Phoenix (2004)
Metro : Review of Alberto Rios' Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (2002)
Cortland Review : Review of James Tate’s Memoir of the Hawk (2002)
MUSIC R EVIEWS
Get Out Battle of the Bands: P-nut Butter Vs. The Vibratos (2005)
----: Intrinzik's Tricks of the Trade (2005)
----: Jon Prophet's A New Religion (2005)
----: Longshore's Once upon a Time (2005)
Phoenix New Times : Various Artists, AZpunk.com (2004)
----: Jodi Light's I'm Right Here (2003)
----: The Shizz's This (2003)
----: Buzzcocks' Buzzcocks (2003)
----: Jimmy Smith (2003)
----: The Vines (2003)
----: Greyhound Soul (2003)
----: Calexico’s Feast of Wire (2003)
----: Rainer Maria’s Long Draw Knives (2003)
----: Tori Amos’ Scarlet's Walk (2002)
LANGUAGES STUDIED
Latin and Spanish.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Photoshop, Pagemaker and HTML
REFERENCES
Steve Orlen Department of English University of Arizona 520-621- [email protected]
Boyer Rickel Department of English University of Arizona 520.621. [email protected]
Scott Topper 248.765. [email protected]
Greg Glau Department of English Arizona State University 480.965. [email protected]
