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1 Christopher Davidson th Street Seal Beach, CA ph: EDUCATION M.F.A. in English, Creative Writing, June 1997, University of California, Irvine Thesis: Sherlockiana (poetry collection) Thesis Committee: Professors James McMichael (Chair), Michael Ryan, Christopher Beach. B.A. in English, March 1993, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Undergraduate UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE TEACHING EXPERIENCE Biola University Associate Professor (Fall 2002 present). Teaching: Freshmen composition, creative writing and literature. Courses: English 110 A & B: Critical Thinking and Writing; English 230: War Literature; English 230: Fiction of Mystery; English 343: Creative Writing, Poetry; English 210: Writing Competency; English 410: Studies in Specialized Writing (Vision, Voice, and Practice); Spring 2006 Honors Reading Group: Writers on Writing; Spring 2008 English Honors Reading Group: Six Difficult 20 th C. American Books of Poetry. Administrative: Supervising adjunct composition lecturers while working on streamlining and standardizing the freshmen writing course sequence. Serving as director of the Writing Center, which includes organizing staff meetings, interviewing writing consultant candidates, and formulating training procedures for writing consultants. Humanities Dean Search Committee, Spring Chair of the Writing Competency Committee, University of California, Irvine Whittier College Adjunct Instructor in literature, creative writing and composition (Fall 1997-Spring 2002). Adjunct Instructor in literature and composition (Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001). Chapman University Adjunct Instructor in rhetoric and composition (Fall 1997, Fall 2000). Irvine Valley College Adjunct Instructor in composition and remedial writing (Fall 1997 Spring 2000). University of Redlands Adjunct Instructor in composition (Spring 1998 Learning Tree University Instructor in creative non-fiction (Winter 1998).

2 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Biola University Travel Grant, 2009 Master Class Invitee and Participant, UC Irvine, Spring 2003, with Robert Pinsky Humanities Graduate Essay Award, "Sherlockiana," UC Irvine, Spring 1996 UC Regents Fellowship, UC Irvine, Arts Commendation, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Spring 1993 Creative Writing Contest, First Prize, "Dog, Not a Brick," Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Spring 1993 Admitted to Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Fall 1992 PUBLICATIONS The Alphabet Conspiracy, book review. The Rumpus (internet): forthcoming Maggot, book review. The Rumpus (internet): October The French Exit, book review. 52songs.blogspot.com (internet): July Simplify Me When I m Dead, book review. The Rumpus (internet): June Seismology, poem. Zocalo Public Square (internet): April Inadequate Preparation and It Really Happened, poems. Spoon River Poetry Review (Illinois State University): Summer Tracks, poem. Inknode.com (internet): Winter 2009 Visiting the Farm, poem. The Chiron Review (St. John, KS): Summer Here, poem. Burnside Review (Portland, OR): Summer A Matter of Pleasure: Casa Romantica Poetry Vol. 4, CD audio anthology: 2008 (Engineer, Editor, Project Director). Work Backward: Casa Romantica Poetry Vol. 3, CD audio anthology: 2007 (Engineer, Editor, Project Director). Not in the Movie and Poem While Camping, poems. Caesura (Poetry Center San Jose): Spring Marriage, poem. CRATE (UC Riverside): 2006 Inexact: Casa Romantica Poetry Vol. 2, audio anthology: 2006 (Engineer, Editor, Project Director). Something Stayed in the Mind There: Casa Romantica Poetry Vol. 1, audio anthology: 2005 (Engineer, Editor, Project Director). Three Trees & On the sign beyond the railing at Bridalveil Falls that reads, If You Fall You Will Die, poems. Dust Up (Los Angeles, CA). Vol. 1: It Was My Favorite Things That He Played ; Pregnant Woman ; Came Home ; In the Haircut Place ; You, poems. Alaska Quarterly Review (University of Alaska at Anchorage): Come On, song. Bug (Hayland-Margolis Films): Day Glo Girl, 1983, poem. Die Cast Garden (Long Beach, CA). No. 2: 2002.

3 Earlier Draft, poem. The Anteater Reader, First Ed. (Pearson Publishing): "Ska," poem. The elephant-ear (Irvine Valley College). Vol. 15: Summer "Easel" & "Tea When I'm Sick," poems. The Cimarron Review (Oklahoma State University). No. 119: Spring "This is Newport Beach," poem. The elephant-ear (Irvine Valley College). Vol. 13: Spring "Dog, Not a Brick," poem. Byzantium (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo). Vol. 3: CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS The Future of Paradise interdisciplinary panel: Biola University. A panel discussion including professors from Chemistry and Art on the lecture of John Chan, visiting visionary in residence, regarding the city and ecological destruction. February 23, Lo-Limb: An Interdisciplinary Panel : Biola University. A panel discussion including professors from Classics, Sociology, Communication Studies, and Cinema and Media Arts about a show of paintings by Dan Callis. February 22, But angels were watching : The City as Organ of (Divine?) Revelation in The Crying of Lot 49 : Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference. Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI. November 13-14, Teaching Art to Poets & Poetry to Artists: The Limits and Lessons of Cross-Media Collaboration : Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Also panel chair. November 6-7, City as Revelation, City as Judgment: Reading Pynchon and Polanski Under the Influence of Belief : Paper presented at The City (conference). Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. September 24-26, The Enormous Yes: Improvisation Philip Larkin s For Sidney Bechet : Paper presented at Poetries of Numerousness (International Conference). Grant MacKewan College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Presented May 15, Witness or Weakness: How Poetry and Politics Might (Not) Mix : Paper presented at Speaking Truth to Power (Conference on Christianity and Literature). George Fox University, Newburg, OR. Also served as panel chair. April 16-18, Invited Presenter and Panelist. Practicing Theology: Biola Art Symposium. Biola University, La Mirada, California. March Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Cal State Univ. Long Beach, for Professor Patty Seyburn s poetry writing class. October 30, The Enormous Yes: Love as Improvisation in Philip Larkin s For Sidney Bechet : Paper presented at Fire and Ice: Literary Paradox and the Search for Truth (Conference on Christianity and Literature), Biola University, La Mirada, CA. May What We Read When We Read Poetry : Lecture, Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University. February 26, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Biola University, for Professor Barry Krammes Senior Seminar Class. October 1, 2007.

4 Catastrophe as a Means of Poetic Generation and Recognition : Paper presented at Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime (Conference on Christianity and Literature), Trinity Western University, Langley, B.C., Canada. May Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Vanguard University, for Professor David Gruber s creative writing class. February How to Read a Poem : Lecture, Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University. March 30, Participant, Inter-disciplinary Panel, on photography by Ira Lippke, Art Gallery, Biola University. Spring Participant, Creative Writing Panel, Biola University English Department Conference: Spring 2004 & Spring READINGS Fourth Annual Religions in Conversation Conference, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. October 15, Meadowlark Poetry Marathon (AWP offsite reading), Denver, CO. April 9, Practicing Theology Symposium, Biola University, La Mirada, CA. March 7, Factory Reading Series, Santa Ana, CA. January 20, Society of Interested Persons Salon, Seal Beach, CA. September 20, Long Beach Poetry Festival ( Slices of Orange: The Poetry of Orange County ), Long Beach, CA. April 10, The Writer s Garage, Long Beach, CA. Fall Poetry Idiots Reading Series, Orange, CA. August 15, The Broadlind Café, Long Beach, CA. August 5, Factory Reading Series, Santa Ana, CA. Spring Poetry Idiots Reading Series, Orange, CA. September 21, Tebot Bach Reading Series, Huntington Beach, CA. January 28, Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA. Fall Casa Romantica Reading Series, San Clemente, CA. October 27, Poetry Idiots Reading Series, Orange, CA. September 15, Smart Gals Speakeasy, Los Angeles, CA. May 30, EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Contributing Writer to The District Weekly, Long Beach, CA. May 2009 March 2010.

5 Series Editor: Casa Romantica Reading Series Poetry Anthology, Vols. 1-4 Contributing Editor: The Anteater Reader, University of California, Irvine. 2001, Contributing Editor, A Student s Guide to Writing at UCI, University of California, Irvine Managing Editor, Faultline. Fall 1996-Fall 1997.

CURRICULUM VITAE. Philip Hanson, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE. Philip Hanson, Ph.D. CURRICULUM VITAE 1 Philip Hanson, Ph.D. 1280 Brookview Circle Concord, California 94520 (415) 422-2126 hansonp@usfca.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. in English, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 B.A., University