English Department Faculty

DAVID EDWARD MCGLYNN

Lawrence University
Department of English
P.O. Box 599
Appleton, WI 54912-0599
david.e.mcglynn@lawrence.edu
920-832-6887
http://www.david-mcglynn.com

Ph.D. University of Utah
English Literature and Creative Writing, 2006
Director: Melanie Rae Thon

M.F.A. University of Utah
Creative Writing: Fiction, 2001

B.A. University of California, Irvine
English and Philosophy, 1998
Magna Cum Laude

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOK
The End of the Straight and Narrow: Stories. Southern Methodist University Press, 2008.

FICTION
“Enucleation.” Alaska Quarterly Review 24.3&4(2007).
“The End of the Straight and Narrow.” Ascent 30.3 (2007).
“Moonland on Fire.” Mid-American Review 28.2 (2007).
“The Newest Thing in the World.” Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion 54 (2007).
“Spin,” “Spring,” and “Saw.” weber studies (2007).
“Landslide.” Best Christian Short Stories. Ed. Bret Lott. Nashville: Westbow, 2006.
“Sweet Texas Angel.” Shenandoah 56.1 (2006).
“Reruns Never Lie.” Post Road 11 (2005).
“Salvage.” Ink Pot 7 (2005).
“Look Here Boy.” Northwest Review 43.2 (2005).
“Flesh and Blood.” Black Warrior Review 30.2 (2004).
“The Space Between Our Bodies.” Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion 31 (2001).

NONFICTION
“Prayer for Amniocentesis.” http://onearthasitis.net/ (2010).
“Skin.” Southwest Review (2010).
“Wanderers in Zion.” The Literary Review (2009).
“Onomastics.” Southwest Review 94.3 (2009).
“Hydrophobia.” The Missouri Review 31.2 (2008).
“Rough Water.” Meridian 20 (2008) and Best American Sports Writing 2009.
“The Long Corridor.” Gulf Coast 19.1 (2006).
“Fever.” The Pinch 26.2 (2006).
“Detachment.” Ninth Letter 3.1 (2006).
“Climb.” Willow Springs 56 (2005).
“This Ain’t Living.” Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion 46 (2005).
“Eclipse.” Western Humanities Review 56.1 (2002).

ARTICLES
“McTeague’s Gilded Prison.” The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 62.1 (2008).
“Transfusing the Secret in George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil’.” George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies 52-53 (2007).

POETRY
“Spring Loss of a Tree in Texas.” Faultline 5.1 (1997).

HONORS:
Special Mention for “Rough Water” in The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (2010).
“Hydrophibia” cited as a distinguished essay in Best American Essays 2009
Excellence in Creative Activity, Lawrence University, 2009
Outstanding Achievement, Wisconsin Librarians’ Association, 2008
Winner, Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Levin Short Nonfiction Award, 2009
Honorable Mention, Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Anne Powers Fiction Book Award, 2009
Winner, 2008 Utah Book Award
Finalist, 2009 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
Finalist, 2009 Steven Turner Award for Best First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters.
Finalist, 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award for Literary Fiction
“Rough Water” selected for Best American Sports Writing 2009
Artist Fellowship, Wisconsin Arts Board, 2009
Peter Taylor Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2008
Honorable Mention, Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Sternig Short Fiction Award, 2006
Honorable Mention, Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Levin Short Nonfiction Award, 2006
Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004
Featured Guest, RadioWest, KUER (Salt Lake City, UT), July 27, 2006
First Place, Utah Arts Council Short Story Competition, 2005.
Second Place, Utah Arts Council Personal Essay Competition, 2005.
Vice-Presidential Fellowship, University of Utah, 2001 – 2003.
Honors in English, University of California, Irvine, 1998.
Excellence in Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1998.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1997.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“New Directions in Texas Fiction.” Panel Chair. Presented at the 2010 Associated Writing Programs Conference, Denver CO, April 2010.
“Beyond ‘First Compliment, then Criticize’: Teaching Students to be Better Workshoppers. Presented at the 2010 Associated Writing Programs Conference, Denver CO, April 2010.
“Writing Wisconsin: A Coversation with Wisconsin Writers.” Moderator. Fox Cities Book Festival, Appleton, WI, April 2009.
“In the World and of the World: The Post-Evangelical Writer.” Presented at the 2009 Associated Writing Programs Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2009.
“First Books of Fiction.” Panel Chair. Presented at the 2009 Associated Writing Programs Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2009.
“Fiction into Film.” Moderator. Fox Cities Book Festival, Appleton, WI, April 2008.
“Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing?: The Problem of Contemporary Christian Fiction.” Panel Chair. Presented at the 2007 Associated Writing Programs Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2007.
“The Gilded Prison: McTeague and the Brutal City.” Presented at the 2005 Conference of the Western Humanities Alliance. University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, October 2005.
“Confabulating the Confessional: Formal Strategies in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.” Presented at the American Literature Association Conference, panel session sponsored by the American Religion and Literature Society. Boston, MA, May 2005.
“Revelation and Secrecy in George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil.’” Presented at the 2003 Conference of the Western Humanities Alliance. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT October 2003.
“Writing Religion.” Presented at the 2003 Conference of the Association of Mormon Letters. Utah Valley State College, Orem, UT, February 2003
“Eclipse: A Narrative of Art and Dying.” Presented at the 2001 University of Utah Graduate Student Humanities Conference. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2001.
“Responsibility to the Dead: Transgression and Textual Consciousness in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint and The Ghost Writer.” Presented at the 2000 Conference on Christianity and Literature. Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, October 2000.