ADAM REID SEXTON
adam.sexton@yale.edu/adamrsexton@gmail.com
Website: adamreidsexton.net
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Yale College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Lecturer
• Teach Writing About Popular Music (scheduled for Spring 2016), Reading Fiction
for Craft (2014-present), and Reading and Writing the Modern Essay (2013-present)
Writing Tutor
• Trumbull College Writing Tutor (2014-present)
• Daily Themes Tutor (Spring 2014)
School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
Adjunct Assistant Professor (Summers 2014-present)
• Teach Reading Fiction for Writers (created course) and Nonfiction Workshop
Departmental Representative, Writing (2013-present)
• Coordinate all summer courses and faculty, recruit and hire instructors
School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York University, New York,
NY
Associate Director, Humanities, Arts, and Writing (2007-2012)
• Coordinated curriculum development, teaching assignments, and course scheduling
in creative writing, literature, journalism, book and magazine publishing, film studies,
performance, and music
• Managed more than 150 instructors, including recruitment, development, and
evaluation
• Created Craft of the Story intensive, student-faculty reading series, and series of free
bookstore classes
Instructor (2001-2007)
• Taught Reading for Writers, Philip Roth’s Alter Egos, and Reading Moby-Dick
(created courses); Beginning Fiction Writing, Beginning and Advanced Nonfiction
Writing, and Fiction and Nonfiction Tutorials
Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
Instructor (2000–2007)
• Taught Literature and Composition I, Literature and Composition II: Race and
Gender, Rock and Rap (created course), and Critical Reading and Writing I and II
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
Lecturer (1997)
• Taught Expository Writing
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Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Instructor (1993–1995)
• Taught Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing
TEACHING HONORS
Invited to deliver plenary lecture on fiction writing to Introduction to Creative Writing,
Yale University (2015)
Named Finalist for Distinguished University Teaching Award, The New School (2007)
Awarded Adjunct Faculty Development Fund Grant, NYU-SCPS (2006)
Awarded Professional Equity Project Grant, The New School (2003)
• Nominated by The New School and awarded membership, expenses, and admission
to annual Conference on College Composition and Communication
Awarded Faculty Development Fund Grant, The New School (2002-2003)
• One of two instructors awarded $6,000 to instruct Parsons faculty in pedagogical
adaptations of new media
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Yale University
Sophomore Adviser (2014-present)
New York University
Humanities Initiative Working Research Group: Theorizing Sound Writing (2010-12)
Committee to select SCPS University Distinguished Teaching Award nominee (2010-11)
Committee on SCPS academic resources (2010)
Committee on SCPS 75th anniversary arts festival (2010)
New School University
Parsons committee on creating Critical Studies curriculum (2002-4)
Parsons faculty workshop (co-chair) on pedagogical adaptations of new media (2002-3)
BOOKS
Author
Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats
(McGraw-Hill, 2005)
Editor
Love Stories
(Citadel, 2003; published in paperback as Tennis Shorts, 2005)
• Contributors include Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Vladimir Nabokov, John
Updike, and David Foster Wallace
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Rap On Rap
(Dell, 1995)
• Contributors include Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Tricia Rose, and Andrew Ross
• Acquired by the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American
Research, Harvard University
Desperately Seeking Madonna
(Dell, 1993; Japanese translation Hakusuisha, 1994)
• Contributors include Nicholson Baker, Jean-Paul Gaultier, bell hooks, Camille
Paglia, and Luc Sante
• Acquired by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive
Adapter
Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet: The Manga Editions
(Wiley, 2008; Indonesian translation Penerbit PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2008; Farsi
translation forthcoming)
• First four titles in series of graphic novels for younger readers, in collaboration with
graphic artists
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Writer
Feature articles and reviews published in the Boston Phoenix, the New York Times, the
Philadelphia City Paper, the Village Voice, and elsewhere; fiction and essays
published in the Bellevue Literary Review, the Mississippi Review, Post Road,
Prentice-Hall’s Grammar and Composition, and on various websites
LECTURES, READINGS
Guest lecturer
Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
(2015)
Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT (2014, 2015)
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (2008)
Gallatin School, New York University, New York, NY (2008)
Kelly Writer’s House, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1999, 2006)
Featured reader
Cell Theater, New York, NY
NYU Torch Club, New York, NY
Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY
Knitting Factory, New York, NY
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PANELS
Presenter, paper entitled “On Teaching The Centaur to Art School Students,” Third
Biennial John Updike Society Conference, Alvernia University, Reading, PA (2014)
Panelist, “A Writer’s Work” panel, Big Book Getaway, Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT
(2013)
Moderator, “Minneapolis Royalty: Prince” panel, EMP Pop Conference, New York
University, New York, NY (2012)
Presenter, paper entitled “Wild About Harry: Popular Music in Updike’s Rabbit
Tetralogy,” First Biennial John Updike Society Conference, Alvernia University,
Reading, PA (2010)
Panelist, graduate school and artist residencies panel, Summer Intensive Creative Writing
Workshop, McGhee Division, New York University, New York, NY (2009-10)
Panelist, “Breakfast with Editors” panel, Summer Intensive Creative Writing Workshop,
McGhee Division, New York University, New York, NY (2004)
Moderator, “Rap on Rap” panel featuring Nelson George and Danyel Smith, Barnes and
Noble Astor Place branch, New York, NY (1995)
PEER REVIEWING
University of Texas Press, Austin, TX (2015)
Filed report on title forthcoming in American Music series
JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE
Time, New York, NY (1986-88)
Assistant News Desk Editor
Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia, PA (1984-85)
Contributing Editor of Movies and Music
The New York Times, New York, NY (Summers 1981-82)
News Assistant
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
Authors Guild, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, John Updike Society
INTERVIEWS
Interviewed on teaching, writing, and literature by the New York Times, npr.org, Poets &
Writers, Time, and the Washington Post
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EDUCATION
M.F.A., Fiction Writing, Columbia University, New York, NY
B.A., English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Benjamin Franklin Scholar (merit-based), freshman through senior years
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