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CHRISTINE MAURA LASEK
Email: christine@christinemlasek.com • Website: www.christinemlasek.com
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Fiction – University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
April 2014
Bachelor of Arts degree, English – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
April 2003
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Instructor – University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
August 2014 to present
Courses taught:
 Form and Technique of Fiction
 Technical Writing for Health Science Majors
Graduate Assistant – University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
August 2011 to April 2014
Courses taught:
 Composition I
 Form and Technique of Fiction
 Narration and Description
 Technical Writing for Health Science Majors
Writing Center Consultant – University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
June 2012 to May 2013
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant to the Creative Writing Program Director – Creative Writing Department at the
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
August 2014 to Present
Publicity Manager for Southside Buddhist – Ira Sukrungruang, Tampa, FL
May 2014 to Present
Program Assistant – Creative Writing Department at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
August 2011 to May 2014
Communications Officer – SWEET: A Literary Confection (Literary Magazine), Brandon, FL
September 2012 to March 2014
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Graduate Student Adviser – thread: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Inquiry (Literary
Magazine), Tampa, FL
August 2013 to April 2014
Managing Editor – Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art (Literary Magazine), Tampa, FL
July 2012 to December 2012
Communications Officer – Think Detroit PAL (Police Athletic League), Detroit, MI
October 2010 to July 2011
Web Editor – Crain’s Detroit Business (Crain’s Communications), Detroit, MI
July 2008 to October 2010
Online News Producer – MLive.com (Advance Publications), Ann Arbor, MI
July 2006 to June 2008
Web Content Producer – WXYZ Channel 7 (an ABC affiliate), Southfield, MI
August 2003 to July 2006
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming April 2016: Love Letters to Michigan from ELJ Publications
FICTION PUBLICATIONS
“Precious Blood.” Sierra Nevada Review 25 (2014): 71-81. Print.
“The Elephant Motif.” Coal City Review 32 (2013): 46-52. Print.
“Reaching Imago.” The Bear River Review, an Anthology of Poetry and Prose by Bear River
Writers 2010 (2011): 83-89. Print.
“A Biography in the Style of Ann Beattie.” Pearl Literary Magazine 42 (2010): 42-44. Print.
NONFICTION PUBLICATIONS
“Worm Soup.” VIA: Voices in Italian Americana 25-1 (2014): 77-80. Print.
“A Sweet Birthday (interview).” Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog. Dinty Moore: 12 Nov. 2013. Web.
Retrieved from: http://brevity.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/a-sweet-birthday/
“Smells Like Moss Man.” Tampa Review Online Issue 8. Tampa Review Online, 1 Aug. 2013.
Web. Retrieved from http://tampareviewonline.org/non-fiction/smells-like-moss-man/
“Champion of Detroit’s Arts Scene (interview).” The Clever Title: The Creative Writing World
Made Small. Ira Sukrungruang: 14 Jan. 2013. Web. Retrieved from
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http://theclevertitlebookreviews.blogspot.com/2013/01/champion-of-detroits-artsscene.html
“Fertility Goddess.” The Tripod Cat. The Tripod Cat: 1 Aug. 2012. Web. Retrieved from
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tripod-cat-journal/id549824183?mt=2&ignmpt=uo%3D4
CONFERENCE PANELS AND READINGS
“Publishing Panel—School Literary Magazines.” Blank Pages—University of South Florida
Creative Writing Symposium, February 2014
“Hear Me Roar: Women Writers on Travel.” Blank Pages—University of South Florida Creative
Writing Symposium, February 2013
“Culture Shock: The Writer Abroad.” Florida Literary Arts Coalition Other Words Conference,
November 2012
“Young Adult Literature: Not Just for Young Adults.” Blank Pages—University of South Florida
Creative Writing Symposium, February 2012
“Profanity in Literature.” Florida Literary Arts Coalition Other Words Conference, November
2011
“Echoes.” English Graduate Student Association Fall Colloquium, November 2011
AWARDS
Estelle J. Zbar Award for Teaching & Academic Excellence in English, 2013
Prairie Center of the Arts Residency, July, 2013
AFFILIATIONS
Association of Writers & Writing Professionals
August 2011 to Present
Florida Literary Arts Coalition
August 2011 to Present
Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers
August 2011 to Present
Modern Language Association
August 2011 to Present
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University of South Florida English Graduate Student Association
May 2012 to May 2013 – Secretary
COURSES TAUGHT
Composition I (ENC 1101)
 Class size was 22 students
 The class textbook was Negotiating Writing Spaces, written by masters and doctoral
students in the University of South Florida Rhetoric and Composition Department
 Students wrote three essays, each with three drafts
 All grading was completed using My Reviewers, a document management system and elearning environment, which has received national recognition by the Conference on
College Composition and Communication
Narration and Description (CRW 2100)
 Class size was 22 students
 The class textbook was Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing, as well as other stories,
essays, and poems I made available on Canvas
 Students completed a fiction project, a nonfiction project, and a poetry project, as well as
several short in-class writing assignments
 Students participated in one small group workshop and one whole class workshop
 Students completed a Final Submission Project, in which they researched literary
magazines, chose one, and readied one revised project for submission, including crafting
a cover letter and a short author bio
 The goal of this class was to open students’ minds to the world of literary writing in order
to help them continue to make reading and writing an important part of their lives
Form and Technique of Fiction (CRW 3111)
 Class size was 18 students
 The class textbook was Michael Kardos’s The Art and Craft of Fiction and The Vintage
Book of Contemporary American Short Stories edited by Tobias Wolff
 Students completed two fiction projects, as well as several short in-class writing
assignments
 Students participated in two whole class workshops
 Students completed a Literary Magazine Presentation project, in which they chose one
literary journal, read several issues, created an informational handout, and gave a 3-5
minute presentation about the magazine to the class
 Students completed a Final Submission Project, in which they researched literary
magazines, chose one, and readied one revised short story for submission, including
crafting a cover letter and a short author bio
 The goal of this class was to teach students how to be good creative writing citizens—
more important than the work they produced in class were the lessons they learned about
how to read a story and discuss their thoughts about the piece in front of them eloquently
Technical Writing for Health Science Majors (ENC 2210)
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Class size was 22 students
The class textbook was A Rhetorical Approach to Workplace Writing Practices, written
by masters and doctoral students in the University of South Florida’s Rhetoric and
Composition Department, and Team Writing by Joanna Wolfe
Students completed three majors projects: an Employment Project, a Case Project, and a
Research Project, with the deliverables going through two rounds of review before final
submission
The Case Project and the Research Projects were group projects, in which students were
responsible for using the skills highlighted in the Wolfe text
All students completed peer review of each major project
All grading was completed using My Reviewers, a document management system and elearning environment
The Case Project is a module I designed that other instructors have adopted, which
follows McLaren Health Corporation’s bid to build a Health Care Village in Clarkston,
only to run up against Michigan’s Certificate of Need Commission
My personal goal for this course was to teach students how to learn by example—
students looked at sample documents, made determinations about these documents, and
utilized their own skills to mimic what they had seen, improving on the documents as
they progressed