Dr. Eric Williamson, Associate Professor

COURSES: Fall 2007

COURSES: Summer II 2007
ENG 2303 Introduction to American Literature

EDUCATION
Ph.D.-New York University. 1998
MPhil.-New York University. 1998
M.F.A.-University of Houston. 1991
M.A.-University of Colorado, Boulder. 1986
B.A.-California State University, Hayward. 1984

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Contemporary American Poetry and Fiction
Postmodern Literature
Creative Writing
Literary Editing (Executive Editor, American Book Review; Associate Editor, Boulevard; Fiction Editor, The Texas Review)

PUBLICATIONS

CRITICISM/NONFICTION

Oakland, Jack London, and Me. Texas Review Press. Forthcoming summer 2007.

NOVELS

Two-Up. Texas Review Press, 2006. Hardcover and paperback.

East Bay Grease. Picador USA/St. Martin's Press, 1999. Hardcover.

Details for Novels

PUBLICATIONS: PERIODICALS

SHORT FICTION

"The Case of Blaise" [an excerpt from novel, Pay the Boy]. Pale House. Los Angeles. Forthcoming June 2007.

"Two-Up" [an excerpt from novel, Two-Up]. Pale House Press Anthology. Los Angeles. 2005.

"Pay the Boy" [an excerpt from the novel, Pay the Boy]. The Texas Review. San Houston State University. Fall 2004.

"On Thin Ice." Kansas City Star Magazine. December 2003.

"Our Women and Why We Love Them so Much" [an excerpt from the novel, Pay the Boy]. Boulevard. St. Louis University. Spring 2003. Special Mention Pushcart Prize Anthology 2004.

"The Teachings of Don B." The Texas Review. Sam Houston University. Spring 2003.

"Scow" [an excerpt from the novel, Pay the Boy]. The Chattahoochee Review. Georgia Perimeter College. Summer 2002.

"The Cow Island Open." The Arkansas Review. Arkansas State University. Spring 2002.

"Urban Renewal" [and excerpt from the novel, Pay the Boy]. Boulevard. St. Louis University. Fall 2001. Special Mention Pushcart Prize Anthology 2002.

"Creusa" [an excerpt from the novel, Two-Up]. Gulf Coast. University of Houston. Spring 2000.

More Short Fiction Periodicals (1983-1999)

ARTICLES

"Barry Hannah and Postmodern Southern Fiction." The Arkansas Review. Jonesboro: Arkansas State University. Forthcoming Fall 2007.

"Social Postmodernism." Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing. Central Missouri State University. Forthcoming Fall 2007.

"The Avant-Grade, Postmodernism and the Not-Fiction of Ronald Sukenick." Chautauqua Literary Journal. York Beach, Maine. Forthcoming Summer 2007.

"The Responsibility of Freedom." American Book Review. University of Houston, Victoria. March/April 2007 (28:3).

"The Future of American Fiction." The Southern Review. Louisiana State University. 38:3. Summer 2002.

"Beyond Postmodernism." The Southern Review. Louisiana State University. 37:1. Winter 2001. Reprint (excerpt) in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit: Fale Research Press, 2002. V. 157. Reprint (excerpt) in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Oklahoma City: Thompson, 2007. V. 238 (CLC-238) August2007.

"Jack London's Enduring Appeal." The Virginia Quarterly Review. Autumn 1999.

"Harriet Zinnes." Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Poets Since WWII. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1998. V. 193. 364-73.

"Oakland, Jack London, and Me." The Chattahoochee Review. DeKalb College. 13:1. Fall 1997. 31-43. Special Mention Pushcart Prize Anthology 1998.

ESSAYS

"Porquoi j'ai envie de coller des baffes á F. Scott Fitzgerald et de lui piquer son argent de poche." Translated by Alex Thiltges. Transfuge. Paris Forthcoming May 2007.

"Cormac McCarthy." The Los Angeles Times. Forthcoming May 2007.

"In Memory of Ronald Sukenick." American Book Review. November/December 2004.

"Interview with Richard Burgin." Pleiades. Central Missouri State University: Summer 2004 (24:2).

"The Fire of the Line." Boulevard. St. Louis University. Spring 2003.

"Contemporary Poets on Poetry." American Book Review. Illinois State University: November/December 2001.

"I'm no Writer." Gulf Coast. University of Houston. Spring 2000.

"Youths Will Inherit Sad, Psychotic World." San Jose Mercury News. 18 August 1999.

"The 95 Faces of a Mother from Hell." The Sunday Telegraph. London: 8 August 1999.

"Grannies, Nannies, Cronies and Thinkers." American Book Review. Illinois State University: March/April 1999.

"A Wise Man is Known by His Laughter." The Slate. Minneapolis: Spring 1995.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Openwork by Adria Bernardi. American Book Review. Forthcoming August 2007.

Review of Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad. The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. Forthcoming May 2007.

"Putting a Face on Poverty:William T. Vollmann Travels the World and Asks People, Why Are You Poor?" [a review of Poor People by William T. Vollmann]. The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. 18 March 2007.

"Staking Their Claim: Fat Anthology Documents Range and Vitality of Texas-Mexican Writing" [a review of Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature, edited by Dagoberto Gilb]. The Houston Chronicle. 23 February 2007.

"Night of the Longknives" [a review of Uncontainable Noise by Steve Davenport]. American Book Review. January/February 2007.

Review of Come on In by Charles Bukowski. Pleiades: A Journal of New Literature. 27.2 (Spring 2007).

"Poet Prospered in British Social Scene" [a review of Betjeman: A Life by A.N. Wilson]. The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. 24 December 2006.

"Cliché City in Cherokee Nation" [a review of Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier]. The Houston Chronicle. 13 October 2006.

"Truth Be Told" [a review of The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen]. The Houston Chronicle. 6 October 2006.

"He Saw the Best Minds of His Generation: A Collection of Essays About Allen Ginsberg's Most Celebrated and Condemned Work" [a review of The Poem that Changed America--"Howl" Fifty Years Later edited by Jason Shinder]. The Washington Post Book World. 16 April 2006.

More Book Reviews (1990-2005)

POETRY

"The Breath of Bach." Northern Music: Poems on the Life and Work of Glenn Gould. Ed. John D. Smith. Evanston, IL: John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc. 2001.

"Postcard from the Other Side of the Bay." Occasional Blast. Berkeley. Spring 1986.

"Postmodern Love" Occasional Blast. Berkeley. Spring 1986.

"Enough Cayenne." Eat it Alive. University of Colorado. Spring 1986.

FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS

RADIO AND TELEVISION

KAVU Evening News ABC/Fox/Univision, Victoria, TX, 10 November 2006.

HCC TV (Houston) 23 October 2006.

Nuestra Palabra Radio Show KPFT (Houston) 17 October 2006.

Greater London Radio/BBC (London) 28 July 1999.

Andrea Olliver Show/GLR Radio (London), 4 June 1999.

Brian Moreton Show/BBC (Edinburgh, Scotland), 3 June 1999.

Nicky Campbell Show/Radio 5 Live/BBC (London), 2 June 1999.

Andy Peebles Late Show/Late Show North/BBC North (Manchester, England), 2 June 1999.

SURF-FM/BBC (Brighton, England), 1 June 1999.

KPFA-FM (Berkeley), 17 May 1999.

HCC TV (Houston), 29 March 1999.

MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPER

"Eric Miles Williamson: un Misanthrope au Pays du Bonheur." Alexandre Thiltgaes. Transfuge. Paris: Forthcoming May 2007.

"The Art of Letters: Warrensburg's Influence Rising in Literary World." Warrensburg Free Press. 18 December 2002.

"East Bay Grease Writer Details Passage of Rough Life." Jeff Baker. The Oregonian, 24 March 2000.

"In Question: Eric Miles Williamson." Interview with Kim Boatman. San Jose mercury News (SV Magazine), 29 August 1999.

"Williamson's Debut Novel as Gritty as His Earlier Years." Fritz Lanham. The Houston Chronicle, 4 April 1999.

"There's Blood on Every Brick." Steve Jelbert. The Independent. London: 10 June 19999.

"A Life Less Ordinary." Barry Didcock. The Sunday Herald. Glasgow:23 May 1999.

"The Beaten Generation: Why Eric Miles Williamson is Singing the Blues." Nicky Milsom. The Latest. Brighton: May 1999.

"Oakland Lit-Grit." Laird Harrison. East Bay Express. Berkeley: 30 July 1999.

"In the City: Ally Fogg Meets Eric Miles Williamson, Author of East Bay Grease and Every Inch a Survivor." Ally Fogg. The Big Issue in the North. Manchester: 9-15 August 1999.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

LITERARY

Magazines and Journals Edited:
•Texas Review. Fiction Editor 2006-date. Sam Houston State University.
•Boulevard. Associate Editor 2003-date. St Louis University.
•American Book Review: Associate Editor 2006-date. Executive Editor 2006. Editor 2001-2006. The Unit for Contemporary Literature, Illinois State University.
•Pleiades: Essay and Book Review Editor 2000-2001; Essays Editor 2002-2006. Contributing Editor 2007-date. Central Missouri State University.
•Literal Latté: Contributing Editor 1999-2001. New York City.
•Reed: Faculty Advisor 1998-1999. San Jose State University.
•Chelsea: Associate Editor 1996-1998; Book Review Editor 1995-1996, 1998-2000. New York City.
•Gulf Coast A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts: Managing Editor 1994-1995; Fiction Editor 1993-1994. University of Houston.
•Midtown: Editor 1992-1995. Central College. Houston.
•Continental Drifter: Editor 1984-1986. University of Colorado.

National Book Critics Circle:
•Member Board of Directors 2002-2006; 2007-date.
•Secretary and Vice President, 2002-2003.
•Chair, Criticism Committee, 2007.
•Chair, Poetry Committee, 2002, 2005.
•Member of Criticism Committee, Poetry Committee, Fiction Committee, Nonfiction Committee, 2002-06; 2007. Member Biography Committee 2007.

Contest Judge
•Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowshiop for Emerging Writers. 2002-date.
•Boulevard Fiction Awards 2004-date.
•Chelsea Awards in Fiction 1996-2000.
•Baker Prize in Fiction 2001-2006. Central Missourii State University.

PUBLIC READINGS and LECTURES

•South Texas College, Rio Grande City. 2007.
•South Texas College, McAllen. 2007.
•Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches. 20007.
•Associated Writing Programs Conference, Atlanta. 2007.
•South Texas College, McAllen. 2006
•Chabot College, Hayward. 2006.
•University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2006.
•University of Tulsa. 2006.
•SUNY Oneonta. 2006
•University of Houston. 2006.
•Houston Community College, Central. 2006.
•Brazos Bookstore, Houston. 2006.
•University of Louisville. 2006.
•Eastern Illinois University. 2006.
•La Sous Terre, Warrensburg. 2006.

More Public Readings and Lectures (1986-2005)

HONORS AND AWARDS

•Novel Two-Up listed in "2006: The Star's 100 Noteworthy Books" (one of 26 novels listed). The Kansas City Star. 19 November, 2006.
•Novel Two-Up listed in "100 Noteworthy Books." The San Jose Mercury News. 22 November 2006.
•Christopher Ishherwood Foundation Grant for Top Emerging Novelist 2001.
•UCross Residency (for PEN/Hemingway Finalist 1999) 2001.
•1999 PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist for East Bay Grease.
•1999 Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards Finalist for East Bay Grease.
•Novel East Bay Grease listed in The Best Books of 1999 by The Los Angeles Times (5 December 1999).
•California State University Research Grant 1999.
•Diversity Grant. San Jose State University 1999.
•National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship for Fiction 1996-1997.
•Tim McGinnis Memorial Award (The Iowa Review) for "Hope, Among Other Vices and Virtues" 1997.
•Grants written for and awarded to Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts: NEA 1996; Houston Endowment 1996; Texas Commission for the Arts 1996; Inprint Editor Scholarship (permanent).
•Sabbatical Leave (12 month) awarded by Central College, Houston Community College 1993-1994.
•Bedichek Memorial Foundation Education Grant Houston Community College 1989.
•Houston Internatinal Festival Literary Award 1987.
•Univerity of Houston Creative Writing Program: Stella Erhardt Fellow 1986-1987; Inprint Fellow 1989.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Pay the Boy (a novel). Completed and currently being agented. To be published by Fayard in France.

Thirteen Fictional Positions (a short story collection). Completed and currently being agented. To be published by Fayard in France.

Random Access Memory: The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Sukenick (an introduced and edited compendium selected from teh works of Ronald Sukenick). Editorial work complete. Critical introduction inprogress.

Say it Hot! (a collection of aesthetic essays and book reviews). Perpetually under contruction.

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