David G Sharpe

davidgeosharpe@gmail.com

Publications

Non-Fiction

• re-issue in the A-List Collection, Canadian Literature Classics: Rochdale: The Runaway College (Toronto: House of Anansi, 2019), 320 pp.  Follow this link for details -- Rochdale: The Runaway College.  Preface in the Anansi blog.
   
• Rochdale: The Runaway College, reissue as an eBook, 2013 (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1987), 297pp.
   
• "The Changeling: an excerpt from Rochdale: The Runaway College," reprinted in The Anansi Reader, ed. Lynn Coady (Toronto: House of Anansi, 2007), pp.159-172.
   
• Rochdale: The Runaway College (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1987), 297pp.

Short Stories

• "Necronauts: a creation myth," Canadian Fiction Magazine, no.55 (1986), pp.41-54.
   
• "Reincarnation Pool," reprinted in Pure Fiction, ed. G. Hancock (Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1986), pp.98-101.
   
• "Bear-Bait," Clerestory: A Brown/RISD Journal of the Arts, vII, no.1 (Fall 1984), pp.1-4.
   
• "Firepower," The New Quarterly, v.III, no.4 (Winter 1984), pp.37-49.
   
• "Valley of the Shadow," reprinted in Metavisions, ed. G. Hancock (Toronto: Quadrant Editions, 1983), pp.161-171.
   
• "Niagara Fall," reprinted in Illusion One, ed. G. Hancock (Toronto: Aya Press, 1983), pp.37-51
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• "Reincarnation Pool," Canadian Author & Bookman, v.59 no.1 (Fall 1983), pp.17-19.
   
• "Shadow Box," The New Quarterly, v.II, no.4 (Winter 1983), pp.15-28.
   
• "The Semi-Omnipotent Engine," Canadian Fiction Magazine, no.45/46 (1982/83), pp.162-172.
   
• "Valley of the Shadow," Canadian Fiction Magazine, no.43 (1982), pp.115-124.
   
• "The Bikers," Canadian Fiction Magazine, no.39 (1981), pp.81-86.
   
• "Niagara Fall," Canadian Fiction Magazine, no.30/31 (1979), pp.165-177.
   
• "Stopped," Tamarack Review, n.79 (Autumn 1979), pp.61-66.
   
• "In Another Light," Prism International, v.17, no.2 (Fall 1978), pp.121-125.
   
• "Northern Light," Canadian Fiction Magazine, no.24/25 (1977), pp.11-19.

Poems

• "Overnight," Event, v.10, no.1 (1981), pp.101-106.
   
• "Evolver," Rampike Magazine (Spring 1981), p.35.
   
• "At a Loss, Words," Canadian Author & Bookman, v.55, no.1 (November 1979), p.25.
   
• "Rooting/Routine," Poetry Toronto, no.39 (March 1979), p.18-19.
   
• "Mousebody," Event, v.7, no.1 (1978), pp.59-62.
   
• "Momentum," Green River Review, v.IX, no.2 (1978), pp.129-131.
   
• "Winterfall," Boreal, no.10 (1978), pp.40-41. Translated into French as "L'Aurore de l'Hiver" by A. Amprimoz, Boreal, no.10 (1978), pp.41-42.
   
• "Conquistadors," Prism International, v.17, no.1 (Summer 1978), pp.183-187.
   
• "In," Waves, v.6, no.2 (Winter 1978), pp.21-22.
   
• "Company," The Antigonish Review, no.31 (Autumn 1977), pp.86-87.
   
• "Blackhead," Nebula, no.6 (Fall 1977), pp.56-58.
   
• "Hells Bells," Quarry, v.26, no.4 (Autumn 1977), pp.56-58.
   

Education

M.A., Brown University, 1986, Fiction Writing (M.F.A. equivalent)

(two-year program with John Hawkes and Robert Coover, thesis: Necronauts: A Creation Myth)

 

M.A., University of Alberta, 1972, Modern Literature

(one-year program with Wilfred and Sheila Watson, thesis: Joyce and Film: Montage in Ulysses)

 

B.A., University of British Columbia, 1971, Literature

Teaching

OHIO UNIVERSITY

English
 

• Writing and Rhetoric II On-Line, English Department, Independent Study Program, eCampus, and RN to BSN Program (School of Nursing), 1996 to 2018
   
• Writing and Rhetoric I: Writing and Film,  2009 to 2018

  Freshman, on-campus, lab-based

  Writing and Film: an Overview

• Writing and Rhetoric II,  2006 to 2018

  Junior, on-campus, lab-based

• Writing and Film,  2005 to 2009

  Freshman, on-campus, classroom-based

• Internet Writing (Technical Writing), 1997 to 2006

  Junior, on-campus -- computer lab, email, internet

• Writing and Computers (on-campus -- computer lab, email, internet)

  Advanced Composition, 1996-97 (Junior)

  Freshman Composition, 1995-96

• Advanced Composition, 1988, 1993-94
   
• Creative Writing: Fiction, 1992-95
   
• Freshman Composition, 1994
   
• Great Books (Modern), 1988

 

Computer Science

• Computer Literacy, 1994-1999

  lab instructor

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE

• Stylistics, 1987 (fiction and non-fiction)

BROWN UNIVERSITY

• Junior Composition, 1986
   
• Intermediate Fiction Writing, 1985

Experience

Websites designed and maintained

• The Buckeye House Rabbit Society, 1997 to present
   
  • at www.ohare.org

Websites designed and maintained, no longer available

• Writing and Rhetoric II On-Line (English 3080J, Ohio University), 1996 to 2018
   
• Writing and Rhetoric II On-Campus (English 3080J, Ohio University, lab-based), 2006 to 2018
   
• Writing and Rhetoric I On-Campus: Writing and Film (English 1510, Ohio University, lab-based), 2009 to 2018
   
• Internet Writing
  (Technical Writing, English 305J, Ohio University)  

• Buchanan's Furniture -- Interiors  
  (quality furniture store and custom shop in Lancaster, Ohio)

• Communication Skills for Supervisors 
  (adapted and monitored for TOPS, an agency of Jobs and Family Services, State of Ohio)

• Supplemental Writing Skills for Human Services Caseworkers 
  (adapted and monitored for TOPS, an agency of Jobs and Family Services, State of Ohio)

• Managing Priorities, Time, and Information as an Agency Supervisor 
  (adapted and monitored for TOPS, an agency of Jobs and Family Services, State of Ohio)

Awards

• College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University, Special Assignment: On-Line Advanced Composition, Spring 1996
   
• Center for Teaching Excellence, Ohio University, Email Demo Project, 1995
   
• Banff Centre for the Arts, six weeks residence, 1989
   
• Brown University, M.A. Fellowships (3), 1984-86
   
• Yaddo, four weeks residence, 1985
   
• Writers Development Trust, Tamwood Writers Retreat, three weeks residence, 1982
   
• Canada Council, Short Term Grants (2), 1978, 1982

   recommended by Robert Kroetsch

• Ontario Arts Council, Artist Grants (7), 1977-1986