09/10 – 12/10              Teaching class Introduction to British Literature, “The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.” Covers last two centuries of British literature, teaching freshman through seniors.

09/09 – 05/10              UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX

Faculty Lecturer, English (online).

09/09 – 05/10              Taught “Children’s Literature in a Pluralistic Society.”

01/09 – 04/09              UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, Bloomsbury, London. 

                                    Lecturer in Creative Writing.

01/09 –04/09               Taught the M.A. in Creative Writing alongside UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion (Director of the M.A. in Creative Writing), poet Jo Shapcott and novelist Susanna Jones.                                 

01/09 – 04/09              Taught a postgraduate workshop (Fiction): I taught the class for the first half of the term, then swapped students (and vice versa) with Professor Motion.                                    

01/09 – 04/09              Taught a postgraduate class (Reading as a Writer): I taught a weekly novel alongside a

critical text in order to inspire fiction-writing in the above Fiction workshop.  

9/04 – 12/08                THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC, USA.

                                    Professorial Lecturer in English.          

9/08 – 12/08                Taught class “Introduction to American Literature, 1865-Present.”

9/07 – 12/07                GTA for Professor Jonathan Hsy, “Early English Literature: Imagined Realms, Expanding Horizons.”

1/07 – 4/07                  Taught Introduction to British Literature, “The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.” Covered last two centuries of British literature, teaching freshman through seniors.

9/06 – 12/06                Taught Introduction to British Literature, “The Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century.” Covered four centuries of British literary history in one class, teaching freshman through seniors.

9/05 – 6/06                  Taught University Writing freshman composition class, “Extreme Censorship: Adaptation from Text to Screen.” (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006).

9/04 – 6/05                  Taught University Writing freshman composition class, “Lost in the Academy: The Academic Novel in Britain and America.” (Fall 2004 and Spring 2005).

9/04 – 12/04                Tutored DC police in writing in the Police Science B.A. program.

9/03 – 6/04                  Tutored undergraduates for four semesters in the University Writing Center.

PUBLICATIONS

06/10                            Novel: American Con Artist (work-in-progress)

06/10                            Novel: The Murderess and the Hangman, with London literary agent James Wills of Watson Little.

05/10                            Interview: My interview of British novelist Andrew Smith published on his publisher’s website:

                                     http://edithswar.com/id12.html

9/08                              Novel: The Pride and the Sorrow, with London literary agent James Wills of Watson Little.

7/08                              Opening chapter of The Pride and the Sorrow published in Word Riot.

TBD                              Opening chapter of The Pride and the Sorrow to be published in THEMA.

9/08                              Dissertation:

 The British and American Academic Novel: The Professorromane, The Comic Campus, The Tragic Self

 To be published by Parkgate Press in November 2010.

8/08                              Screenplay: The Knight of New Orleans, with London agent Meg Davis, Director of MBA Literary Agency, and registered with the  

                                     Writers Guild of America, East.

6/02                              Short Story: For Kicks, published in Paper, Scissors, Stone: New Writing from the University of East

 Anglia (2002). University of East Anglia Press, 2002, ISBN: 978-0953607235.                                  

 Critical Reviews: The St. Ann’s Review.

Summer/Fall 2003          Future, Past, Present, Review of Anne Ursu’s Spilling Clarence and The Dissaparation of James (novels).

Winter/Spring 2004         Deciphering Stones. Review of Ben Dowling’s The Calligraphy Shop (poetry).                        

1999 – 2002                   Poetry: Poems published in Island, Fire, Poetry Monthly, Manifold and Weyfarers (UK magazines).

AWARDS

7/10                             Agented-only Entry, BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (UK).

2/10                             Second Round, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2010 (General Fiction) for

The Pride and the Sorrow, my novel about New Orleans chess player Paul Morphy.

7/08                              Winner of Bookhabit Unpublished Novel Competition 2008 for The Pride and the Sorrow. See

                                     http://reviewyak.com/?m=200806 and www.mattfullerty.com for more details.

6/08                             “Almost Finalist” in The Faulkner-Wisdom Competition for The Pride and the Sorrow.  See The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society at

                                     www.wordsandmusic.org/competition2008FaulknerWinners.html

5/08                              I am the alternate choice to live in Jack Kerouac's old house for 3 months as part of The Kerouac Project (www.kerouacproject.org). 

                                     The Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida, is the house where Kerouac lived when On The Road was published and where he wrote The Dharma Bums.

4/06                             English Department Graduate Teaching Award 2006-2007 (George Washington University).

9/03 – 4/07                  4-year GTA Scholarship Award 2003-2007 (George Washington University).

CONFERENCES

12/09                           MLA Convention, Philadelphia. Panel Assistant for two of my former English professors,

George Washington University.

4/09                             Paper entitled “My current research and publication plans and the Seamus Heaney Centre.”                                        

                                    Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.                                                                                           

                                    Presentation before the English department.            

3/09                             Panel organizer and chair, The Runnymeade Literary Festival

                                    Showcasing novels and short stories for the M.A. Creative Writing, Prose Writers (7 speakers)                                

                                    The University of London, Royal Holloway.            

1/09                             Paper entitled “Telling a national story: the John McGahern Archives and the value of literary archives to Creative Writing programs.”                                                                              

                                    The National University of Ireland, Galway.                                                            

                                    Presentation before the Board of Assessors.                                                       

4/07                             Paper entitled “The Invisible Line: Ethical Responsibility between Professor and Student in the Academic Play, Butley (1971), Educating Rita (1980) and Oleanna (1992).”

College English Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Conference Theme: Empathy and Ethics.

 
3/05                             Paper entitled “When Fiction and Theory Meet: Cascading Time and Einstein’s Dreams.”

English Student Association, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, New York, USA.

Conference Theme: Owning It: Theory/Anti-Theory/After Theory.

3/05                             Paper entitled “When Fiction and Theory Meet: Cascading Time and Einstein’s Dreams.”

American Comparative Literature Association 2005 Annual Meeting.
Conference Theme: Imperialisms – Temporal, Spatial, Formal.

4/04                             Panel Chair, “Something About Film.”                                                                                                                            

                                    GW Writing Department 2004 Symposium.       

FREELANCE EDITOR / PUBLISHING EMPLOYMENT

9/08 – Present              EXPERT RATING (www.expertrating.com), Washington, DC.

                                    Freelancing for ISO 9001-2000 certified company offering online certification and training services to individuals and companies in  over 60 countries. I write testing content (80 questions at a time) in the following subjects (both UK and US versions): English language skills, Creative Writing skills, Online Blogging skills, Language translations (between English and French, Spanish and German), Differences between British and American English, Grammar, and Public Relations.

3/09 – 6/09                 ROSETTA STONE (www.rosettastone.com), Washington, DC.

                                    Freelanced for the world’s leading foreign language-software company.

                                    Content Editor for UK – US (and vice versa) English Language Content.

9/01 – 11/02                HEINEMANN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, Oxford, England.

Freelance editor for secondary schoolbooks: 35 projects completed. Edited and proofed wide range of books including English, Maths and Further Education (Sport, Psychology). Liaised with editors and authors.

3/00 – 7/01                  HODDER & STOUGHTON EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, London, England.

Desk Editor: 17 months on the Maths list for secondary school books. Handled manuscripts from initial copy-editing through to  publication. Worked with in-house Production, Design and Marketing departments, and managed freelance copy-editing and proof-reading.  Range of editing skills required: checking and re-writing English, breaking down questions for students and incorporating design elements.

1/00 – 2/00                  ORION PUBLISHING PLC, London, England.
Intern, Fiction Department: Drafted press releases. Reviewed copies of newspapers for internal files. Wrote reports of forthcoming books’ opening chapters.

10/99                           DARTON, LONGMAN & TODD PUBLISHERS, London, England.

Intern: Processed manuscripts’ publication declines and foreign right permissions in Editorial

department.

SKILLS

Computer:

·       Taught English classes using Blackboard.

·    English Graduate Student Association, Website Designer www.gwu.edu/~egsa/index.html

·       Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint.

·       QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Photoshop, both Mac and PC. Designer of Web Pages, personal and corporate. HTML. Development of a commercial CD-ROM.

·       Research and construction of an on-line database for Law Review of Cavendish Publishing.   

Languages:

·       French, good written and spoken.

·       German and Latin, written.

Professional Organizations:

·       Oxford University Alumni Society, Washington DC member.

·       University of East Anglia Alumni Society.

·       Modern Languages Association (MLA), member 2005-present.

·       Writers Guild of America, East, member.

Additional:

·       Full, clean driving license.

·       First Aid in the Workplace.

·       Non-smoker.

·       ‘Chesapeake Man’ 2010 Swimfest, 2.4 mile swim in Chesapeake Bay, Cambridge, MD.

·       Marine Corps MArathon 2009, New York Marathon 2004.

·    London Marathon 2000, raised £700 for children’s charity “Child-line.

REFERENCES         

US References

Judith Plotz, Professor of English and Dissertation Director, The George Washington University

jplotz@gwu.edu

David McAleavey, Head of Creative Writing, The George Washington University

                                                  david.mcaleavey@gmail.com

Marshall Alcorn, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, and

Dissertation Reader, The George Washington University, alcornma@gwu.edu

Margaret Soltan, Professor of English and Dissertation Reader, The George Washington

University, msoltan@gwu.edu

Gil Harris, Professor of English and Dissertation Chair, The George Washington

University, jgharris@gwu.edu

Tara Wallace, Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George

Washington University, tgw@gwu.edu

                                    UK References

Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate (UK), University of London, Royal Holloway

                                                andrew.motion@btinternet.com

Jo Shapcott, Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of London, Royal Holloway

            jo.shapcott@virgin.net

Dr. Nicholas Shrimpton, Vice President, (Lady Margaret Hall), Oxford University

            nicholas.shrimpton@lmh.ac.uk

Dr. Helen Barr, Fellow and Tutor in English, (Lady Margaret Hall), Oxford University

helen.barr@lmh.ox.ac.uk