Darin Ciccotelli, PhD

Faculty - Undergraduate
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Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
Director of Creative Writing Program
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  • PhD, Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston
  • MFA, Writing, University of Texas
  • BA, English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Central Florida
  • WRIT 101: First-Year Writing
    • Public, Private, Etc.
    • Millennials, Hipsters, and Generational Identity
    • Technology, Anger, and Silence
    • The Post-American World
  • WRIT 301: Advanced Communication Skills (ES)
    • Los Angeles and the Environment
    • Writing Orange County
  • WRIT 301: Advanced Communication Skills (Humanities)
    • Cultural Criticism and Interpretation
    • Reality Hunger
  • WRIT 301: Advanced Communication Skills (IS)
    • The New Democracy
    • Contemporary Rebellion
  • WRIT 305: Advanced Communication Skills 
    • Writing the Body
    • Writing the Apocalypse
    • The Rhetoric and Representation of 9/11
  • WRIT 315: Introduction to Creative Writing
    • Useful Ambiguity
  • Learning Cluster:
    • Writing Through Difference
    • Manufactured Landscapes
    • Rewriting Infinite Jest
  • Affect Theory 
  • American Literature (post-1865)
  • Comics and Graphic Narratives
  • Contemporary Fiction
  • Creative Writing 
  • Creative Writing Pedagogy
  • David Foster Wallace
  • Literature of 9/11
  • Lyric Essay/Creative Nonfiction
  • Poetry in Translation
  • Postprocess Theory
  • 鈥淩evising 鈥楾he Question鈥: Thoughts on MFA Vs NYC and the Larger Problems of Institutionalized Creative Writing.鈥 The Writer鈥檚 Chronicle (forthcoming).

Selected Poems

  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "To Osip Mandelstam" and 鈥淪econd River.鈥 Western Humanities Review 73, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 84鈥86.
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "Sand Still Rushes" and 鈥淪parrow Hills鈥 West Branch 89, (Winter 2019).
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "Second River鈥 Conduit 29, (Sweet Mobile Home: Where We Belong).
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "Furmanove Lane." "Voronezh Notebooks." "Stone Garden." "Apollon." Hobart: Another Literary Journal, June 29, 2018.
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "Beach Winter." "Primetime." "Inside the Summer is Something Clean." New Orleans Review 15, (March 2016).
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. 鈥淗oneysuckle." 鈥淎pposition.鈥 鈥淪pam.鈥 Conjunctions 26, (January 2016).
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "Night Dissolving in Whatever It Is I Look at." Crazyhorse 90, (Fall 2016): 77.
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "The Invisible Hand" and 鈥淔ramingham鈥 West Branch 80, (Winter 2016).
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "Chevy Chase." Western Humanities Review 70, no. 2 (Summer 2016).
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "This is Called Summer." Subtropics 19, (Spring/Summer 2015): 90.
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. "Assistance." "Thornhill Broome." "Another Songbird." "Dan Chelotti." BOMB Magazine, (July 25, 2014).
  • Ciccotelli, Darin. 鈥淪uperpower.鈥 In Best New Poets 2013, edited by Brenda Shaughnessy and Jazzy Danziger. Charlottesville, VA: Samovar Press, 2014.
  • 鈥淭he Only Turquoise Left in the Animal Kingdom鈥 and 鈥淧laza,鈥 Colorado Review 40.2 (Summer 2013)
  • 鈥淭he Season in its Individual Parts,鈥 The Awl 6 June 2013 (2013)
  • 鈥淲inter at its Most Hypothetical,鈥 Third Coast Fall 2013 (2013)
  • 鈥淭he Martyrdom of St. Matthew,鈥 Fence 15.2 (Winter 2012/2013)
  • 鈥淟ate Valentine,鈥 鈥淭his Year鈥 and 鈥淭he Idea of Good Labor Still Somewhere,鈥 ZYZZYVA 27.4 (2012)
  • 鈥淸Children worshipping the small gods, like the]鈥 and 鈥淸The next sentence was simply],鈥 Barrow Street (Winter 2011/12)
  • 鈥淩ain in Krakow.鈥 Notre Dame Review 33 (2011)
  • 鈥淚ncredulity of Thomas.鈥 Kenyon Review 14 June 2011 (2011)
  • 鈥淸All birds vaguely destroyed].鈥 American Letters & Commentary 22 (2011)
  • 鈥淸The night comes on. It snuffs out intentions].鈥 Cimarron Review 175/176 (2011)
  • 鈥淸And the zombies, they would deserve our friendship].鈥 Pleiades 31.2 (2011)
  • 鈥淕hosts.鈥 VOLT 16 (2011)
  • 鈥淸And he woke knowing the wren was inside him].鈥 Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review 47 (2010)
  • 鈥淸All night the thousand bougainvilleas].鈥 The Pinch 30.2 (2010)
  • 鈥淸There is no such thing as original].鈥 New South 3.1 (2010)
  • 鈥淸It has nothing to do with the quiet, sad dalliances].鈥 New South 3.1 (2010)
  • 鈥淸In the animation ghettos of North Hollywood].鈥 Natural Bridge 23 (2010)
  • 鈥淐yclops.鈥 The Tusculum Review 6 (2010)
  • 鈥淸Lightning, from the ground up.]鈥 Literary Imagination 9.3 (2007)
  • 鈥淸Because of that city of glass.]鈥 Spinning Jenny 10 (2007)
  • 鈥淸Nonlovers, we were caught.]鈥 Colorado Review 33.2 (2006)
  • 鈥淪ilver & Gold.鈥 Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review 30 (2006)
  • 鈥淧eter Bogdanovich.鈥 Another Chicago Magazine 44 + 45 (2004)
  • "Confrontation.鈥 Denver Quarterly 37: No. 4 (2003)
  • 2010-present, Associate Professor, 博鱼体育 of America
  • 2003-2010, Teaching Fellow, University of Houston
  • SUA Professor of the Year, 2011-2012
  • Inprint/Lucille Joy Prize in Poetry, 2008
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2003, 2004, 2006
  • Inprint/C. Glen Cambor Fellowship, University of Houston, 2003-2008
  • James A. Michener Fellowship, University of Texas, 2000-2003