vita
lance olsen
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Modern & Postmodern Literature,
University of Virginia, 1985.
M.A., Literature,
University of Virginia, 1982.
M.F.A., Fiction Writing,
Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa, 1980.
B.A., English and Journalism (Honors),
University of Wisconsin, 1978.
NOVELS:
Calendar of Regrets (Tuscaloosa, AL: Fiction Collective Two, 2010).
Head in Flames (Portland, OR: Chiasmus Press, 2009).
Anxious Pleasures (Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007).
Nietzsche's
Kisses (Tallahassee, FL: Fiction Collective Two, 2006).
10:01
(print version: Portland, OR: Chiasmus Press, 2005; hypermedia version: Iowa Revew Web 7.2 November 2005).
Girl
Imagined by Chance (Tallahassee, FL: Fiction Collective
Two, 2002).
Freaknest
(La Grande, OR: Wordcraft, 2000).
Time Famine
(San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1996).
Burnt (La
Grande, OR: Wordcraft, 1996).
Tonguing
the Zeitgeist (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press,1994).
Live from
Earth (NY: Available Press/Ballantine Books,1991).
ANTI-TEXTBOOKS:
Achitectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing (Washington, D.C.:
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2012).
Rebel Yell: Writing Fiction (San Jose:
Cambrian Press, 1998).
CRITICAL STUDIES:
In Memoriam to Postmodernism: Essays
on the Avant-Pop, co-edited with Mark Amerika
(SDSU Press, 1995).
Lolita:
A Janus Text (NY: Twayne, 1995).
Surfing
Tomorrow: Essays on the Future
of American Fiction (Prairie Village: Potpourri,
1995), editor.
William
Gibson (Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1992).
Circus
of the Mind in Motion: Postmodernism
and the Comic Vision (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1990).
Ellipse
of Uncertainty: An Introduction to
Postmodern Fantasy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987).
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS:
Hideous Beauties (Portland, OR: Eraserhead, 2003).
Sewing
Shut My Eyes (Normal/Tallahassee: Fiction Collective
Two/Black Ice, 2000).
Scherzi,
I Believe (La Grande, OR: Wordcraft, 1994).
My Dates
With Franz (Amherst, MA: Bluestone Press, 1993).
POETRY CHAPBOOK:
Natural Selections, co-authored with Jeff Worley (Galloway
Township, NJ: Still Waters Press, 1993).
FICTION:
Over 100 short stories in Iowa Review , Fiction
International, The Literary Review, various
anthologies, etc.; translated into Italian, Finnish, and Polish.
POETRY:
Over 30 poems in Willow Springs, DoubleTake, Alaska
Quarterly, etc.
ESSAYS:
Over 80 essays in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Bloomsbury Review,
Virginia Quarterly Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Village Voice,
various anthologies, etc.
REVIEWS:
Over 100 reviews in Time Out New York, American Book Review, Electronic
Book Review, Postmodern Culture, etc.
PRESENTATIONS:
Over 160 readings and presentations in Cologne, London, Los Angeles,
New York, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, etc.
RECOGNITION, ETC.:
Chair of Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two, 2002-Present; Guggenheim Fellowship, 2012; N.E.A. Fellowship, 2006; Science Fiction Research Association Pioneer Award, 2003; Fulbright in Finland, 2000; Idaho State Writer-in-Residence, 1996-1998; Pushcart Prize, 1998; Finalist for 1995 Philip K. Dick Award; etc.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2007-Present:
University of Utah
Professor
Department
of English, Creative Writing Program
1996-2001:
University of Idaho
Professor
Department
of English, Creative Writing Program
1990-1996:
University of Idaho
Associate Professor (with tenure)
1985-1990:
University of Kentucky
Assistant Professor
1981-1985:
University of Virginia
Instructor
1979-1980:
University of Iowa
Instructor
COURSES TAUGHT:
Graduate Seminars in Literature:
Centuries at the Edge: 1890s/1990s
Postmodern Theory and Fiction
Studies in Modern British Literature: What Was Modernism?
Graduate Seminars in Writing:
Advanced Fiction Writing
Narratological Amphibiousness
Undergraduate Seminars in Literature:
Contemporary Fiction
Creative Process for Writers
Seminar in Literary Studies: Lolita
The Science Fiction Novel
Modern American Novel
Postmodern Culture
Contemporary British Culture
Postmodern Humor in British & American Fiction
Introduction to Literary Study
Twentieth-Century British Literature
American Literature Since 1900
Modern American Authors
The Idea of Comedy
Interpretations of Literature
Undergraduate Survey Courses:
Survey of English Literature II
Survey of English Literature I
American Literature from 1865 to Present
Undergraduate Seminars in Writing:
Advanced Fiction Writing
Intermediate Fiction Writing
Fiction Writing
Advanced Expository Writing
Intermediate Expository Writing
Expository Writing
MEMBERSHIP:
PEN U.S.A., Associated Writing Programs
TRAVEL:
Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burma, Canada, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wales, Zimbabwe.
