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Dustin Michael

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • M.A., English, Southeast Missouri State University
  • Certificate, TESOL, University of Georgia
  • Ph.D., English, University of Missouri-Columbia
  • B.A., English, Southeast Missouri State University

Credentials

Academic experience

  • Associate professor of English, Fall 2023–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Instructor of English, Spring 2012–23, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA
  • Adjunct instructor of English, 2011–12, University of South Carolina, Beaufort, SC
  • Workshop coordinator, January–May 2010, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  • Graduate instructor of English, 2006–10, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  • Instructor of English, 2006, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
  • Instructor of English, 2005–06, Mineral Area Community College, Fredericktown, MO

Professional experience

  • Editorial advisor/blogger, 2007–09, The Missouri Review, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  • Nonfiction editor, 2007, Center: A Journal for the Literary Arts, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  • Writing associate, 2005–06, Southeast Missouri State University Writing Center, Cape Girardeau, MO
  • Writer, 2003–05, Southeast New Bureau, Cape Girardeau, MO
    Researched and wrote news stories, feature articles, and web content, for university public relations department.
  • Editorial assistant, 2003–04, Big Muddy, Southeast State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
    Assisted with manuscript solicitation, selection, and editing; assisted with promotional events and helped prepare journal for publication.

Awards, recognitions, and honors

Graphic narrative

  • Second Runner Up (with Neesha Navare), Cahoodaloodaling "In Cahoots" contest, 2015

Newspaper columns/features

  • First Place Sports Feature, Missouri College Media Association, 2003
  • Honorable Mention Entertainment Review, Missouri College Media, 2003
  • First Place Entertainment Review, Missouri College Media Association, 2001
  • First Place Regular Column, Missouri College Media Association, 2001

Newspaper comics/cartoons

  • First Place Entertainment Cartoon, Missouri College Media Association, 2006
  • Second Place Entertainment Cartoon, Missouri College Media Association, 2006
  • First Place Non-Political Cartoon, Missouri College Media Association, 2005
  • Second Place Non-Political Cartoon, Missouri College Media Association, 2005
  • Third Place Non-Political Cartoon, Missouri College Media Association, 2005
  • Creative Writing Fellowship, University of Missouri, 2006–10

Publications and presentations

Book chapters

  • "Voyage Around a Dorm Room: A COVID-19 Era Rethinking of Student Travel, Writing through Xavier de Maistre's 1794 Voyage Autour de Ma, Chambre," scholarly article, Teaching the Humanities and Beyond to Prepare Student Learners for a Diverse Workplace, 2023
  • "Becoming Lystrosaurus: Toxic Environments, Mass Extinctions, and Other Cautionary Tales for Academics," personal essay, The Invisible Professor, 2022
  • "Wiggling Between the Forms: A Cross-Genre Approach to Writing," craft essay, Creative Composition, 2015

Essays and Graphic Narratives

  • "The Usual Fish," essay, Bubble Magazine, issue 2, 2023
  • "The Masquerade," essay, Spillover Magazine, issue 3, 2023
  • "That Spark," graphic memoir (reprint), Duck Duck Mongoose, issue 3, 2022
  • "Birds," essay (reprint), Bulb Culture Collective, 2023
  • "Ghosts," flash essay, Unstamatic, 2022
  • "Fighting Words," essay, Clinch–A Martial Arts Literary Magazine, issue 2, 2022
  • "A Rephlection," essay, The Skinnie, July 2022
  • "Birds," essay, The Atrium, fall 2016

Fiction

  • "La Asíntota," Soft Star, fall 2022
  • "The Ruined Fountain," Menacing Hedge, vol. 3, winter 2012
  • "Another Asthma Night," My Body of Knowledge: Stories of Chronic Illness, 2005

Poetry

  • "New Fossils," New Verse News, September 23, 2022
  • "Fossil Fugue," New Verse News, July 5, 2021
  • "What Would Have Been Washed Away," New Verse News, January 15, 2019

Poetry chapbook

  • Sorority Girls of the Seven Seas: A Journal of Asinine Poetry Reader, Asinine Poetry, New York, NY, 2005

Works included in anthologies

  • "Airport-Only States," Airplane Reading, Zer0 Books, 2016
  • "Advice to My Friend Beth's Undergraduate Nonfiction Students," The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, 5th ed., Longman, Jan. 31, 2009
  • "Another Asthma Night," My Body of Knowledge: Stories of Chronic Illness, Cracked Bell Publishing, Aug. 18, 2008

Book reviews and interviews

  • Review of Becoming Story by Greg Sarris, Rain Taxi, fall 2022
  • Review of For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds by Jennifer Moxley, Rain Taxi, summer 2022
  • Review of We Are Bridges by Cassandra Lane, Rain Taxi, winter 2022
  • Review of Places I've Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown, Rain Taxi, winter 2020
  • Review of The Painted Forest, by Krista Eastman, Rain Taxi, summer 2020
  • Review of Finding Kindness, with Avonlie Michael, by Deborah Underwood and Irene Chan, Journal of Language and Literacy Education vol. 16:1, spring 2020
  • Review of The After-Normal, by David Carlin and Nicole Walker, Rain Taxi, winter 2020