ARGIE J. MANOLIS
INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH
SERVICE-LEARNING COORDINATOR
HUMANITIES DIVISION
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MORRIS
320-589-6257
manolis@morris.umn.edu

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, May 1999.

Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1994.

Service-Learning Coordinator, University of Minnesota, Morris, Morris, Minnesota, Fall 2003.

Instructor, University of Minnesota, Morris, Morris, Minnesota, 2000-present.

Faculty Associate, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1999-2000.

Adjunct Faculty, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Gilbert, Arizona, 1999-2000.

Adjunct Faculty, South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, 1999-2000.

Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1996-1999.

Associate Editor, F&W Publications, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994-1996

Current Courses

• Fundamentals of Writing: focus on basic writing skills for at-risk college students
  
• College Writing: First-year writing, with a focus on thesis-driven, academic prose
  
• Introduction to Creative Writing: A 2000-level course focusing on conventions of writing poetry and short stories in a workshop setting
  
• Advanced Creative Writing-Fiction: A 3000-level course focusing on writing longer short stories in a workshop setting
  
• Gateway English: A summer course in multicultural literature and writing for new students of color
  

Additional Courses Taught

• College Writing for At-Risk High-School Juniors: A 1000-level introductory course, South Mountain Community College
  
• Introduction to Creative Writing, Poetry: A 2000-level introductory course focusing on conventions of writing poetry in a workshop setting
  
• Personal and Exploratory Writing, a 2000-level composition course, Arizona State University
  
• Argumentative Writing in The Public Sphere, a 2000-level composition course, Arizona State University
  
• Academic Writing in the Disciplines, a 2000-level composition course, Arizona State University
  
• Business and Professional Writing, a 3000-level composition course, Arizona State University

Curricular Innovations

Since Fall 2000, all Fundamentals of Writing, College Writing, and Introduction to Creative Writing courses have been taught as service-learning courses. Students plan and implement therapeutic activities for residents of a local long-term care facility and write a series of reflective essays, research essays, and found poetry from the residents' words.

Special Teaching Methods Implemented

Service Learning in Fundamentals of Writing, College Writing, and Introduction to Creative Writing (see above)

Advising and Instruction-Related University Activities

Directed Studies

• "The Narrative in Poetry and Prose," with Kevin Ely, fall 2003.
  
• "Creative Writing Inspired by Found Art," with Mollie Ficek, fall 2003.
  
• "Images of Trucking in American Literature," with Melissa Johnson, fall 2003.
  
• "Advanced Expository Writing and Service Learning," with several students, spring 2002-present.
  
• "Found Poetry and Service Learning," with several students, fall 2001-present.
  
• "Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop," with several students, spring 2003.
  
• "Advanced Expository Writing About Service Learing," with Erin Scherbring, spring 2002.
  
• "Expository Writing about Service Learing," with six students, spring 2002.
  
• "Writing and Editing Oral Histories," with two students, fall 2001.
  
• "Fiction Writing," with Larina Brown, fall 2001.
  
• "Essay Writing," with Nathan Martin, Spring 2001.
  
• "Writing Children's Literature," with Leane Perius, Fall 2001.

Morris Academic Partnerships

• K-12 Curriculum Guide for Intergenerational Service Learning, with Kate Beyer, fall 2003 and spring 2004.
  
• A Qualitative Study of Students' Attitudes about Civic Engagement in a College Writing with Service Learning Course, with student Wendy Hyatt, spring 2003.
  
• Oral History Interviews with Caretakers, with Nicole Zanin, fall 2002.
  
• Course Manual for Intergenerational Service Learning Writing Courses, with Annie Olson, summer and fall 2001 and spring 2002.

Other Paid Student Positions

• Service Learning Ambassadors, with four students each semester, beginning in Fall 2003. Train and oversee students to do research, writing, webpage development, and project facilitation for the service learning program.
  
• Supervisor, Morris Academic Intern for the Queer Resource Center, 2003-2004.
  
• Bibliography of Sources about Found Poetry, with Michael Moore, 2000-2001 Academic Year, Paid Through a Learn and Serve America Mini-Grant.

Scholarly and Professional Articles

• "Writing the Community: Found Poetry and Service Learing," accepted in a book of essays about creative writing pedagogy edited by Dr. Anna Leahy.
  
• "The Writer as Witness: An Interview with Demetria Martinez," Hayden's Ferry Review,Issue 24, Spring/Summer 1999.

Creative Publications

• "", poem, in So to Speak, Volume, Number, Date
  
• "On the Day After Any Party in the World," poem, in Mochila Review, Volume, Number, Date.
  
• "Daphne's First Blood," poem, in Sou'wester, Volume 30, Number 2, Spring 2002.
  
• "My Father's Secret," poem, in I Have My Own Song For It: Modern Poems of Ohio, ed. by Elton Glaser and William Greenway, Akron University Press, 2002.
  
• "Coffee" and "Agios Phanourios," poems, in Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Volume 44, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2001.
  
• "Luna Park," "Leaving Ikaria," and "Fishing for Kalamari," poems, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Volume 25, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2000.
  
• "Erasure of the Mother Tongue," poem, Human Equity Through the Arts Journal, Volume 3, Number 4, Spring 2000.
  
• "This is a Story About Finding Our Way" and "Waltzing to the Scent of Blood," poems, anteup, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1999.
  
• "Loving in Secret: Daphne and Artemis," poem, in Mockingbird, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1999.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• "Working, Living, and Learning in Multicultural Communities," Learning Circle Co-Faciliator, Educators for Community Engagement National Gathering, June 2004.
  
• "Bridging the Gap: Multi-Disciplinary, Intergenerational Service Learning Projects," panel at National Service Learning Conference with UMM faculty Andrew Hostetler and Jennifer Rothchild, West Wind Village Activity Director Lisa Denzer, and students Brandie Nelson, Annie Olson, and Nicole Zanin, April 2004, Orlando, FL.
  
• "Places, Everyone: The Role of Place in Writing Poetry," Wick Reunion Conference, Kent, OH, March 2004.
  
• "How to Expand a Service Learning Project Beyond the Classroom," panel with UMM students Wendy Hyatt, Annie Olson, and Melissa Swenson, and West Wind Village Activity Directory Lisa Denzer, at National Service Learning Conference, April 2003, Minneapolis, MN.
  
• "Storytelling and Community Development," panel with UMM students Erin Scherbring and Kate Perdoni and Villa of St. Francis Activity Director Lisa Denzer on service learning methodology in composition and creative writing, will be presented at the National Service Learning Conference, 2002, Seattle, WA.
  
• "Beyond the Workshop, Beyond the University: Found Poetry and Service Learning," panel with UMM students Annie Olson and Nicole Zanin on service learning in creative writing, will be presented at the Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, 2002, New Orleans, LA.
  
• "Service Learning," Presentation at the Blandin Foundation Annual Celebration, fall 2001.
  
• "Service Learning as a Community Development Tool," panel at the International Rural Development Summit, summer 2001.
  
• Poster, "Voices on the Prairie: Found Poetry and Service Learning," Invisible College Conference, summer 2001.
  
• "What They Took With Them On the Road: From the MFA to Antarctica," panel on post-graduate teaching, research, and writing opportunities, to be presented in a panel discussion at the Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, 2001.
  
• "Writing With Alzheimer's Patients: An Outreach Program," panel on creative writing outreach opportunities, presented at Associated Writing Programs Conference, 1999.
  
• "What We Talk About When We Stop Talking About Craft," presented as part of the pedagogy forum, Associated Writing Programs Conference, 1998.

Artistic Presentations and Exhibitions

• Featured Poet, Wick Reunion Poetry Reading, Kent, OH, March 2004.
  
• Featured poet, SASE GLBT Reading Series, Minneapolis, MN, summer 2003.
  
• Co-Organizer and Reader, Poetry for Peace Reading, Morris, MN, spring 2003.
  
• Reader, Martin Luther King Jr. Poetry Reading, University of Minnesota-Morris, 2001 and 2002.
  
• Featured poet, University of Minnesota-Morris poetry reading, Morris, Minnesota, 2000.
  
• Featured poet, Lesbian Resource Center Reading, Phoenix, Arizona, 1998.
  
• Featured poet, Arizona State University Creative Writing Series Reading, Tempe, Arizona, 1997.
  
• Featured poet, Women Writing for (A) Change Reading, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1996.
  
• Featured poet, Bisbee Poetry Festival, Bisbee, Arizona, 1991.

Theatrical Performances

• Organizer, The Lysistrata Project, at University of Minnesota, Morris, spring 2003.
  
• Performer, The Vagina Monologues, performance at University of Minnesota, Morris, Minnesota, 2001 and 2002.
  
• Performer, The Circle and the Light: A Performance Poetry Piece,Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995.

Grants Received

• $96,000 Learn and Serve America Grant from the Corporation for National Public Service, fall 2003.
  
• Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Writing Grant, $10,000, UM-Twin Cities, fall 2003.
  
• Educational Development Program Grant, $5,000, UMM, spring 2003.
  
• Learn and Serve Mini-Grant from Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, $3000, Fall 2000, and $1,500, Spring 2001

Professional Meetings Attended

• National Service Learning Conference, spring 2002, 2003, 2004
  
• Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
  
• Intergenerational Service-Learning Conference, St. Cloud State University, fall 2001.
  
• Educators for Community Engagement National Gathering, summer 2001, 2003, 2004
  
• International Summit for Rural Development, summer 2001

Research and Scholarly Activities in Progress

• A Qualitative Assessment of the Effects of Service Learning on College Writing Students' Civic and Cultural Literacy.
  
• The Same Cold Water Pushing Us Forward, poetry manuscript, circulating for publication (along with 32 individual poems not yet published which appear in the manuscript).
  
• Dancing the Kariotiko, poetry manuscript, in first draft.
  
• Reading the Grounds, short story manuscript, in first draft.

Professional Organization Memberships

• Associated Writing Programs
  
• Educators for Community Engagement

Professional Honors and Awards

• Faculty/Staff Outstanding Support for Student Leadership Award, spring 2003.
  
• Minnesota State Student Service Award, summer 2001.
  
• Honorable Mention, Human Equity for the Arts poetry contest, 2000
  
• Honorable Mention, Associated Writing Programs Intro Awards, Fiction, 1998

Graduate Honors and Awards

• Mammoth Press Poetry Award, 1999
  
• Graduate Academic Scholarship, 1996-1999
  
• Graduate College Travel Grant, 1997
  
• English Department Travel Grant, 1997
  
• Collaborative Teaching Service Award, 1997, 1998

Undergraduate Honors and Awards

• Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors, May, 1994
  
• Phi Beta Kappa, April, 1994
  
• Hellenic Studies Scholarship, 1992
  
• Wick Younger Poets Prize, 1991
  
• Four-Year Honors College Scholarship, 1989
  
• American Hellenic Educational and Professional Association Scholarship, 1989
  
• Pan-Ikarian Brotherhood Scholarship, 1989
  
• Icaros Scholarship, 1989

Professional Service

• National Board of Educators for Community Engagement, 2003-present.

All-University Service

• Council on Public Engagement, 2003-present.
  
• UM GLBT Climate Committee, UMM representative, 2003-2004.

UMM Service

• Member, Queer Issues Subcommittee of the Student Services Committee, spring 2001-present.
  
• Advisor, Equality, UMM's GLBTA student organization, 2001-present.
  
• Advisor, Chronicle Alternative, UMM's literary magazine, a student organization, 2001-present.
  
• Member, West Central Minnesota Historical Research Center Advisory Board, spring 2003-present.
  
• Civic Engagement Task Force, 2003-present.
  
• Co-facilitator, Safe Zone/Ally Project, spring 2003-present.
  
• Chair, Queer Issues Subcommittee of the Student Services Committee, spring 2001-2004.
  
• Traveled to Twin Cities to Recruit Students to UMM, 2004.
  
• Campus of Difference Working Group, summer 2003.
  
• Member, Service Learning Project Team of the Faculty Center for Learning and Teaching, UMM, spring 2001-spring 2003.
  
• Faciliator, Multicultural Student Leadership Retreat, 2003.
  
• Selection Committee, Student Leadership Awards, spring 2003.
  
• Student Crisis Response Team, fall 2003.
  
• Facilitator, Laramie Project discussion, March 2002.
  
• Faculty-Student Panel for Prospective Students, UMM, April 2001.

Public Service

• Volunteer, West Wind Village, 2001-present.
  
• Member, Service Learning Advisory Board for Morris Area School District, 2003-present.
  
• Volunteer Instructor, Discovering Your Creativity, Morris Area Community Education Course, 2004.
  
• Instructor, Creative Writing, Prairie Camp for 6-12 year-olds sponsored by Prairie Renaissance Cultural Alliance, summer 2004.
  
• Member, Word Parade Committee, Planned a Series of Community Events About Writing and Reading, 2003-2004
  
• Organizer, UMM Relay For Life Team, summer 2003, 2004.
  
• Member, Prairie Renaissance Cultural Alliance Classes Committee, 2003.
  
• Secretary, Stevens County American Cancer Society, August 2000-August 2001.
  
• Tutor, Literacy Volunteers of America, August 1999-December 2000.