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Joe Taylor, Ph.D.

	Associate Professor of English
	Department of Languages and Literature College of Liberal Arts
	Station # 22
	Wallace Hall 110
	(205) 652-3470
	jwt@uwa.edu
Degrees:	Ph.D., Florida State University, 1985 M.A., Florida State University, 1981 B.A. University of Kentucky, 1974
Initial employment at UWA:	1990
Classes usually taught:	The Comic Novel Modern Novel Medical Ethics British Literature 1 (survey for juniors & seniors) Introduction to Literature, Story & Poem (survey for all sophomores) Creative Writing (poetry & fiction & creative non-fiction, some graduates) Creative Writing Practicum Chaucer (mostly undergraduate level, some graduates) Introduction to Literature, Novel & Drama (survey for all sophomores)
Additional UWA assignments:	The Livingston Press
Editing Experience	1993 to present, Livingston Press To date, have typeset 100 books on Adobe PageMaker, InDesign To date, have designed or supervised 100 covers on Adobe Illustrator To date, have typeset and designed or supervised 18 catalogues on Adobe PageMaker, InDesign To date, have typeset and designed or supervised 80 postcards on Adobe PageMaker Edited 80 books 1984 to present, Swallow’s Tale Press Designed 12 covers Edited 12 books 1990 to 1993, The Sucarnochee Review Typeset and designed 3 issues of this perfect-bound literary magazine 1983-1985, Swallow’s Tale Magazine Edited 5 issues of this literary magazines 1986, Peachtree Press, Atlanta Worked as a reader for one year 1980-1984, The Sun Dog (Florida State University) Edited 5 issues of this perfect-bound literary magazine
Works Circulating	Masques for the Fields of Time, story collection Persephone's Escalator, comic fantasy novel The Theoretics of Love, a novel Child’s Play, story collection Bad Form, a comic fantasy novel. Feather Truth, a literary novel The Baron, The Bear, and The Bees, a comic literary novel The Once and Future Bunion, a comic literary novel
Publications (Books)	Tartts, 2005 (editor), Swallow’s Tale Press/Livingston Press The World’s Thinnest Fat Man, 2005, Swallow’s Tale Press Some Heroes, Some Heroines, Some Others, 2002, Swallow’s Tale Press Belles’ Letters: An Anthology of Alabama Women Writers (co-editor), 1995 Oldcat & Ms Puss: A Book of Days for You and Me, 1998, Black Belt Press
Publications (Stories)	2005 “My Ode to Sylvia Plath” Hotel Amerika 2004 “Factoid Directionals” Square Lake “Mademoiselle Preg. Nante” anthologized in The Crucifix Is Down “The Soft Queen of Dissolution” Gihon River Review “Mademoiselle Preg. Nante” Lake Effect “Sifting Karma, American Style,” Rive Gauche “The Phantom Tipper” Honeydu 2003 “And Monkey Do” Foliate Oak “Oh, Children Mine” River City 2001 “Moon Trees: A Gentle Ontology” Apalachee Quarterly 1996 "The Great Humus" Hayden's Ferry Review 1995 "Saturdays" The Best of The Chattahoochee Review 1994 "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk, The Man Who Wouldn't Listen" The Southern Anthology "Number Four, Please" & "Sleepless Hollow" Yemassee "Doing Own Thing" Cornfield Review "My Life as an Imaginary Number" The George Washington Review "Cold Sores, Body Odor and Credit Cards" A Gathering of the Tribes 1993 "Saturdays" The Chattahoochee Review "On the Importance of Gulls" William & Mary Review 1991 "Welcome to the Pleistocene and Land" anthologized in Subtropical Speculations, by Pineapple Press 1990 "The Odds Against Going to Heaven" in Beloit Fiction Journal "The Poet" Erihidu 1989 "The Power" anthologized in Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction, 2nd ed., Little Brown "Momma Jack" anthologized in Stories from a Tough Place, White Mule Press "The Ghost of Christmas Future" Pikeville Review 1988 "Stars Is Stars" Cream City Review 1987 "Shine on, Pops" Apalachee Quarterly "A Puff of Roses" The Virginia Quarterly Review 1986 "Hamburger and America" The Chattahoochee Review "Heroes and Heroines, for an Atomic Age" Sequoia, The Stanford Literary Magazine "America, Taken as a Wagon" The Florida Review "Out of the Trees" The Cotton Bole/Atlanta Review "A Gentle Glow" The South Carolina Review "All of Them Do" The Sucarnochee Review "Da" The Crescent Review 1985 "Dark Cloud" The Sucarnochee Review "Hound of Heaven" Willow Springs 1984 "First Blood, Final Blood" Sun Dog/The Southeast Review "Highway One, Revisited" The Florida Review 1983 "Love: Five Tales and Talk Thereof" Crosscurrents "Focal Point" The Montana Review "Judas" Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction, Little, Brown "The Tower" West Branch "The Power" TriQuarterly "Enlightenment" Cimarron Review
Works-in-Progress	The Theoretics of Love, storynovel The First, Spinning Moment, a novel using quantum physics as a controlling metaphor Dappled Things (working title), a novel set in Alabama modeled after Ave Maria Grotto