Joe Taylor, Ph.D.
 

  Professor of English
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
Employment Date: 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