TIA BALLANTINE
EDUCATION:
PhD : 2005 University of Hawai`i at Manoa
English; Creative Writing, Poetry.
Dissertation: Eve and the Archangel in Paradise, an extended sonnet sequence.
Dissertation director: Professor Frank Stewart, editor-in-chief, Manoa Journal.
Areas of Specialization: Seventeenth Century Poetry; Poets’ Theories of Poetry; Farce
MA : May 2001. University of Hawai`i at Manoa
English; Creative Writing: Drawing Breath, poetic text
BA : May 1999. University of Hawai`i at Manoa - English; highest honors: Spring Loaded, novel
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2009: Jan - May: Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing: American University of Nigeria
British Literature; Research skills
2006 - 2007: Visiting Assistant Professor: Spring, University of Tampa
Introduction to Creative Writing (English 200); First Year Writing: composition, research writing
(English 101 & 102)
2006: summer: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Hawai`i
Introduction to Creative Writing: English 313
20th Century American Literature after 1950; English 338
2005: P/T Assistant Professor of Honors Studies; Lecturer, Department of English
Junior Honors Seminar: Honors 491 - WI
Poetry/Drama: Intro to Literature: English 256
American Literature: Intro to Literature: English 250
2001-2005 Graduate Assistant; Instructor of record: University of Hawai`i at Manoa
NB: WI signifies ‘writing intensive’; these classes required an engagement with the structures of critical and analytic writing as well as with the texts studied.
Directed reading w/honors student (Chinese major): English 499
Research for proposal to re-introduce foreign language study in public elementary schools.
Fall 2004
Drama: Comedy, Farce: English 362 WI
Fall 2003
Introduction to Creative Writing: English 313
Fall 2004, Summer 2005
Poetry/Drama: Intro to Literature: English 256 WI
Sum 2002; Spr 2003; Fall 2003
Short Story/Novel: Intro to Literature English 255 WI
Sum 2002; Sum 2003
World Lit after 1600: Intro to Literature: English 254 WI
Sum 2003; Sum 2004
American Literature: Intro to Literature: English 250
Spr 2004
First Year Composition: English 100
Fall 2001; Fall 2002; Spr 2002; Fall 2003; Spr 2004; Spr 2005, 2 sections
2001, Spr: Drama: English 362. Teaching assistant to Professor Joseph H. O’Mealy, Interim Dean
College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature
2001, Fall: Film: English 363. Teaching assistant to Professor Joseph H. O’Mealy, Interim Dean
College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature
2002-2005: Instructor: Osher Life-Long Learning Institute a the University of Hawai`i - Manoa
2003 Spirit of Teaching Award for Scholarship and Community Service.
Osher Life-long Learning Institute: UH - Manoa ($2000)
The Osher Life-Long Learning Institute is a non-profit organization under the aegis of the College of Arts and Sciences that provides an interface between Honolulu’s elder community and the University.
Courses taught: 2005 Fall: Whitman; 2005 Spr: Poetry Writing Workshop; 2004 Fall: Poetry Writing
Workshop; 2004 Sum: Emily Dickinson; 2004 Spr: Pre-20th Century ‘Working-Class’ Poets; 2003 Fall: Poets of the Seventeenth Century; 2003 Spr: Poetry Writing Workshop; 2002 Fall: Contemporary Poets.
1999-2000: Lecturer: Kapi`olani Community College, Honolulu, Hawai`i
Pre-College Composition: Two semesters, two classes per semester
2000-2001: Volunteer Tutor: Writing Workshop: University of Hawai`i - Manoa
1998-9: On-line English Creative Writing Tutor: University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo
under the direction of Professor Will Hochman, Ph.D., Creative Writing, Univ. of S. CO
1996-7: Kapi`olani Community College
English tutor and assistant in first year composition classes of Professor Judith
Kirkpatrick. Worked both on-line and in a computer classroom.
PUBLICATIONS
POEMS:
"Out of Africa and Aboard the Coast Starlight: an Ode to Growth";
"Seeking Keats: In Search of Beauty as Truth, Truth as Beauty";
"Ode to a Melting Glacier
Mixed Nerve. Spring 2010
"Circuit" Pirene's Fountain Poetry Journal. October 2009
"Ever Sounds like Birth" War, Literature and the Arts 2009
"Say Your Prayers in Passing" War, Literature and the Arts Winter 2008.
“The Secret Life of Birds”; “After the World Ends.” HI-ART Magazine Winter 2008.
“Floodgates,” “Archeology.” Mixed Nerve 1.3 (June 2007).
“A Comprehensive Map of Paradise.” Saw Palm, 2007.
“This is not her paradise”; “When noise rises”; “At 8.a.m., sea winds”; “Months after battles end”
The Red Wheelbarrow 12 (2006): 22-25.
“ ‘It’s the storm’” Hawai`i Pacific Review (2006): 28.
“Mythology of Rainbows” Winter Gifts. Helena Nelson, ed. Fife, Scotland: Happenstance Press, 2005: 23.
“When Eve arrives”; “Daedalus understood wings and wax”; “Angels mock her”; “After many years, the
Archangel flies”; “Against flat black, hungry ghosts.” Hawaii Review 65 (2005).
“Eve believes he’s the best looking man”; “When the music stops”; “What Eve recalls of that day”; “Exiled from her body” Queer Poetry 5 (2005).
“In the beginning”; “When the voice finds body”; “The mist spins out to gold”; “Ankle deep in earth”; “No one’s image”; “Somehow Eve senses” Living Water10 (2005).
“Eve’s Dream.” (“After that business with the serpent”) Five Fingers Review: Uncanny Love (September
2005): 150.
“Fledgling.” The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought 46.2 (Winter 2005): 140.
“Force Fed.” The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought 46.1 (Autumn, 2004): 49.
“Prophecy Denied” and “Chronology.” Poets’ Canvas 23 (Fall 2003).
“Riches” “Treason” “Lulu’s Song” “Prayer” “Remedy.” Living Water 9 (2003).
“Eve and the Archangel in Paradise,” “What is Decent.” Snakeskin 88 (March 2003).
“Destiny is Memory.” Poets Against the War. Sam Hamill, ed. New York: Nation Books, 2003. pp. 29-30.
“Drawing Breath.” Spillway 10 (Fall/Winter 2002): 8.
“A State of Grace in Another War Zone.” War, Literature and the Arts 10.1 (Spring/Summer 1998): 91.
FICTION:
“Hiya JD.” Letters to Salinger. Chris Kubica and Will Hochman, eds. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin P, 2001. pp.
144-5.
CRITICAL ESSAY: on Beckett’s Not I
“NOT I: To and Fro in Shadow.” Apmonia: The Modern Word (2000). 2740 wds.
PERSONAL ESSAY:
“Gifts received.” Living Waters 6 (Spring 2000). 1241 wds.
REVIEW: (poetry)
Jee Leong Koh. Payday Loans. SPHINX #7 (2007).
Roddy Lumsden. Super Try Again. SPHINX #7 (2007).
Kathleen Kenny. Goose Tales and Other Flights. SPHINX #7 (2207).
Graeme Richardson. HangTime. SPHINX #7 (2007).
Ernest Dowson. Some Poems By Ernest Dowson. Robert Nye, ed. SPHINX # 6 (2007).
Cleland, Angela. Waiting to Burn. SPHINX # 6 (2007).
Gardner, Donald. The Glittering Sea. SPHINX #5 (2006).
Gay, Alan. The Boy Who Came Ashore. SPHINX #5 (2006): 19-20.
Montesinos, Rafael. Ultimo Cuerpo de Campanas (The Last Toll of the Bells). Lola Hidalgo Calle,
Ph.D. and Mark Putnam, Ph.D, trans. Mellen P, 2006.
Adams, Derek. Postcards to Olympus. SPHINX #3 (2006): 33-34.
Mackenzie, Rob A. The Clown of Natural Sorrow. SPHINX #3 (2006): 42
MacGillivray, Alan. Kindly Clouds. SPHINX #2 (2005): 34-35.
Hendry, Diana and Tom Pow SPARKS! (poems). SPHINX #2 (2005): 18-20.
REVIEW: (drama)
“Tip-toe through the Tulips: Alan Bennett Talking Heads” Living Waters 9 (2003). 1587 wds.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
“To and Fro in Shadow: The Ambiguous ‘Self’ in Samuel Beckett’s Not I.” Proceedings. Graduate Student
Conference of the College of Language, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (2002):
163-5.
Poems from Drawing Breath.” Proceedings. Graduate Student Conference of the College of Language,
Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (2000):1-8.
“ ‘Miss Liberty Has an Orgasm’: A Short Story.” Proceedings. Graduate Student Conference of the College of
Language, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (1999): 119-121.
PERFORMANCE
2005, January "Destiny is Memory," first published in Sam Hamill's Anthology Poets Against the War
(Nation Books 2003) used in a performance entitled "Dissident Voices: Collateral Damage: Poets
Against the War," at Toi Whakaari, New Zealand’s national drama school.
AWARDS
2006 Finalist: Donald Justice Poetry Award
2005: John Young Scholarship for the Arts $6000
2005: Partial Fellowship: Vermont Studio Center (for poetry: 8-weeks room & board)
2004: Finalist, Glimmertrain. “A Comprehensive Map of Paradise.” Poetry contest.
2003: Finalist, Glimmertrain. “Defaced Spirits.” Spring poetry contest.
Finalist, Glimmertrain. “Blind Cave Fish.” Short story competition.
GSO Travel Grant, UH – Manoa (travel to CCCCs conference NY)
2001: Arts & Sciences Advisory Council Award, UH – Manoa (travel to CCCCs conference Denver, CO.)
2000: Abernethy Scholarship, UH – Manoa ($5000)
1999: Hemingway Award for Poetry
Academy of American Poets Award, UH – Manoa
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2006: Judge: Essay contest, Tampa public school students
2005: Member of Honors committee for Olav Bauer: A proposal for the Implementing of Programs for the Study
of Foreign Languages in American Public Elementary Schools
2005: Workshop leader (poetry): Ko`olau Writers’ Workshop, Hawai`i Pacific University
2004: Member of Honors committee for Yuri Kenney: novel, Highest Honors
Volunteer: Computers & Writing Conference, Kapi`olani Community College
2003: Reader, Writing Placement Exams - UH
2002- 2003: First Year Composition Pilot Portfolio project
2000 - 2005: Phi Beta Kappa review of candidates
2001: Writing Workshop: liaison between the Writing Workshop and UH School of
Education summer program for teachers from Samoa, Summer session
UH Dept of English Colloquium Committee, Fall Semester
1999-2003: Committee member and abstract reader: Graduate Student Conference for the UH College of
Languages, Linguistics, and Literature
1999-2000: Volunteer tutor: Writing Workshop, Department of English, UH
1999: Judge: Hawai`i Department of Education Statewide Middle School Poetry Contest
1997: System-wide Committee for the Revision of Student Conduct Code
1996: Volunteer: Computers & Writing Conference, Kapi`olani Community College
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association
Association of Writers and Writing Programs
National Council of Teachers of English
Academy of American Poets
Poetry Society of America
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Eve and the Archangel in Paradise. Read selections from my book at the Friday evening open mike reading. ALSC Conference, Boston, 2005.
“Amplifications: Contemporary Poets in Conversation with Dickinson.” International Emily Dickinson Conference in Hilo, HI (2004). Member of Panel.
“Using Film to Teach Research Method.” Presented in a session called “Teaching the Research Paper,” which I also chaired by invitation. Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City, NY (2003).
“Crossover Pedagogy: A workshop on New Ways to Teach First-Year Research Writing,” by invitation. Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City, NY (2003).
“Responsibility to Form: Can a Poet Successfully Teach Composition without Losing Touch with Art?” for MFA Special Interest Group, by invitation. Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City, NY (2003).
16th Annual Poetry Forum, presenter. Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City, NY (2003).
“Out of the Sky Locker: Translating Dafydd ap Gwilym.” Graduate Student Conference of the College of Language, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (2003).
“To and Fro in Shadow: The Ambiguous ‘Self’ in Samuel Beckett’s Not I.” Graduate Student Conference of the College of Language, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (2002). Published in Proceedings.
“Sleight of Hand: Using Creativity in Teaching Remedial Composition” in “Art of Writing Instruction: A Workshop on the Craft of How We Write our Rhetorical Communities.” Conference on College Composition and Communication in Denver, CO (2001).
14th Annual Poetry Forum, presenter. Conference on College Composition and Communication in Denver, CO (2001).
“Drawing Breath.” New poems. Graduate Student Conference of the College of Language, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (2000). Published in Proceedings.
“Miss Liberty Has an Orgasm: A Short Story.” Graduate Student Conference of the College of Language, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (1999). Published in Proceedings.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:
1998-2006: Independent editor and proofreader--Hawai`i, including work on, but not limited to, the accreditation documents for the School of Nursing (UH), Hawai`i Review, and Tradewinds, a history of African Americans in Hawai`i. Miles Jackson, ed. University of Hawai`i P, 2005.
2000: Editorial assistant: Manoa Journal 12.2. Proofread and edited essay for: Songs of the Snow Lion: New Writing from Tibet.
1997: Editor/ proofreader: Wight, Kahikahealani, ed. New Illustrated Hawaiian Dictionary. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1997.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Reading and writing ability: French, Spanish, Hawaiian, Medieval Welsh, Old English
Speaking ability: French, Spanish, Hawaiian
ART EXHIBITIONS
2002 Koa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI.
2002 Fairleigh Dickinson University , New York, NY.
2002 Atrium Gallery: LaGuardia Community College, NY, NY.
2001 Gallery X, New York, NY.
2001 Kentler International Drawing Center, New York, NY.
1999 Sisu Gallery, Honolulu, HI.
1998 Sisu Gallery, Honolulu, HI.
1994 Libre School, Gardner, CO.
1992 International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY.
1990 International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY.
1989 Red Hook Gallery , Brooklyn, NY.
1987 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY.
1986 PS 122, New York, NY.
1986 Educational Alliance, New York, NY.
1984 C.U.A.N.D.O., New York, NY.
1984 Kenkeleba, New York, NY.
1983 Plexus Gallery, New York, NY.
1982 280 Park Avenue, New York, NY.
1981 Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, NY.
1980 The Exhibition Space, New York, NY.
1979 Permanent Installation: Roosevelt Field, Queens, NY.
1978 Gallery Odin, Port Washington, NY.
1978 OIA, New York, NY.
1976 Rockland County Court House, New City, NY.
1975 Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.
1975 Southeastern Biennial of Painting and Sculpture, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.
1974 McDonald Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
MURALS
1982 PS 29 (director), Brooklyn, NY.
1979 Dental World (collaborative/B Berger), Queens, NY.
1978 Bronx Museum of Art (consultant), Bronx, NY.
1978 FDR High School (consultant) , Brooklyn, NY.
1978 West Side Highway: (collaborative/Brendt Berger), New York, NY.
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE:
1995 BISHOP MUSEUM Honolulu, HI.
cultural interpreter: HAWAI'I LOA: KA 'IMI 'IKE
1991-2 MILLS COLLEGE ART GALLERY Oakland, CA..
responsible for mailings and archival research.
1978-80 ORGANIZATION OF INDEPENDENT ARTISTS in NYC.
coordinator and curator of art shows for public spaces
1973 PETERS VALLEY VILLAGE, National Park, Peters Valley, NJ.
Artist in residence: demonstration weaver
Partial list of organizations and individuals who have selected my artwork for their collections:
Theatre for the New City, New York, NY.
NYC Department of Highways, New York, NY.
Douglas Heller/ Heller Galleries, New York, NY.
Astoria Film Studio, New York, NY.
Libre School, Gardner, CO.
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.
International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY.
TRW, Inc, Cleveland, Ohio.
