CURRICULUM VITAE
ANNE-CHRISTINE
HOFF
Athens, Georgia
annechristineh@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University
of Georgia, English and Creative Writing, August 2005.
M.A., New York University, Draper Program in the Humanities, 1997.
B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, 1995. Major: Italian literature.
DISSERTATION
“Average Sinners”
"Average Sinners" is a fictionalized account of the real-life trial and conviction of Senator Giulio Andreotti. Set in 1992, Paolo Taviani, the novel's main character, finds himself subpoenaed to witness in a trial involving his uncle, Luca Concetta, and a powerful senator, Andrea Amabili. Rumors still abound about who caused his uncle's death. The most salacious of these rumors links Luca's murder to a tell-all article he intended to write about Senator Amabili which would have shown his party's collusion with the Sicilian Mafia.
Reading Committee: Reginald McKnight (director), Judith Cofer, Tom Peterson.
PUBLICATIONS
"Arkright and the Blue Breathing Girl," The Barcelona Review, September 2007.
"Tommy and the Tick," The Barcelona Review. June 2007.
"Richard Jeffrey Newman: On Sexual Abuse, Machismo and Poetry as Survival," The New Humanist.com, March 2007.
"Writing Africa, Writing Ourselves: An Interview with Ed Pavlic," The New Humanist.com, February 2007.
"Is It Really YourSpace?," The New Humanist.com, February 2007.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2007-present. Managing Editor, The New Humanist.com.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Primary fields: Fiction writing; critical theory; twentieth-century British literature.
Other interests: Twentieth-century Italian history and culture; Latin American history and culture; Sicilian history and culture; Mafia history and culture; popular culture; craft of fiction writing; composition.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2007 Third place, Novel Writing Competition, Sandhill Writers' Conference, March 22-24, 2007, Augusta, Georgia.
2004 Graduate School Dean's
Award.
2002 Study Abroad Fellowship. University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
1995 Award of Distinction on Senior Thesis. Thesis topic: Madness in Luigi Pirandello's Short Stories.
1993-5 Barnard College Dean's List.
RECENT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007 Latin American Fiction, World Literature II, Costa Rica Study Abroad, Coastal Georgia Community College. Special topics: "What is Latin American Boom literature?" Specific focus on the writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges. The required texts for this course were One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ficciones. One required magical realist story, one required critical essay on Borges or Garcia Marquez, two non-fiction articles on Costa Rica.
2007 Contemporary American Fiction, First-Year Composition, Special Topics. The required text for this class was The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Seventh Edition. Special focus on the writings of Raymond Carver, Richard Bausch, Ethan Canin, John Cheever, Madison Smartt Bell, Andre DuBus, James Alan McPherson, Stuart Dybeck, Jill McCorkle, Philip Levine, Muriel Rukeyser, W.S. Merwin and Laura Jensen. One imitative fiction piece, one required argumentative essay, four required writing assignments.
2007 Introduction to Creative Writing. An introduction to poetry, fiction and short story writing.
2006 Postmodern American Fiction, First-Year Composition, Special Topics. "What is postmodern fiction?". The required text for this class was Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. Specific study of the writings of Donald Barthelme, Lynda Barry, Thomas Pynchon, William Gass, Truman Capote, Theresa Cha, Tim O'Brien, Laurie Anderson, Curtis White, Joseph Heller, and Don Delillo. One required imitative fiction piece and one required argumentative essay, four required writing assigments.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
2000-2005 UGA Representative for Graduate Student Caucus, Modern Language Association.
2004 First-Year Composition Final Exam Committee, University of Georgia.
2003-2004 Participant and organizer of Vox Reading Series. Creative Writing Program, University of Georgia.
2001 Meigs Teaching Award Selection Committee, University of Georgia.
LANGUAGES
Reading knowledge of Italian and German (good), Spanish (fair).
REFERENCES
Professor Reginald McKnight,
Department of English, University of Georgia.
Professor Judith Cofer, Department of English, University of Georgia .
Mr. Michael Petty, former student, JD Candidate, University of Georgia
Law School.
Professor Carl Rapp, Department of English, University of Georgia .