People
Faculty
Joseph Bates
Titles
- Visiting Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2006
- M.A., Clemson University
- B.A., Clemson University
Research Interests
- Creative writing/narratology
- The comic novel
- Fantastic, absurd, and grotesque literatures
- Southern literature
- Film studies
Teaching Interests
- Creative writing (fiction)
- 20th century American literature
- Ethnic American literature
- Narratology
- Film studies
Selected Publications
- “Far Bright Star.” Review. Shenandoah. Forthcoming 2010.
- “Bearing A Cross.” Short Fiction. Stone’s Throw Magazine 2, April 2009.
http://stonesthrowmagazine.com/pdf/bearing.a.cross.bates.pdf - “Sympathetic Magic: John Updike’s The Widows of Eastwick.” Review. The Cincinnati Review 6.1, Summer 2009.
- “The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter and Drowning Lessons by Peter Selgin (Flannery O’Connor Award Winners 2008).” Review. Shenandoah 59.1, Spring/Summer 2009.
- “How We Made A Difference.” Short Fiction. Identity Theory. 10 November 2008.
http://www.identitytheory.com/fiction/bates_how.php - “A Dangerous Age.” Review. Shenandoah 58.2, Fall 2008.
- “The Gateway.” Review. Shenandoah 58.1, Spring/Summer 2008.
- “Boardwalk Elvis Takes A Break.” Short Fiction. Fresh Boiled Peanuts 3, September 2007.
- “New Stories From The South.” Review. Shenandoah 57.3, Winter 2007.
- “Yankees Burn Atlanta.” Short Fiction. Lunch Hour Stories. August 2007.
- “Characteristically Uncharacteristic: An Interview with Percival Everett.” 2008 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Ed. Lauren Mosko. Writer’s Digest Books, August 2007.
- “The Fantastic, The Familiar, and The Funny Things That Happen Between: An Interview with Judy Budnitz.” 2007 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Ed. Lauren Mosko. Writer’s Digest Books, August 2006.
- “Butterfinger.” Short Fiction. The South Carolina Review. Fall 2004.
Work in Progress
Joseph Bates has recently finished work on a story collection, Blasphemers for Jesus, and is currently at work on his first novel, The Strikeout Artist, about the brief baseball career of Franz Kafka.