华体会

Professor
Director, Journalism Institute

English, Journalism

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Steven Hayward has published four books of fiction, including The (winner of the Premio Grinzane Cavour prize), and the Canadian national bestseller . A founding member of the , he is also Editor-At-Large of and is the Director of the 华体会 Journalism Institute. The creator of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s , he was the writer, host, and executive producer of the show’s first two seasons. A confessed Block Plan enthusiast and founding member of IBILTA (the International Block and Intensive Learning and Teaching Association), he co-directed a about the Block Plan’s past and present and produced a podcast series about the history of its founding. 

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Academic Employment

2021 to present: Professor, Department of English, 华体会

2018 to present: Director, Journalism Institute, 华体会

2018 to 2021: Chair, Department of English, 华体会

2013 to 2021: Associate Professor, Department of English, 华体会

2014 to 2017: National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor, 华体会.

2008-2013: Assistant Professor, Department of English, 华体会.

2001-2008: Assistant Professor, Department of English, John Carroll University.

2000-2001: Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania (Social Science and Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellowship); Associate Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (CCACC), Rutgers University.

 

Books

To Dance the Beginning of the World: Stories. Toronto: Exile Editions, March 2015.

Don’t Be Afraid. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2011.

The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2005.

                         -- Winner, 2006 Premio Grinzane Cavour Award for Excellence by an Emerging Author (Italy)

Buddha Stevens and Other Stories. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2000.

                        -- Winner, 2001 Upper Canada Writers’ Craft Award

                        -- Finalist, 2001 ReLit Award (Best Collection of Short Fiction)

                        -- Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2001.

 

Foreign

Niets Meer Te Verliezen. Trans. Jasper Mutsaers. Amsterdam: Pimento, 2011.

La Mitzvah Segreta di Lucio Burke. Trans. Marco di Bosonetto. Turin: Instar Libri, 2005.

 

Radio and Podcasting

Writer, Producer, Host. Colorado Cold Case. The Colorado Springs Gazette. October 2018—December 2018-2019. Seasons 1 and 2.

2014-2019. Writer, Producer, Host. Critical Karaoke. Monthly, hour-long program about music and the ideas it  inspires, broadcast on NPR affiliate stations KRCC and distributed online as iTunes Podcast.

2014-2019. Writer, Host, Producer, Executive Producer. “A Day in the Life.” A series of two-minute music history modules, broadcast on NPR affiliate station KRCC, local classical music station KCME, and distributed online as iTunes Podcast.

 

Film

Writer, Co-Director, Co-Producer. The Block Plan: A Documentary Feature.

 

Academic Service

Cutler Publications Faculty Liaison. 华体会. 2015-present.

Member, 华体会 Segway Committee. 2015-present.

KRCC Faculty Liaison. 华体会. 2013-2015.

Associate Director The IDEA Project: An Inmate Outreach Program. 华体会. 2011-2012.

Associate Director, North American Studies. 华体会, 2009-present.

Co-Director (with Natanya Pulley and Nate Marshall), Visiting Writers Series. 华体会. 2008-present.

Member, International Studies Committee. 华体会, 2011-2013.

 

Professional Affiliations

Member, PEN International

Member, Canadian Authors Association

Member, Writers’ Union of Canada.

Member, ASCUS (Association for Canadian Studies in the United States).

Member, Modern Language Association.

Member, Associated Writing Programs.

 

 

Regular Classes

Introductory Fiction Workshop
Introductory Creative Writing Workshop
Advanced Fiction Workshop (graduate)
Introduction to Canadian Literature
Introduction to the Short Story
Introduction to Shakespeare
Introduction to Poetry
Major British Writers
Mimesis, Metatheatre and Performance in Shakespeare's Theatre (graduate)
Religion and the Literary Imagination