University Consultant

Jocko Benoit's Poetry and Photography

Cafe Terminus: A BlogWork

Background >

Jacques Peter Benoit

e-mail:

abpckf@r.postjobfree.com

HIGHLIGHTS OF

QUALIFICATIONS

Extensive experience as

TV show host and movie criticWell versed in popular

media, especially television and movies and video

gamesOver twenty years of

public speaking experience as lecturer and

performer

SKILLS

AND EXPERIENCE

Educational

Conducted lectures,

class discussions and writing workshop sessions, wrote

web contentDesigned and wrote

three distance education courses on pop culture, TV and

film and currently designing course on video

gamesTelevision

Created contextual

educational material for Monk, Smallville, The West Wing,

Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,

Star Trek Voyager, 7thHeaven and SummerlandWrote and presented

critical analyses of selected films for

Film

StudiesWrote and presented

critical analyses of selected films for

Movies Worth

WatchingColumnist

Gave reviews and

analyses of current moviesWrote personal blog on

writing and pop cultureWriter

and Researcher

Wrote and researched

documentary proposalWrote screenplay for

government video

WORK HISTORY

Course

Designer and Tutor 1996 Present

Athabasca University

Athabasca, AB, Canada

Television Show Host

and Writer 1997 2010

Access

Television Edmonton, AB, Canada

Television Show Host and Writer 1999 2007

Canadian Learning Television Edmonton, AB, Canada

Lecturer in Creative

Writing 2002 2004

University of Alberta Department of Extension Edmonton, AB,

Canada

Movie/Pop Culture

Columnist 2001 2003

CBC Radio (Alberta) Edmonton, AB, Canada

Writer and

Researcher 2000 2002

Frame

30 Productions Edmonton, AB, Canada

English

Instructor 1988 1996

University of Alberta Edmonton, AB,

Canada

EDUCATION

Master of Arts in

English 1984

University of Windsor Windsor, ON, Canada

Bachelor of Arts in

English 1982

St.

Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS,

Canada

AWARDS

Finalist in

Scr(i)pt

Magazine Open

Door Competition, 2003Finalist in Television

and Film Institute Screenwriting Competition,

1999Named University of

Alberta Intramural Athlete of the Week, 1992

OTHER

ACTIVITIES

Story consultant on

short film, The Lifer One of the

photographers for start-up fashion line,

Anti-CamouflageJuror for Edmonton Arts

CouncilWrote personal blog on

writing and pop culturePerformed at Leonard

Cohen Night show, EdmontonAppeared as expert in

documentary (Reel Hot) from Pyramid ProductionsAppeared in piece on

Poetry sweatshops for CBC s Zed TVBoard member of Stroll

of Poets; vice-president for two yearsFormer board member of

Television and Film Institute for

ScreenwritersJuror for 1999 Alberta

Motion Pictures Industry AwardsJuror for 1998 Local

Heroes Film Festival, EdmontonGave poetry readings at

local (Edmonton) cafes, for Stroll of Poets and local

mediaFormer member of League

of Canadian PoetsOrganized three poetry

reading series in the Edmonton areaHelped found and

edit Madame

Bull s Tavern (literary quarterly)Editorial staff member

of Secrets From

the Orange Couch (literary quarterly)Co-hosted weekly

two-hour radio show for CFXU, St. Francis Xavier campus

radioActed, directed, wrote

for Theatre Antigonish Festival of One-Act

Plays

PUBLICATIONS

(as Jacques Benoit, Jocko

Benoit, or Jocko)

Academic

Film and

Genre. Edmonton: Athabasca University,

1999The Television

Age. Edmonton:

Athabasca University, 1999Popular Culture and

the Media. Edmonton: Atahabasca University,

1998

Poems

Poetry

collection, Standoff Terrain.

(Calgary, Alberta:, 2010)Poetry

collection, An

Anarchist Dream (Edmonton: Raccoon's Den Publishers,

1997)Poems appeared

in Adbusters,The Amethyst Review, Anthos, The

Antigonish Review, Bad Guys Finish First, The Blotter,

Capers Aweigh, Carousel, Dis-Ease, Don t Quit Yr Day-Job,

Drift, e-poem, Event, The Gaspereau Review,Generation, Going Down

Swinging, Grain, The Harpweaver, Jones Av, Lazer, Lichen,

Line By Line (anthology), The Malahat Review, Mark, Next

Exit, North By North Wit (anthology), The Olive, On Spec, On the

Threshold (anthology), Onionhead, Other Voices, Paper

Wasp, The People s Poetry Newsletter, The Prairie

Journal, Queen s Quarterly, Secrets From the Orange

Couch, Squib,sun-Terrain, Tabula Rasa,

Tesseracts5, TickleAce, The Toronto Review of

Contemporary Writing AbroadVintage 92, Vintage 97/98, Vintage

2000 (anthologies) WebLitCan and Zygote (1984

2005)Stories

Heir To the Throne

in Tesseracts7 (anthology; Paula Johanson and

Jean-Louis Trudel, eds. Edmonton: The Books Collective,

1998) High Moon in

On Spec

(pp. 68-77, Vol. 8, Issue

4, No. 27, Winter 1996)

Other

Interests

Photography, world

religions, intramural slow-pitch, cycling, pirates,

archaeology,

Aboard theH.M.S.

Surpriseat

the Martime Museum in San Diego, March 2008. Picture by

Margaret Benoit.

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