CURRICULUM VITAE

Martin A. McGovern

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Objective:

Cofounding, codirecting and teaching in the Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing at Regis University in Denver and founding, directing and teaching in the MA in Literature/Creative Writing at Regis as well, I am seeking a position that will allow me to use my array of training and practice in writing, editing and poetry, drama, journalism, literary criticism and philosophy (PhD/Lit-Creative Writing: University of Houston-Creative Writing Program; MA in Philosophy-Stanford University; MA in English-St. Mary’s University; and Alt-Weekly Editorial with Voice Media Group’s Westword in Denver). Author: Poetry: Bad Fame (Able Muse Press: Finalist 2015 Colorado Book Awards), with selected publications in The New Republic, Poetry, The Denver Quarterly; Play: Joseph K (2009 Denver Post Ovation Award for Best New Work). To build and to create in communities that blossom from the arts have been the mainstays of my life. I would like to continue to share the talents I bring to these incredibly vital adventures.

Education

Ph.D. 1986. Literature/Creative Writing (Poetry). University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

Specializations in addition to Creative Writing: Rhetoric, English Romanticism; Early American Literature.

Poetry Dissertation directed by poet Edward Hirsch, winner of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award,” now President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Directed The Zoo Story, under in-person advisement and casting by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee; studied with Pulitzer Prize-winner and then The New Republic poetry editor Richard Howard; poets Stanley Plumly and Cynthia MacDonald; and Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer. Interviewed (after graduating) Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz.

Teaching fellow each year of my doctoral program, except for one year in which awarded the Stella Ehrhardt Prize that included the stipend and time to write and work on my dissertation.

A.M. 1981. Philosophy. Stanford University.

Completed 1980 “faculty-only” seminar on Artificial Intelligence.

Studied with lead Kierkegaard scholar Dagfinn Follesdahl.

Studied with Israeli poet T. Carmi.

Studied with authorized biographer of poet Anne Sexton, Diane Middlebrook.

Wrote book reviews for Stanford Daily.

M.A. 1979. St. Mary’s University (San Antonio). English.

Thesis: “Goodness, Beauty, and Truth in Samuel Johnson," an examination of these three philosophical and literary concepts in the work of Dr. Johnson.

B.A. 1976. University of Northern Colorado. Education. At the time of my B.A., UNC was one of the leading innovators in Education in the U.S.

* 2001-2002: Denver Center Theatre Company: Playwrights Unit. A yearlong workshop, directed by Gary Leon Hill, to develop new plays by regional playwrights. Part of my play "12 Gauge" was given a city-wide reading at the Denver Center for Performing Arts.

* 1980-1981: UC-Berkeley Extension Poetry Workshop with Margaret Atwood, Gary Snyder and Robert Bly, and Robert Hass.

Professional Academic Experience

6/1/21-present: Having taken early retirement from Regis University, I am currently teaching poetry and drama workshops for the University of Denver’s University College.

9/8/14-6/26/21: Began collaboration with Professor and fiction writer David Hicks of Regis College to create The Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing. The program’s first cohort began in January 2016. Title: Cofounder & Codirector/Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing.

Mile-High MFA is flourishing.

6/09-present Regis University. Associate Professor (promoted in August 2014); Assistant Professor (.75 August 2011-present; .50 June 2009-August 2011). Academic Advisor for over 80 graduate students. Teach and develop graduate courses in literature, philosophy, and creative writing. Oversee12 affiliates. Developed the Creative Writing specialization, with four sub-specializations: The Novel; The Short Story; Poetry; and Playwriting & Screenwriting. Raised Creative Writing/Literature specializations from three to over 60. Responsible for in-class courses and workshops; independent Directed Studies; and the creation and teaching of online courses/workshops, using D2L.

9/07-6/09 Regis University. Affiliate/Lead Affiliate, Academic Advisor for graduate students. Teach undergraduate/graduate courses in Literature, Philosophy, and Creative writing.

1/06-6/05 Metropolitan State University of Denver. Affiliate. Teach Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, and Business Ethics.

9/05-6/09 Community College of Denver. Affiliate. Teach Composition (beginning and research), Literature, and Creative Writing.

9/90-6/93 Honors College. University of Houston. Visiting Assistant Professor (Full-

Time-Ranked Visiting Assistant Professor). Honors Course: The Human Situation. A full-text humanities course covering Antiquity in the Fall Semester and Modernity in the Spring Semester.

9/86-6/89 Honors College. University of Houston. Facilitator. Teach Honors Course: The

Human Situation. English Department: Poetry Workshop.

9/81-6/86 Graduate Teaching Fellow. English/Creative Writing. The University of Houston.

Teach Composition, sophomore English, and Creative Writing. Filled in for Graduate Faculty member Edward Hirsch while he toured new books.

Professional Theatre Experience

1/03-9/08 Tir Na nOg: An Irish Theatre Company (Denver). Artistic Director. Developed seasons. Turned theatre company finances from red to black. Directed. Supervised actors and directors. Director: “Molly Sweeney,” with lead actress nominated for a Best Actress Ovation Award from The Denver Post.

9/01-9/02 Denver Center Theatre Company. Playwrights Unit. Selected as participant

in the DCTC year-long playwright workshop.

6/92-1/03 Ad Hoc Theatre (Denver). Associate Artistic Director. Developed seasons. Supervised

actors and directors. My Fool for Love was nominated for Best Production by the Denver

Critics Circle; lead actor named Best Actor for his role of Eddie in Fool for Love.

6/87-5/92 The Urban Theatre Project (Houston). Partnered with the Honors College to create a theatre company and build a theatre. Directed and co-Directed the likes of Macbeth, King Lear, Waiting for Godot, and other plays.

Sample Plays Directed or co-Directed from the above theatre companies:

Macbeth, Three Sisters, Zoo Story (with approval and casting by Edward Albee), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (with concept approved by Edward Albee), Waiting for Godot, and Fool for Love.

Plays Written/Produced

Joseph K (2009). LIDA Project (Denver): Won 2009 Denver Post Ovation Awards for Best New Work and Best Scenic Design.

12 Gauge: A Play in Two Acts (2008). Paragon Theatre (Denver). Selected for staged-reading in company’s New Play competition.

Professional Writing/Editing Experience

9/98-6/10 Voice Media Group (formerly Village Voice Media), parent company of 18 alternative weeklies

nationwide including Denver’s Westword, the Houston Press, and NYC’s Village Voice.

Editorial: Evaluate applicants for writing and editing positions. Read and evaluated more than 2,000 applications. Wrote occasional arts pieces.

6/04-6/07 Writer for the Backstage West, offspring of Backstage, the national drama magazine. Covered local and regional productions in preview articles, reviews, articles, and profiles of events and individuals.

6/00-6/04 JVA Consulting, Colorado’s largest nonprofit consulting and grant-writing firm.

Editor. Sole editor for 25 grant writers. Grants proposals ranging from five pages to 300 pages (federal Denver Public School grants, for example).

8/02-8/08 Starz Denver Film Festival. Writer. Program and insert writer.

6/03-6/10 North Denver Tribune. Writer. Monthly artist profiles (1,200 words).

Sample Publications

Poetry

Bad Fame: a collection of poems. Able Muse Press, 2015. Finalist 2015 Colorado Book Award

“The Rainbow Diary.” The New Republic. 1990.

“Socrates and the Locusts.” Hotel Amerika. Volume 1. Number 2.

“Those Years.” Hotel Amerika. Volume 1. Number 2.

“For Delia.” 3rd Prize Denver Quarterly Poetry Competition. Denver Quarterly. Volume 22, Number 2.

“Processionalia.” Poetry. Volume CLIV, Number 2.

“Summer Indians.” Poetry. Volume CLIV, Number 6.

“Chanteuse with Dog, Walking.” Western Humanities Review. Volume XLIII, Number 3.

“Hospital Corner.” Western Humanities Review. Volume XLIII, Number 3.

“Tonight the Lace Curtain.” Shenandoah. Volume XXXVIII, Number 2.

“Summer Garden.” The Antioch Review. Volume 44, Number 1.

“For Charles and Mary Lamb.” Poetry. Volume CXLIX, Number 2.

“Christmas, Colorado.” Poetry. Volume CXLV, Number 3.

Reviews

“Three Reviews: Stephen Kampa’s Bachelor Pad, Quincy Lehr’s Heimat: A Poem, and Joshua Mehigan’s Accepting the Disaster. Able Muse: A Review of Poetry, Prose & Art. 18. Winter 2014.

“Johnson’s Johnson.” Review of The Unknown Samuel Johnson, ed. John J. Burke, Jr., and Donald Kay. The Sewanee Review. Volume XCII, Number 4. Fall 1984.

Review of Sad-Faced Man by William Logan and A Northern Calendar by Ira Sadoff. The Chicago Review. Volume 34. Number 1. Summer 1983.

Interview with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz. With Randall Watson. Gulf Coast. Volume 15. Number 2. Summer/Fall 2003. Translated into Polish and included in Milosz’s authorized Collected Work: Czeslaw Milosz: Rozmowy zagraniciczne: 1979-2003. Krakow, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2013.

Interview with Edward Hirsch, “Poetry, Service to Others, and Service to Poetry.” 2019. Seeking publication.

Presentations/Readings

Reading: AWP Conference: 2017

Reading, from Bad Fame, for members of Denver Film Society’s Colorado Young Filmmakers Program (Summer 2015)

Reading, from Bad Fame, at BookBar, North Denver. Summer 2015.

Reading, from Bad Fame, at Colorado Conservation Association Meeting (Spring 2015).

Reading, from Bad Fame, at Regis University Dayton Memorial Library.

Presentation: “So You Want to Write a Poem?: Ignatian Pedagogy and the Poem Itself” at Regis University’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Fall 2015.

Presentation of “Othering the Earth” for RU-hosted Diversity Conference.

“Poetry in the Body and Bone.” Leading breakout session at the Eloquentia Perfect Conference at Loyola University/New Orleans, February 23, 2013.

McGovern, M. (2012, Aug). Writing the Screenplay. Two-day Masterclass at the Denver Film Society 2012 Young Filmmakers Workshops, Denver, CO.

McGovern, M. (2011, Aug). Writing the Screenplay. Invited speaker at the Denver Film Society 2011 Young Filmmakers Workshops, Denver, CO.

McGovern, M. (2011, Feb). Lines on Red: Poetry Reading. Invited reader at Fusion IV: Collaborative Responses to Art & Poetry, Denver, CO.

Service to the University-Regis University

Regis University Ignation Scholar

Regis URSC Committee (2016-2019): Committee adjudicated faculty student research grant awards

Regis University Mentoring Program (with Dr. Daniel Clayton)

Regis CCLS Representative to Provost Committee

Regis CCLS Chair/Faculty Council

Regis University: University Research & Scholarship Committee

CPS Doctorate Committee

Blended Learning Task Force

Regis CPS Representative to Library Committee

Search Committee-Regis CPS Department of Education

Regis/Berkeley Committee for Public Garden and Native Horticulture

Volunteer: CPS Criminology Department’s CIS Weekend 2012

Service to the Community

Board of Directors: Curious Theater Company (1995-97)

Board of Directors: Stories on Stage (2011-15).

Board of Directors: Regis/Berkeley Denver Urban Gardens (2012-2014 ).

Consultant to various theatres in Denver.

Volunteer director of selections from Taming of the Shew, a Slavens Elementary School entry in the Denver Public School’s Shakespeare in 3rd Grade Program.

Kindergarten reading-workshop at Slavens Elementary School (once a week, Spring of 2012).

Poetry class at Slavens Elementary (February 2013).

Mentor for Denver Film Society Young Filmmakers program (2011 and 2012).

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