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Dr Thom Conroy

Position: Lecturer
Qualifications: BA Indiana, University of Pennsylvania; MA University of Oklahoma; PhD Ohio University
Contact Details:
Room: MB4.28, Old Main Building, Turitea Campus, Palmerston North
Telephone Extension: 2733
Email: T.Conroy@massey.ac.nz

Expertise
Thom teaches creative writing and fiction as literature. The recipient of the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, Thom's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of literary journals, including Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, and Landfall. From 1998 to 2002, he edited Quarter After Eight, a journal of innovative prose, based out of Ohio University. He is currently at work on a novel and a second collection of short fiction.
Thom’s teaching interests include creative writing, fiction as literature, fictive theory, and American literature.

Teaching
139.105 Fiction: The Long and Short of It
139.123 Creative Writing
139.329 Advanced Fiction Writing
139.761 Writing Contemporary Fiction

Possible Supervision
Creative writing; Twentieth Century American Literature; Fictive Theory.

Recent Publications

"The Springs of the Great Deep." Forthcoming in Landfall.

"Wayward Children and Their Guardians." Forthcoming in Agni.

"Commerce, an Old Habit." Forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review.

"Idleness, Justice, Kingship, Love." Nimrod. Fall/Winter (2005): 11-25.

"You See How Much I Know About Jazz." Willow Springs. Winter/Spring (2004): 45-54.

"Us Lovers." The Connecticut Review. Fall (2003): 89-98.

"The Credo of Donnie Gum." The Laurel Review. Summer (2003): 79-86.

"The Weather in Svalbard." The Georgia State University Review. Spring/Summer (2003): 64-80.

"The Mermaids of Perkiomen Creek." Colorado Review. Spring (2003): 55-66.

"The Agency of Invisible Bodies." Sycamore Review. Winter/Spring (2003): 63-72.

"Moving Pictures are Forbidden Until Sunset." Quarterly West. Spring/Summer (2002): 117-23.

"The Infinite Shades of White." Prairie Schooner. Winter (2001): 112-20.


For a sample of Thom's Fiction:

http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php?file=gough.php

http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/online/2008/gough.html

For a sample of Thom's Fiction and Interview:

http://www.ambusharts.com/issue3/thomas_gough

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