Craig Butz :: Teaching Portfolio

EDUCATION
March 2004
OHIO UNIVERSITY Athens, Ohio
Master of Arts in English Language and Literature
Creative Nonfiction emphasis
Thesis: You, Me, and My Body--essays on body image, the relationship between author and reader, and self-depiction by gay men in contemporary nonfiction
Selected coursework:
  • Three creative writing seminars
  • Chaucer and Middle English
  • British radicalism 1785-1805
  • History of the English Language
  • Post-structuralist theory
  • Postmodern literature
March 1995 OHIO UNIVERSITY Athens, Ohio
Bachelor of Science in Education Cum Laude
English Comprehensive major
Selected Coursework:
  • Interpretation of poetry
  • Bible as literature
  • News writing
  • Shakespeare's comedies
  • Shakespeare in film
  • History of the English language
  • English literature: renaissance, 19th century, 20th century
  • Modern American literature
  • African American fiction
  • Creative writing: poetry, fiction, nonfiction