Dwight Yates Lecturer Office: 4016 INTS Phone: (951) 827-6270 E-mail: dyates@ucr.edu

Employment History

• Lecturer, Departments of Creative Writing and English, University of California, Riverside, 1981-present



• Adjunct Faculty, University of Redlands in Salzburg, 1987



• Director, McKale Writing Clinic, University of Arizona, 1979-80



• Graduate Assistant and Associate in Teaching, University of Arizona, 1972-79



• Instructor, University of Montana, 1970-72



• Graduate Assistant in Teaching, University of Montana, 1967-1970



• Instructor, Tabora Boys School, Tabora, Tanzania, 1965-67
  
  

Education

• A.B.D. Medieval Literature, University of Arizona, 1976.



• M. A. English, University of Montana, 1970.



• B. A. English, Portland State University, 1964.

Teaching Experience

• Creative Writing: Introduction To Creative Writing; Intermediate Fiction Workshop; Fiction and Film; Metafiction.
  
  
• English: Composition (at every level); Introduction to Literature; Survey of Modern Literature.
  
  
• U.S. Peace Corps: ESL, history, and public affairs.

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, 1993
  
  
• Pushcart Prize, Special Mention, 1992.

Publications

Fiction:

• "Family Fitness." Forthcoming in Northwest Review, spring, 2002.
  
  
• "I Want To Hold Your Hand." ZYZZYVA 52 (1998): 71-82.
  
  
• "On Expedition." Northwest Review 35.3 (1997): 142-50.
  
  
• "In The Lincoln Shrine." Western Humanities Review 45.4 (1991): 325-32.
  
  
• "Painted Pony." Quarterly West 32 (1991): 78-89.
  
  
•  Anthologized in Best of the West 5. Eds. James Thomas and Denise Thomas. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
  
  
• "The Lover." ZYZZYVA 24 (1990): 117-23.
  
  
• "Twenty-two Flamingos." Northwest Review 26.3 (1988): 33-39.
  
  
• "Democracy." Northwest Review 26.3 (1988): 40-47.
  
  
• "The Orient And The Occident." Sonora Review 10 (1986): 83-89.
  
  
• "The Chocolate Man." Puerto Del Sol 21.2 (1986): 75-82.
  
  
• "The Possum Is Not A Dream." Northwest Review 23.2 (1985): 29-34.
  
  
• "Animal Wrongs." Between The Species, a journal of ethics 1.3 (1985): 29-34.
  
  
• "Wash & Dry." Quarry West 20 (1984): 19-21.
  

Nonfiction:

• Edited with Nancy Carrick. A Student's Guide To Freshman Composition. Minneapolis: Burgess, 1980.

Reviews:

• "Deadrock On The Rocks." A review of Thomas Mcguane's Nothing But Blue Skies. The Philadelphia Inquirer (October 10, 1992).

Circulating:

• Manuscript: Love and Global Warming
  
  
• Manuscript: The Village Tales of Jürgen Kolar
  

• Fiction reading. Mt. San Jacinto Community College, San Jacinto, California, November 13, 2001.
  
  
• Fiction reading. Riverside Public Library, Riverside, California, January 27, 2001.
  
  
• Fiction reading. Mt. San Jacinto Community College (Menifee campus), Menifee, California, September 28, 2000.
  
  
• Writer in Residence, Inland Area Writing Project Fiction Retreat,
  
  Mission Inn, Riverside, California, November 14-16, 2001; November 10-12, 2000; October 24-26, 1999.
  
  
• Fiction reading. Beyond Baroque. Venice, California, April 2, 1998.
  
  
• Guest lecturer, The Inland Area Writing Project Summer Institute. U.C. Riverside, Riverside, California, July 27, 1994; August 1, 1996; August 5, 1997; August 4, 1999; July 31, 2001.
  
  
• Fiction reading. University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, April 14, 1994.
  
  
• Writer in Residence, Inland Area Writing Project Advanced Institute. Green Valley, California, August 8-10, 1995.
  

Recent Academic Service

• Non-Senate Faculty Advisory Committee to the Vice Chancellor, 1999-2002.
  
  

• Mentoring Program for New Teachers, Department of English, Fall, 1999.
  
  
• Assistant to the Director of English 1 and member of the Committee on Writing Courses, Department of English, 1996-1999.