Ocean City, Maryland, United States
I am professor emeritus of English at Joliet Junior College where I taught Creative Writing, Introduction to Film Study, and Introduction to Shakespeare from 1993 to 2022. In addition, I have taught classes in contemporary literature, world literature, British literature, the short story, composition, and developmental writing. My scholarly interests are diaries and journals, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell. I have been teaching online since 2001. As iCampus Faculty Coordinator (2008-14), I worked with faculty at Joliet Junior College to help them with practical applications and pedagogical issues related to incorporating technology into their classes and teaching online. I have done faculty training in how to teach online and in how to convert existing courses to online classes at Ferrum College and at Colorado State University at Pueblo. If you are interested in having me work with your faculty (I offer an online workshop and also face-to-face instruction), please contact me. I am also a poet, author of Accelerant (Nixes Mate Books 2019), Against Prompts (Lit Fest Press 2018), We All Saw It Coming (Locofo Chaps 2017), The Vig of Love (Glass Lyre Press 2016), Blasphemer (Lit Fest Press 2015), The Lice of Christ (MadHat Press 2014), Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku (Cervena Barva Press, 2013), Pointed Sentences (BlazeVOX, 2012), Fourteen (Naked Mannekin, 2011), and Wrench (erbacce press, 2009), I have published widely in print and online journals such as RHINO, Gargoyle, Contrary, DIAGRAM, Thrush, FRiGG, Poetry International, and PANK. Readings of and videopoems of my poems as well as my "film experiments" can be found at Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/billyarrow). Pointed Music, a CD of readings of my poems with music by Ray Fahrner, is available on Spotify and CD Baby. Specialties: Faculty training in teaching online Editing (novels, short stories, poems) Lectures/Presentations (books and film) Workshops (poetry writing) Videopoems Creating digital collages using public-domain paintings, photographs, and designs
I led the curriculum conversation part of the Books Unbound program (formerly Classics in Context) sponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival. Curriculum guides for the texts listed below can be found at https://jjc.academia.edu/WilliamYarrow As I Lay Dying (Faulkner) Confabulario (Arreola) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick) Frankenstein (Shelley)