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Recent Courses

Advanced Fiction
Development Of The Narrator In Fiction
Fiction Workshop
First Year Orientation Experience
Freshman Orientation Experience
Genre Development Novel
Genre Development Satire
Graduate Thesis: Creative Writing
Independent Study Poetry Hypertext
Independent Study Thesis
Independent Study Thesis Part One
Independent Study Thesis Preparation
Major American Authors
Major Authors (s) In Translation
Practicum Colloquium
S/T: Contemporary Literary Satire
S/T: Development Of Narrative In Fiction
S/T: Genre Development Novel

Teaching Specializations / Interests

Creative writing (particularly fiction). Modern and contemporary American literature; world literatures in translation (particularly Italian).

Books

Martha Cooley. (2006). Thirty-Three Swoons (paperback). New York: Little, Brown.

Martha Cooley. (2005). Thirty-Three Swoons. New York: Little, Brown.

Martha Cooley. (1999). The Archivist (paperback). New York: Little, Brown.

Martha Cooley. (1998). The Archivist. New York: Little, Brown.

Exhibitions, Performances, Films

(01 July 2006). Public interview/talk. Cremona, Italy, The first in a series of "literary evenings" featuring Italian and international authors (sponsored by Agropolis, a nonprofit foundation).

Recent Articles

Martha Cooley. (2009, 3). "Sin's Entertainments: On Dante's Inferno". Writer's Chronicle, Vol. 41, no. 5,, 16-23

Martha Cooley. (2008, 8). "The Sound of Being Alone,". A Public Space, 6,

Martha Cooley,. (2008, 5). "On the Work of Italo Calvino,". Writer's Chronicle, Vol. 40, No. 6,, 24-34

Martha Cooley. (2006, 11). "Pirandello and the Character of Characters". Writer's Chronicle, 39, no. 2,, 20-26

Invited Presentations and Lectures

Fiction Workshop Leader (26 August 2009). Griselda Scrittura Writing Laboratory. Certaldo, Italy

Martha Cooley (01 August 2006). Fiction Workshop Leader. Siena, Italy

Conference Presentations and Papers

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Annie Coggan, Rachel Cohen, Sam Green & Carrie Lozano, Jean-Louis Schuller, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (19 November 2009). Public reading. Between the Lines series: "Found Objects", Brooklyn Academy of Music

Martha Cooley (18 November 2009). Public Conversation. Literature and the Human Condition, Adelphi University

Martha Cooley (25 September 2009). Public Reading. , New Canaan Public Library reading series

Martha Cooley, Judith Baumel, Geoffrey Becker, Moira Crone, Kate Daniels, David Haynes (14 February 2009). On Assessment. Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Chicago, IL

Martha Cooley, Laura Sims, Brian Evenson, MJ Fitzgerald, Joseph Tabbi, and Francoise Pelleau (13 February 2009). In Celebration of David Markson. AWP Annual Conference, Chicago, IL

Other Scholarly / Artistic Work

"Siena, 9 August 2007," short-short story in KGBarLit, September 2007
"Utensils," poem in The Darfur Anthology (Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL), Spring 2007
"The Month Girls," short story in A Public Space (January 2007)
"Bad Acts," story in Bellevue Literary Review (September 2008)
"Decapitated in the Lincoln Tunnel," short story in Bombay Gin (January 2009)
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Personal Ad," short story in Southampton Literary Review (April 2009)
"Right Now," poem in Upstreet (July 2009)

Professional Activities

Member, PEN American Center, Membership Committee