Lance Olsen
Professor, English
English
Languages & Communication Bldg
255 S Central Campus Dr Rm 3500
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office: 3415 LNCO
Office Hours: MW 1:30-2:45 & by appt.
Office Phone: (801) 581-3199
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>> Curriculum Vitae
My Website: www.lanceolsen.com
Degrees:
1985 Ph.D. University of Virginia
1982 M.A. University of Virginia
1980 M.F.A. Iowa Writers' Workshop
1978 B.A. University of Wisconsin
Lance Olsen is author of ten novels, one new-media text, four critical studies, four short-story collections, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Iowa Review, Village Voice, Time Out New York, BOMB, McSweeney's, and Best American Non-Required Reading. Olsen is an N.E.A. Fellowship and Pushcart Prize recipient, a Fulbright Scholar, and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His work has been translated into Italian, Polish, Turkish, and Finnish. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two; founded in 1974, FC2 is among the few alternative presses devoted to bringing out fiction considered by America's largest publishers too challenging, innovative, or heterodox for the commercial milieu. He also serves as Fiction Editor at Western Humanities Review and Associate Editor at The American Book Review.
Selected Publications:
Head in Flames (novel)
(Book), 2009
Anxious Pleasures (novel)
(Book), 2007
Nietzsche's Kisses (novel)
(Book), 2006
10:01 (hypermedia)
(Book), 2005
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10:01 (novel)
(Book), 2005
Hideous Beauties (stories)
(Book), 2003
Girl Imagined by Chance (novel)
(Book), 2002
Freaknest (novel)
(Book), 2000
Sewing Shut My Eyes (stories)
(Book), 2000
Rebel Yell: A Short Guide to Fiction Writing (textbook)
(Book), 1998
Burnt (novel)
(Book), 1996
Time Famine (novel)
(Book), 1996
In Memoriam to Postmodernism: Essays on the Avant-Pop (co-editor)
(Book), 1995
Lolita: A Janus Text (criticism)
(Book), 1995
Surfing Tomorrow: Essays on the Future of American Fiction (editor)
(Book), 1995
Scherzi, I Believe (stories)
(Book), 1994
Tonguing the Zeitgeist (novel)
(Book), 1994
My Dates With Franz (stories)
(Book), 1993
William Gibson (criticism)
(Book), 1992
Live from Earth (novel)
(Book), 1991
Circus of the Mind in Motion: Postmodernism and the Comic Vision (criticism)
(Book), 1990
Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy (criticism)
(Book), 1987
Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
Keywords:
Fiction Writing; Modern & Postmodern Literature; Theories of the Avant-Garde; Hybrid Forms; Hypermedia; Speculative Fiction; Critical Theory (7)
Courses I Teach
ENGL 5510 Fiction Workshop
ENGL 5910 Studies Crit/Theory
ENGL 7450 Narrative Theory & Practice
Awards
2006
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship - National Endowment for the Arts
2003
Science Fiction Research Association Pioneer Award - S.F.R.A.
2000
Fulbright to Finland - Fulbright
1998
Pushcart Prize - Pushcart Press
1996
Idaho Writer-in-Residence - Idaho Commission on the Arts
1995
Finalist, Philip K. Dick Award - P. K. Dick Award
1993
Distinguished Young Alumni Award - University of Iowa
1991
Idaho State Board of Education Grant - Idaho State Board of Education
1989
Artist Professional Development Grant - Kentucky Arts Council