Chile RPCV Tom Hazuka is Professor of English at CCSU
Professor Tom Hazuka
309 Willard Hall
(860) 832-2762
hazuka@ccsu.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in English with creative writing emphasis, University of Utah, June 1990.
DISSERTATION: Frank James’s Pebbles, a collection of short stories.
Dissertation director: Dr. François Camoin.
M.A. in English with creative writing emphasis, University of California at Davis, May 1983.
B.A. in English, summa cum laude, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, May 1977.
Spent junior year at Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, 1975-76.
PUBLICATIONS:
Novels:
The Road to the Island, Bridge Works Publishing, 1998.
In the City of the Disappeared, Bridge Works Publishing, 2000.
Short Stories:
"Falling," Sun Dog: The Southeast Review, Fall 1986.
"Freaks," The Crescent Review, Spring 1987.
"Descartes Before the Horse," New Mexico Humanities Review, Fall 1987.
"Frank James’s Pebbles," The Chariton Review, Spring 1988. Reprinted in The Magazine, Spring 1988.
"Commuting," The MacGuffin, June 1988.
"Part of the Plan," Artful Dodge, Fall 1988.
"Vaporware," The Quarterly, #9, Winter 1989, and Sun Dog: The Southeast Review, Spring 1988. Reprinted in Spark #3, Jan. 1998.
"Altiplano," The Chariton Review, Spring 1989. Reprinted in The Boundaries of Twilight: A Collection of Czechoslovak-American Writing, New Rivers Press, 1991.
"The Ampersand of Beulah Land," The Hawaii Review, Spring 1989.
"The Can in the Mirror," The Mid-American Review, June 1989.
"Bullwhip in the Junk Drawer," Tightrope, Fall 1989.
"Tar Beach," The Florida Review, Fall/Winter 1989.
"Carnivores," Snake Nation Review, Spring 1990.
"Cutting Loose," California Quarterly, Spring 1991.
"Driving it to Parts," The South Carolina Review, Spring 1991.
"The Screamer," The Chariton Review, Fall 1993.
"Utilitarianism," Quarterly West, Summer/Fall 1993. Reprinted in Iris, Spring 1994, and Spark #3, Jan. 1998.
"Watching Closely," The MacGuffin, Fall 1993.
"Mixture," Quarterly West, Winter/Spring 1994. Reprinted in Spark #3, Jan. 1998.
"Night in Juárez," The Wisconsin Review, Fall 1995.
"Colonel Sherburn’s Testament," Midland Review, Summer 1996.
"Homeward Bound," Quarterly West, Winter/Spring 1996. Reprinted in Spark #3, Jan. 1998.
"All She Wrote," Quarterly West, 20th Anniversary Issue, Fall 1996.
"Donating the Flame," Huckleberry Press, Fall 1996.
"Religious Holiday," South Dakota Review, Winter 1996. Reprinted in Spark #3, Jan. 1998.
"Endangered Species," South Dakota Review, Winter 1996. Reprinted in Spark #3, Jan. 1998.
"Field Trip," South Dakota Review, Winter 1996. Reprinted in Spark #3, Jan. 1998.
"The Road to the Island" (51-page novel excerpt), Puerto del Sol, Spring 1997.
"Deus Ex Machina," Dogwood, Spring 2001.
"In the City of the Disappeared" (novel excerpt), Iris, May 2001.
"Purchase Virgins," The Worcester Review, Fall 2002.
Poetry:
Poems have appeared in Cottonwood, Pulpsmith, Slipstream, Voices International, Groundstar, Ideals, The New Earth Review.
Criticism:
"Cooper Was No Architect: Mark Twain As Literary Craftsman," The South Dakota Review, Summer 1987.
"It Takes One to Know One: The Simpsons as Television Critic," Black River Review, Fall 1996.
"A Marginal Man Waiting for Nothing: ‘A Stiff Hasn’t Got A Chance,’" accepted for publication by The Markham Review.
Non-fiction:
"The Role of English in Chilean Education," English Around the World, November 1981.
Review of Will Baker’s Mountain Blood, Quarterly West, 10th Anniversary Issue, 1986.
Review of Stephen C. LeSueur’s The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, Quarterly West, Fall 1987.
Review of Chuck Rosenthal’s Experiments with Life and Deaf, Quarterly West, Summer/Fall 1988.
Review of Bill Ripley’s Prisoners, Quarterly West, Summer/Fall 1988.
Review of Richard Ford’s Rock Springs, Quarterly West, Winter/Spring 1989.
Review of Rick Bass’s The Watch, Quarterly West, Summer/Fall 1989.
Review of Charles McKelvey’s Holy Orders, Quarterly West, Winter/Spring 1990.
Review of Franklin Fisher’s Bones, Quarterly West, Winter/Spring 1991.
"Flash Fiction: A Thumbnail History," Spark #3, Jan. 1998.
"I Am Almost Medieval," Under the Sun, Summer 2002.
Editing:
Editor (with J.P. Maney), A Celestial Omnibus, Beacon Press, 1997.
Editor (with James and Denise Thomas), Flash Fiction, W.W. Norton, 1992.
Co-Editor, The Best of the West: New Short Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri, Peregrine Smith Books, 1988.
Associate Editor, The Best of the West: New Short Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri, Volume 2, Peregrine Smith Books, 1989.
Associate Editor, Sudden Fiction International, W.W. Norton, 1989.
Editor, Quarterly West, 1987-89, 1991-92.
Fiction Editor, Quarterly West, 1990-91.
Editorial Staff, Quarterly West, 1985-87.
Editorial Staff, California Quarterly, 1982.
HONORS:
Jack Hale Adamson Dissertation Fellowship, University of Utah, 1987-88.
"Vaporware," Finalist, Florida State University’s World’s Best Short Short Story Contest, 1987.
Asylum, a novel, Second Place, Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition, 1988.
Developmental Support Grant, Salt Lake City Arts Council, 1989-90.
"Carnivores," First Place, Snake Nation Review Short Story Competition, 1990.
"Headless Angel," Finalist, Florida State University’s World’s Best Short Short Story Competition, 1990.
Reassigned Time for Research--Three Hours, Fall 1993.
CSU-AAUP University Research Grant, 1993.
CSU-AAUP University Research Grant, 1994.
Bread Loaf Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 1995.
Reassigned Time for Research--Three Hours, Spring 1996.
CSU-AAUP University Research Grant, 1996.
Bruce P. Rossley Literary Award, November 1996.
Reassigned Time for Research--Three Hours, Spring 1997.
"All She Wrote" nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 1997.
Scholarship to Wesleyan Writers Conference, June 1997.
Reassigned Time for Research--Three Hours, Spring 1998.
CSU-AAUP University Research Grant, 1998.
Reassigned Time for Research--Three Hours, Spring 1999.
Sabbatic Leave, Fall 1999.
CSU-AAUP University Research Grant, 1999.
CSU-AAUP University Research Grant, 2000.
Reassigned Time for Research—Three Hours, Spring 2000.
Reassigned Time for Research—Three Hours, Fall 2000.
Reassigned Time for Research—Three Hours, Spring 2001.
"Deus Ex Machina," Second Prize, Dogwood magazine Fiction Contest, 2001.
Reassigned Time for Research—Three Hours, Fall 2001.
READINGS ANDPRESENTATIONS:
"Cooper Was No Architect: Mark Twain As Literary Craftsman"; Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Utah St. University, May 1987.
Many public readings of original fiction and poetry, on the University of California at Davis campus and the UCD radio station, and the University of Utah campus and other Salt Lake locations.
Scholar’s reading of original fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 1995.
Panelist at Writers at Work writers’ conference in Park City, Utah, 1989 (one panel), 1991 (two panels), 1992 (one panel).
"Citizen Bart: A Screen Test of The Simpsons"; American Popular Culture Association, Chicago, April 1994. Also read at CT State University Faculty Research Conference, Western CSU, Danbury CT, September 1995.
"It Takes One To Know One: The Simpsons as Television Critic"; American Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, April 1995.
"The Cultural Significance of The Simpsons," Every Monday colloquium, Central Connecticut State University, November 25, 1997.
Revision of "Citizen Bart: A Screen Test of The Simpsons"; 22nd Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Florida St. University, January 30, 1997.
"Less Can Be More: Using Flash Fiction in the Creative Writing Classroom"; Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs, Atlanta, April 1996.
"The Usefulness of the Awful: Bad Can Be So Good," Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Washington DC, April 1997.
Reading at Holyoke C.C. and Springfield (MA) College, February 10, 1999.
Readings at Macon College and Valdosta State University (GA), March 1999.
Reading at Western Illinois State University, April 8, 1999.
"Techniques to Encourage Workshop Participation," Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Albany NY, April 1999.
Reading at the University of Scranton, PA, May 5, 1999.
"Read, Citizens, Read: A Pep Talk for Creative Writing Students," Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs, Kansas City, March 2000.
Reading at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, April 18, 2000.
Reading at Temple University, Philadelphia, November 2, 2000.
"Success Stories" graduate seminar, Westbrook High School, December 2000.
Reading at the University of Utah, February 22, 2001.
Reading at New England Modern Language Association Conference, Hartford, March 31, 2001.
Reading at Fairfield University, April 5, 2001.
Speaker, National Writers’ Workshop, Hartford, CT, April 7, 2001.
"Discovery Drafts and Avoiding Paint-By-Numbers Fiction," Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Palm Springs, CA, April 21, 2001.
Reading at The Hartford Club, Hartford, CT, September 27, 2001.
Panelist at Norwalk Community College Writers’ Conference, October 4, 2001.
Reading at the University of Hartford, February 2001.
