DR. RANDOLPH BATES

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Tulane

Randy Bates' primary teaching area is writing workshops and literature courses in nonfiction. He regularly teaches the graduate workshop in nonfiction writing (Engl 6154) and advanced nonfiction writing for undergraduates (Engl 4154). He designed and proposed Introduction to Nonfiction (Engl 2218), a literature course that he is teaching for the first time in spring of 2007, and he looks forward to continuing to develop the readings and resources for that course on Blackboard. He has taught a graduate course and directed studies in sub-genres of nonfiction and an undergraduate course in the personal essay. He also teaches Introduction to Poetry (Engl 2228), Major American Writers (Engl 2041), and composition courses, including developmental writing, which he particularly enjoys. Prior to UNO, he taught at Xavier, Harvard, Tulane, Loyola, LSU, and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and St. Martin's Episcopal School. He was awarded recognition for distinction in teaching in the expository writing program at Harvard and writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Louisiana Arts Council. He is the nonfiction editor of Bayou. His current writing project, which is near completion, is a collection of related essays that concern his native state, Mississippi, during the civil rights movement.

Selected Publications:

Books:

Rings: On the Life and Family of a Southern Fighter (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Periodicals:

Nonfiction in Grand Street, Ploughshares, and Negative Capability.

Poetry in the Prairie Schooner, the Southern Review, and the Seattle Review.

Fiction in the Cimarron Review, the New Orleans Review, and POMPA.

Reviews in the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Times-Picayune.

For additional information on Dr. Randolph Bates.

Phone Number:
(504) 280-6134

Email Dr. Bates@
rbates1@uno.edu

Address: Liberal Arts Building 183

Office Hours:

W 11:00am-3:00pm
TH 1:30-2:30pm

Courses for Fall 2009:

Engl 2154-001:
Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Writing
TTH 11:00am-12:15pm

Engl 6154-601:
Nonfiction Writing Workshop
T 6:00-8:40pm