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Roy Seeger
Instructor
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Email: roys@usca.edu
Before joining the USCA faculty in the fall of 2008 to teach English 101 and 102, Roy Seeger lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan where he worked as a part-time instructor at Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Western Michigan University teaching classes in Composition, Literature, and Creative Writing. He received his M.A. in poetry at Ohio University in 2000, and his M.F.A. in poetry from Western Michigan University in 2005.
Although Mr. Seeger’s area of primary study is Creative Writing and Contemporary Poetry, his academic interests stretch into Composition, Marxist Theory, Post-Colonialism, Ecological Criticism, and Popular Culture studies. He has recently presented conference papers with titles such as “The Hegemonic Discourse in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel” and “Show Me the Funny: the Use of Humor in Poetry.” Currently, he is working on his second poetry manuscript tentatively titled “The Distance of the Stage.”
Mr. Seeger’s manuscript, The Boy Whose Hands Were Birds, won the 2008 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Contest for his collection; he was also the winner of the 2007 Gribble Press Chapbook Contest for The Garden of Improbable Birds, the Buckbee, A Writer Inc., Sadness Writing Contest, and his work was featured on Verse Daily. His poems have appeared in Cream City Review, Gulf Coast, Mississippi Review, Green Mountain Review, 32 Poems, Southeast Review, Hotel Amerika, Quarter After Eight, as well as other journals. Poems are forthcoming in Main Street Rag and The Laurel Review.
In his spare time Mr. Seeger reads subversive comics, sticks it to the man, and applies critical theories to television and bad movies (especially horror movies).
