CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Brent Spencer
Department of English
Creighton Hall, Room 141B
Creighton University
Omaha, NE 68178
402.280.2192 (vox)
402.280.2143 (fax)

EDUCATION

B.A. (English), Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1974

M.A. (English/Literary Criticism), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1975
Ph.D. (English/20th-Century American Poetry), Pennsylvania State University, 1982
M.F.A. (Fiction Writing), University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1984
Stegner Fellow, Stanford University, 1988-1989
UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting, 2009-2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Brent Spencer began teaching at Creighton University in the fall of 1992 and was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of English in 1997, and in 2005 to the rank of Full Professor. The author of two books, a novel entitled The Lost Son (Arcade Publishing) and a collection of short fiction entitled Are We Not Men? (Arcade Publishing), and co-writer of a screenplay, Speedway (New Horizons Picture Corp.), Dr. Spencer has taught at Penn State, the University of Iowa, Stanford University, San Francisco State, and elsewhere. He has served as Director of the Creative Writing Program and as Editor of the Creighton University Press. His service to the profession includes a term as board member and Secretary to the Associated Writing Programs and as a board member for The Nebraska Center for the Book. He is the Director of Creative Writing at Creighton University, where he also coordinates the Minor in Film Studies.

COURSES TAUGHT

English 120/121: World Literature I & II
English 150: Rhetoric & Composition
English 300: Introduction to Creative Writing
English 301: Narrative Forms
English 352: English and American Literature--1914 to the Present
English 403: Seminar in Creative Writing
English 404: Screenwriting
English 492: Creative Writing Senior Project
English 493: Directed Independent Readings
English 640: Graduate Workshop in Creative Writing
English 715: Graduate Seminar in Modern English & American Literature

SCHEDULE

On Sabbatical Fall 2008-Spring 2009

AWARDS

3rd Prize, Silver Screenwriting Competition, 2009.

Semi-finalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards, 2009.
Distinguished Artist Award, Nebraska Arts Council, 2009.
Backwaters Press Publication Award, 2009.
Semi-finalist, Donald Barthelme Prize, Gulf Coast Magazine, 2008.
Semi-finalist, Slamdance Screenplay Competition (short screenplays), 2007.
Finalist, The Dorothy Churchill Cappon Nonfiction Award, New Letters, for “Legend of Parts” (creative non-fiction), 2007.
"The True History" selected for inclusion in the eleventh volume of Best American Mystery Stories, Ed. Carl Hiaasen (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
101 Best Web Sites for Writers, Writer's Digest, 2005. (For my web site, nebraskacenterforwriters.org.
Special Mention, Pushcart Prize, 2005.
Faculty Development Award, College of Arts & Sciences, Creighton University, 2004.
Merit Award, Nebraska Arts Council, 2003
Fellowships, Yaddo Artists Colony, The MacDowell Colony, Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, 2000
US West Fellowship, Creighton University, Summer 1997
Are We Not Men? chosen by the editors of The Village Voice as
one of the 25 best books of 1996
Merit Award, Nebraska Arts Council, 1995
Summer Research Fellowship, Creighton University, 1994
Special Mention, Pushcart Prize, 1993
Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University, 1987-88
James Michener Award, Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1984-85
Research Grant, Pennsylvania State University, 1979-80
Pushcart Prize Nomination, 1992, 1979