Christopher Sindt  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• Ph.D. English, University of California, Davis, June 15, 2000
  Dissertation: The Poetics of Biophilia Committee: Alan Williamson, Sandra M. Gilbert, David Robertson

Teaching Experience:

• Associate Professor - Saint Mary's College of California (July 01, 2006 - Present)
• Assistant Professor - Saint Mary's College (July 01, 2004 - June 30, 2006)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor - Sainty Mary's College of California (July 01, 2003 - June 30, 2004)
• Lecturer/Teaching Assistant - University of California, Davis (September 01, 1997 - August 15, 2003)
  creative writing, composition, literature of California

Professional Experience:

• Associate Dean - Saint Mary's College of California (July 01, 2007 - Present)
• Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing - Saint Mary's College of California (August 01, 2000 - June 30, 2007)
• Program Coordinator - Art of the Wild Writing Conference (January 01, 1992 - August 01, 1998)

Research Experience:

• Research Assistant - University of California, Davis (June 01, 1999 - June 30, 2000)
  Research Assistant to Professor Jack Hicks. Work primarily included research for the Literature of California, Volume 1.
• Research Assistant - University of California, Davis (July 01, 1994 - June 30, 1996)
  Research Assistant to Sandra M. Gilbert

Artist Residency:

• Artist in Bioregional Residence - UC Davis Humanities Institute (September 2000)

Artist Residencies:

• Artist in Residence - Mesa Refuge (June 2006)
• Artist in Residence - Dorland Mountain Arts Colony (June 1997)
• Artist in Residence - The Macdowell Colony (July 1996)
• Artist in Residence - The Blue Mountain Center (August 1995)

Award:

• James D. Phelan Award - San Francisco Foundation (June 1995)

Fellowships:

• Everett Holm Fellowship - Indiana University (July 1999)
• Reginald Tickner Fellowship - Gilman School (August 1998)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• How Painted Rice Cakes Satisfy Hunger: Gary Snyder and the Commerce of Gifts. Sindt, Christopher (paper)
  Modern Language Association
  (December 2008)
• The Crowd, the Hills, and the Wild: Jack London in Piedmont. Sindt, Christopher (talk, speech or lecture)
  Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College
  (November 2007)
• Shining through the Instrument Panel: Body and Soul in Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being.. Sindt, Christopher (paper)
  Association of Core Texts and Curriculum
  (April 2006)
• The Pedagogy of Dissent in the Post-9/11 Era: Teaching Cherrie Moraga’s Heroes and Saints. Sindt, Christopher (paper)
  American Literature Association
  (May 2005)
• William Harvey and the Early-Modern Outlook. Sindt, Christopher and Manter, Lisa (paper)
  Association of Core Texts and Curriculum
  (April 2005)
• Some Backtalk from the Mute Sky’: Sylvia Plath and the Poetics of Biophilia. Sindt, Christopher (paper)
  Sylvia Plath 70 Year Symposium
  (October 2002)

Publications:

• Sindt, Christopher. "Selection of poems." Days I Moved through Ordinary Sounds. Ed. Sweeney, Chad San Francisco: City Lights Foundation Books, 2009. 132
• Sindt, Christopher. 2006. Hymn to the God of Dailiness, Pool
• Sindt, Christopher. 2006. Selection of poems, Notre Dame Review
• Sindt, Christopher. 2005. Selection of poems, Nocturnes
• Sindt, Christopher. 2004. The Poetry of the Pacific Region, Pacific Regional Cultures, Greenwood Press
• Sindt, Christopher. 2004. Selection of poems, Swerve, vol. 12
• Sindt, Christopher. 2003. The Land of Give and Take, Momotombo Press

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