Joseph Bates
Education
- PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2006
- MA, Clemson University
- BA, Clemson University
Teaching Interests
- Creative writing (fiction)
- Contemporary fiction
- The literary marketplace
- Narratology
Research Interests
- Narratology
- Creative writing pedagogy
- Fantastic, absurd, and grotesque literatures
- Southern literature
- Film studies
- Religion and literature
Selected Publications
Books
- The Strikeout Artist. BlazeVOX, 2022
- Tomorrowland: Stories. Chicago, IL: Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2013.
- The Nighttime Novelist. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 2010.
Short Fiction
- "Guilt City." The South Carolina Review, Fall 2013.
- "Mirrorverse." The Rumpus, March 17, 2013.
- "Gas Head Tells All." InDigest Magazine, June 2012. (Podcast.)
- "Gas Head Tells All." InDigest Magazine, Issue 24. June 2012.
- "Tomorrowland." Amsterdamned If You Do: An Anthology of Setting. Ed. Traci Kim. Chicago: Chicago Center of Literature and Photography, 2011.
- "Survey of My Exes." New Ohio Review, Issue 9, Spring 2011.
- "Bearing a Cross." Stone's Throw Magazine, 20 April 2009.
- "How We Made A Difference." Identity Theory, 10 November 2008.
- "Boardwalk Elvis Takes A Break." Fresh Boiled Peanuts, Issue 3, February 2008.
- "Yankees Burn Atlanta." Lunch Hour Stories, Issue 11, August 2007.
- "Butterfinger." The South Carolina Review, 37:1, Fall 2004.
Nonfiction / Reviews
- "The Last Novelist: David Markson's Notecard Quartet." The Lit Pub. 2012. Essay.
- "Haruki Murakami's 'Super-Frog Saves Tokyo.'" MattBell.com, 2011 National Short Story Month, March 2011. Essay.
- "Sympathetic Magic: John Updike's The Widows of Eastwick." The Cincinnati Review 6.1, Summer 2009. Review.
- "Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead." Shenandoah 59.2, Fall 2009. Review.
- "The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter and Drowning Lessons by Peter Selgin (Flannery O'Connor Award Winners 2008)." Shenandoah 59.1, Spring/Summer 2009. Review.
- "New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007." Shenandoah, 57:3, Winter 2007. Review.
Work in Progress
Joseph Bates is the author of Tomorrowland: Stories (Curbside Splendor, 2013) and The Nighttime Novelist (Writer’s Digest Books, 2010). Yes, he’s still revising the Kafka baseball novel. Visit him online at www.josephbates.net.