ࡱ> ac`a 7jbjbYQYQ %X33330$$$$$$$ 2 2 28B2$f2T[Ah22"22223 3@@@@@@@,BRE@!$32233@6$$22A6663<$2$2@68T6$$$$3@66r?$$@2 ?* 2R4>@@+A0[AL@zE6E@6$ffThrity Umrigar ttt 3080 Essex Rd. t Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 Work Phone 216-368-3374 t Home Phone 216-320-9482 t Email tumri1@yahoo.com Website: www. umrigar.com Sept. 2006 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT: Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University Responsible for teaching courses in fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, African-American and American literature. EDUCATION: Ph.D. in English, August 1997 Specialization: Twentieth-Century African-American Literature Dissertation: The Role of the Supernatural, Magic and Voodoo in the Novels of African-American Women Writers Kent State University, Kent, Ohio M.A. in Journalism, March 1985 Specialization: Magazine Journalism The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Diploma in Journalism, May 1983 Specialization: Print Journalism Rajendra Prasad Institute of Communications, Bombay, India Bachelor of Commerce, May 1982 Specialization: Business Management The University of Bombay, Bombay, India FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS: 2006 Finalist for the Northern Ohio Live Awards of Achievement (first place winner to be announced in September) 2006 Nominee for the Cleveland Arts Prize 2004 Nominee for Jackson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring at Case Western Reserve University. 2003 Nominee for the Whitke Teaching Award at Case. 2002 Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland 2nd place award in nonfiction category. 1999-2000 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. 1999 Women in Communication 1st place award for Best Obituary. 1999 Women in Communication 1st place award for Best Feature. 1999 Cleveland Press Club 1st place award for Best Magazine story. 1999 Cleveland Press Club 1st place award for Best Feature. 1999 Society of Professional Journalists award for Best Feature. 1997 Society of Professional Journalists 2nd place award for Best Feature. PUBLICATIONS: Books: If Today Be Sweet, a novel, to be published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in 2007. World rights sold. The Space Between Us, a novel, published by William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2006. Paperback version to be published in Feb. 2007. Book was a #1 BookSense Pick and a Book-of-the-Month Selection for the QPB book club. Foreign rights sold in North America, England, India, France, Italy, Spain, Israel, Turkey, Germany, Indonesia, and the Netherlands. Reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Economist, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Financial Times, The Independent., The Indian Express, The Montreal Gazette and other major dailies in the U.K, Canada and India. First Darling of the Morning, a memoir, published by HarperCollins, India in 2004. First published as a seven-part excerpt in USAToday.coms Open Book series, Nov. 2001. Reviewed in the Boston Globe, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, Angle, India Today, Indian Express, India Abroad, Femina, Fezana. Bombay Time, a novel, published by Picador USA/St. Martins, 2001. Italian translation published in May 2004. Reviewed in the Washington Post; Chicago Tribune; Hartford Courant; Cleveland Plain Dealer; Detroit Free Press; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Library Journal; Kirkus Review; Booklist; Publishers Weekly; Akron Beacon Journal; Northern Ohio Live; Cleveland Free Times; India Today; India Abroad and numerous academic and commercial online sites. Stories and other fiction: The Tenuous Tenure of Tatsuya Toshiba, a tag-team short story published in The Journal News, a New York weekly, Nov. 2003. One More Down the Drain, short story, published in Eves Weekly, a national womens magazine in India, 1980. Conversation, prose poem, published in Manushi, a national feminist magazine in India, 1982. Welcome to the Asylum, a prizewinning one-act play staged in Bombay, India, 1982. Essays, Columns, Magazine and Newspaper Articles (Partial listing from over 2000 articles): Whose Voice is Telling the Story? Essay, by invitation, submitted to Now Write! an anthology of writing exercises for non fiction writers, 2006 Pulling the Plug: Why the Blue Glow of a Television Makes Me Blue, essay in EnterText, an e- journal for cultural and historical studies published by Brunel University in West London, UK. Winter 2004/2005 issue. The Godesses of Big Things: South Asian women writers, an essay in Mantram, a New York monthly, March 2004. Sins of the Stepfather, Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday magazine, March 2003. Across the Divide: A Kent State Student Hopes to Heal the Racial Rifts in Thomas Jeffersons Family--and in the Nation, Beacon magazine, Oct. 2000. The End of Innocence: India Deals with the Fires of Religious Diversity, essay in Memphis Flyer, May, 2000. Follow the Money (about the Serb-Kosovo situation), essay in Memphis Flyer, May 1999. Breathing for Zeke, a four-month odyssey in the life of the parents of a perilously premature baby, Beacon magazine, July 1998. Good Night, Fran, an obit on Akrons beloved journalist, Beacon Journal, Nov. 1998. Farewell to Colonialism (about the transfer of power in Hong Kong), column in Beacon Journal, 1996. Angels in America (personal essay about experiencing Christmas as a recent immigrant), Sunday Beacon, 1994. No Neat Answers (about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer), column in Beacon Journal, 1992. When AIDS Writes a Love Story, Beacon magazine, Aug. 1992. In the Face of Poverty, Beacon Journal, Dec. 1990. Finding the American Dream--in Russia, Beacon magazine, July 1988. Selected Book Reviews: Book review of The Alchemy of Desire, Boston Globe, March 2007. Book review of Baby Brothers Blues, Washington Post, March 2006. Book review of Joplins Ghost, Washington Post, Oct. 2005. Book review of The Hungry Tide, Boston Globe, July 2005. Book review of An Almost Perfect Moment, Boston Globe, April 2004. Book review of Family Matters, Boston Globe, Fall 2002. Book review of Motibas Tattoos, Washington Post, Oct. 2000. Book review of The Tender Land, Boston Globe, Sept. 2000. Book review of The Obedient Father, Boston Globe, July 2000. READINGS, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS: Writer-in-Residence invitation to Goucher College, Maryland, Spring 2007 Keynote speaker at Westport Public Library, Connecticut, Spring 2007 Keynote speaker at Cleveland Public Librarys Writers and Readers event, Spring 2007 Keynote speaker at domestic violence conference hosted by Sneha, Connecticut, Fall 2006 National Book Tour, Spring 2006 Panelist at Cleveland Public Librarys Putting Life on Paper, program, May 2006 Reading at Wordstock Literary Fest, Portland, Oregon, April 2006 Inaugural speaker at Cleveland State Friends of the Librarys Author Book Talk, April 2006 Keynote speaker at Medina County Librarys Writers Live program, April 2006 Keynote speaker at Hathaway Browns Young Authors program, March 2006 Featured speaker at Mountains and Plains Association in Denver, Feb. 2006 Invitation-only participation at BookMania in Stewart, Fla., Jan. 2006 Panelist at the Writing for Money Workshop, sponsored by the Poets & Writers League of Greater Cleveland, Nov. 2005 Featured Speaker at Writers after Dark, an event co-sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Public Library and the Plain Dealer, July 2005 Featured Speaker at Night of the Living First Author, Lakewood Library, Feb. 2005 Interviewed on Around Noon with Dee Perry, June 2005 Panelists at Cleveland Press Club, April 2005 Guest speaker at the University of Akron, Oct. 2004. Panelist at the annual AWP conference, March 2004. Guest speaker at Roosevelt High School in Kent, Jan. 2004. Interview on NPR, February 2004. Panelist and speaker at the Cleveland Psychoanalytical Society, April 2004. Guest speaker at Cases Womens Center Writing Group, April 2004. Reading at Kent State Universitys Stark campus in March 2003. Panelist and speaker at the South Asian Literary Festival in Washington D.C., Nov. 2001. Reading at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Nov. 2001. Invitation-only participation at the Buckeye Book Festival in Wooster, Ohio, Nov. 2001. Reading at Great Lakes Booksellers Association Convention in Indianapolis, Sept. 2001. Guest Speaker at Harvard Universitys South Asian Humanities Seminar, May 2001. Panelist and speaker at Emerson Colleges program on New Media and Immigrant Communities, Boston, May, 2000. Regional book tours which featured readings at independent and chain book stores from 2001- 2004. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Case Western Reserve University Fall 2002-Spring 2005 as Visiting Assistant Professor: Taught courses in fiction, nonfiction, memoir writing, journalism, African-American literature and American literature. Fall 2005-present as Tenure-track Assistant Professor: Taught courses in fiction, nonfiction, memoir writing, journalism, African-American literature and American literature. Kent State University, Kent, OH 2001: Taught an evening class in Fiction I in the English Department. Writing workshop included critiquing students short stories, writing exercises and analysis of works by other writers. 1998: Taught an evening class in Composition in the English Department. Topics included analysis of popular culture and media, and writing reviews, personal essays and persuasive/argumentative essays. 1994: Taught an evening class in Newswriting at the School of Journalism. Topics covered ranged from basic story construction and interviewing techniques, to covering breaking news stories and writing features. JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE: Jan. 2001-July 2002: Medical writer, Akron Beacon Journal Wrote about trends in medicine, mental health issues and the link between science and culture. Contributed to the book sections of the Washington Post, Boston Globe and other regional publications. July 2000-Jan. 2001: Sunday magazine writer, Akron Beacon Journal Wrote cover and secondary stories for the Beacons Sunday magazine and occasionally work on special projects for the daily newspaper. Aug. 1999 - June 2000: Nieman Fellow at Harvard University Took classes that dealt with issues such as globalization and race, class and gender, with professors Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Jamaica Kincaid, Michael Sandel, Tom Friedman, and Robert Coles. July 1987 - Aug. 1999: Reporter, Akron Beacon Journal Sept. 1990 - Jan. 1994: Columnist, Akron Beacon Journal Worked as a feature writer with a focus on medical issues and social trends. Responsibilities included contributing page one enterprise stories and articles for the daily Arts and Living section. Regular contributor to the Sunday magazine. Past beats at the paper have included social issues and higher education. Have also covered various cities in Summit and Portage Counties and generated police, school, courts, city government and human interest stories. Wrote a popular local column for four years. The Beacon Journal is a daily metropolitan paper with a weekday circulation of about 175,000. April 1985 - June 1987: Education Reporter, Lorain Journal Responsibilities included covering local public and parochial schools and the community college. Stories ranged from covering issues related to the court-ordered desegregation of Lorain city schools to localizing national and international educational trends. Also wrote feature stories and was a contributing editor to the papers arts magazine. The Lorain Journal is a daily with a circulation of about 80,000. Jan. 1984 - March 1985: Graduate Assistant, the Ohio State University, College of the Arts As journalism/marketing assistant in the Office of Arts Information, reported and wrote for Arts Advocate, the alumni newsletter. Other responsibilities included generating news releases; writing and editing departmental publications, brochures, posters and informational pamphlets; and initiating and supervising marketing and promotional strategies for arts events. PERSONAL INFORMATION: Born in Bombay, India in 1961. Became a U.S. citizen in 1993. REFERENCES (Letters available upon request): Larry Andrews, Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of English at Kent State University. Ron Corthel, Professor of English at Kent State University. Mary Grimm, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. Athena Vrettos, Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. Samrat Upadhyay, Assistant Professor of English at Indiana Sate University. 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