Experience Summary
Michael Chad St. John
michael@michaelchadstjohn.com
Education
2012 MFA Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago
2008 BA Creative Writing (Fiction), University of Miami, Florida
Professional Experience
2013 Instructor, Spudnik Press, Chicago, Illinois
• Writing for Artists: professional development writing for the art field
Adjunct Faculty, Television Department, Columbia College Chicago
• TV Arts Writing: episodic television writing in an open critique format
2012 Adjunct Faculty, Psychology Department, Argosy University Chicago
• English Review I: grammar, punctuation, and sentence construction
• English Review II: basic essay writing (five-paragraph model)
• English Composition I: essay writing and argumentation (with APA citation)
• English Composition II: essay writing, argumentation, and APA research practice
Teaching Assistant, Television Department, Columbia College Chicago
• TV Arts Writing: television scriptwriting basics in weekly critique format
• Production & Editing II: HD/DV field gear and Final Cut Pro basics in fictional video narratives
Graduate Student Ambassador, Graduate Admissions, Columbia College Chicago
• Representative for Interdisciplinary Arts and Media, working major graduate orientation events, leading facility/departmental tours, and fielding prospective student inquiries (at school functions, personal meetings, and through email)
Graduate Student Blogger for Marginalia, Columbia College Chicago
• Writer, photographer, and critic of performances, departmental news, and graduate student advice for Interdisciplinary Arts and Media
2011 Teaching Assistant, Television Department, Columbia College Chicago
• Storytelling and Aesthetics: fundamentals in storytelling for television and mobile media platforms
• Production & Editing I: HD/DV field gear and Final Cut Pro basics in non-fictional formats and interviews
Thesis Assistant, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago
• Facilitator for installations, video editing, and documentation of MFA exhibit
Graduate Assistant, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago
• Connected Images: intensive five-day course in production of new-media, sculptural, and performative works
2010 Graduate Assistant, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago
• Media Performance: performance study and practice with new media elements
Publications
2012 Marginalia Graduate Blog as InterArts Graduate Ambassador & Blogger
2010 Bone Transplant, poem published in The Logan Square Literary Review
Honors/Awards
2012 Albert P. Weisman Award, Columbia College Chicago
Rosenblum Travel Grant, Columbia College Chicago
2011 Critical Encounters: Image + Implication Grant, Columbia College Chicago
Graduate Opportunity Scholarship, Columbia College Chicago
References
Lynnel Kiely
Associate Professor of Psychology
Harold Washington College
likely@ccc.edu
Sara Livingston
School of Media Arts, Associate Professor
Columbia College Chicago
slivingston@colum.edu
Jerome Wilczynski, Psy.D.,
Chair of Undergraduate Studies
Argosy University
jwilczynski@argosy.edu
Teaching Style
I teach in a Socratic, open critique style.