Brad Vice, MA, Ph.D.

EDUCATION

• Mississippi State University, Teaching English as a Second Language Certificate, 2007.
• University of West Bohemia, Teaching English as a Foreign Language Certificate, 2006.
• University of Cincinnati, Ph.D., English and Creative Writing.
Fields: Narratology, twentieth-century American fiction, twentieth-century American poetry. Creative dissertation, spring, 2001.
• University of Tennessee, M.A., English and creative writing, summer 1997.
• University of Alabama, B.A., English, minor creative writing, winter 1994.

EMPLOYMENT: TEACHING

• International Lecturer, Prague Literary Academy of Josef Škvorecký, fall 2010-present.
• International Lecturer, University of West Bohemia, fall 2007--present.
• Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University, fall 2002-7.
• Assistant Professor, Arkansas Tech University, fall 2001.

EMPLOYMENT: VISITING FACULTY

Umělecká kariéra: (Artistic career)

Brad Vice is a writer and academic whose short stories, articles, and reviews have appeared in numerous magazine and journals such as The Atlantic Monthly and The Southern Review as well as The Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Novel and Short Story Writers Market, and The San Francisco Chronicle. In 2007 he published a collection of short stories entitled The Bear Bryant Funeral Train (River City Publishing) and he as has work forthcoming in American Book Review and an English/Czech anthology entitled Fleeting Homes/ Pracvé Domovy.

Pedagogická kariéra: (Teaching experience)

After receiving his doctoral degree at the University of Cincinnati, Brad Vice moved back to his home the American deep south where he taught American Literature and creative writing at first Arkansas Tech University and then Mississippi State University. In 2007 he move to the Czech Republic where he now teaches at the University of West Bohemia. Brad teaches classes in American Literature, American Studies, as well as classes in literary criticism and descriptive linguistics focusing on the literature of the South. In recent summers, Brad has been employed at the University of West Bohemia's ISLS International Summer Language School where he teaches academic English to university faculty. In addition to these responsibilities, he began teaching at the Prague Literary Academy of Josef Škvorecký in the fall of 2010.

Book
The Bear Bryant Funeral Train. Montgomery: River City Publishing, 2007.

Short Fiction
"Mule." Shenandoah, Volume 55, Number 3, Fall 2005.
"Tuscaloosa Knights." Five Points, Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2004.
"The Bear Bryant Funeral Train." The Carolina Quarterly, Volume 55, Number 1,
Winter 2003.
"Lotus Garden." Nebo, Spring, 2003.
"Report from Junction." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 290, Number 1, July-August,
2002.
"Drunk at the Zoo." The Greensboro Review, Number 68, Fall 2000.
"Stalin." Hayden's Ferry Review, Number 23, Fall/Winter 1998-1999.
"Artifacts." The Southern Review, Volume 34, Number 4, Fall 1998.
"Mojo Farmer." The Georgia Review, Volume L, Number 1, Spring 1996.

Anthology Publications
"Drunk at the Zoo" (reprint) forthcoming in Fleeting Homes/ Pracvé Domovy.
"The Six Million Dollar Man v s. Jaws" in The Vs. Anthology, Press 53, 2009.
"The Bear Bryant Funeral Train (reprint). In Surreal South, Press 53, 2007.
"Artifacts" (reprint). In Stories from the Blue Moon Café, Vol.3, McAdam/Cage, 2004.
"Report from Junction" (reprint). In New Stories from the South,
2003, Algonquin Books.
"Chickensnake" was included in Best New American Voices 2003,
Harcourt Brace & Janovich.
"Mojo Farmer" (reprint). In New Stories from the South, 1997, Algonquin Books.
"Madrid" and "Ontology" were included in All Around Us: Poems from the Valley, Emerald Books, 1996.

Scholarly Publications
"Genre and Subversion" English Studies & Language Teaching, Volume 3. University of
West Bohemia, Plzen, 2008.
Article on the career of fiction writer Erin McGraw in the 2007
Dictionary of Literary Biography volume 335: American Short Story Writers Since World War II, Fifth Series.
Article on the career of fiction writer Pinckney Benedict in 2001 Dictionary
of Literary Biography volume 244: American Short Story Writers Since World.
War II, Forth Series.
Article on the career of fiction writer Padgett Powell 2000 Dictionary
of Literary Biography volume 234: American Short Story Writers Since World
War II, Third Series.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Carol Houck Smith Scholarship, Breadloaf Writers' Conference, Summer 2005
Awarded the MSU Arts and Humanities Program Grant, 2003-4.
"Report from Junction" was selected by Best American Short Stories, 2003 as one of the
top 100 Distinguished Stories of 2002.
Selected as a Mortar Board Professor of Distinction, 2003.
A&S Taft Graduate Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 2000-2001.
Winner, first place, Westheimer Short Story Prize, University of Cincinnati, 2000.
Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference, summer 1998.
Winner, first place, Westheimer Short Story Prize, University of Cincinnati, 1998.