John Hansen

About

John Hansen is a writer whose prose and poetry have appeared in places including Midway Journal, The Banyan Review, Drunk Monkeys, Wild Roof Journal, Litro Magazine, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), One Sentence Poems, PopMatters, The Drabble, The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies, The Pluralist, The Summerset Review, and others.

John teaches developmental writing, composition, and literature courses at Mohave Community College in Arizona. E-mail him at hansenjohnp[@]gmail.com.

Selected Publications

• “Primaveral.” Kelp Journal, 2024.
• “Solitary in Des Moines County.” Cathexis Northwest Press, 2023.
• “Back in Iowa, Looking Out the Window at Rebekah’s Parents’ House.” Midway Journal, vol. 17, no. 4, 2023.
• “What the Pandemic Taught Me: More Communication and Flexibility Goes a Long Way with Students.” The Bright Side Project – Oregon State University, 2023.
• “Envisage.” Green Ink Poetry, 2023.
• “Unknown Impacts – Be Kind.” Macmillan Learning Blog – Tiny Teaching Story, 2023.
• “Six Tips to Prepare Students for College Writing Courses.” TCEA, 2022.
• “May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI Heritage Month).” The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2022.
• “Best Practices for Teaching and Improving Success Rates in Developmental English Writing Courses.” Norton Learning Blog, 2022.
• “Awkward” and “Hit and Run.” Potato Soup Journal, 2022.
• “Aspen Grove.” The Banyan Review, no. 9, 2022.
• “Conclave.” Drunk Monkeys, vol. 7, no. 3, 2022.
• “Suffering and Assumptions about God.” Philosophical Investigations, 2022.
• “For the American Robin.” Wild Roof Journal, no. 12, 2022.
• “Yesterday.” The Pangolin Review, 2022.
• “Costly Solitude.” Amethyst Review, 2021.
• “Home.” Ink Pantry, 2021.
• “Fragments.” Litro Magazine, 2021.
• “Living.” oddball magazine, 2021.
• “Newton, KS to Ft. Madison, IA.” Schuylkill Valley Journal, 2021.
• “Visiting Halabeoji in Busan.” Eunoia Review, 2021.
• “My Korean Mother.” The Dillydoun Review, 2021.
• “The Other Pandemic: Anti-Asian Sentiment.” The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2021.
• “Cake with My Two-Year-Old Daughter.” Sparks of Calliope, 2021.
• “3 Hours at Cape Hatteras.” Spillwords Press, 2021.
• “Here and Gone.” 50-Word Stories, 2021.
• “Northern Sky.” Trouvaille Review, 2021.
• “Saturday at the Casino.” Verse-Virtual, 2021.
• “Steamboat Days.” Two Drops of Ink, 2021.
• “How to Play a Good Game of Tennis.” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, vol. 37, no. 1, 2020, pp. 101-105.
• “Jefferson Street.” One Sentence Poems, 2020.
• “Simultaneously.” The Drabble, 2020.
• “Fishing.” Eve Poetry Magazine, 2020.
• “Poetry.” Literary Yard, 2020.
• “The Pleasures of Idle Thought?” Philosophical Investigations, 2017.
• “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” Asian Avenue Magazine, vol. 12, no. 5, 2017, pp. 10-11.
• “Shifting the Role of the Teacher.” “They’re All Writers”: Teaching Peer Tutoring in the Elementary Writing Center, edited by Jennifer Sanders and Rebecca Damron, Teachers College Press, 2016, pp. 136-137.
• “Eyes of Insight.” The Tower Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, 2016.
• “Subjective Idealism.” Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science, vol. 4, no. 10, 2016, pp. 48-49.
• “Eastern and Western Philosophy: Personal Identity.” Philosophical Investigations, 2016.
• “Unintentional Plagiarism: Who Should Bear the Burden?” National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Innovation Abstracts (NISOD), vol. 37, no. 28, 2015.
• “The Myth of Elvis Presley.” PopMatters, 2015.
• “The Ambiguity and Existentialism of Human Sexuality in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.” Philosophy Pathways, no. 194, 2015.
• “A Damaged Mentality.” Volga River Review, 2015, pp. 65-71.
• “The New American Scholar.” The Pluralist, vol. 9, no. 1, 2014, pp. 97-103.
• “The Other Side of the Wall.” Chiaroscuro, vol. 22, no. 1, 2013, pp. 10-14.
• “The American Scholar: The New Man Thinking.” Philological Review, vol. 39, no. 2, 2013, pp. 23-46.
• “Frederick Douglass’s Journey from Slave to Freeman: An Acquisition and Mastery of Language, Rhetoric, and Power via the Narrative.” The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2012, pp. 14-23.
• “A Reader’s Journey into the Musicality of The Owl and the Nightingale.” Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2011, pp. 157-170.
•  “Melody of You.” Gallery of Writing – The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2011.
• “Korean Soul Food.” The Summerset Review, 2007.
• “The American Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) in the State of Iowa.” American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations, 2003.

Publication Contributions

• Contribution. “Preserving the Freedom to Teach.” The Council Chronicle, vol. 32, no. 1, 2022.
• Contributor. Three Line Poetry, no. 57, 2021.
• Contributor. Li, Ai. “i heard it first.” the cherita, vol. 4, no. 3, 2020.
• Contributor. Medium, Summer 2020 – present.
• Contribution. Schilb, John, and John Clifford. Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers. 7th ed., Macmillan Learning, 2018.
• Contribution. Yagelski, Robert P. Writing: Ten Core Concepts, 2nd ed., Cengage, 2016.

Conference Presentations

• “Susceptible Minds: What Happens to Women When Patriarchy is Ignored in Todd Downing’s The Cat Screams?” American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, Illinois, March 2023.
• “Creating Experiences and Community: The Value of a Common Read.” 2023 Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, January 2023.
• “Of Education: Milton’s Reformed Educational System.” Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2022.
• “Traditional Blood Libel Literature: Forgiveness or Violent Retribution for the Jewish Character?” Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2022.
• “How to Make Zoom Meetings More Inclusive for Students.” National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Fall Virtual Conference, October 2021.
• “Activist Literacy: A Pedagogical Approach to Civic Learning and Community Engagement.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (Regional) – Building Diverse Communities through Writing, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, December 2020.
• “Let’s Get Personal… With Online Learning.” Learning and Teaching with Technology Expo (LATTE), Mohave Community College, Kingman, Arizona, December 2018.
• “Decolonization in Education.” American Comparative Literature Association, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, March 2018.
• “Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Decolonizing Methodologies: The Significance of Research to Indigenous Intellectuals and their Communities in Potiki and Pears from the Willow Tree.” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2016.
• “Eighteenth-Century Familial Relationships in Robinson Crusoe: Crusoe’s Desire to Seek an Immediate Family.” The Midwest Conference on British Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, September 2015.
• “Blood and Strife: Motives for Violence and Recrimination between Christians and Jews during the Western European Middle Ages.” American Comparative Literature Association, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 2012.
• “Unintentional Plagiarism: Who Should Bear the Burden?” Oklahoma State University Humanities Graduate Conference, Stillwater, Oklahoma, March 2012.
• “Frederick Douglass’s Journey from Slave to Freeman: An Acquisition and Mastery of Language, Rhetoric, and Power via the Narrative.” Oklahoma State University Humanities Graduate Conference, Stillwater, Oklahoma, March 2011.
• “A Reader’s Journey into the Musicality of The Owl and the Nightingale.” Arkansas Philological Association, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 2010.
• “The Dignity of Mr. Sober: An Inner Reflection of Idleness and Call for Repentance.” Oklahoma State University English Graduate Student Association Colloquium, April 2010.

Professional and Academic Service

• Training, Open Educational Resources Fundamentals Rural Arizona Cohort, Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona (ISKME and OER Commons), March 2023
• Representative, Communication Articulation Task Force, Mohave Community College, Fall 2022
• Training, OER Commons Hub Training, The Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona Initiative, Fall 2022
• Member, Institutional Effectiveness Network (IEN) – Pillar 1, Academic Program Review and Prioritization Process, Fall 2022 – present
• Member, OER Workgroup Team, English Department, Mohave Community College, Fall 2022 – Fall 2023
• Member, English Faculty – English Interview Committee, Mohave Community College, Summer 2022
• Journal manuscript reviewer, To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, Summer 2022 – present
• Member, DEI Student Engagement Workgroup Team, Mohave Community College, Fall 2021 – Fall 2023
• Member, Experiential Learning Objective Research Team, Mohave Community College, Fall 2021 – Fall 2022
• Peer reviewer, Routledge / Taylor & Francis, Fall 2020 – present
• Member, Dual Enrollment Advisory Committee, Mohave Community College, Spring 2020 – Spring 2021
• Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Mohave Community College, Fall 2019 – Summer 2020
• Lead Faculty (Chair) – English Department, Mohave Community College, Fall 2019 – Fall 2021
• Mentor, English Faculty, Mohave Community College, Fall 2018
• Master course shell developer, ENG 101 – Composition I, Mohave Community College, Summer 2018 – Fall 2021
• Peer reviewer, MERLOT, Summer 2018 – present
• Member, Faculty Focus Group – Online Teaching and Student Success, Mohave Community College, Spring 2018
• Member, Employee Advisory Committee Task Force, Mohave Community College, Spring 2018
• Editor, Ovis, Mohave Community College, Spring 2017 – present
• Member, AGEC Task Force, Mohave Community College, Fall 2016 – 2017
• Curriculum Committee, Mohave Community College, Fall 2016 – present
• Representative, English Articulation Task Force, Mohave Community College, Fall 2016 – Fall 2020
• Journal manuscript reviewer, Journal of Black Studies, Fall 2015 – present
• Liaison, CRUSHD Event, Mohave Community College, Spring 2015
• Co-chair, Program Review, Department of English, Mohave Community College, Spring 2015 – Spring 2016
• Awarded grant from Mohave Community College Foundation – WPA Consultant-Evaluator Service for Writing Programs – Amounts: $1,499; $4,000 from Office of Instruction, Spring/Fall 2015
• Presenter, Faculty Professional Development – Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative, Mohave Community College, Fall 2014
• Advisor, Phi Theta Kappa, Mohave Community College, Fall 2014 – present
• Member, Faculty Council, Mohave Community College, Fall 2014 – present
• Member, Academic Standards, Planning, and Resources Committee, Mohave Community College, Fall 2014 – 2016
• Member, Assessment Committee, Mohave Community College, Spring 2014 – Fall 2015
• Presentation Judge, The Henry Bellmon Office of Scholar Development and Recognition, Freshman Research Scholars Colloquium, Oklahoma State University, Spring 2012
• Oklahoma State University GPSGA Representative – 2010-2011
• Oklahoma State University English Graduate Student Association – 2009-2012

Memberships

• The Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education
• The Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
• American Association of Community Colleges
• Modern Language Association
• American Comparative Literature Association
• National Council of Teachers of English

Honors and Awards

• Spillwords Press Publication of the Year – 2022
• Spillwords Press Publication of the Month, Spring 2021
• Winner for the 42^nd Annual Andy (Devine) Awards – Educator of the Year, Fall 2019
• Winner for the Under 40 Awards by Kingman Daily Miner, Education, Fall 2018
• Finalist for the 40^th Annual Andy (Devine) Awards – Educator of the Year, Fall 2017
• Academic Keys Who’s Who in Community Colleges Higher Education – Mohave Community College, Fall 2015
• English Graduate Student Association Breakout Award, Fall 2011
• Oklahoma State University 25th Annual Honors Convocation, Fall 2010
• University of Iowa Salvation Army Outstanding Effort Recognition, Fall 2005