Chad Gusler

POSITION: Associate Professor of Language & Literature

DEPARTMENTS:
School of Theology, Humanities and Performing Arts
Language & Literature

LOCATION: Main Campus, Harrisonburg | RLN 215

Chad Gusler holds an MFA in fiction writing from Seattle Pacific University and an MA in religious studies from Eastern Mennonite Seminary. His stories have been published or are forthcoming in Broad River Review, Driftwood, Southwest Review, Punt Volat, Relief, The Other Journal, and elsewhere. His short story “flyBaby,” recently published by The Maine Review, was a finalist for the 2020 Calvino Award, judged by Joyce Carol Oates, and his short story, "Man of Sorrows," is a 2022 finalist for the Ron Rash Award in fiction (Maurice Carlos Ruffin, judge).

In addition to his teaching duties at EMU, Chad helps coach swimming with the EMU varsity women's triathlon team.

Education

BS, Eastern Mennonite University (Bibical Studies & Theology)
MA, Eastern Mennonite Seminary (Religion)
MFA, Seattle Pacific University (Creative Writing)

Publications
"Sore Vexed," a short story published in Driftwood, July 2022
"Wink," a short story published in Southwest Review, April 2022
"Skin of Electric Fish," a short story republished by Punt Volat, January 2022
"Man of Sorrows," a short story published in Broad River Review, forthcoming late fall 2022 (2022 Ron Rash Award finalist)
"flyBaby," a short story published by The Maine Review, October, 2021 (2020 Calvino Award Finalist)
"St. Flannery Gets Her Wig," a short story published in Whale Road Review, Spring 2016
“We the Village,” a short story published in The Other Journal, March 2012
“The Nighthawk,” a short story published in Center for Mennonite Writing Journal, March 2012
“Spanish Moss,” a short story published in Center for Mennonite Writing Journal, April 2012
“OMG!! Geleijin Cornelus is Hott!!!,” a short story published in the anthology, Tongue Screws and Testimonies (Herald Press), November 2010
“The Skin of Electric Fish,” a short story published in The Dirty Napkin, Winter, 2008
“Mortise and Tenon,” a short story published in Relief, Fall 2006
Scholarly Presentations and Abstracts
Crossing the limen: Co-teaching and student engagement, Innovation in Pedagogy Summit, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 2015

Fiction: Tradition and Transformation: “The Thing She Rode” (short story presentation); Mennonite/s Writing VII, Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California, March 2015

From Collaboration to Co-Teaching: Is Co-Teaching an Effective Method for Integrating Information Literacy Instruction into First-Year Composition courses? Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU), Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, May 2012

From Collaboration to Co-Teaching: Is Co-Teaching an Effective Method for Integrating Information Literacy Instruction into First-Year Composition courses? Information Literacy Summit at Moraine Valley Community College, Chicago, Illinois, May 2012

From Collaboration to Co-Teaching: Is Co-Teaching an Effective Method for Integrating Information Literacy Instruction into First-Year Composition courses? Illinois Center for Information Literacy at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, May 2012
Other Presentations

“Men, Women, and Feminism,” panelist for Eastern Mennonite Student Women Association

Fear, Love, and Wanderlust: An Address in Three Parts, Eastern Mennonite University Baccalaureate Address, April 2016

“We Can’t Talk About Sexual Assault If We Don’t Talk About Sex” panelist for the Coalition on Sexual Violence Prevention, Eastern Mennonite University, April 2016

Research as Art and Transformation, Eastern Mennonite University, September 2010

Video Web Applications: Writing Tips for Web Logs, Eastern Mennonite University, March 2010

Seeing and Journeying: Kokoro in the Writings of Annie Dillard and Basho, Eastern Mennonite University, Honors Colloquium, January 2010

The City in Literature, Eastern Mennonite University, September 2007

The Arts in Education, James Madison University, March 2004

Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetics, Eastern Mennonite University, March 2004
Exhibits, Performances and Productions
Love and Other Afflictions; The Golden Pony, February, 2022

The Maine Review; an online international reading hosted by The Maine Review, January, 2022

The Telephone Show; Larkin Arts Center, Wine-Riner Galleries, December, 2016

The Translated Word: A Reading and Discussion on Art and Translation; Staunton, Virginia, April 2014

Basho: A Celebration of Haiku; Harrisonburg, Virginia, October 2013

Black Swan Reading; Staunton, Virginia, June 2013

Howl and Echo: A Poetic Tribute to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; Harrisonburg, Virginia, March 2013

What I Assume You Shall Become: A Poetic Tribute to Walt Whitman; Harrisonburg, Virginia, September 2012

Dead Feathers: A Public Reading of Prose and Poetry; Staunton, Virginia, August 2011

Tongue Screws and Testimonies; a public reading in Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the Arts Council of the Valley’s Smith House, January 2011

Tongue Screws and Testimonies; a public reading at Eastern Mennonite University, November 2010

A reading at the Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 2002
Courses Taught
- Argumentative Writing
- College Writing
- Creative Nonfiction Workshop
- Expository Writing
- Fiction Workshop
- Honors Colloquium: Acts of Resistence: Walking, Pilgrimage, and Rock and Roll
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Introductory College Writing
- News and Feature Writing
- Rhetoric of the Natural and Social Sciences
- Senior Seminar: By the Sweat of our Brow: Work, Calling, and Purpose
- Senior Seminar: Following Roots, Finding Wings
- Senior Seminar: On Trails
- Senior Seminar: Seeing with the Self (CORE 401)
- Transitions (CORE 101)
- Weather Vane (student newspaper) Practicum

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