CHRISTOF SCHEELE
cscheele@saic.edu
419.819.9117
ACADEMIC DEGREES
MFA in Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017)
MFA in Creative Writing, Bowling Green State University (2001)
BA in Classical Civilization and German, Beloit College (1992)
TEACHING POSITIONS
Teaching Assistant, Art History Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015)
Instructor, General Studies Writing Program/English Department, Bowling Green State University (2002-2015)
Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Georgia (2001-2002)
Teaching Assistant, English Department, Bowling Green State University (2001)
Teaching Assistant, General Studies Writing Program, Bowling Green State University (1999-2001)
SOLO SHOWS
GRAFIT, Dada Gallery, Bowling Green, OH, 2015
LAND(E)SCAPE, Nail in a Pocket Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2018
GROUP SHOWS
Two paintings, University Club of Chicago Student Art Exhibition, 2016
Two drawings, OTHER FACES, I Fell Gallery, Bloomington, IN, 2018
PUBLICATIONS
Poetry Anthologies: A Few on the Mini, The Dolphin Press/Three Sheets Press (2009)
Poetry Collections: Eitherland, Three Sheets Press (2006)
Poems: Quarter After Eight: “Id” (2013); The Erie Wire: “Mikóháza” (2011); Arts & Letters: “Accra Miniature,” “Grodek Miniature” (2010); The Erie Wire: “Teak, Ohio,” “Level, Ohio” (2009); Caketrain: “McGinty: Seven Cumuli” (2008); Unsplendid: “Hyssop,” “Still, Life” (2007); Verse: “Amnesia,” “New milk,” “Pandemonium” (2005); Green Mountains Review: “Codeine,” “Therefore the rest” (2004); jubilat: “Seven Genera” (2004); Poetry Daily: “Codeine” (2004); Prairie Schooner: “Hippocampus,” “Horsewater” (2004); Hayden’s Ferry Review: “Today” (2003); Quarterly West: “La Vita Nuova” (2002); Beloit Poetry Journal: “Outside Budapest,” “Outside Nyíregyháza, Hungary” (2001)
Essays: Hungarian Studies: “The Poetry of Attila József in English Translation” (1997); Hungarian Studies: “Hungarian Poetry in English Translation” (1999); Skanky Possum: “Christof Scheele on Howard McCord” (2003)
Fiction: La Petite Zine: “Lacaniana” (2011); 21 Stars Review: “The Novel That No One Could Pronounce” (2007)
AWARDS
Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry, Ohio Arts Council (2003)