Philip Booth
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Home: 4509 S. Lois Ave., Tampa, FL 33611
jphilipbooth@gmail.com
(813) 453-5138

TEACHING/RESEARCH AREAS:

Film Studies, Modern and Contemporary American Literature, Creative Writing, Composition

M.A. in English, University of South Florida, May 2006

• Concentrations: Creative Writing, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Film
• Thesis: "Cracker Etiquette: Stories From Somebody's South" (Short Story Collection)
• Advisor: Dr. John Fleming

B.A. in history, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1983

Freshman English composition I and II
Film/Popular Culture

Can read and speak some Spanish and German

ACADEMIC PUBLICATION:

• Review: Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers, by Michael Connelly, Journal of Popular Culture 40:4 (August 2007)

• Review: Why New Orleans Matters, by Tom Piazza, Journal of American Culture 30:1 (March 2007)

• Essay: "The Immortals," by Martin Amis, Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction (ed., Andrew Maunder, February 2007)
  
• Essay: "Hemingway's 'The Killers' and Heroic Fatalism: From Page to Screen (Thrice)" Literature Film Quarterly (January 2007)

• Essay: John Sayles' Sunshine State, Saw Palm (December 2006) www.sawpalm.org

• Review: Harry Crews' An American Family, Saw Palm (December 2006)

• Review: Three John Lennon biographies, Journal of American Culture 29:4 (December 2006)

• Essay: "Nineteenth-Century Goth Boy: Morbidity and the Grotesque in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Banyan (2006)

• Review: Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, by George Wein and Nate Chinen, Journal of Popular Culture 39:3 (June 2006)

• Review: Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead, by Phil Lesh, Journal of Popular Culture 39:1 (February 2006)

• Review: Jambands: The Complete Guide to the Players, Music & Scene, by Dean Budnick, Journal of Popular Culture 38:3 (February 2005)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

• "Violence and its Meaning in Harry Crews' A Feast of Snakes and An American Family, Florida College English Association (November 2006)
  
  
• "Hemingway's 'The Killers' and Heroic Fatalism: From Page to Screen (Thrice)," International Ernest Hemingway Conference, Key West (June 2004)

MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER PUBLICATIONS

Non-fiction articles and reviews (on film, music and books) in Rolling Stone, Down Beat, Spin, Variety, Jazziz, Bass Player, Option, Guitar World, Jazz Times, St. Petersburg Times, Las Vegas City Life, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami New Times, Boston Globe, Creative Loafing/Atlanta, Detroit Metro Times, Philadelphia City Paper, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Orlando Weekly, Weekly Planet/Creative Loafing (Tampa), online at salon.com, popmatters.com, groovewell.com and featurewell.com, and other publications

Director/Coordinator, (first) USF Writers Series, 2004-2005

• Modern Language Association
• Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
• Ernest Hemingway Society
• Florida College English Association

• USF Anspaugh Fiction Award, 2006
• Florida Suncoast Writers Conference Scholarship Award, 2005
• USF Bayboro Fiction Contest, third place, 2004

Letters of Reference available upon request

• Media Relations Coordinator, University of South Florida, August 2006-present
• Marketing/Communications writer, Bright House Networks, February 2005-August 2006
• Full-time freelance journalist (newspapers, magazines, online), 1996-2005
• Pop Music Critic, Tampa Tribune, 1988-1996
• Arts/Entertainment Writer, The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla., 1986-1988
• News Reporter, Today, Cocoa, Fla. 1985-1986
• News and Feature Reporter, The News-Chief, Winter Haven, Fla., 1983-1985
• Jazz DJ, WUSF-FM, Tampa, 1996-present

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Florida Film Critics Circle
• Southeastern Film Critics Association
• Jazz Journalists Association
• National Association of Music Critics