Barrett Hathcock joined the Rhodes English department in August 2008. He teaches courses in fiction writing, playwriting, and screenwriting. Hathcock, who graduated from Rhodes in 2000, received his M.F.A. from the University of Alabama. He has stories in the Arkansas Review and Fried Chicken and Coffee, and he serves as a contributing editor for the Quarterly Conversation, where he writes essays, reviews, and interviews. He is currently working on a novel. Vita (PDF) August 2009
M.F.A, Creative Writing (Fiction), University of Alabama, 2004
B.A., English, with a concentration in Creative Writing, Rhodes College,2000
English 201 - Introduction to Fiction Writing: Form, Theory, Workshop
English 203 - Introduction to Dramatic Writing
English 204 – Introduction to Screenwriting
Fiction
“High Cotton.” Fried Chicken and Coffee (4 September 2009).
“Timber Walking.” The Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 40.2 (2009).
“Wilson: Runner.” nth position (9 January 2009).
“Nightswimming.” [sic] magazine 4 (Summer 2008).
“Before My Life Went Dim.” The MacGuffin 29.1 (2002).
Essays
“My Life in Alumni Profiles.” The Quarterly Conversation 14 (Winter 2008).
“Sound of Myself.” The Quarterly Conversation 11 (Spring 2008).
“Howdy Neighbor.” The Quarterly Conversation 6 (Winter 2006).
“Catch a Fire.” The Colorado Review 31.1 (2004).
Interviews
“An Interview with Michael Martone.” The Quarterly Conversation (August 2008).
“Living Near the Wound: An Interview with Charles D’Ambrosio.” The Quarterly Conversation 10 (Winter 2007).
Book Reviews
“Said and Done by James Morrison.” The Quarterly Conversation 17 (Fall 2009).
“You Must Be This Happy to Enter by Elizabeth Crane.” The Quarterly Conversation 15 (Spring 2009).
“The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig.” The Quarterly Conversation 13 (Fall 2008).
“Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker.” The Quarterly Conversation 12 (Summer 2008).
“Cogito, Ergo Doom: Exit Ghost by Philip Roth.” The Quarterly Conversation 9 (Fall 2007).