Philippe West
Teaching Experience
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
August 2016-July 2024
Designed and taught freshman-level writing courses (WRC 1013 and 1023) as a lecturer with the university’s Writing Program.
Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
May 2006-present
Designed and taught freshman-level composition and literature courses and sophomore-level literature courses as an adjunct faculty member at the system’s Rio Grande, Northridge, Riverside, Pinnacle, Hays, Highland, Cypress Creek, Elgin, and Eastview campuses and San Marcos Centers (at San Marcos Goodnight Center and San Marcos High School); taught high school dual-credit (Early College Start) courses at Georgetown, Pflugerville, Round Rock, and Smithville ISD high schools, designed and maintained online class resources via Blackboard, completed training to teach Student Success courses (and taught initial Student Success course in Fall 2016).
Alamo Colleges, San Antonio, Texas
August 2000-present
Designed and taught freshman-level composition and literature courses and sophomore-level literature courses as an adjunct faculty member at the system’s San Antonio College, St. Philip’s College, Northwest Vista College, Northeast Lakeview College, and Randolph Air Force Base campus, as well as a dual-credit course at New Braunfels High School, and online courses involving dual-credit, traditional, and non-traditional students.
Concordia University Texas, Austin, Texas
August 2006-May 2011
Designed and taught freshman-level composition and literature courses as an adjunct faculty member for this four-year private university, collaborated on creation of department-wide composition exams, met with full-time faculty to discuss and implement classroom management policies.
Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas
April 2004-June 2006, July 2010
Designed and taught freshman-level composition and sophomore-level literature courses at this four-year private university, including teaching and management of an online course via WebCT. In July 2010, taught a grad level summer session course, “Poetry Slam: Theory & Practice.”
Professional Publications
BOOKS
I Believe That We Will Win (non-fiction), New York: The Overlook Press, 2018
The United States of Soccer: Major League Soccer and the Rise of American Fandom (non-fiction), New York: The Overlook Press, 2016.
The Arsenal of Small Stars (poetry), Whitmore Lake, MI: The Wordsmith Press, 2005.
PUBLICATIONS
Poetry:
Analecta, Bad News Bingo, Birmingham Poetry Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Coe Review, Entelechy, Fengi, From Page to Stage and Back Again (anthology), Is This Forever or What? (anthology, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye), Karamu, Manana, Mid-American Review, Other, Pegasus, Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (anthology, edited by Gary Mex Glazner), Rio Grande Review, River City, San Antonio Express-News, Seattle Poems by Seattle Poets (anthology), Sentence, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Texas Observer, This Order, Underwood Review, Utter, Word is Bond.
Creative Non-Fiction:
Huffington Post, November 3rd Club (online publication), Poems from the Big Muddy: The 2004 National Poetry Slam Anthology, Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (anthology, Ed. Gary Mex Glazner, San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2000), The Sofa Surfing Handbook (anthology, Ed. Juliette Torrez, San Francisco: Manic D Press, 1998).
Journalism:
Austin Chronicle, The Daily Dot, Everett (Wash.) Herald, Howler, Los Angeles Times, MLSSoccer.com, Nautilus, sa360.com (Cox Interactive Media, now defunct), San Antonio Current, San Antonio Express-News, SBNation.com, Score (official magazine of the San Antonio Spurs), Seattle Times, The Striker Texas,
Textbook Contributions:
Arguing through Literature, Ed. Judith Ferster, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004 (ensemble poem); The World is a Text, 4th Ed., Ed. Jonathan Silverman and Dean Rader, 2011 (essay).
Published: January 28, 2025