Christopher Ankney

First Year Writing

Christopher Ankney received his BA in Creating Writing with a minor in Anthropology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia. His accomplishments include being a Greer-Hepburn winner and Miami Scholar while at Oxford, and a John Woods Scholar in Poetry while attending Western Michigan University's Prague Summer Program, 2005.

His work can (or will) be found in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Margie. Prairie Schooner, and in Columbia's own Columbia Poetry Review. His work has been nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award.

At Columbia, Christopher has served as a Teaching Community Facilitator to new adjunct faculty and has worked with the Columbia Library's Embedded Library Project, hoping to better plug our students in to the possibilities of research. He most often teaches both the regular and Enhanced sections of Writing and Rhetoric II; his anthropological background and continued interests in global and American popular culture driving his unique approach to the ethnography methodology.

His interests also include issues of contemporary poetics; those concerning the growing use (and misuse) of blogs as a locus for literary aspirations and debate, and the perpetual war between language and meaning. He also enjoys a healthy dose of satire, with Eastern European novelists Vladimir Voinovich and Orhan Pamuk among his favorite government insulters.

This past summer the Ohio native married his hometown gal, Lynn Roessner-Ankney, who also teaches in the FYW program here at Columbia.

Office Location: English Department, suite 527, 5th floor, 33 E. Congress

Office Phone: 312-369-8125

FAX: 312-369-8001

Email: cankney@colum.edu

Mailing Address:
Christopher Ankney
Department of English
Columbia College of Chicago
600 So. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605