DAVID RICE [email protected] 413.695.4860 EDUCATION • 2010-2011: Shaw Purposeful Traveling Fellowship awarded to write new fiction in Europe; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Fellow in German literature and religion at Humboldt University, Berlin. • 2006-2010: Harvard University (B.A.): Special Concentration in Esoteric Studies: Mysticism and Modernism in Western Thought, cum laude in field; Language Citation in German; John Harvard Scholar, 2009-2010. WORK EXPERIENCE • Screenplay editor and revision collaborator for San Francisco based filmmaker Douglas Blumeyer, 2012-present. • Studio Animation Teaching Assistant at Harvard Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, 2011-2013. • Literary and historical research, screenplay editing and revision for BAFTA-winning filmmaker Simon Pummell on Shock Head Soul (http://www.shockheadsoul.com/), Leiden, The Netherlands, Summer 2008 and 2009. • Digital image capturing, processing, and post-production for Oscar-nominated animator Koji Yamamura on A Child’s Metaphysics (http://www.yamamura-animation.jp/E_Body.html), Tokyo, Japan, Summer 2007. • Image sequencing and editing for documentarian Ross McElwee on his film In Paraguay, Cambridge, MA, 2006-07. SHORT STORY PUBLICATIONS • Black Clock: “In the Cabin up on Stilts,” 2013. • The Bad Version: “Ainsworth Gym,” “A Visit from Transmission Man Marks the Beginning of the End,” 2011. • The Harvard Advocate: “Drifter Jim,” 2010; “The Suicide Party,” 2008; “The Curdled Cat,” 2007. • The Harvard Crimson: “Dawson’s Creek,” 2009. • The Night Café: “Bear Learns Arabic,” 2009. • The Harvard Book Review: “Murakami’s Muse,” 2008. BOOK REVIEWS, ARTICLES, TRANSLATIONS • University of Chicago Press: Translation from the German of Professor Almut-Barbara Renger’s book Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (Part I), forthcoming, 2013. • The Millions: Essay On Sjón; Retrospective on Patrick White; On Donald Ray Pollock’s The Devil all the Time; On Steve Erickson’s These Dreams of You; On Don DeLillo’s The Angel Esmeralda, 2012. On Charles Frazier’s Nightwoods; On Russell Banks’ Lost Memory of Skin, 2011. • HTMLGiant: On Matt Bell, 2013. • Bookslut: On Peter Doggett’s The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s, 2012. • The Rumpus: On Adam Prince’s The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men, 2012. • Rain Taxi: On Christopher Narozny’s Jonah Man, On Michael Cisco’s The Great Lover, 2012. • Harvard Magazine: Article on musician and composer Ben Cosgrove, 2012. • The Harvard Advocate: Article on Sparklehorse and American “ghost folk” music, 2010. • Harvard Book Review: Editor-in-Chief, 2009-10; Publisher, 2008-9; Reviewer and Editor, 2006-10. WRITING AWARDS AND INVITATIONS • Glimmer Train: “Out on the Coast,” Finalist in November 2011 Short Story Awards for New Writers. • Harvard University’s “Grimm Legacies” folklore conference: Invited speaker on Hänsel and Gretel, 2012. • Harvard Hoopes Prize for Senior Thesis, A Year in the Woods: Wandering, Horror, and Home, 2010. • Harvard Office for the Arts’ Artist Development Fellowship for The Gloaming, a web-based multimedia project exploring the experiences of a disembodied brain in cyberspace, 2008. • Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Novel-in-Progress Contest: First Runner-up for Giacometti Glasses, 2005. • Scholastic Art and Writing Awards: “The Last Wise Man in the Land,” “Frank,” Gold Awards, 2004. “The Veterans’ Club,” Gold Award, 2003, published in The Best Teen Writing of 2003. ANIMATION AND VIDEO: FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS, AWARDS • “Do Rivers”: Shown at festivals in Madrid, Stuttgart, Cambridge, MA, Northampton, MA. “Frame by Frame: Animation at Harvard” Exhibition; The Harvard Advocate DVD Issue, 2008. • “Nettalk”: Shown at festivals in London, Sitges, Melbourne, Auckland; The Harvard Advocate DVD Issue, 2007. • “Guy I Know and Some Birds”: Artwork won First Place in The Harvard Advocate Contest Issue, 2007. • “Man in the Top Hat”: Live-action horror video, shown on Northampton Public TV and featured in an article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, 2004. .