Joshua Bernstein
Associate Professor
Bio
J. A. Bernstein is the author of Rachel’s Tomb, which won the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series Novel Prize and Hackney Award; Desert Castles, which won the Wilhelmus Prize at Southern Indiana Review; Northern Cowboy, which won the Wilt Prize; Glass Essays; and a forthcoming memoir, Afterlight. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in about a hundred journals and anthologies, including The Kenyon Review, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney’s, Washington Square, Boston Review, and Chicago Quarterly. His academic articles have appeared in The Conradian, Western American Literature, and other volumes, and won the Harkness Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America. A Chicago native and Fulbright Scholar, he is Director of Graduate Studies in English at USM and the fiction editor of Tikkun. He is also President-Elect of the USM Faculty Senate. For a list of publications, see: https://writingwar.com/writings/
- PHD - University of Southern California (2014)
- MA - University of Illinois at Chicago (2007)
- BA - Brown University (2001)
English 203: World Literature
English 321: Intermediate Fiction Writing
English 421: Advanced Fiction Writing
English 669: Graduate Literature Seminar: Environmental Ethics in Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy
English 627: Publishing
English 641: Graduate Research Methods
English 721: Graduate Fiction Writing
English 723: Graduate Creative Nonfiction Writing
- RACHEL'S TOMB: A Novel, 2019
- DESERT CASTLES, 2019
- NORTHERN COWBOY: ESSAYS ON SPORTS, 2021
- In the Lake, Before Dark, CutBank, 2020
- A Report from the Academy, Washington Square Review, 2020
- “A Paradise of Snakes”, Conrad and Nature, 2018, 10.4324/9781315181110-9
- The Fall of Washington, Notre Dame Review, 2020
- Application of E. Hemingway to the University of Idaho, Tin House (web), 2013
- "Summoning Roethke", Epiphany, 2020
- “Where “Beasts’ Spirits Wail”: Rosenberg, Sassoon and the Emergence of Animal Philosophy", Otherness: Essays and Studies, 2021
- Association of Writers & Writing Programs
- Modern Language Association
- Joseph Conrad Society of America
- The Joseph Conrad Society (UK)
- Arabic (Full Professional)
- Hebrew (Full Professional)
- French (Full Professional)