Rebecca Berg, PhD
Rebecca has taught writing and literature at Cornell University and Hobart & William Smith Colleges. As a recipient of a Fulbright travel grant, she also spent a year teaching English to high school students in Hamburg, Germany.
She has more than a decade of experience as a freelance editor, and since 2003 she has been staff reporter for the Journal of Environmental Health, for which she has written a series of in-depth articles on topics ranging from health department funding to the politics of wastewater disposal.
Other nonfiction publications include articles on Ruth Rendell and Walter Mosley. Both articles appeared in encyclopedias of literary criticism issued by Scribners Reference/Gale. Her first novel, Sarah's Memoir, was a finalist in the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest in 2000. An excerpt from that novel appeared in the Five Fingers Review under the title "A History of Song." An excerpt from a second novel, Filigree, took third prize in the F Magazine 2005 Novel-in-Progress Contest. Her most recent novel, Julio’s Ghost, placed on the "Short List for Finalists" in the 2007 William Faulkner--William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
Rebecca has a doctorate in English literature from Cornell University. Her dissertation won an honorable mention in the Guilford Dissertation Contest for excellence in English prose. She teaches Art of Narrative I and II, as well as assorted one-day workshops.
This instructor has the following classes scheduled:
8-Week: Art of Narrative I - starting 09/04/2008