Joshua Bernstein
Associate Professor
Bio
J. A. Bernstein鈥檚 works include a novel, Rachel鈥檚 Tomb (New Issues, 2019), which won the A.W.P. Award Series Prize, a forthcoming book, Afterlight (Galileo Press), and three chapbooks: Desert Castles (Southern Indiana Univ., Wilhelmus Chapbook Prize Winner, 2019); Northern Cowboy (St. Leo Univ., Wilt Chapbook Prize Winner, 2021); and Glass Essays (Variant, 2023). His stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, Boston Review, CutBank, Chicago Quarterly, and Washington Square, among others, and garnered honors at The Atlantic and Crab Orchard Review. 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 and President of the Faculty Senates Association of Mississippi. Publications: 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
- 鈥淎 Paradise of Snakes鈥�, Conrad and Nature, 2018,
- 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
- 鈥淲here 鈥淏easts鈥� Spirits Wail鈥�: 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)