Graduate Student Profile

Joshua Bernstein

Status: ABD

Contact Information

E-mail: jabernst@usc.edu

LINKS

 Personal Website

Biographical Sketch


J. A. Bernstein's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Portland Review, and other journals. He is also the fiction editor for Tikkun.

Education

  • A.B. History, Brown University, 2001
  • M.A. English (Creative Writing), University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007


Employment History

  • Asst. Lect., University of Illinois-Chicago, 2005 - 2007
  • Coordinator, Asst. Lect., USC, 2010 - 2012

Research


Summary Statement of Research Interests


  • My dissertation focuses on the Great War, particularly the works of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Virginia Woolf, and Rebecca West. Specifically, the project explores how the Great War reshaped British understandings of human animality, thereby paving the way for the contemporary animal rights movement.

Research Specialties


  • Modernist Literature (British and American); war writing; animal rights and ecology.

Conference Presentations

  • "Writing War: A Workshop for Veterans." Military Experience Symposium, Lexington, KY., 7/2012
  • "Why Hitchens Matters: Reappraising the Occupy Movement". CSULB Conference on the Occupy Movement., 5/2012
  • “War Writing, Travel Writing, and Arabia: T. E. Lawrence.” Panel on Britain and the Middle East. Annual MLA Conference, Los Angeles., 12/2010
  • “‘Where Horse and Hero Fell’: Tennyson, Owen, and the Death of the Human Exception.” The Emergence of the Posthuman Subject: An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Surrey. London, 2010
  • “Realist Fiction in the Post-Modern Era: James Jones’ Document.” Conference on the Life and Writing of James Jones. Embarras Valley Film Festival. Eastern IL Univ., Charleston, IL. Sept. 2007
  • “On Fighting in Jenin.” The Truth About the Fact: East Coast Publication Salon. New York, NY. May, 2009

Honors and Awards

  • Gold Family Fellowship, 2011-2012   
  • John Gunyon Contest in Literary Nonfiction, Winner, 2009-2010   
  • Middleton Fellowship, 2007-2009  
  • The Atlantic Student Writing Contest, Hon. Men., Fiction and Non-Fiction, 2008-2009   
  • Fulbright Award, 2001-2002   
  • Royce Fellow (Brown Univ.), 2000-2001   
  • William Gaston Premium Prize (Brown U.), 2000-2001   

 

 

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