Dawn M. Skorczewski

Title

Director of University Writing and Associate Professor of English

English

Expertise

Director of University Writing and Professor of English

Profile

Pedagogy, Teaching of Writing, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature, Holocaust Literature, Trauma and Literature, Twentieth-Century Poetry, Confessional Poetry, 19th and 20th Century Studies

Degrees

Rutgers State University New Brunswick, Ph.D.

Rutgers State University New Brunswick, M.A.

Boston College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	dawnskor@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2141
Office:	Rabb Graduate Center, 143

Awards and Honors

Fulbright Scholar: Professor of American Culture (2013)

Whiting Foundation Grant (2012)

Newman Fund Grant: the Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton (2011)

CORST ESSAY PRIZE for INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK IN PSYCHOANALYSIS (2010)

Gondor Award for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Education (2007)

Newman Fund Grant: Psychoanalysis and Teaching (2006)

Courses Taught

ENG	18b	Writing the Holocaust
ENG	20b	The Art of Flirtation: Reading Romance from Pride and Prejudice to Harry Potter
ENG	58b	Women and Madness
ENG	157b	American Women Poets
ENG	299b	Classroom Pedagogy and the Teaching of Writing
FYS	51a	Trauma and Memory in the Literary Imagination

Scholarship

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Writing the Holocaust." Rev. of several titles/review article, American Journal of Psychoanalysis 2013 (forthcoming)

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "A Double Image?: The Voices of Linda Gray Sexton." Rev. of Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, by Linda Gray Sexton. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 2012

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. An Accident of Hope: the Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton. NY and London: Routledge, 2012.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "From Confession to Testimony: Refiguring Trauma in the Classroom." Compelling Confessions. Ed. Suzanne Diamond. Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2011

Dawn Skorczewski. "Review, The Very Thought of Education (by Deborah Britzman)." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2010: 7.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. ""You, I we created the poet": Anne Sexton's Therapy Tapes, November 1963." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2010).

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