Dawn Skorczewski
Professor of English
PhD, Rutgers University
Research Interests
Teaching of Writing, Holocaust Education, 20th-Century American, Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy, Psychoanalysis and Literature, Contemporary Poetry, Narrative Medicine
Selected Publications
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"An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton." Routledge, 2012.
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"Teaching One Moment at a Time: Disruption and Repair in the Classroom." Amherst: Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
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"Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom," co-edited with Matthew Parfitt. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2003.
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"Anne Sexton's Therapy Tapes : November 1963." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, (2010) : 38.
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"From Confession to Testimony: Refiguring Trauma in the Classroom." In "Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure," ed. Suzanne Diamond. Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2010.
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"Analyst as Teacher/Teacher as Analyst: A Confusion of Tongues?" Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, (2008): 30.
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"Psychoanalytic Education: An Educator's Perspective." The American Psychoanalyst, May 2007.
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"Getting Attica out of Her Mind: A Psychoanalytic Memoir." American Imago, Fall 2005 (with Anni Bergman).
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"Questioning Authority in the Psychoanalytic Classroom." Psychoanalytic Quarterly, April 2004.
Awards
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Fulbright Scholar, Amsterdam, 2013 (Professor of American Culture)
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CORST Prize for Interdisciplinary Essay on Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association, 2010
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Gondor Award for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Education, 2007
Selected Courses Taught
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Classroom Pedagogy and the Teaching of Writing (ENG 299b)
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Trauma and Memory in the Literary Imagination (USEM 51a)
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The Art of Flirtation: Reading Romance from Pride and Prejudice to Harry Potter (ENG 20b)
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Writing the Holocaust (ENG 18b)
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Women and Madness (ENG 58b)