Dawn Skorczewski

Professor Emerita and Research Professor of English

Departments/Programs

English

Degrees

Rutgers State University New Brunswick, Ph.D.
Rutgers State University New Brunswick, M.A.
Boston College, B.A.

Expertise

Professor of English

Profile

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

Courses Taught

ENG	1a	Introduction to Literary Studies
ENG	18b	Writing the Holocaust
ENG	48b	Literature and Happiness
ENG	68b	The International Legacy of Anne Frank
ENG	129a	Directed Writing: Creative Nonfiction
ENG	157b	American Women Poets
ENG	160b	Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath

Awards and Honors

CLUE+ Research Fellowship, VU Amsterdam (2016 - 2018)

Into the Archives: Searching for the Jewish Council of Amsterdam (2016 - 2017)

Norman Foundation Grant (2015)

Ticho Foundation Educational Grant (2015)

Fulbright Scholar: Professor of American Culture (2013 - 2014)

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)

Scholarship

Skorczewski, Dawn M., ed. Oscar Lehmann: The Rituals of Life in Pre-WWII Amsterdam Zuid (published in Dutch). Amsterdam: Gibbon, 2019.

Skorczewski, Dawn M., ed. Pursuing Happiness: A Reader. 2nd ed. Boston MA: Macmillan, 2019.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "The World Stage is Played out in the Individual Family: An Interview with Dawn Skorczewski by Lonneke Geerlings." Historica.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. ""You want me to sing?": Holocaust Testimonies in the Intersubjective Field." Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust (2018).

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "'The kind of spirit we still kept': Amsterdam's Diamond Jews and the Road to Bergen-Belsen." Holocaust Studies September 2018. (2018).

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Anne Sexton's Unlikely Muse." The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration. 1st ed. Ed. Adele Tutter. London and NY: Routledge, 2017. 262.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories by Donald Antrim.." Rev. of The Emerald Light in the Air, by Donald Antrim. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association vol. 64 June 2016: 656-659.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "A Holocaust Heroine Grows Up." Brandeis Magazine Summer 2015: online.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Talking Around the Holocaust: the Interviewer's Role in the USC Holocaust Testimonies.." Autobiografia. Literatura. Kultura. Media 1. 1 (2016): 33-50.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "What is the Story? Two Sonderkommando Interviews in the USC Shoah Foundation Archive." https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2015/10/10140-what-story-two-sonderkommando-interviews-usc-shoah-foundation-archive this is an internet article. above (2016): <https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2015/10/10140-what-story-two-sonderkommando-interviews-usc-shoah-foundation-archive>.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "“Anne Sexton’s Unlikely Muse,”." The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration". Ed. Adele Tutter. NY: Routledge, 2016. TBA.

Skorczewski, Dawn M., Edited w Matthew Parfitt. The Happiness Reader. 1 ed. NY: Macmillan, 2015.

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Book Review: Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness; Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony." by Dawn Skorczewski. J Am Psychoanal Assoc October 2014 of 62 October 2014: 931-936.

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

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).

Skorczewski, Dawn M.. "Analyst as Teacher/Teacher as Analyst: A Confusion of Tongues?." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2008): 30.

Skorczewski, Dawn. Teaching one moment at a time : disruption and repair in the classroom. University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.