Journalism and the Writing Professions
Roslyn Bernstein
Email: Roslyn.Bernstein@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: (646) 312-3930
Location: VC 7-270
During her career as a journalist, Prof. Roslyn Bernstein has published news and feature articles, catalogue essays and opinion pieces on education, neighborhood development, media, culture and the arts. Her published work includes stories on corporate art collections, non-profits and start-ups, as well as profiles of individual artists, educators and business leaders. She has reported from the United States, Eastern Europe, Israel, and China for such publications as The New York Times, Newsday, The Village Voice, New York, Parents, Contemporanea, American Banker, Artnews, and the Columbia Journalism Review.
Professor Bernstein is currently at work on IIlegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo: a nonfiction work focusing on the biography of the first artists' live-work building in SoHo, created by Fluxus visionary George Maciunas. She has just published Boardwalk Stories, a collection of fourteen linked tales spanning the decades 1950 to 1970. Set in the shadow of the Cold War, the boardwalk characters, many of them misfits and wannabes, share their joys and sorrows in a world where kewpie dolls and prizes are often the only consolation for lost dreams.
Keenly interested in New York City urban issues, Professor Bernstein teaches a range of courses in journalism and creative writing including Perspectives on the News, Journalistic Writing, Feature Article Writing, Creative Journalism, and Journalism and the Literary Imagination.
During her more than three decades at Baruch, Professor Bernstein served as the director of the undergraduate journalism program. She founded, and is now the publisher of Dollars & Sense, Baruch's prize-winning business review. Professor Bernstein currently serves as the director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, a unique literary salon that brings a different distinguished writer to campus each semester. Since its founding in 1998, 22 Harman writers have come to Baruch, including poets Yehuda Amichai, Agha Shahid Ali, and Charles Simic, playwrights Edward Albee and Tony Kushner, novelists Sigrid Nunez, Anita Desai, Colum McCann, Paul Auster, John Edgar Wideman and Francine Prose, and authors Philip Gourevitch, Jane Kramer, William Finnegan, Mark Kurlansky and George Packer. The Harman Program will be celebrating its 12th year in 2009-2010 with the arrival on campus of Joseph O'Connor in the fall and Major Jackson in the spring.
A recipient of Baruch's Distinguished Teaching and Service Awards as well as the Faculty Service Award from the Baruch College Alumni Association, Professor Bernstein earned a B.A. in Political Science from Brandeis University and a MA and Ph.D. in English from New York University.
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