Roslyn Bernstein
Professor

Weissman School of Arts & Sciences
Baruch College, CUNY

Phone: 646-312-3930
Room 7-270, Vertical Campus
E-mail: Roz_Bernstein@baruch.cuny.edu

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 completing two books, Boardwalk Stories, a collection of interconnected short stories set in the period 1950-1970, and Illegal 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.

Keenly interested in New York City urban issues, Professor Bernstein teaches a range of courses in the business journalism and journalism and creative writing programs 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, 19 Harman writers have come to Baruch, including poets Yehuda Amichai and Agha Shahid Ali, playwrights Edward Albee and Tony Kushner, novelists Sigrid Nunez, Anita Desai, Colum McCann, Paul Auster, John Edgar Wideman, and authors Philip Gourevitch, Jane Kramer, William Finnegan, and Mark Kurlansky. The Harman Program will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in April 2008 when Charles Simic, the U.S. Poet Laureate, will be our visiting Harman writer.

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.