Santa Clara University

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English department


Rebecca Black


Rebecca Black


Department: English
Title: Lecturer
 

Phone: 408-554-4647
Fax: 408-554-4837

Email: rlblack@scu.edu                                                

Mail Address:
Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real
St Josephs Hall #209, Santa Clara, CA 95053

Biographical Information

Rebecca received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University from 2001 - 2003 and spent time in Paris as a Stanford Writer-in-Residence at the Cite International des Arts.

She joined Santa Clara University in 2004 and is teaching courses in Composition and Creative Writing. She is the editor of the Santa Clara Review, the university's student-run literary/arts magazine which features student contributors alongside nationally recognized authors.

 

Courses Taught
  • Composition & Rhetoric
  • Writing about Literature and Culture
  • Advanced Poetry Writing

 

Research Interests

 

 

Representative Publications
  • Forthcoming poetry book due out in the Spring of 2005, Cottonlandia, which won the 2003-2004 Junper Prize.
  • "Mephista Recounts Her Past Lives, or Nanotechnology"
  • "The Legs of the Countess" (Conjunctions)
  • Notes on the Tapestry of the Apocalypse" (Pleiades)
  • "The Branded Hand of Captain Walker, Abolitionist" in the Winter of 2004 (Virginia Quarterly Review)
  • "Midwestern Raptures" (Virginia Quarterly Review, and Poetry Daily) also in 2004
  • The online journal Blackbird is publishing the last four previously unpublished poems from Rebecca's Cottonlandia.