Dr. Rebekah BloydAdjunct LecturerRebekah Bloyd has lived, taught, and traveled extensively in the Caribbean and Central Europe and is the recipient of a Hedgebrook Residency as well as Fulbright Fellowships to Jamaica and the Czech Republic. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and her Master of Arts from The University of Colorado at Boulder; her Bachelor of Arts is from Oberlin College. Research Interests Bloyd is researching and writing a series of biographical essays about the Czech immunologist and poet Miroslav Holub (1923-1998), with whom she worked as a translator for many years. In October 2010, Bloyd joined writers and scholars from Central Europe and North American as a featured discussant in the international conference Living Between the Lines: Transgressive (Auto) Biography as Genre and Method at Masaryk University in Brno. Her recent essay on Holub—“Real Deep Surprises”—appeared in the September 2010 special edition of Brno Studies in English, a bi-annual scholarly journal. Selections from the essay were published as the brief memoir “A Poet in Death Valley” in Poetry (2009). Over the years in the Bay Area, Bloyd has often taught courses in Contemporary Ethnic American Literature, West Indian Literature and Orature, and Czech Literature and Film. An Associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College since 1999, she regularly participates in and designs workshops centering on writing pedagogy; also through the Institute, she leads summer workshops in analytical, narrative, poetic, metacognative, exploratory and hybrid writing. Courses Taught:Poetry Writing, Critical Thinking and Writing Representative publications:Poetry: Chapbook: Handsome, Deconstructed Artichoke Press (2011)
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