Rebecca Entel

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  Rebecca Entel

  Professor of English

  
  

Academic History

• Ph.D. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
• M.A. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
• B.A. in English, University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, 1999

Courses Taught

• ENG 111: First-year Writing Seminar (Topics: Fictions of Racial Identity; Literary Responses to War)
• ENG 215: Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENG 230: Caribbean Literature
• ENG 267: Multicultural Literature
• ENG 318: Advanced Fiction Writing
• ENG 343: Contradictions of the American Renaissance
• ENG 345: Literature and Social Reform in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• ENG 351: The Slave Narrative
• ENG 352: Novel Writing (NaNoWriMo)
• ENG 369: Literature and Social Justice
• ENG 412: Senior Project in Creative Writing
• ENG 515: Literary Citizenship
• ENG 715: Literature in Action: Editing

Areas of Expertise

• Nineteenth-century U.S. literature
• African-American literature
• Civil War literature
• Creative Writing and workshop pedagogy
• Fiction writing
• Creative nonfiction writing
• Flash prose writing
• Literature and social justice

Selected Publications: Creative Writing

• "How to Drink Enough Water in Wartime." Cleaver Magazine 45 Spring 2024.
• "What She Was Saying" and "Pointing Fingers." Copper Nickel 38. Spring 2024.
• "The Swamp in Her Voice." Love in the Time of Time's Up, ed. Christine Sneed. Tortoise Books, 2022.
• "After I See Her Heart." Jellyfish Review. July 16, 2021.
• "We've Waited for Vaccines." Cleaver Magazine 33 March 2021.
• Fingerprints of Previous Owners. Unnamed Press, 2017.
• "We Keep Going Back to Where They Died." Electric Literature 24 August 2017.
• "A Tourist in My Own Book." Literary Hub 22 June 2017.
• "Research Notes." Necessary Fiction 2017.
• "Train." Guernica Magazine 17 August 2015.
• "Critter Control." Cleaver Magazine 6 June 2014. 
• "Above the Ghetto." Tiferet Journal (April 2014): 33-34.
• “Perfect Companion.” Cleaver Magazine 1 March 2013. 
• “Onyx.” Cleaver Magazine .5 February 2013. 
•  “Fixed.” The Examined Life Journal. 2.1 (Fall 2012): 3-10.
•  “The Yak.” Connotation Press Online. June 15, 2012. 
•  “Negative Space.” Medulla Review 3.2 March 2012.  
• “In the World.” Unsaid Magazine 6.1 (2012): 60-69.
•  “As Long as Your Body.” Eunoia Review. November 13, 2011. 
•  “Ballpark Figure.” Joyland Magazine. September 13, 2011. 
•  “Bernice.” Imaginary Family Project. August 3, 2011. 
•  “The Substitute.” Leaf Garden Press 11(2011): 99-107. 
•  “Living Room.” Madison Review 27.2 (Spring 2006): 12-25.
• “In the Kitchen.” Voices of Cleveland. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center,  1996. 45.

Selected Publications: Literary Criticism

• "The 400-Year Continuum We All Share with Ida B. Wells." Chicago Review of Books, 2021.
• "'Do Let Me Preserve the Unities': The Stakes of Metaphor in Civil War-Era Fiction." The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War. Ed. James Davis. NY: Routledge, 2016. 87-106.
• "Civil War Literature and First-Year Writing Instruction." MLA Options for Teaching Series: Teaching the Literature of the American Civil War. Ed. Colleen Boggs. NY: MLA, 2016. 255-66.
• “Writing ‘En Masse’: Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War Experience and The Commonwealth.” American Periodicals 24.1 (2014): 45-60.
• “Words that Populate the World:  Yiddish and Survival in Saul Bellow’s Herzog.”Australian   Journal of Jewish Studies XXI (2007): 27-48.
• “Reflections: Nellie McKay.” African American Review 40.1 (Spring 2006): 56-7.

Media Coverage

• Kelly Writers House, the University of Pennsylvania (February 2018 reading)
• Live from Prairie Lights (June 2017 reading)
• Kirkus Reviews
• Chicago Review of Books
• LA Review of Books