Faculty
Joan Baranow
Interim Chair, Department of Literature and Language
Associate Professor of English
Contact:
Office: Angelico Hall, 108
Phone: 415-485-3264
E-mail: joan.baranow@dominican.edu
Education:
PhD, English, Rutgers University
MA, English with Certificate in Creative Writing, SUNY-Binghamton
BA, English, Hollins College
La Scuola Italiana, Middlebury College
Selected Publications:
Poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, The Antioch Review, Feminist Studies, The Squaw Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, The Western Journal of Medicine, and other magazines. Her poetry has also appeared in Women Write Their Bodies: Stories of Illness and Recovery, issued by Kent State University Press. Her book of poetry, Living Apart, was published by Plain View Press.
Mojgan Behmand
Associate Professor, English
Contact:
Office: Anglico 218
Phone: 415-485-3276
E-mail: mojgan.behmand@dominican.edu
Education:
PhD, Magna cum laude, English and American Studies University of Dusseldorf, Germany, 1998
MA, Magna cum laude, English and American Studies University of Dusseldorf, Germany 1995
Selected Publications:
Published: “Gina Bonakdar Nahai: Fantasies of Escape and Inclusion” in Rahavard: A Persian Quarterly Journal of Iranian Studies. Summer and Autumn Issues 91 and 92, E-48-52; “Berkeley Rep Does Arabs” published online in iranian.com, November 2008; The Eagle of Broken Covenant: Representations of Eleanor of Aquitaine in British and American Drama. Dusseldorf. 2002. (Microfiche); Murder, Madness and the Literary Representation of Women in Selected Novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Dusseldorf. 2000. (Microfiche); "Spurensuche mit Tschador (Seeking the Past in Persia)." Cosmopolitan (Germany) November 2000: 251-256.
Presented: "Prince and Martyr: Recasting Shahnameh’s Seyavash in Daneshvar’s Savushun.” 20th Annual International Conference on Medievalism. Baltimore, Maryland, October 14, 2005; "Complexity in Reading Lolita in Tehran.” March 10, 2005, as introduction to Azar Nafisi’s lecture at George Mason University; “Big History as a Required One-Year Freshman Sequence.” Co-authored with Cynthia Brown. 20th Annual World History Association conference in Beijing, China, July 7-10, 2011.
Thomas Burke
Assistant Professor of English and Social & Cultural Studies
Contact:
Office: Angelico Hall 306
Phone: (415)482-3541
Email: thomas.burke@domincan.edu
Education:
M.F.A., Writing, University of San Francisco
License (M.A.), French Language and Civilization, University of Paris, La Sorbonne
B.A., Tulane University
Selected Publications:
His fiction has appeared in The Evergreen Chronicles, The James White Review, The Chiron Review, Tulane Collegian
and Review and other magazines. His essays have appeared in Bless Me Father, Guy Writers, Queer and Catholic and other anthologies. His collection of short fiction, Where Is Home, was published by Fithian Press.
Judy Halebsky
Assistant Professor of English
Contact:
Office: 327 Angelico
Phone: 415-482-1846
E-mail: judy.halebsky@dominican.edu
Education:
Ph.D. Performance Studies, University of California, Davis
M.F.A. English and Creative Writing, Mills College
B.A. Creative Arts, Mount Allison University, Canada
MEXT Research Fellowship in Japanese Literature, Hosei University, Japan
Monbusho Research Fellowship in Japanese Art, Kanazawa College of Art, Japan
Selected Publications:
Sky=Empty (Collection of Poems) New Issues Poetry & Prose
Space, Gap, Interval, Distance (Poetry Chapbook) Sixteen Rivers Press, forthcoming
Japanese for Daydreamers (Poetry Chapbook) Finishing Line Press
Literary journal publications include: Hotel Amerika, Verse Daily, Sow's Ear, Ping Pong, Runes, Grain Magazine, Poetry Kanto, Five Fingers Review, Eleven Eleven, the Antigonish Review and others.
Article, essay, and book review publications include: Asian Theatre Journal, Canadian Literature, Dance Research Journal, dANdelion and others.
She is a translator and contributing editor for the Japanese-English bilingual literary journal Eki Mae.
Carlos Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of English
Contact:
Office: Angelico 220
Phone: (415) 257-1313
Email: carlos.rodriguez@dominican.edu
Education:
ABD, American Literature, Stanford University
MA, English with Writing Emphasis, University of California - Davis
BA, English and Creative Writing, University of Arizona
Selected Publications:
Poetry has appeared in Persona, California Quarterly, Sequoia, Poets for Peace: A Crisis Anthology, Standards, Pilgrimage and other magazines. Essays have appeared in American Masculinities and programs for The Latino Film Festival of Marin. One-act plays, A Place We Can Go and Manorexia, have been produced and performed at the Fringe of Marin and Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco.
