I have been a Lecturer and Adjunct Associate Professor on campus since 1992, teaching Collegiate Seminar, Jan Term, and developing writing curriculum. I also teach literature and writing courses for the University of California, Berkeley Fall Program for Freshmen. In addition to my teaching, I am a psychoanalytic literary scholar as well as a licensed psychotherapist (MFT), specializing in the conscious dilemmas and unconscious conflicts of writers.
Active Research Projects:
“Clinical Writing and Publishing: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Writers at Work.”
(Investigates how productive writers enable themselves to begin, sustain, and complete writing projects. Explores the conscious and unconscious dimensions of establishing an authoritative voice. I am also examining the psychological dimensions of the writer-reader, student-teacher, author-editor relationship).
I also run writing groups for clinicians as well as reading groups for clinicians seeking to learn from model authors in their field.
Office: Sichel Hall - 104 A
Phone: (510) 526-6762