Wheeler Hall, room 417
Fall 2016. Thursdays, 12:30-3. Other times by appointment.
csgiscombe@berkeley.edu
Cecil S. Giscombe
ProfessorWheeler Hall, room 417
Fall 2016. Thursdays, 12:30-3. Other times by appointment.
csgiscombe@berkeley.edu
Specialties
Books
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Prairie Style Prairie Style is about the breakdown of location and voice. It lays out a landscape of habitations (Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for "servantless families," fox dens in an embankment, the two-mile long face of Chicago's Robert Taylor public housing project, etc.) and crosses and recrosses the line between poetry and prose. The book is an acknowledgement of the "terrible frankness" of color, pleas.... |
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Forthcoming books--2014, 2015--include Ohio Railroads (a poem in essay form) and Border Towns (essays having to do wth poetry). Earlier books include Prairie Style (2008), Into and Out of Dislocation (2000), Giscome Road (1998), etc. Poetry and prose reprinted in Best American Poetry, Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, Bluesprint: Black British Columbia Literature and Orature, and elsewhere.
Recent English Courses Taught
Fall, 2017
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 166/4 | Special Topics: Writing Poetry and Nonfiction, Writing as Social Practice |
Creative Writing Lecture Courses Creative Writing Workshops Special Topics |
Spring, 2017
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 141/1 | Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.) |
Creative Writing Lecture Courses |
Fall, 2016
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 143N/1 | Prose Nonfiction: Traveling, Thinking, Writing |
Creative Writing Workshops |
Spring, 2016
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 141/1 | Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.): Varieties of Creative Writing |
Creative Writing Lecture Courses |
| 143N/1 | Prose Nonfiction: Traveling, Thinking, Writing/ Travelers' Tales |
Creative Writing Workshops |
Fall, 2015
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 143B/2 | Verse |
Poetry Creative Writing Workshops |
| 190/13 | Research Seminar: Race and Rumors of Race in American Prose |
American Literature African American Literature Research Seminars |
Spring, 2015
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 141/1 | Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.): Race, [Creative] Writing, and Difference |
Creative Writing Lecture Courses |
| 243B/1 | Poetry Writing Workshop |
Creative Writing Workshops |
University of California, Berkeley
English Department
322 Wheeler Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1030
general phone: 510-642-3467
