Eve Rosenbaum

Program: English Ph.D.
Began program in 2003
Area of Study: 19th Century American Literature, Civil War

Office: 56EPB
E-Mail: eve-rosenbaum@uiowa.edu

I began the program in 2003, after earning an M.F.A. in creative writing at American University in Washington, D.C., and spending two years serving as the managing editor for the magazine published by the Daughters of the American Revolution. I received my B.A. from SUNY Binghamton, where I was a film major for a couple of years before remembering that literature is my first love.

I'm interested primarily in the mid- to late-19th century, focusing specifically on the Civil War, and issues of place, genre, and literary community. Lately my work has been the exploration of Washington, D.C., during the war and the literary figures who lived and worked in the capital at that time, including Whitman and Alcott. My goal now is to somehow work Dickinson into this larger project.

I currently teach in the Department of Rhetoric, and one of my essays, "The Word," will be published in the fall of 2005 as one of the "primary documents" of third wave feminism. I'm looking forward to becoming a primary document.

Selected Publications

Essays:

"The Word" - to be republished in The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism, volume two, Primary Documents (Greenwood Press 2005).

"The Word" — in the anthology Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism (Seal Press 2001).

"Bais Yaakov Girl" — in the anthology Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives (SUNY Press 2003).

Poetry:

"Reason" - forthcoming in The Cortland Review.

"Dangers of Open Space" — Poem published Spring 2002, Brooklyn Review.

"Narrative Sequence" — December 2001, For Poetry.

"The Splintering" — Fall 2000, Potomac Review.

"Unbraided" — Fall 2000, For Poetry.

"On My Way Towards Greatness" — Fall 1998, Caprice