Germanic Languages & Literatures

Cora Schenberg

Degrees

Ph.D. University of Virginia
M.A., Middlebury College
B.A. Vassar College

Interests

Writing creative non-fiction, plays, poetry
Memoir
Autobiography
GDR literature
Women’s Literature
Lyric poetry

Recent Courses

• Intensive Elementary German
• German for Reading Knowledge
• “Kinderliteratur” (in German)
• “Dreams and Fairy Tales” (in English)
• “Autobiography, Memoir and Memory-Making” (in English)
• German Lyric Poetry (in German)
• Advanced Grammar

Publications

Poetry in current (October 11) issue of The Delmarva Review

Plays produced at Live Arts Theater (August 2010 and July 2011)

Essays published in Brain Child magazine; The Utne Reader, The Hook, the Virginia

Foundation for the Humanties’ Tough Times Companion, and read over NPR

Works in Progress

“Heaven-and-Earth House” and Other Stories (Collection of autobiographical essays)
Strawberries, full-length play

Awards

Writer’s Digest Magazine Writing Competition: Prize for feature writing, 2006

Middlebury-Mainz Fellowship, 1980

The Lilian L. Stroebe Prize for Excellence in German, Vassar College, May 1978