Mailing Address

English Department
Mailbox # L124
City College of San Francisco
50 Phelan Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94112

Craig Kleinman, Ph. D.

Phone
415.452.5082

Office
Rosenberg  Library 205c

Web 
http://fog.ccsf.edu/~ckleinma

Email
ckleinman@ccsf.edu

Teaching History

  • City College of San Francisco: Professor of English (Tenured '97), 1995-2001, 2003-
  • City College of San Francisco: English Lab and Technology Coordinator, 2003-
  • City College of San Francisco: Institutor of Cyberia, 2003-
  • State University of New York at Ulster: Assistant Professor of English, 2001-03
  • Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, Ca: Creative Writing Instructor, 1996
  • University of Rhode Island: Teaching Fellow, 1991-95
  • Mira Costa College, San Marcos, Ca: Creative Writing Instructor, 1991
  • Cuyamaca College, El Cajon, Ca: Literature and Composition Instructor, 1990-99
  • San Diego State University: Teaching Fellow, 1987-89

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. in English, University of Rhode Island, 1995
  • M.A. in Creative Writing, San Diego State University, 1989
  • B.A. in English, Buffalo State College, 1987

Doctoral Dissertation

Jews in Space: On an American Road to Know Where
Director: Mary Cappello
Jews in Space investigates and recontextualizes marginalized Jewish texts and the invention of nationalism(s) in the Americas from colonization to the national era.

Scholarly Publications

  • "Using Writing Portfolios."  Chapter 11 of Practical Suggestions for Teaching Real Essays with Readings (2009-12).
  • Guest Editor. "Noting the Nation: Words and Music in Nineteenth-Century America." Special issue of American Transcendental Quarterly (September  2002).
  • Critical Introduction.  "Noting the Nation: Words and Music in Nineteenth-Century America." Special issue of American Transcendental Quarterly (September  2002).
  • Contributing Editor. The Heath Anthology of American Literature Vol. 1 (1998, 3rd ed.). Headnote and Instructor's Guide Entry for Mordecai Manuel Noah's She Would Be a Soldier.
  • "Pigging the Nation, Staging the Jew in M.M. Noah's She Would Be a Soldier ." American Transcendental Quarterly 10.3 (Sept. '96): 201-17.
  • "Dirty Tricks and Wordy Jokes: The Politics of Recollection in A Farewell to Arms." The Hemingway Review 15.1 (Fall 1995): 54-71.

 Academic Participation

  • Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel, Project Scholar (ALA Grant), CCSF Monthly series, 9/07-12/07
  • Carnegie Foundation Resident. SPECC. April 2006. Stanford University.
  • Critical Introduction: Cartoonist Ben Katchor's The Great Museum Cafeterias of the Western World.  Event co-organizer.  SUNY Ulster Visiting Artist Series, Stone Ridge, NY, 10/03
  • "What's at Stake?  Jewish Captivity and American Canonicity,"  Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, 12/00
  • "The Language of Jazz," Moderator, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2/00
  • "Unfinished Cardboard: Edges Around The Jew of New York," California American Studies Association, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 4/99
  • "Nervous Rhythms: Jews, Jazz, and Narrative,"  Narrative: An International Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 4/98
  • "Presenting Nothing: Using Seinfeld in the Classroom," California Humanities Association, San Francisco, CA, 3/98
  • "'So the Jews did Indianize, or the Indians do Judaize': Narrative Undecidabilities and the Invention of America," California American Studies Association, Berkeley, 5/97
  • "Technology in the Urban Classroom: A College-wide Effort," Technology in Education Conference and Exposition, San Jose, 4/97
  • "Jazz and Literary Texts: 'It Don't Mean a Thing,' or Does It?" Chair, Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, 12/95
  • "High Stakes: An Inquisition into the (Jewish) American Frontier," Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, 4/95

Published Fiction

  • "Ruminating Trane." Vassar Review of Arts and Letters 1.1 (November 1995)
  •  "Inside the Doughnut." Umbrella 29 (1990): 7+.
  •  "Metagalactic Harmonic Cosmosis Through Large Glandular Organs." Pacific Review (Winter 1988): 10-13

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