Welcome to new Creative Writing Department faculty member Rob Halpern!
Professor Halpern received his Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Rumored Place (Krupskaya, 2004), Disaster Studies (Palm Press, 2009), and Weak Link (Slack Buddha Press, 2009). He also authored the preface to Bruce Boone’s Century of Clouds (Nightboat, 2009). He has taught graduate and undergraduate classes at several institutions, including San Francisco Art Institute’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Bard College’s Language and Thinking Program, and is a founding member of the Nonsite Collective.
You can get a taste of his work on the PennSound web site.