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About Marianne Rogoff

Literature and Languages Professor Marianne Rogoff brings a transdisciplinary perspective to teaching, inspired by more than 20 years of teaching writing to art and design technology students at California College of the Arts. She holds a PhD in Transformative Inquiry from the California Institute of Integral Studies and an MA in English-Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is the author of the memoir Silvie's Life, the short story collection Love is Blind in One Eye, award-winning travel stories for The Best Travel Writing and The Best Women's Travel Writing, and many feature essays and book reviews for The Rumpus, San Francisco Chronicle, and Bloomsbury Review. Marianne Rogoff also teaches in Dominican's MFA in Creative Writing program.

Positions

2012 - Present Adjunct Instructor, Dominican University of California Department of Literature and Languages
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2008 - Present Senior Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts ‐ Department of Writing and Literature
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1998 - 2008 Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts ‐ Department of Writing and Literature
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2000 - 2001 Adjunct Professor, New College of California ‐ Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Conciousness Program
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1994 - 1998 Senior Lecturer, California College of the Arts ‐ Department of Writing and Literature
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1987 - 1988 Lecturer, California College of the Arts ‐ Department of Writing and Literature
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1983 - 1985 Lecturer, San Francisco State University ‐ Department of Creative Writing
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Curriculum Vitae



Research Interests


Grants

2003 Individual Artist Grant in Fiction
Marin Arts Council
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Professional Service and Affiliations

Present Editorial Board Member, Journal of Pediatric Surgical Nursing
Co-Leader, Alumni Writer's Group, Harvard Medical School, Media and Medicine Certificat Program
Member and Alternate Host, Lisbon Writing Group
Leader, Trips for Writers
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Honors and Awards

  • Java Jive Short Shorts Award, 2003
  • Fiction Winner, 2007
  • Bronze Salas Award, 2008
  • Merit Award for Creative or Scholarly Works, 2017
  • Bath Flash Fiction Award: Novella in Flash Long List & Short List, 2017
  • Lucid Moments: Books as Viewfinders, Tamaqua Award Semi-Finalist for a Book of Essays, Hidden River Arts, 2019
  • “BFFs” Ernest Hemingway Prize for Short Fiction Finalist, 2020
  • “Where I’ve Been” Honorable Mention, Solas Award, Travelers Tales, 2021
  • “False Positives” Distinguished Finalist, LitMag’s Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction, 2021
  • “Breezy Girl on a High Balcony” Honorable Mention Photo Story Contest Winner, 2021
  • “Alive in Lisbon” | Living Loving Longing Lisbon: An Anthology of Short Stories by Writers from Around the World, Nov 2021
  • “Running Boy” | Longlisted, International Flash Fiction Competition, Reflex Fiction Quarterly Summer 2021
  • “Breezy Girl on a High Balcony” | Honorable Mention Winner, Photo Story Contest, Paper Ghosts, Spring 2021
  • “The Desk” | ROAM: Representations of Home, University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Spring/Summer 2021
  • “Will Work for Food” | Farmer-ish, Spring 2021
  • “Reappearance” | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, The Clock Issue, May 2022
  • “Cornered in Madrid” | Soundtrack of Travel Competition Finalist, Intrepid Times 2023
  • “Ghosts in the Black Forest” | Gold Solas Award Winner: Love Story, Travelers Tales 2023
  • “Fado Dreams and Axial Sojourns” | Living Loving Longing Lisbon: An Anthology of Short Stories by Writers from Around the World Volume 2, December 2023

Courses

  • Griefwriting and Joywriting
  • English 3200: Advanced Research and Writing

Education

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2013 Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies
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1983 M.A., San Francisco State University ‐ Department of English
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1977 B.A., Rutgers University ‐ Department of English
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Contact Information

Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94901

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Books (3)

Dissertation (1)

Travel Stories (5)

Feature Essays (9)

Book Reviews (17)