Rebecca Johns Trissler
she/herCollege of Liberal Arts and Social SciencesEnglishAssociate Professor and Associate Dean for New InitiativesFacultyFull Time
DegreesMFA, Iowa Writers Workshop; BJ/BA University of Missouri
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BIO
Rebecca Johns's first novel, Icebergs, was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus fellowship. Her second, The Countess, has been published in ten languages.
Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, StoryQuarterly, The Mississippi Review, The Harvard Review, Printer's Row Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Health, Ladies' Home Journal, Self, and Seventeen, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she is the Associate Dean for New Initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
Her recent courses include:
- LSP 112: Focal Point Seminar: Cyborgs, Cylons, and Androids: The Machine as Human
- ENG 286: Popular Literature: Gothic Monsters (Study Abroad in the UK)
- ENG 201: Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENG 478: Teaching Creative Writing
- ENG 484: Writing Workshop Topics: Wonderlands and Underworlds
- ENG 494: Novels I
- ENG 495: Novels II
- ENG 496: Developmental Editing