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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Department of English

It's not all just reading and writing...

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Gerald Shapiro
329 Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
(402)472-1871 (office)
gshapiro1@unl.edu

Gerald Shapiro

Professor

Degrees and institutions granting the degree

  • University of Kansas BA
  • University of Kansas MA
  • University of Massachusetts, MFA

Professional Areas of Speciality:

  • Fiction Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Jewish-American Fiction

Courses regularly taught:

  • Fiction Writing, Twentieth Century Fiction, Jewish-American Fiction

Selected publications and/or projects:

  • Little Men (novellas and stories), Ohio State University Press
  • Bad Jews and Other Stories Zoland Books (reprinted by University of Nebraska Press)
  • From Hunger (stories), University of Missouri Press
  • American Jewish Fiction: a Century of Stories (editor), University of Nebraska Press
  • Stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Witness, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Colorado Review, Missouri Review, and many other journals.
  • Currently at work on a new volume of stories and novellas.