Robert Rosenberg

12 Bucknell Hall
(570) 577-1121
robert.rosenberg@bucknell.edu

Teaching Interests

Creative Writing (Fiction), Contemporary Literature, Travel Literature

Current Projects and Research Interests

Currently at work on a novel set in Istanbul. Frequently contributes book reviews to the Miami Herald and The Moscow Times.

Selected Publications

This Is Not Civilization: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

Recent Awards

This Is Not Civilization received the following awards: The 2005 Maria Thomas Fiction Award for Best Peace Corps Novel, A BookSense Selection, a BookSense Summer 2005 Paperback Reading Pick, A Borders Books Original Voices Selection, Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Literature, A Publisher's Weekly First Fiction Selection, A TimeOut New York Emerging Voices Selection, A Miami Herald"Best Literary Offering of the Season", A Tucson Public Library Southwest Book of the Year, A Powells.com #1 Staff Pick of 2004, One of Library Journal's "Season's Most Successful Debuts"