Title
Professor of English
Institution
Northeastern University
Education
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Ph.D., Brandeis University
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M.A., Brandeis University
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B.A., Cornell University
Research Interests
Biography
Samuel J. Bernstein is a tenured full professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he has taught for fifty-four years. He is also a former Fulbright teacher in Belgium. During the past six years, he has lectured in Australia, China, India, Ireland, England, and Italy. Prior to this period, he lectured in other countries. Along with his specialization in dramatic literature and creative writing, he has, for many decades, written original works of theater and also won the DeKalb Literary Arts Journal National Short Story Competition. He began his play writing when he was a graduate student at Brandeis University and has continued to write and submit plays until the present. Among his recent theatrical endeavors are the following: In 2008, Professor Bernstein's play Yank, a musical adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, was performed in Boston. In 2010, a staged reading of Immortal Journey: Ponce de León and the Spring of Life with music written in collaboration with the musician Guillermo Ortiz was presented at the Beckett Theater, New York City. In 2012, his play Olympics Uber Alles, written in collaboration with Ms. Margeurite Krupp and revised by Professor Bernstein, was staged at the Kresge Little Theater at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2012, Love and Dreams a musical/narrative concert presenting vocalist Lisa Yves preforming the songs of George Gershwin, Cole Power, and Samuel J. Bernstein was staged at the Bickford Theater in New Jersey. In 2012, The Untitled Musical Review (A Strangely Structured Musical Review) an original play/revue, featuring a full script and fourteen original songs by Samuel J. Bernstein, was performed in a professionally directed workshop production at the Cambridge Performing Arts Center. Professor Bernstein's study of American Drama is entitled The Strands Entwined. An article by Professor Bernstein, partially concerned with the work of Eugene O'Neill, has been published in the Arthur Miller Journal. Other articles by Professor Bernstein have been publish in the Eugene O'Neill Review.
Professor Bernstein and his wife Arlene are the parents of three children (Karyn, Daniel, & Joshua) and the grandparents of three grandchildren (Kyle, Aleczander, & Leonardo).
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