Lecturer & Writing Center Coordinator
Contact
100 Bay State Road, Room 334
albz@bu.edu
Education
2010 M.A. Boston University (English)
2006 M.A. Simmons College (Children’s Literature)
2006 M.F.A. Simmons College (Writing for Children)
2001 A.B. Cornell University (English)
Bio
Amy Bennett-Zendzian has been teaching and tutoring writing at BU since 2009, and at other colleges in the Boston area since 2004. Before becoming a full-time instructor, she earned the CAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Part-Time Teaching. In addition to writing pedagogy, her main areas of interest are fairy tales, fantasy/science fiction, and children’s and young adult literature. Her essay on the gift economy in The Hunger Games appeared in the edited collection Critical Insights: The Hunger Games Trilogy. Her chapter on teaching fairy tales in composition classes, co-authored with Theodora Goss, appears in the edited collection Fairy Tales in the College Classroom: Essays to Spark Lesson Plan Ideas Across the Curriculum. She is an internationally published poet and a playwright (as well as an occasional voice actor and director) whose works have been produced on stage, in anthologies, in film festivals, and as podcasts.