Lecturer
Writing Center Coordinator
Amy Bennett-Zendzian has taught in the CAS Writing Program since 2010. Before becoming a full-time instructor, she earned the CAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Part-Time Teaching. Amy’s main areas of interest are fairy tales, fantasy/sci-fi, 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 article “Destabilizing Happily Ever After: Dickens’s Conflation of the False Bride/Fairy Bride Motifs in David Copperfield” was published in I19. 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. Her chapter on partnering with students with disabilities, co-authored with four Writing Program colleagues, appears in the edited collection Radical Inclusivity: Critical Language Awareness in the Language and Writing Classroom. Amy is also a creative writer. Her poetry and stories have been published in anthologies and literary magazines, and her short plays and audio dramas have been produced on stage, in film festivals, and as podcasts.
Classes taught:
WR120: Reimagining Fairy Tales
WR152: Case Studies in Fairy Tales