Ellen Rosenberg

Ellen Rosenberg is a Professor of Humanities, Creative Writing, Theatre History and Dramatic Literature in the Division of Liberal Arts at UNCSA.

I use my wide-ranging experience to build a foundation for student driven exploration and discussion. I prepare my students to stand out from other professionals in the field by promoting personal integrity and professional excellence.

Credentials

• Bridges Leadership for Faculty Women
• Bard College and Uriel Weinreich Summer Intensive Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture and Seminar in Yiddish Theater, Jewish Theological Seminary, NYC
• Yiddish Language Immersion and Yiddish Theater Study, Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Universiteto Vilnius, Lithuania
• New York State Teacher Certification Requirements, Classes for Teachers in Child Abuse/Violence Prevention, Adelphi University/BOCES Garden City, NY
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship Certificate, Baruch College, NYC
• Standardized Patient Certificate, USC Medical School, Department of Theater, Columbia, SC

Career Highlights

• Successfully led UNCSA initiative to bring rank to faculty
• Member of Actors Equity Association, with Off-Broadway performance experience and Yiddish theater experience
• Artist-in-residence experience with at-risk and gifted students
• Directorial experience with professional youth and adults
• Publishing scholar, playwright and performance poet
• Project Director of The Kenan Writers’ Encounters, a visiting writers’ series at UNCSA, for five years
• Run workshops for educational, community and theatre professional groups centered on devised performance and the use of ritual in theater
• Research interests center on creative process, psychobiography, gender and ethnic issues, as well as Jewish and Yiddish theater

Awards, Recognitions and Honors

• YIVO Foundation Scholarship, Bard College/YIVO Summer Intensive Language Class at the Jewish Theological Seminary, NY
• Reassigned Time (Faculty Development competitive semester sabbatical) Funding for six months, training in Yiddish language and Yiddish theater
• Award for Excellence in Teaching, UNCSA
• Recipient of over $250,000 in project grants

Organizations

• Actors Equity Association (AEA)
• Art for Art's Sake (AFAS), Winston-Salem, NC