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MARIA BRUNO
Associate Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/432-2572 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
course: WRA 140 Writing: Women in America
Bruno received her PhD in English from Michigan State University. In addition to various Tier 1 writing courses--often Writing: Women in America--Bruno has taught senior-level Women’s Studies in the study abroad program in London, introduction to Women’s Studies, and the Women's Studies: Female Body in Western Culture. She has also taught English 374: Screenwriting.
Bruno has published over thirty short stories and creative non-fiction essays in Ms., Women’s Words, Earth’s Daughter, Korone, Italian Americana, Midway Review, The Feminist Teacher, Feminist Parenting, New Directions For Women, Waystation, and The Red Cedar Review. Her stories have appeared in anthologies including Catholic Girls and Boys, The Time of Our Lives, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, and Women’s Friendships.
Bruno has been a finalist or semi-finalist in several creative writing awards for Ms., The Writer’s Voice, Korone, Story Quarterly, Midway Review, Red Cedar Review, New Millenium, and the Detroit Women Writer’s Fiction Competition. Her two screenplays, The Black Madonna and Virtually Yours were optioned by Rearguard Productions of Los Angeles, California. The Black Madonna was a semi-finalist in the Moondance International Screenwriting Competition. She is currently working on a novel set in the 1960s.
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