Robbie Clipper
- Email Address: sethi@rider.edu
- Phone: (609) 895-5578
- Fax: (609) 896-5212
- Office: Fine Arts 326
- Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Rd, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Dr. Clipper's concentrations include writing, particularly fiction, and world literature. She has published two novels, The Bride Wore Red and Fifty-Fifty, and her short stories and poetry have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. She has been awarded fellowships for her writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Most recently she has spent a semester teaching creative writing at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India on a Fulbright-Nehru fellowship. She directs Rider's annual high school writing contest. As fiction editor of The Kelsey Review, she has provided Rider students with opportunities for off-campus writing and publication. She teaches a variety of courses and believes in empowering her students emphasizing process in the teaching of writing, using a workshop method for creative writing, and by teaching literature through discussion rather than lecture.
Current Teaching
- ENG 303 Creative Writing
- ENG 304 Creative Writing Fiction
- ENG 400 Advanced Creative Writing
- ENG 490 Independent Research and Study (novel writing)
- ENG 315 Topics in Specialized Writing
- CMP 115 Intro to Expository Writing, 120 Expository Writing, and 125 Research Writing for COMPASS (University Studies Learning Community)
Scholarship
- Fiction (novels, short stories) and Poetry
Recent Publications
- "Heat," poem written in collaboration with Harry Naar in NJ State Museum Visions and Voices catalogue: poetry & art show, May, 2005
- Fifty-Fifty, a novel in many voices (NJ: Silicon Press, 2003)
- The Bride Wore Red, tales of a cross-cultural family (NY: Picador, 1997 (paperback) and Bridge Works, 1996)
- "Three Sisters," Other Voices literary magazine, Chicago, Fall, 2000
- "Fifty Fifty," Screaming Monkeys anthology, 2000
- "The Housewarming," Meridian Writers' Collective anthology, Fall, 2000
Current Projects
- Dry Land Sailors, novel/memoir
- Monsoon Semester, a cycle of poetry
- "Eddie McQueen," "The Other Kind," and "27 Forever," short stories in progress
- The Music of the Spheres, novel in progress
- poetry
Education
- BA English/Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
- MA Comparative Literature: Russian, English, University of California at Berkeley
- PhD Comparative Literature: Russian, English, French, University of California at Berkeley
Links
- "The Bride Wore Red"
- Writers' Workshop in Cape May
- http://www.robbieclippersethi.com/ - my personal web site. It has samples of my writing as well as events and pictures.
