UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls

Faculty and Staff

Rein, Joseph

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Joseph Rein

Professor

Start Year: 2012

English
Office: 239 Kleinpell Fine Arts
Phone: 715-425-4551

Email: joseph.rein@uwrf.edu

Education:

B.A., University of Minnesota
M.A., University of Nebraska
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Research Interests:

Creative Writing and Creative Writing Pedagogy, Fiction Writing, World Literatures in English, Contemporary Novels

Joe Rein is a Wisconsin native and taught at five other midwestern institutions before coming to UWRF in 2012. He currently serves as faculty advisor to Prologue, UWRF's student-run literary magazine, and has editorial experience with a variety of literary journals including Prairie Schooner and cream city review. He is co-editor of the book Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in over fifteen journals and anthologies, most recently The Pinch Literary Journal, Hawai'i Review, Laurel Review, and Beyond the Workshop. His screenplay, 15 Minutes with Jacob, was produced into a short film in 2013.