Greg Rubinson

E-mail: rubinson@ucla.edu Office: Kaplan Hall 110

Greg Rubinson studied British literature as an undergraduate at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. He graduated from there with honors in 1992 and returned to the U.S. where he began graduate studies in English at the University of Rochester. After receiving his M.A. there, he spent the 1993-1994 academic year teaching at the University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France, before returning to the University of Rochester. He was awarded the Ph.D. in 1999. His Ph.D. dissertation was published in 2005 with McFarland Press as a book titled The Fiction of Rushdie, Barnes, Winterson, and Carter: Breaking Literary and Cultural Boundaries in the Work of Four Postmodernists. Greg has also been a journalist and fiction writer whose work has appeared in United Airlines’ Hemispheres magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Salon.com, and Literary Laundry.

At UCLA, Greg currently focuses his teaching on ENG COMP 2 (Approached to University Writing) and ENG COMP 130C, a professional writing course focused on writing about science and technology for general audiences. He also currently mentors Teaching Assistants and Graduate Student Instructors who teach courses that fulfill UCLA’s Writing II requirement, and coordinates UCLA’s Informed Placement Process (IPP).