Fred Strebeigh
Senior Lecturer, English and
Forestry & Environmental Studies
Course Director, English 120
LC 002 | 432-2250 | fred.strebeigh@yale.edu
Office hours: Th afternoons-TBD
EDUCATION:
B.A., Yale University, 1974
INTERESTS: My nonfiction writing has covered a wide range of subjects including the history and origins of nature writing, the arts and crafts movement in America, the role of the bicycle as a cultural force in China, educational exchange between China and the United States, the creation of a dictionary of American dialects, pressures on the Antarctic treaty system, natural and social conditions in the Falkland Islands, the race to create radar during World War II, traces of early man in southern Africa, the rise of feminist law, saving whales from fishing nets off the coast of Newfoundland, the impact of environmental issues on the presidential election in 2004, and defending the world's largest system of scientific nature reserves in Russia. My writing has appeared in a variety of publication including American Heritage, Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, E: The Environmental Magazine, Legal Affairs, New Republic, Reader's Digest, Russian Life, Sierra, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Magazine. An article for the Times Magazine became the starting point for the book that I am now completing for W. W. Norton, which is titled Equality Time: A History of Young Women Lawyers Who Tackled Old Male Law. My teaching focuses on the craft of nonfiction writing.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
--"Standard Bearer: Long before she joined the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg challenged its members to treat gender like race," Legal Affairs, September-October, 2003.
--"Where Nature Reigns: Russia's underfunded yet vast ecological reserves are rich with brown bears, wild honey--and rare humanity," Sierra, March-April 2002.
--"Across the Russian Wilds," Smithsonian, June 2001.
--"Defining Law on the Feminist Frontier: Prof. Catharine A. MacKinnon," New York Times Magazine, October 6, 1991.
--"Training China's New Elite," The Atlantic Monthly, April 1989.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay; Nonfiction Writing, Voice and Structure.
GRADUATE COURSE: Environmental Writing (in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies)
