Davyne Verstandig
M.A., University of Tennessee
B.A., Mary Baldwin College
Office: Torrington Campus
Phone: (860) 626-6845
Fax: (860) 626-6847
Email:davyne.verstandig@uconn.edu
Areas of Specialty / Research Interest
Writers and Artists of the Beat Generation
Creative Writing
Courses Taught
Engl 104 Basic Writing
Engl 110 Seminar in Academic Writing
Engl 111 Seminar in Writing through Literature
Engl 127 Masterworks of British and American Literature
Engl 165 Creative Writing
Engl 217: The Beats (Spring 2006)
Engl 217: Writers of Litchfield Country and the Films made from Their Works
Biography
Davyne Verstandig is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the UConn Torrington Campus. She is also director of the Litchfield County Writers Project. She is a member of the Aetna Advisory Board and the Creative Writing Committee at the University of Connecticut. Davyne has published two books of poetry, Pieces of the Whole and Provisions. Pieces of the Whole was produced as a mixed media verse play at Theaterworks in New Milford, Ct. and at The Sherman Playhouse. She performs improvisational work “composing on the tongue” while painting simultaneously and has performed at The Knitting Factory and the Housing Works Café in New York City, The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, Ct., Artspace in Hartford, Ct. and throughout libraries, galleries and performances spaces in New England. She is working on a memoir, The Mermaid in the Cornfield, anda novel, Lovers are Islands. She was the recipient of The Community Service Award from the Connecticut Department of Higher Education for her Commitment to Service and Leadership. She is also a Justice of the Peace .
Selected Publications / Exhibitions / Awards
See http://www.davyneverstandig.com/writing.html
Community / University Service
Touchstone (Litchfield Connecticut), Board Member. Touchstone is a residential treatment facility for female juvenile offenders in the state of Connecticut.
University of Connecticut Creative Writing Committee
Tri-Campus Advisory Committee
Community Outreach Committee
Photo credit: Michael Fiedler, 2005
(Nov. 2008)
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