Jeffrey Berman

Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University at Albany. He received his Ph.D. in English at Cornell University in 1971 and served as a research scholar at the Training Institute of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City from 1980 to 1983. Berman is the recipient of the President s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Advising and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and he is listed in the Dictionary of International Biography, Who s Who in America, Who s Who in American Education, and Who's Who Among America s Teachers. He is the author of twelve books and more than 100 book chapters, articles, and reviews. He has also served as Series Editor for Literature and Psychoanalysis, published by New York University Press. Berman s books and articles on teaching have been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed and on National Public Radio. As a result of the death of his wife, Barbara, in 2004, he has focused his teaching, lecturing, and writing on death education, including, most recently, Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning (SUNY Press, 2007), Death in the Classroom: Writing about Love and Loss (SUNY Press, 2009), and Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010). He lives in Albany, New York, with his cherished companion, Julie.