Leslie Simon, M.A.
Office: Cloud 402
Phone: (415) 239-3899
E-mail: lsimon@ccsf.edu
Education
- M.A., University of California, Berkeley
- M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
- B.A., University of Michigan
Areas of Interest
- Literature
- Humanities
- Architecture
- Social Justice
Current Courses
- Humanities 25: Women in the
Arts
- English 58A: Contemporary
Women Writers and Poets
- IDST 54: The Politics of
Sexual Violence
- IDST 55: Ending Sexual Violence:
Peer Education
- IDST 70: Architecture and Diversity (women and architecture
module)
Publications
Books:
- A Music I No Longer Heard: The Early Death of a Parent,
Simon and Schuster, 1998
- Collisions and Transformations, Coffee House Press, 1992
- High Desire, Wingbow Press, 1983
- i rise/ you riz/ we born, Artaud's Elbow, 1981
- Jazz/ is for white girls, too, Poetry for the People,
1977
- The Caged Collective, coeditor, Aldebaran Review, 1978
Periodicals:
- "Why Denzel Washington (not Tom Cruise) Is the New Paul
Newman" Film Comment, March 1998
- "PC Backlash: A Woman's Story" CrossRoads, March 1994
Poetry Anthologies and Revues:
- City Lights Review; Left Curve; A Formal Feeling Comes; Heresies;
Practising Angels; The Berkeley Poetry Review; Bachy; Haight-Ashbury
Literary Quarterly; Birthstone; Revue Two; Yellow Brick Road;
The Children's News; Small Press Review; Poetry Flash; San Francisco
Review of Books; Synapse
Awards and Achievements
- California Federation of Teachers Women in Education Award
- Judge, Loft Literary Center "Mentor Series Contest"
- Writer-in-Residence, Djerassi Foundation
- Phi Beta Kappa
Biography
Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Leslie Simon graduated
from the University of Michigan in 1969 and moved to California
to go to graduate school at U.C.L.A. where she received an M.A. in
African Studies in 1970. In 1991, she received an M.A. in English
from University of California, Berkeley. She started teaching "Poetry
for the People," a course she designed, at City College of
San Francisco in 1975. She has also taught in San Francisco State
University in the Women's Studies department and at New College
of California in the Poetics Program. Since 1994, she has been a
full time instructor at City College, coordinating Project SURVIVE,
the campus sexual violence prevention program, which she designed
and launched in 1993. In 1994, she helped students establish the
college Women's Resource Center, where she served as the faculty
advisor until 2001. Currently, she is the chair of the Women's Studies
department at City College. She is also the cofounder and director
of Groundswell, a community design organization.
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