Howdy.Brett Shanley is a writer, professor, editor, tutor, and Ph.D. student now residing in his native Northern California. After attending the University of Oregon and Germany's Universität Heidelberg, he entered journalism with the London-based literary magazine Granta and the travel magazine Via.
In 2009 he moved to New York City to earn an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at The New School. Here, he was selected to write the weekly newsletter which went to almost two thousand students and writers, and organize the monthly reading series. These proved his pride and joy, with attendance more than doubling from the previous years. After graduating in 2011, and ever since, he has worked teaching writing and literature at the college level, primarily at Manhattan's Pace University. In the summer months he teaches creative writing, research, and critical reading at high school summer programs at Yale, Columbia, Stanford, and U.C. Berkeley, among others. Now a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University's Teachers College, Brett researches the teaching of writing. His dissertation, on the role of student sincerity in academic writing, is set for defense in the spring of 2021. As of 2017 he has added the United Nations to his editorial and consulting clients, working with the UN to develop a program for college students wherein they learn about diplomacy from working diplomats. The greatest related accomplishment came in December 2018 with the passage of a UN resolution he helped draft creating an International Day of Education, thereafter celebrated on January 24th. |