About

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            After graduating from Middlebury College (BA) and the University of Rochester (MA and PhD),  Wendy Bashant has  spent her career in higher education – 30 years teaching, advising, and supporting students. While pursuing her doctorate, she taught English at the University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music. She then spent fifteen years in Iowa, where she  served as Chair of the English Department. Since then, she served as Dean of Students, at both New College, a small state school in Florida, and the University of California, San Diego. After that, she joined California Western School of Law in 2016, where she served as Vice-President of Student Life.

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She has taught in London: she served as the Director of the American Colleges of the Midwest London Program. She also taught in Thailand, serving as a visiting instructor for the Department of Humanities, Chiang Mai University. She was the recipient of the Japan Friends Research Grant, which allowed her to return to Japan, where she lived as a child for two years. Same Bright Moon documents her year teaching at Jiaotong University in China.

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She has published scholarly articles and book chapters in The Pre-Raphaelite Journal and En Travesti: Opera and Gender Subversions (Columbia).  Her manuscript of literary fiction was one of the five finalists for the Peter Taylor Prize for Literature. It also was recognized as a finalist in the Gival Press Novel Award.

 

Besides writing, she also play the harp, volunteer at the San Diego Zoo and teach adult literacy