Dr. John Rosenman
Dr. John Rosenman
Professor
jbrosenman@nsu.edu
(757) 823-2998
Dr. Rosenman came to Norfolk State University in 1982. He teaches freshman composition and literature courses as well as a course in how to write science fiction and fantasy. For several years he served as the editor of NSU’s literary magazine, The Rhetorician. In addition, he is the general editor of Introduction to Literature, the textbook used in the Department’s English 207: Introduction to World Literature classes.
Dr. Rosenman is the author of three published, full-length works of fiction: the prize-winning The Best Laugh Last, a mainstream novel published by McPherson & Co. in 1981 and again in 1982; More Stately Mansions: The Selected Works of John B. Rosenman, a collection of reprint stories by Dark Regions Press in 1999; and Beyond Those Distant Stars, a science-fiction adventure novel, which was released by Novel Books, Inc. in July, 2003. Beyond Those Distant Stars will be republished in 2008 by Mundania Press. Two more science-fiction novels, Speaker of the Shakk and Alien Dreams will be published by Mundania Press and Drollerie Press in 2007. Dr. Rosenman has published 300 short stories, 75 poems, and two dozen scholarly articles. Some of his short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Treachery and Treason, Starshore, Hot Blood, Cemetery Dance, The Age of Wonders, Space and Time, 365 Scary Stories, and other publications. Like his novels, most of his fiction is written in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and magical realism.
Dr. Rosenman’s favorite authors are Orson Scott Card and Robert R. McCammon.