Alan Steinberg
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Alan L. Steinberg (1944 - 2023) was an American author.
He wrote the libretto for the opera The Falcon and the Sailor Boy, which was composed by Paul Siskind. The opera was performed at SUNY Potsdam in 2006 and starred Steinberg's former rhetoric student Stephanie Blythe.[1][2]
Steinberg earned a B.A. in English from the University of Hartford in 1965 and an M.A. in English from Washington State University in 1967. He taught writing and literature courses at Wenatchee Community College in central Washington for five years. He earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in English in 1975, submitting a collection of original poems entitled Ceremonies as his dissertation.
Steinberg was a Professor in SUNY Potsdam's English department, where he also served as the coordinator of the writing program.[3] He taught courses in rhetoric and writing, creative writing, and professional writing. He was well known among master's students for his course on the Western film and novel genres. Steinberg previously taught at Paul Smith's College,[4] Marist College and Idaho State University.
Steinberg wrote of his own travels and teaching: "I was born and raised in New York City, then lived and taught for a number of years in the mountains of Idaho and Washington, and now have learned to love the North Country [New York] as a place of rugged beauty and challenge. I teach a variety of writing and literature courses, all with the aim of helping students appreciate the beauty and power of a story well-told whether that story is found in the Old Testament, in the Odyssey, in Shane, or in the students' next assignment."[5]
