Biography
Jeff Rush teaches screenwriting, adaptation, scene analysis and is the director of the BFA in Screenwriting and Directing. He has written extensively on screenwriting, literature, serial long-form television, television ethics, video games, narrative theory and the philosophy of
metaphor, and has published in major film, literature and video game journals including The Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Wide Angle; The Journal of Film and Video; The Journal of Screenwriting; Studies in American Jewish Literature; and Games and Culture. Along with Ken Dancyger, he is the co-author of Alternative Scriptwriting (Taylor & Francis, 2013) which is now in its fifth edition. A script doctor, he recently consulted on an eight-part mini-series for Mega
Television Network in Chile and has written a chapter on international script consulting entitled, “Doctoring La Cacería, las niñas de Alto Hospicio: Issues in Cross-Cultural Script Consulting,” for the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook on International Script Development. He is currently finishing a paper on post post-modern docudrama entitled, “Reconstructing the Uncertain Past: Cracked Docudramas That Question Their Own Authority” and one on double- voiced screenwriting called, “Contrapuntal Screenwriting: Embracing Paradox,” for the Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies. He has received Temple’s 2007 Lindback Award for excellence in teaching, has taught for the Media Committee of the European Union, the RAI Italian television network and the Middlebury Script Lab.