ANTONIO ELEFANO

Professor Elefano joined USC's Writing faculty in the fall of 2014.  Before coming to USC, he was a corporate litigator in New York City and a writing fellow/visiting assistant professor at the University of Houston.  He is the Writing Program's legal writing specialist, teaching WRIT 340: Advanced Writing for Pre-Law Students (which he teaches an Introduction to Legal Writing) and WRIT 440: Advanced Legal Writing.  He is the faculty advisor for Southern California Moot Court (which placed third in the nation in 2020) and the faculty advisor for Phi Alpha Delta (USC's pre-law fraternity).  In 2019, he was 1 of 3 professors across the university to be awarded a USC Mentoring Award for mentoring undergraduate studnents.

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Elefano is also a fiction writer whose stories have been published in The Los Angeles Review, 236 and The Journal. In August 2014, his story "Italy" was one of Buzzfeed's "29 Short Stories You Need to Read in Your Twenties."