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Faculty
J.T.
Barbarese, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Temple
Creative Writing, English and American Romantic and Modernist Literature
Editor, Story Quarterly
421 Armitage Hall; 856-225-6556
Webpage: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~barbares/index.html
Author of four books of poetry, most recently A Very Small World (Orchises,
2005) and The Black Beach (University of North Texas Press, 2005). Poems
and translations in The Atlantic Monthly, Boulevard, Poetry, and The Times
Literary Supplement, and anthologized in Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian-Americana
and The Poetry Daily Anthology. Essays and literary journalism in Tri-Quarterly,
The Sewanee Review, Studies in English Literature, The Journal of Modern
Literature, and Boundary2. The editor of Story Quarterly since 2007.
Holly Blackford, Associate Professor
Ph.D California (Berkeley)
American Literature, Children's and Young Adult Literature
426 Armitage Hall, 856-225-6310
Holly Blackford has recently published articles, and written a manuscript,
on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird in relation to the
American canon; and the inception of developmental psychology (1870-1910)
in relation to Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Mark Twain’s
Huckleberry Finn, Henry James’s What Maisie Knew,
and L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. She has also
written literary-critical articles on coming-of-age writers Susanna Rowson,
Harriet Jacobs, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Brontë, J.M.
Barrie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Carlo Collodi,
Jamaica Kincaid, Anita Diamont, Julia Alvarez, Shirley Jackson, and Margaret
Atwood. Her book Out of This World: Why Literature Matters to Girls
(Teachers College Press, education division of Columbia, 2004) analyzes
the empirical reader-responses of girls to literature, and her collection
100 Years of Anne with an “e”: The Centennial Study of Anne
of Green Gables (University of Calgary Press, 2009) gathers scholars
from Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, and the United States to situate
the beloved novel. Chair of the International Children’s Literature
Association Article Award Committee (2008-2011), she was also the 2008
recipient of Rutgers’ Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for
Scholarly Excellence in Children’s Literature and Culture ($2000)
and the 2004 winner of the multiyear International Reading Association’s
Elva P. Knight research award ($9600) for her study of responses to Adventures
of Huck Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird in New Jersey, Alabama,
and Missouri.
Richard
Epstein, Associate Professor
Ph.D. California at San Diego
Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate Liberal Studies Program
419 Armitage Hall; 856-225-6117
Author of papers on the semantics, pragmatics and discourse structures
of English, medieval French and Tiipay (a Native American language spoken
in San Diego county and Baja California, also known as Diegueño),
including the journal articles “The definite article, accessibility,
and the construction of discourse referents” (in Cognitive Linguistics,
2001), “Reference and Definite Referring Expressions” (in
Pragmatics and Cognition, 1998); “L’article défini
en ancien français: l’expression de la subjectivité”
(in Langue française, 1995), as well as chapters in books
such as Grounding (Mouton de Gruyter, 2002); Discourse Studies
in Cognitive Linguistics (John Benjamins, 1999); Conceptual Structure,
Discourse and Language (Cambridge, 1996); Perspectives on Grammaticalization
(John Benjamins, 1994). He is currently researching the use of the definite
article in some of the earliest Old English texts as well as the use of
language in current discussions of environmental issues.
Shanyn
Fiske, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania
Victorian and Modernist British Literature
Director of Classical Studies Minor and of Women’s Studies
Director of Writing Program
422 Armitage Hall; 856-225-2937
Shanyn Fiske specializes in Victorian literature and culture and the
history of classical reception in nineteenth-century England. She is the
author of Heretical Hellenism: Woman Writers, Ancient Greece, and
the Victorian Popular Imagination (Ohio, 2008). She has published
articles on Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Ellen Harrison, Alicia
Little, and others. She is currently working on a book project that examines
literary relations between England and China in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. Dr. Fiske directed the Writing Program and
the Classical Studies Minor at Rutgers Camden.
Christopher Fitter, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Oxford
Shakespeare, 17th Century Literature and Politics, Literature and Landscape.
482 Armitage Hall; 856-225-6554
Chris Fitter's first book, tracing conceptualizations of nature across
three millennia of Western literature, art, and thought, was Poetry,
Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory, published by Cambridge University
Press in 1995. It was reissued in paperback in 2005. His second book,
Radical Shakespeare: Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career,
was published in 2012. He is currently working on its sequel, Shakespeare
and the Essex Crisis: 1596 -1601. He has published book chapters
in Shakespeare Left and Right (Routledge, 1991), Renaissance
Texts and Contexts (Macmillan, 2003), Shakespeare's History Plays
(Longman, 2002), and Penser La Nuit (Honore Champion, 2003),
as well as writing an essay on Landscape for The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
(Oxford University Press, 1998). He has published a dozen further essays
in scholarly journals, including Shakespeare Studies, Milton Studies,
Essays in Criticism, English Literary History, English Literary Renaissance,
Early Modern Literary Studies, Journal of English and Germanic Philology,
Southern Literary Journal, and Southern Quarterly. He has written
many reviews for EMLS and Notes and Queries.
William
FitzGerald, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Maryland
Rhetoric and Writing Studies
420 Armitage Hall; 856-225-2925
Webpage: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~wfitz/index.html
Bill FitzGerald specializes in rhetorical studies with particular interests
in stylistics, speech acts, and the rhetoric of religion. In writing studies,
Bill's interests include composition pedagogy, professional communication,
and writing program design. He has published on the personal statement
as professional discourse and on the rhetorical theory of Kenneth Burke.
His book project, ongoing, is "Speakable Reverence: A Rhetoric of
Prayer."
Keith
Green, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Michigan
African American literature, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Autobiography
476 Armitage Hall; 856-225-6601
Keith Green's main research and teaching interests lie in African American
literature, with more specific investments in the study of the antebellum
era, self-referential writing, African-Native American literature, and
slave narratives. He has delivered papers on Nat Turner, Harriet Jacobs,
Henry Bibb, and William Wells Brown. His current book project, Not
Just Slavery: African Americans Write Captivity Narratives, Too: 1816-1879,
explores the various kinds of bondage and confinement--specifically Indian
slavery, Barbary captivity, and state imprisonment--African Americans
experienced and recounted in the nineteenth century.
Lauren
Grodstein, Assistant Professor
MFA Columbia
Creative Writing, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Modern Drama
483 Armitage Hall; 856-225-2934
Lauren Grodstein is the author of A Friend of the Family (Algonquin,
2009), a Washington Post Book of the Year, a New York Times
Editor's Pick, and an Amazon.com Spotlight Pick and Best Book of the Month.
Her previous works include "Reproduction is the Flaw of Love,"
(Dial, 2004) an Amazon.com Breakout Book and a Borders Original Voices
pick, along with the story collection, The Best of Animals (Persea,
2002) and the pseudonymous Girls Dinner Club (Harper Collins,
2005) which was a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Her work
has been translated into German, Italian, French, Turkish, and other languages,
and her essays and stories have been widely anthologized.
M. A. Rafey Habib, Professor
D. Phil. Oxford
Literary Theory and Criticism, Islamic Studies
425 Armitage Hall; 856-225-6558
Author of seven books: Shades of Islam: Poems for a New Century
(Kube, 2010); Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present: An Introduction
(Blackwell, 2010); Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History
(Blackwell, 2007); A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to
the Present (Blackwell, 2005); An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry
in Translation (MLA, 2003); The Early T.S. Eliot and Western
Philosophy (Cambridge, 1999); and The Dissident Voice: Poems
of N.M. Rashed: Translated from the Urdu (Oxford, 1991). He is currently
editing three volumes: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism:
Vol. 6: the Nineteenth Century; The Oxford Anthology of Literary Criticism
and Theory; and Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
(Wiley-Blackwell/Penguin). He is also working on a book entitled Myths
of Islam.
Tyler Hoffman, Professor
Ph.D. Virginia
American Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics
Associate Director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities,
and Co-Director of the Walt Whitman Program in American Studies
416 Armitage Hall; 856-225-6615
Editor of the electronic American studies journal The
Mickle Street Review and associate editor of the Robert Frost
Review. Author of two books--Robert Frost and the Politics of
Poetry (University Press of New England, 2001) and Teaching with
The Norton Anthology of Poetry: A Guide for Instructors (Norton,
2005)—-and is finishing work on a book on the history and theory
of public performance poetry titled States of Change: American Public
Poetry and the Performance of Culture. He has published many articles
and book chapters, including ones on John Brown and children’s literature,
American Civil War verse, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Vachel Lindsay,
Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Gary Snyder, Thom Gunn, and the contemporary
slam poetry scene. He is past president of the International Robert Frost
Society.
Aaron Hostetter, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Princeton
Old and Middle English Literature, Food and Cooking in Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism
477 Armitage Hall; 856-225-2887
Webpage: http://hostetter.rutgers.edu
Aaron Hostetter specializes in Old and Middle English literature and culture. His book project, tentatively titled The Matter of Cuisine, explores the political aspects of the representation of eating and cooking in the medieval English romance from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. He has published an article in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology and delivered papers on subjects including Piers Plowman, Middle English incest narratives, and medieval romance. His other project is a re-translation of the major Anglo-Saxon poems after Beowulf into modern English verse.
Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Virginia
The Romantic Era and Gothic literature
421 Armitage Hall; 856-225-2997
Ellen Malenas Ledoux specializes in Gothic and Romantic-era literature.
Her current book-length project, Fantastic Forms of Change: Mass Persuasion
and Policy in Gothic Writing, 1764-1834 examines the relationship
between Gothic literature and the developing discourse of social reform
in writers such as Horace Walpole, Charlotte Smith, Charles Brockden Brown,
and William Godwin. She has published work in Studies in Eighteenth-Century
Culture and Women’s Writing (forthcoming).
Howard Marchitello, Associate Professor
Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo
Early Modern Literature and Culture, Science Studies, Shakespeare, Critical
Theory
480 Armitage Hall; 856-225-6110
Author of Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England (Cambridge
University Press, 1997) and editor of Thomas Middleton’s The
Mayor of Queenborough (Globe Quartos/Nick Hern Books, 2005) and What
Happens to History: The Renewal of Ethics in Contemporary Thought
(Routledge, 2001). He has published articles on Shakespeare, early modern
garden theory, science studies, and early modern travel writing in
English Literary History, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies,
New Centennial Review, and English Literary Renaissance,
as well as book chapters in Printing and Parenting in Early Modern
England (Ashgate, 2005), and Reimagining Shakespeare for Children
and Young Adults (Routledge, 2002). He serves as Associate Editor
of the South Central Review (published by Johns Hopkins University
Press) and a member of the editorial board of Literature Compass
(Blackwell). His current book project—“Hamlet Machine: Early
Modernity, Literature, and the Cultures of Science, 1585-1623”—is
a study of the intimate relationship between literature and science and
addresses such writers as Thomas Harriot, Shakespeare, Tycho Brahe, John
Donne, and Galileo, among others.
Timothy Martin,
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania
Modern British Literature, Irish Literature, James Joyce
Director of International Studies
Acting Dean and Director of the Honors College (2009-10)
418 Armitage Hall; 856-225-2818
Author of Joyce and Wagner: A Study of Influence (Cambridge,
1991) and co-editor of Joyce in Context (Cambridge, 1992) and
of Joyce on the Threshold (Florida UP, 2005). Guest editor of
a special double issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on "Joyce
and Opera" (2001). Presenter at numerous conferences and international
symposiums; frequent invited lecturer at the James Joyce Summer School
in Dublin and the Trieste (Italy) James Joyce Summer School. Professional
service includes directing the 1989 national Joyce conference in Philadelphia
and co-chairing the academic program of the 2000 International Joyce Symposium
in London. Member, Board of Trustees, International James Joyce Foundation
(2004-10).
Patrick Rosal,
Assistant Professor
MFA, Sarah Lawrence College
Creative Writing-Poetry, Twentieth Century American Poetry, Poetry in Performance
425 Armitage Hall; 856.225.2807
Patrick Rosal is the author of Boneshepherds, named one of the best small-press books of 2011 by the National Book Critics Circle, My American Kundiman, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive. He has won, among other honors, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, the Global Filipino Literary Award, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award. His writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Tin House, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Drunken Boat, and Language for a New Century.
Geoffrey Sill,
Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
18th Century English Literature, Drama and the Novel
478 Armitage Hall; 856-225-2990
Author of Defoe and the Idea of Fiction (Delaware, 1983), The
Cure of the Passions and the Origins of the English Novel (Cambridge,
2001), and articles in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, English Studies,
Eighteenth Century Studies, Literature and Medicine, Studies in Eighteenth-Century
Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Founding editor
of The Mickle Street Review, 1979 to 1991, now edited by Tyler
Hoffman; co-editor (with Roberta Tarbell) of Walt Whitman and the
Visual Arts (Rutgers, 1992); co-editor of Opening the American
Mind (Delaware, 1993); editor of Walt Whitman of Mickle Street (Tennessee,
1994); co-editor (with Peter Sabor) of The Witlings and The Woman
Hater (2002), and editor of The Court Journals of Frances Burney,
Vol. 5, 1789 (forthcoming).
Carol J. Singley, Professor
Ph.D. Brown
19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture, Childhood Studies,
Narrative, Feminist Criticism, Composition
Director of Graduate Program in English, Co-director of Undergraduate
American Studies Program
479 Armitage Hall; 856-225-6629
Webpage: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~singley/
Author of Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (Cambridge,
1995); editor/co-editor of five volumes: The American Child: A Cultural
Studies Reader (Rutgers, 2003); Edith Wharton's The House of
Mirth: A Casebook (Oxford, 2003); A Historical Guide to Edith
Wharton (Oxford, 2002); The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
(Houghton Mifflin, 2000); Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence
in Narrative by Women (SUNY, 1993); and The Calvinist Roots of
the Modern Era (New England, 1997). Articles on nineteenth and twentieth-century
American writers, feminist collaboration, and the theory and practice
of teaching of writing. Book in progress on literary representations of
adoption. Co-founder of Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Kinship, and
Identity. Former president of the Northeast Modern Language Association,
the Edith Wharton Society, and the Women’s Caucus of NEMLA.
Lisa Zeidner, Professor
M.A. Johns Hopkins
Creative Writing, Contemporary Fiction and Poetry, Film and Screenwriting
417 Armitage Hall; 856-225-6490
Webpage: www.lisazeidner.com
Author of four novels, Customs (Knopf, l98l); Alexandra
Freed (Knopf, l983); Limited Partnerships (North Point,
l989) and most recently Layover (1999); and two books of poetry,
Talking Cure (Texas Tech, l982); and Pocket Sundial
(Wisconsin), which won the l988 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Has also
written screenplays for Universal Studios and Focus Features. Fiction,
poetry, essays, and reviews in GQ, Mademoiselle, The New York Times,
Boulevard, Poetry, The Washington Post and other publications. Recipient
of the 1993 Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching and the
Provost's Teaching Award.
Faculty Emeriti of the English Department
Marie Cornelia, M.A., Ph.D., Fordham
Eddy Dow,
M.A.,
Walter K. Gordon,
M.A., Ph.D.,
William
D. Lutz, M.A., Marquette; Ph.D., Nevada
(Reno); J.D., Rutgers University
Diane McColley, Ph.D.,
Donald Mull, M.A., Ph.D., Yale
Robert M. Ryan, A.B.,
James L. Sanderson, A.M.,
