Degree Program Offered:  Master of Arts

Director of Graduate Program: Janet Larson, Room 529, Hill Hall (973/353-5279, ext. 529; email: engma@andromeda.rutgers.edu)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Professors:

Nina daVinci-Nichols, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Classical myth; Shakespearean and world drama; 19th-century fiction; film

Barbara Foley, FAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
American literature; Marxist theory; theory of the novel; Afro-American literature

H. Bruce Franklin, FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
Literature and the third world; science fiction, utopian and anti-utopian literature, American literature; literature and technology; literature and crime; literature and revolution

Rachel Hadas, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Creative writing (poetry); 20th-century American and English poetry;
classics in translation

Carol F. Heffernan, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Medieval and Renaissance medical views of melancholy; the poetry of Chaucer and Shakespeare

Gabriel Miller, FAS-N; Ph.D., Brown
Modern drama; film; modern American fiction

Virginia Tiger, FAS-N; Ph.D., British Columbia
Narratology; gendered genres; feminist literary theory; 20th-century British literature

Associate Professors:

David Baker, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Renaissance nondramatic literature

Frances Bartkowski, FAS-N; Ph.D., Iowa
Feminist theory and cultural studies

Sterling Bland, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Afro-American literature

Nancy G. Diaz, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Comparative literature; Latin American narrative

Belinda Edmondson, FAS-N; Ph.D., Northwestern
Caribbean literature; Afro-American literature; literary theory

Heyward Bruce Ehrlich, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
James Joyce and modernism; Edgar Allen Poe; Melville; Lowell; literary computing

Stuart Hirschberg, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Twentieth-century contemporary British/Irish poetry

David Hoddeson, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
The semiotics of voices in speech and written texts and their metacritical implications; English modernism and Ford Madox Ford; psychoanalytic approaches to literary criticism and interpretation; the relations among fact, history, journalism, the nonfiction novel, and imaginative literature

Malcolm Kiniry, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
The teaching of writing; writing-across-the-curriculum

Janet L. Larson, FAS-N; Ph.D., Northwestern
Narrative theory; religion and literature; women's studies; Victorian literature and culture

Jack Lynch, FAS-N; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
 Eighteenth-century literature; the history of criticism, satire, and humanities; computing

Asela Rodriguez de Laguna, FAS-N; Ph.D., Illinois
Anglo-Hispanic literary relations; Spanish and Latin American theater; Puerto Rican literature; Columbus in literature

Charles Russell, FAS-N; Ph.D., Cornell
History and theory of the avant-garde, modernism and postmodernism; contemporary American fiction

Assistant Professor:

Laura A. Lomas, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Literature of the Americas; Latino/a literature and culture; feminist cultural studies