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:

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

H. Bruce Franklin, FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
American cultural history; the Vietnam War; science fiction; crime and punishment in American literature; literature and the environment

Rachel Hadas, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Creative writing (poetry); 20th- and 21st-century American and English poetry;
mythology in literature; children's literature; literature and medicine

Carol F. Heffernan, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Medieval English literature, especially Chaucer

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

Jayne Anne Phillips, FAS-N; M.F.A., Iowa
Novelist, short story writer

Virginia Tiger, FAS-N; Ph.D., British Columbia (Canada)
Narratology; gendered genres; feminist literary theory; 20th- and 21st-century British literature

Associate Professors:

Sadia Abbas, FAS-N; Ph.D., Brown
Postcolonial studies; literature and culture of South Asia and South Asian diaspora; religion and literature; Islam and imperialism; Islam and feminism; theories of literacy form; history and literary criticism; contemporary British fiction

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

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

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

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
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; American studies

Malcolm Kiniry, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Rhetoric and teaching of writing; literature of the American Revolution; American studies

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

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

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

Assistant Professors:

Tayari Jones, FAS-N; M.A., Iowa; M.F.A., Arizona State
Novelist, short story writer

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