Degree Program Offered: Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
(Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction)
Website: www.mfa.newark.rutgers.edu
Director: Jayne Anne Phillips, Room 624, Hill Hall, 973-353-5279, ext. 624
Email: japhillips@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Members of the Graduate Writing Faculty
Professors:
H. Bruce Franklin, FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford; Nonfiction
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; Poetry
Creative writing (poetry); 20th-century American and English poetry; classics in translation
Jayne Anne Phillips, FAS-N; M.F.A., Iowa; Creative Writing, Fiction
Contemporary fiction (novel, short stories, essays)
Lewis Porter, FAS-N; Ph.D., Brandeis; Visual and Performing Arts, Nonfiction
Jazz history and research; piano performance
Associate Professors:
James Goodman, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton; Nonfiction
Twentieth-century United States; race; politics, history, and fiction; narrative history
Rigoberto Gonzalez, M.F.A., Arizona State; Poetry
Latino literature
Assistant Professor:
Tayari Jones, FAS-N; M.F.A., Arizona State; Creative Writing, FictionVisiting Professors:
Dennis Nurkse, (Spring 2008); B.A., Harvard; Poetry
James Hoch, (Fall 2008); M.F.A., Maryland; Poetry
Visiting Lecturer:
Alice Elliott Dark, FAS-N; M.F.A., Antioch; Creative Writing, Fiction
