Degree Program Offered: Master of Fine Arts

Director: Jayne Anne Phillips, 43 Bleeker Street, 973-353-1107
                  Email: japhillips@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Website: www.mfa.newark.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; 20th-century ethnic American literature

Assistant Professor:

Tayari Jones, FAS-N; M.F.A., Arizona State; Creative Writing, Fiction

Adjunct Instructor:
 
Alice Elliott Dark, FAS-N; M.F.A., Antioch; Creative Writing, Fiction