Degree Program Offered: Master of Arts
Director of Graduate Program: Janet Larson, Room 529, Hill Hall (973-353-5193 email: engma@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
Website:
http://english-newark.rutgers.edu/02_grad_00.htm
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Professors:
Frances Bartkowski, FAS-N; Ph.D., Iowa
Feminist theory and cultural
studies; American studies
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
Jack Lynch, FAS-N; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Eighteenth-century literature;
the history of criticism, satire, and humanities; computing 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
Narratology; gendered genres; feminist literary theory; 20th- and 21st-century British literature Associate Professors:
David Baker, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Renaissance nondramatic literature
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
Rigoberto Gonzalez, FAS-N; M.A., California (Davis); M.F.A., Arizona State
Poetry; poetics; Latino literature; LGBT literature; 20th-century ethnic American literature
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
Laura A. Lomas, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Literature of the Americas;
Latino/a literature and culture; feminist cultural studies; American
studies Assistant Professors:
Patricia Akhimie, FAS-N; Ph.D, Columbia
Race and gender: early modern period; medieval literature and women's travel literature
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
Manu Samriti Chander, FAS-N; Ph.D, Brown, M.F.A, Michigan
Romanticism; postcolonial and world literature; literary theory
Tayari Jones, FAS-N; M.A., Iowa; M.F.A., Arizona State
Novelist, short story writer
Ameer Sohrawardy, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Shakespeare and early modern drama; travel writing; postcolonial thoery; East/West interactions, particularly between the Ottoman Empire and Tudor-Stuart England; hypertext theory
