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  Graduate School–Newark 2012–2014 Programs, Faculty, and Courses English 350 (Includes American Literature 352)  

English 350 (Includes American Literature 352)

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://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/english

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Professors:

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

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

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

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 

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

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

John Keene, FASN-N, M.F.A., New York University
Creative writing (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction); African-American and African diasporic studies; 20th- and 21st-century American studies; LGBTQ studies; poetics and narratology; aesthetic theory

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
Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; race and gender studies; early modern literature; early modern women's writing; travel writing; colonial discourse; conduct literature; textual editing; comics and graphic novels

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

Akhil Sharma, FAS-N; J.D., Harvard
Creative writing--fiction; 19th-century Russian fiction; Hemingway; V.S. Naipaul; travel writing; publishing and editing; fantastic fictions

Ameer Sohrawardy, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Shakespeare and early modern drama; travel writing; postcolonial theory; East/West interactions, particularly between the Ottoman Empire and Tudor-Stuart England; hypertext theory

Professors Emeriti:

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

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

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

Adjunct Member:

Kristian Kahn, FAS-N; Ph.D., Warwick
Victorian literature and culture; modernism and Bloomsbury; LGBT literature; feminist and queer theories; film studies; psychoanalysis and cultural studies

 
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