Degree Program Offered: Master of Fine Arts
Director: Jayne Anne Phillips, 43 Bleeker Street, 973-353-1107 (email: japhillips@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
Website:
www.ncas.rutgers.edu/mfa
Members of the Graduate Writing Faculty
Professors:
James Goodman, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton; Nonfiction
Twentieth-century United States; race; politics, history, and fiction; narrative history
Rachel Hadas, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton; Poetry
Creative writing (poetry); 20th-century American and English poetry; classics in translation
Jayne Anne Phillips, Board of Governors Professor, FAS-N; M.F.A., Iowa; Creative Writing, Fiction
Contemporary fiction (novel, short stories, essays)
Associate Professors:
Rigoberto Gonzalez, M.F.A., Arizona State; Poetry
Latino Literature; 20th-century ethnic American literature
Tayari Jones, FAS-N; M.F.A., Arizona State; Creative Writing, Fiction
Novelist, short story writer
John Keene, FAS-N; M.F.A., New York; 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
Assistant Professors:
Alice Elliott Dark, FAS-N; M.F.A., Antioch; Creative Writing, Fiction
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
Brenda Shaughnessy, FAS-N; M.F.A., Columbia; Poetry, Poetics
Asian-American literature; contemporary poetry
