English 350 (Includes American Literature 352) (GS-N)

English 350 (Includes American Literature 352)

Degree Program Offered: Master of Arts

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Frank Garcia, 5th floor, Hill Hall (email:  fg229@rutgers.edu)

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Members of the Graduate Faculty

Distinguished Professors:

Belinda Edmondson, SAS-N; Ph.D., Northwestern
Caribbean literature; African literature; African American literature; 19th century literature

Rigoberto Gonzalez, SAS-N; M.F.A., Arizona State
Poetry; poetics; Latino literature; LGBT literature; 20th-century ethnic American literature

John Keene, SAS-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

Jack Lynch, SAS-N; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Eighteenth-century literature; the history of criticism, satire, and humanities; computing

Professors:

Sterling Bland, SAS-N; Ph.D., New York University
African American literature; American studies

Alice Elliott Dark, SAS-N; M.F.A., Antioch
Novelist, short story writer

Laura Lomas, SAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Literature of the Americas; Latino/a literature and culture; feminist cultural studies; American studies

Brenda Shaughnessy, SAS-N; M.F.A., Columbia
Poetry

Associate Professors:

Sadia Abbas, SAS-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

David Baker, SAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Renaissance nondramatic literature

Malcolm Kiniry, SAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Rhetoric and teaching of writing; literature of the American Revolution; American studies

Akil Kumarasamy, SAS-N; MFA, Michigan
Fiction; graphic novels, film, science fiction/speculative literature

Assistant Professors:

Frank Garcia, SAS-N; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Latino studies, American literature, critical race studies, film studies

Melanie Hill, SAS-N; Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania
African American literature; music, Africana studies, women's/gender/sexuality studies, theology

Naomi Jackson, SAS-N; MFA, Iowa
Fiction, Caribbean literature, African American literature

Eun Jin "Keish" Kim, SAS-N; Ph.D., Harvard

Global Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander literatures; migrant literature; queer theory

Amir Moosavi, SAS-N; Ph.D., New York University
Modern Persian and Arabic literatures; war and cultural production; comparative cultural studies of the modern Middle East

Professors Emeriti:

Heyward Bruce Ehrlich, SAS-N; Ph.D., New York University

Fran Bartkowski, SAS-N; Ph.D., Iowa

Barbara Foley, SAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago

Rachel Hadas, SAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton

Carol F. Heffernan, SAS-N; Ph.D., New York University

Gabriel Miller, SAS-N; Ph.D., Brown

Charles Russell, SAS-N; Ph.D., Cornell