The Department of English has 20 full-time faculty members who have combined to create a vibrant intellectual community. In addition to literary scholars and critics, the faculty includes poets, novelists, biographers, linguists and specialists in English education. Committed to their students and their individual disciplines, they represent an array of scholarly approaches and methodologies, each devoted to the written word. Among the honors given to English faculty in recent years are two CASE New Jersey Professor of the Year awards, the Rona Jaffe Foundation award, a Guggenheim award, and fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Faculty Profiles
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Department Chair, Professor Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2380 Bliss Hall 239 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Professor 19th and 20th century U.S. literature, creative nonfiction Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-3048 Bliss Hall 226 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours on Zoom: |
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English Graduate Program Coordinator, Professor Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature and History, the Literary Fairy Tale University of Iowa (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-3047 Bliss Hall 131 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours Monday and Thursday 3:30-5:30pm |
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Professor Modern American Literature, Gender and Literature, Literary Theory, Representations of the Holocaust New York University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2658 Bliss Hall 234 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours Tuesday 3:30-5:00pm and Wednesday 3:00-4:30pm |
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Professor Early Modern Literature and History, Milton, Metaphysical Poetry Case Western Reserve University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-3233 Bliss Hall 135 |
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Professor Brown University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2632 Bliss Hall 201 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours on Zoom Tuesday 3:30-5:00pm Wednesday 3:00-4:30pm |
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Professor Emory University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2687 Bliss Hall 219 |
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Professor Thornton Wilder, American Drama, Classical to Contemporary Drama, Bruce Springsteen Board Member of the Edward Albee Society and Thornton Wilder Society University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2346 Bliss Hall 223 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
Mindi McMann |
Associate Professor Contemporary and British Anglophone Literature University of California (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771- 2918 Bliss Hall 224 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Associate Professor Coordinator of English Secondary Education Program Young Adult Literature, Teacher Identity Development, Reading and Writing Pedagogy University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2686 Bliss Hall 217 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Associate Professor Comparative and Asian American Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Visual and Film Studies The Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of California at Davis (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2468 Bliss Hall 218 |
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Professor 20th century American literature, Autobiography studies, Multi-ethnic & Inter-American literary studies, Latin American literature Wayne State University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-3231//(609) 771-3086 Bliss Hall 130//229 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Professor 19th-century American and British literature, Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-3399 Bliss Hall 231 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Professor Poetry, Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature University of Alabama (M.F.A.) |
(609) 771-2559 Bliss Hall 215 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours Appointment link through |
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Creative Writing Program Coordinator, Associate Professor Creative Writing (Fiction), Contemporary American and World Literature, Narrative and Novel Theory University of Michigan (M.F.A.) |
(609) 771-2363 Bliss Hall 212 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Professor History of the English Language, Old and Middle English Language and Literature, Medievalism University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2698 Bliss Hall 207 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Professor Medieval and Renaissance literature, Chaucer, Dante, Spenser, Reception Theory, Bourdieu Indiana University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2106 Bliss Hall 128 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Professor Early American Literature, Women’s Autobiography, Quaker Studies University of Colorado/Boulder (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-3115 Bliss Hall 222 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Professor English Literature 1600-1850, Popular Culture, Genre Theory Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2155 Bliss Hall 220 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
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Associate Professor African American Literature, African Diaspora Literature, and Caribbean Women’s Literature Rutgers University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-3113 Social Sciences 335 Fall 2020 Remote Office Hours |
Part-Time Faculty
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Interim Associate Chair, Assistant Professor of English Medieval and Early Modern European Lit, British Romanticism, Linguistics Sigma Tau Delta chapter sponsor St. John’s College (M.A.) Indiana University (M.A.) |
(609) 771-2113 Bliss 211 |
Emeritus Faculty
Bernard Bearer (bearer@tcnj.edu)
Mary Biggs (mbiggs@tcnj.edu)
James Brazell (brazell@tcnj.edu)
Paul Cruser (pcruser@tcnj.edu)
William DeMeritt (bdemeritt@comcast.net)
Lahna Diskin (lahna.diskin@gmail.com)
Frank Erath (gerath1@hotmail.com)
Frank Hannold (hannold@tcnj.edu)
Lee Harrod (harrod@tcnj.edu)
Milton Levin (tscets@comcast.net)
Lawrence McCauley (mccauley@tcnj.edu)
David McGrail
Alexander Liddie (a.liddie13@verizon.net)
Robert Mehlman (robertmehlmanphd@aol.com)
Thomas Murray (tjm0707@gmail.com)
Barry Novick (kinoeye45@mwn.com)
Lynn Waterhouse (lynwater@tcnj.edu)
Peter Wood (pandjwood@verizon.net)
Office Staff
Program Assistant, Michelle Ordini
Graduate Assistants, 2020-2021 Academic Year
Sharon Stanley
Silas Jones- Research Assistant
Graduate Assistants, 2019-2020 Academic Year
LaToya Pegram
Heather Haase- Research Assistant
Graduate Assistants, 2018-2019 Academic Year
LaToya Pegram
Jordan Virgil- Research Assistant
Graduate Assistants, 2017-2018 Academic Year
Shirley Panjabi
LaToya Pegram
Rachel Atkins – Research Assistant