The Department of English has 19 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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Professor, Interim Department Chair Medieval and Renaissance literature, Chaucer, Dante, Spenser, Reception Theory, Bourdieu Indiana University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2106 Bliss Hall 216 |
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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 211/135 |
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English Graduate Program Coordinator, Professor Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature and History, University of Iowa (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-3047 Bliss Hall 131 |
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Samira
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Assistant Professor English, Africana Studies, Rutgers University, (Ph.D.)
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609-771-2697 Bliss Hall 210 |
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Professor Queer Literature and Theory, African American Literature, and Transgender Theory Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2380 Bliss Hall 239 |
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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 |
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Professor, Sabbatical AY 2021-2022 Modern American Literature, Gender and Literature, Literary Theory, Representations of the Holocaust New York University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2658 Bliss Hall 234 Sabbatical AY 2021-2022 |
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Professor Early Modern Literature and History, Milton, Metaphysical Poetry Case Western Reserve University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-3233 Bliss Hall 230 |
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Professor Coordinator Honors Program Literary and Classical Studies, Response Theory, Brown University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2632 Bliss Hall 201 |
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Professor African-American Literature, Critical Race Theory, 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 |
Mindi McMann |
Associate Professor Contemporary and British Anglophone Literature University of California (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771- 2918 Bliss Hall 224 |
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Professor Coordinator of English Secondary Education Program Young Adult Literature, Teacher Identity Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2686 Bliss Hall 217 |
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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 Bliss Hall 229 |
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Professor Poetry, Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature University of Alabama (M.F.A.) |
(609) 771-2559 Bliss Hall 215 |
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Associate 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 |
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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 |
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Professor English Literature 1600-1850, Popular Culture, Genre Theory Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
(609) 771-2155 Bliss Hall 220 |
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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 |
Part-Time Faculty
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Christina
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Visiting Assistant Professor English Secondary Education |
609-771-2584 Bliss Hall 225 |
Visiting Assistant Professor
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Susanne Davis
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Visiting Assistant Professor University of Iowa (M.F.A. in Creative Writing with Fiction concentration) |
(609) 771-2363 Bliss Hall 212 |
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Davy Knittle
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Visiting Assistant Professor English, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Ph. D.)
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609-771-2792 Bliss Hall 221 |
Adjunct Professors
Kristen Luettchau
Laura Neuman
Courtney Polidori
Jennie Sekanics
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 (erathj@tcnj.edu)
Frank Hannold (hannold@tcnj.edu)
Lee Harrod (harrod@tcnj.edu)
Lawrence McCauley (mccauley@tcnj.edu)
Robert Mehlman (robertmehlmanphd@aol.com)
Thomas Murray (tjm0707@gmail.com)
Barry Novick (kinoeye45@mwn.com)
Michael Robertson (mroberts@tcnj.edu)
Lynn Waterhouse (lynwater@tcnj.edu)
Peter Wood (pandjwood@verizon.net)
Office Staff
Program Assistant, Michelle Ordini
Graduate Assistants, 2021-2022 Academic Year
Sharon Stanley
Isabella Guhl-Erdie
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