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Belton, John

  • John Belton
  • John Belton
  • Professor of English
  • Retired Since: 2020
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Cultural Studies; Film and Cinema Studies
  • Book(s):

    American Cinema American Culture

    Cinema Stylists

    Robert Mitchum

    Widescreen Cinema

    Widescreen Worldwide
  • Bio: John Belton is Professor of English and Film at Rutgers University. He has a PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard (1975) and a BA in Greek and Latin from Columbia University. In 2005-2006, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to research a book on digital cinema. In 2008, he received and Academy Fellows grant to research a book on motion picture color. He is the author of five books, including Widescreen Cinema (1992), winner of the 1993 Kraszna Krausz prize for books on the moving image, and American Cinema/American Culture (1994), a textbook written to accompany the PBS series, American Cinema. He has edited three books, including the most recent book, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (2000). Professor Belton also edits a book series on film and culture for Columbia University Press (1989-on). He is a former member of the National Film Preservation Board (1989-96), and former Chair of the Archival Papers and Historical Committee of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (1985-96). He is also an associate editor of the film journal, Film History. His research interests include film technology, film aesthetics, culture and film, American film history, and classical film theory.
  • Education: PhD, Harvard University BA, Columbia University

Brown, Wesley

  • Wesley Brown
  • Wesley Brown
  • Professor Emeritus of English
  • At Rutgers Since: 1979
  • Retired Since: 2005
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth-century American literature; Modern drama
  • Book(s):

    Darktown Strutters

    Tragic Magic
  • Bio: Professor Brown is the author of the novels Darktown Strutters (2000) and Tragic Magic (1995). He has is also also the author of the play, "Boogie Woogie and Booker T," and "Life During Wartime," which was published inAction, an anthology of works from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival (eds. Lois Griffith and Miguel Algarin, 1997). He co-edited the multicultural anthologies Visions of America (1991) and Imagining America (1993) and edited The Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass (1996).
  • Education: MA, City University of New York BA, The State University of New York (Oswego)
 

Busia, Abena P.A.

Davidson, Harriet

  • Harriet Davidson
  • Harriet Davidson
  • Associate Professor of English
  • At Rutgers Since: 1984
  • Retired Since: 2020
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Gender and Sexuality; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Poetry
  • Book(s):

    Longman Reader on T. S. Eliot

    T. S. Eliot and Hermeneutics: Absence and Interpretation in The Waste Land
  • Bio: Professor Davidson is author of T. S. Eliot and Hermeneutics: Absence and Interpretation in "The Waste Land" (Louisiana State University Press, 1985), editor of the Longman Reader on T.S. Eliot (Longman Publishing Group, 1999), and the author of numerous articles on poetry, theory and feminism. She was Director of Women's Studies for six years, inaugurating in 2001 a new department and Ph.D. program in Women's and Gender Studies in 2001; and in 1997 she organized the Rutgers conference "Poetry and the Public Sphere." Her current work explores the cultural function of poetry, theories of witnessing, feminist aesthetic theories, and postmodernism.
  • Education: M.A., Vanderbilt University B.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Other Departmental and University Positions

Dean, Douglass Residential College and Douglass Campus

Other Information of Interest

DeKoven, Marianne

  • Marianne DeKoven
  • Marianne DeKoven
  • Professor Emerita of English
  • At Rutgers Since: 1977
  • Retired Since: 2014
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Gender and Sexuality; Modernist Literature; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
  • Book(s):

    A Different Language: Gertrude Stein's Experimental Writing

    Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism

    Three Lives and Q.E.D.

    Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern
  • Bio: Professor DeKoven is the author of Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern (2004), Rich and Strange: Gender History, Modernism (1991), and A Different Language: Gertrude Stein's Experimental Writing (1983). She is also the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives (2006), and of Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice (2001). She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on a range of topics, including modernism, postmodernism, gender, feminist theory, and twentieth-century fiction. She is currently working on a book project on gender, ethics, and animals in modern and postmodern fiction. Professor DeKoven is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, was the Principal Investigator for a Rockefeller Residency Fellowship at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, and is the recipient of the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Award for Excellence in Research.
  • Education: PhD, Stanford University MA, Stanford University BA, Radcliffe University

Diamond, Elin

  • Elin Diamond
  • Elin Diamond
  • Professor of English
  • ElinDiamondCV_5a3d29ef5e60a.pdf
  • Office: Murray Hall, Room 205B, College Ave Campus
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Comparative Literature and Translation Studies; Critical and Literary Theory; Drama and Performance; Gender and Sexuality; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
  • Field of Interest: Gender & Sexuality, Poetry & Poetics
  • About:

    Professor Diamond is the author of Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater (1997) and Pinter's Comic Play (1985); she is also the editor of Performance and Cultural Politics (1996). Her many journal publications include essays on seventeenth and twentieth-century drama, and Freudian, Brechtian, and feminist theory. Her work continually explores the connection between performance and feminist or critical theory, using texts from early modernism through postmodern art. She is currently at work on a book on modernism and transatlantic performance.
  • Book(s):

    Performance and Cultural Politics

    Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times

    Pinter's Comic Play

    The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

    Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater
  • Undergraduate Courses Taught:
    • Seminar: "Dangerous Representations"
    • American Drama
    • Early Modern Drama
    • Feminist Theory and Feminist Theater
    • Modern and Postmodern Drama
  • Graduate Courses Taught:
    • Dramatic Modernism
    • Dramatic Postmodernism and Performance
    • Feminist Theory
    • Modernism, Gender, and Representation
  • Awards:
    • Faculty Academic Study Program, 2003
    • American Theater in Higher Education Research Award for Outstanding Article for “Modern Drama/Modernity’s Drama,” 2002
    • Faculty Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, 2001-2
    • Faculty Fellow, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 1997-8
    • Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University, 1986-7
    • Rutgers University Research Council Grant, 1985
  • Other Publications:
    • “What are You Reading?”
      Theatre Survey 49:1, May 2008
    • “Deploying/Destroying the Primitivist Body in Hurston and Brecht” 
      Reprinted in Modern Drama: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. III (Routledge, 2008)
    • “Churchill and Beckett Along the Möbius Strip” 
      Beckett at 100: Revolving It All (Oxford University Press, 2008)
  • Membership Affiliations:
    • Member, Modernist Studies Association
    • Member, Modern Language Association
    • Member, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
    • Member, Women and Theatre Program
    • Member, American Society for Theatre Research
  • Other Information of Interest:
  • Education: PhD, University of California, DavisMA, University of California, DavisBA, Brandeis University

Dienst, Richard

Doty, Mark

  • Mark Doty
  • Mark Doty
  • Director of Writers House
  • Distinguished Professor of English
  • Unit: Writers House
  • Phone Number: (848) 932-7064
  • Office: Murray Hall, Room 040A, College Ave Campus
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth Century Poetry; Nineteenth Century American Literature; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Poetry
  • Field of Interest: Creative Writing Studies, Poetry & Poetics
  • About:

    Mark Doty is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Poetry. His eight books of poems and four books of nonfiction prose have been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers' Award and, in the United Kingdom, the T.S. Eliot Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Professor Doty will join the Rutgers English Faculty as a Distinguished Writer in the fall semester of 2009.
  • Book(s):

    Atlantis

    Dog Years: A Memoir

    Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems

    My Alexandria

    What Is the Grass? Walt Whitman in My Life
  • Other Publications:
  • Education: MFA, Goddard CollegeBA, Drake University

Dowling, William C.

Ellis, Kate

Other Publications

 

Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy

Galperin, William

  • William H. Galperin
  • William H. Galperin
  • Distinguished Professor of English
  • GalperinCV_5b47a1e6e1721.pdf
  • Phone Number: (848) 932-7960
  • Office: Murray Hall, Room 016, College Ave Campus
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Eighteenth Century Literature; Eighteenth Century Poetry; Film and Cinema Studies; Nineteenth Century Literature; Nineteenth Century Poetry; Romantic Literature; Romantic Poetry
  • Field of Interest: Poetry & Poetics, Restoration & Eighteenth Century, Romantic, Theory
  • About:

    My work has continually explored the relationship of canonical Romantic writing to both contemporaneous and contiguous developments in British literature and culture, beginning with my first book, Revision and Authority in Wordsworth: The Interpretation of a Career (1989). Here I reconsidered the relationship between the poetry of Wordsworth’s so-called “great decade” and the poet’s middle and later poetry, showing how the later poetry, far from an anticlimax, represents a sharply critical engagement with the poet’s overtly Romantic writings and the hierarchies they install. In a similar vein, my second book, The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism (1993), demonstrates the extent to which Romantic culture was less a movement in the sway of a single or dominant ideology than a site of competing ideologies. Through texts ranging from Wordsworth’s The Prelude, to the theater criticism of Hazlitt, Lamb and Coleridge, to the painting of John Constable, to contemporary, precinematic spectacles such as the Panorama and the Diorama, I argue that the primacy of mind in the act of imagination was only one aspect of Romantic culture. There exists in the discourse of Romanticism a countermovement to that aesthetic experience in which things seen by the bodily eye are suddenly unassimilable to control or conceptualization in the same way that the human subject’s aspirations to autonomy are mitigated by its visibility and materiality.

    My third book, The Historical Austen (2003) extends this effort to identify an expanded Romanticism by engaging the most important writer of the period not directly associated with the Romantic movement. Employing a composite of historicizing methods, ranging from the social to the literary, I retrieve Jane Austen’s writings from their seemingly regulatory disposition through an interpretation of her fiction that takes full measure of the heterogeneity of her achievement. The largest of this study's concerns, particularly in its reconception of Romantic-period writing, involves the development of the novel itself, whose progress to realism is complicated by the possible worlds that animate the otherwise probable world that Austen's fiction is thought to serve. My latest study, The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday (2017) extends this investigation in further exploring an unrecognized, certainly an unappreciated, development in Romantic-era Britain: the emergence of the everyday as a distinct stratum of experience. Emergence, first theorized somewhat later in the nineteenth century, focused on the rise and synthesis of complex entities from components that were less complicated. But in a reversal of this impetus, the everyday’s emergence involved two things: the emancipation of the world from subjective or phenomenological misprision; and second, and related, the recognition that the lives and experiences of individuals (but also of nations and societies) were myopically bound to futurity––to horizons of progress––that took little stock of the present, which was increasingly “missable”  but as a prelude to being (re)discovered. The everyday’s emergence is an act of recovery that Romantic-period literature restages, transforming “history” into a placeholder for possibilities that had been ignored in deference to the “open futures” toward which everything was hurtling in “the age of revolution.”

    I've taught across and at all levels of the curriculum in English, from 200-level courses to graduate seminars. I've also taught literary theory for the Comparative Literature program. Most of my teaching, however, is in late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century British literature through a variety of frameworks: Politics, Sensibility, Romantic Irony, the Fragment Poem, the Novel and, most recently, questions of Immediacy, the subject of my current research.

     

    http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25299 

    http://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2017/06/the-everyday-made-literary.html
  • Book(s):

    Persuasion by Jane Austen

    Revision and Authority in Wordsworth: The Interpretation of a Career

    The Historical Austen

    The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday

    The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism
  • Undergraduate Courses Taught:
    • Principles of Literary Study
    • British Romantic Writers
    • Early Romantic Literature
    • Jane Austen
    • Lord Byron
    • Romanticism and Realism
    • Shakespeare
  • Graduate Courses Taught:
    • Placing Jane Austen
    • Romanticism and the History of Missed Opportunities
  • Awards:
    • Distinguished Scholar Award, Keats-Shelley Association, 2016
    • Choice Outstanding Academic Title (for The Historical Austen), 2004
    • Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, 2004
    • Howard Foundation Fellowship, 1991-92
    • Rutgers University Research Council Grant, 1988, 1990
    • Rutgers University Research Council Summer Fellowship, 1984
    • ACLS Fellowship, 1981-82
  • Other Publications:
  • Membership Affiliations:
    • Member, Modern Language Association
    • Member, Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
    • Member, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
    • Member, International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
    • Member, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
  • Education: PhD, Brown UniversityMA, Brown UniversityBA, University of Chicago

Ian, Marcia

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  • Marcia Ian
  • Associate Professor Emerita of English
  • At Rutgers Since: 1987
  • Retired Since: 2014
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth Century American Literature; Psychoanalysis
  • Book(s):

    Remembering the Phallic Mother: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and the Fetish
  • Bio: Professor Ian is the author of Remembering the Phallic Mother: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and the Fetish (1993). She is currently writing a book entitled American 'Secularity': The James Family and Others, which examines the writing of Henry James, Sr., William James, and Henry James in relation to America's mythic idea of itself as a "secular" nation. She is interested more generally in the intersections (and lack thereof) of psychoanalysis, philosophy and religion, and has published essays on these subjects as well as on Henry James and, in a not entirely unrelated development, certain aspects of popular culture, especially female bodybuilding.
  • Education: PhD, University of Virginia MA, University of Virginia BA, Wellesley College

Jehlen, Myra

  • Myra Jehlen
  • Myra Jehlen
  • Board of Governors Professor Emerita of English
  • At Rutgers Since: 1985
  • Retired Since: 2014
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Literature and Intellectual History; Nineteenth Century American Literature
  • Book(s):

    American Incarnation:: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent

    Readings at the Edge of Literature

    The English Literatures of America: 1500-1800
  • Bio: Professor Jehlen is the author of Readings at the Edge of Literature (2002), Class and Character in Faulkner's South (1976), American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent (1989), and "The Literature of Colonization" in Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820 (ed. Sacvan Bercovitch, 1994). She has also co-edited a number of volumes, including The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 (1996), with Michael Warner. Her essays deal with American writing, comparative literature, and theoretical issues in literary interpretation and history.
  • Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley BA, The City University of New York

Koszarski, Richard

Awards, Affiliations, Distinctions and Fellowships

  • Bergen County Historic Preservation Award for Fort Lee, The Film Town, 2005
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003
  • Prix Jean Mitry, Giornate del Cinema Muto, 1991
  • Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1923, 1991
  • National Film Book Award for The Man You Loved to Hate: Erich von Stroheim and Hollywood, 1984
  • American Council of Learned Societies, Research grant, 1978

Other Publications

Kucich, John

  • John Kucich
  • John Kucich
  • Distinguished Professor of English
  • Retired Since: 2021
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Victorian Literature Empire Studies Narrative Theory Psychoanalysis
  • Book(s):

    Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens

    Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class

    Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens

    The Power of Lies, Transgression in Victorian Fiction

    Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century
  • Bio: John Kucich is the author of four books on Victorian literature and culture: Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Georgia, 1981), Repression in Victorian Fiction (California, 1987), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 1994), and Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton, 2007). He has edited, with Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000), and he is the editor of Fictions of Empire (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002). He also co-edited Volume Three, 1820-1880 (Oxford, 2011), in Oxford University Press's landmark project, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, a twelve-volume series that is likely to be the standard reference work for decades. He has written dozens of articles on Victorian literature and culture, which have appeared in the top journals in his field as well as in the most eminent generalist journals in literary studies. One of these, an essay on Rudyard Kipling, was awarded the 2005 Donald Gray Prize as the best essay of the year in Victorian studies by the field's flagship organization, the North American Victorian Studies Association. He serves on the advisory boards of several top journals in his field and has served on the Editorial Board of PMLA. He has won major fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center. His areas of expertise include Victorian studies, empire studies, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and multi-media heritage adaptation.
  • Education: PhD, University at Buffalo MA, University at Buffalo BA, University of California, Santa Cruz
Other Departmental and University Positions

Dean, Douglass Residential College and Douglass Campus

Other Information of Interest

Kusch, Robert

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  • Robert Kusch
  • Professor Emeritus of English
  • At Rutgers Since: 1970
  • Retired Since: 2011
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Modernist Literature; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Poetry; Victorian Literature
  • Book(s):

    "My Toughest Mentor": Theodore Roethke and William Carlos Williams (1940-1948)

    The Field: Poems
  • Bio: Professor Kusch's publications include The Field: Poems (2003) and My Toughest Mentor (1999).
  • Education: PhD, Northwestern University MA, Northwestern University BA, Valparaiso University

Levine, George

McClure, John A.

  • John A. McClure
  • John A. McClure
  • Professor Emeritus of English
  • At Rutgers Since: 1975
  • Retired Since: 2014
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Literature and Religion; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
  • Book(s):

    Kipling and Conrad: The Colonial Fiction

    Late Imperial Romance

    Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison
  • Bio: Professor McClure is the author of Late Imperial Romance (1994) and Kipling and Conrad: The Colonial Fiction (1982), as well as essays on colonial and postcolonial discourse and geopolitics. His latest book is Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison (2007).
  • Education: PhD, Stanford University MA, Stanford University BA, Tufts University

McKeon, Michael

  • Michael McKeon
  • Michael McKeon
  • Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of English
  • Retired Since: 2021
  • McKean_CV_August_2023_.pdf
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • Book(s):

    Historicizing the Enlightenment Volume 1

    Historicizing the Enlightenment Volume 2

    Politics and Poetry in Restoration England: The Case of Dryden's Annus Mirabilis

    The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740

    The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge

    Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach
  • Bio: Michael McKeon specializes in the history of literary and cultural forms. His approach to history takes in both the chronological or diachronic dimension of forms and their structural or synchronic relations to other formations—political, social, economic, cultural--with which they coexist at their respective diachronic moments. Within this broad methodological field, McKeon’s attention is concentrated on England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. McKeon has taught and written on a range of topics, among them the aesthetic, realism, disinterestedness, genre theory, narrative theory, parody, allegory and typology, romance and the novel, family romance, the picaresque, pastoral and pastoralism, sensibility, travel narratives, status and class, sex and gender, domestication and domesticity, pornography, patriarchalism, secularization, the quarrel of the ancients and moderns, from feudalism to capitalism, periodization, the division of knowledge, science and literature, civil and religious liberty, the public and the private, the public sphere, libel and censorship, Marxism and literature, dialectical method, politics and poetry, tradition, print culture, virtual reality.
  • Education: PhD, Columbia University MA, Columbia University BA, University of Chicago
Other Departmental and University Positions
  • EmeritusDepartment Graduate Studies (DGS), director
  • School of Arts and Sciences Committee on Gender Equity, member
  • University British Studies Center (RBSC), co-founder; director
  • University Promotion Review Committee (PRC), member
  • University Search Committee for Executive Dean, member
  • University Committee on Academic Planning and Review (CAPR), member

Other Information of Interest

Visiting Professorships

  • Washington University, St. Louis, Fall, 1980
  • Brandeis University, 1986-1987
  • Princeton University, 1989-1990, Spring, 1991
  • Université de Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Spring, 2008
  • Universidad de Granada, Spain, March: 2010-2013, 2015-2017
  • Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, May, 2012
  • La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Fall, 2016

 

  1. Miller, Jacqueline T.
  2. Miller, Richard E.
  3. Orr, David
  4. Ostriker, Alicia S.
  5. Qualls, Barry V.
  6. Sadoff, Dianne F.
  7. Smith, Carol H.

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