Emeritus Profiles

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• Jacqueline T. Miller
• Associate Professor of English
• Retired Since: 2021
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• Primary Areas of Specialization: Early Modern Literature; Early Modern Poetry; Gender and Sexuality
• Book(s):
  
  Poetic License: Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Renaissance Contexts
• Bio: Professor Miller is the author of Poetic License: Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Renaissance Contexts (1986). Recent publications include: “Ladies of the Oddest Passion: Early Modern Women and the Arts of Discretion” (Modern Philology, 2006); “Telling Tales: Locating Female Nurture and Narrative in The Faerie Queene” in Gender and Oral Traditions in Early Modern Literary Texts (eds. Mary Ellen Lamb and Karen Bamford, 2008); "The Passion Signified: The Construction of Emotions in Sidney and Wroth" (Criticism, 2001); "Lady Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane" in Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (eds. Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman, 2000); and "Mother Tongues: Language and Lactation in Early Modern Literature" (English Literary Renaissance, 1997).
• Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University MA, Johns Hopkins University BA, University of Rochester

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• Richard E. Miller
• Professor of English
• At Rutgers Since: 1993
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• Office: 43 (Historic) Mine Street, Room #1, College Ave Campus
• Office Hours:

  By appointment: Via Zoom.

• Field of Interest: Writing
• Book(s):
  
  As if Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education
  
  Habits of the Creative Mind
  
  Habits of the Creative Mind, 2nd Edition
  
  Habits of the Creative Mind, 3rd Edition
  
  On the End of Privacy: Dissolving Boundaries in a Screen-Centric World
  
  Writing at the End of the World

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• Alicia S. Ostriker
• Professor Emerita of English
• At Rutgers Since: 1965
• Retired Since: 2004
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• Primary Areas of Specialization: Poetry; Feminism; Religion Eighteenth-century; Romantic poetry
• Book(s):
  
  Dancing at the Devil's Party
  
  For The Love Of God
  
  No Heaven
  
  Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America
• Bio: Ostriker's critical publications include Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (2000); The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (1997); and Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (1987). Her poetry collections include The Book of Seventy (2009), a National Jewish Book Award winner; The Volcano Sequence (2002); Green Age (1989); The Little Space, Poems Selected and New,  which was nominated for a National Book Award (1998);The Crack in Everything, which won the Paterson Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award and was nominated for the National Book Award (1996); The Imaginary Lover (1986), which won the William Carlos Williams Award; and The Mother/Child Papers (1986).  Professor Ostriker was active in Women's Studies and the Center for the Study of Jewish Life.
• Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin MA, University of Wisconsin BA, Brandeis University

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• Barry V. Qualls
• Vice President of Undergraduate Education and Professor Emeritus of English
• At Rutgers Since: 1971
• Retired Since: 2016
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• Primary Areas of Specialization: Literature and Religion; Literature and the Other Arts; Victorian Literature; Victorian Poetry
• Book(s):
  
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Secret Sharer, and Transformation: Three Tales of Doubles
  
  The Broadview Anthology of British Literature - Volume 5: The Victorian Era
  
  The Secular Pilgrims of Victorian Fiction: The Novel as Book of Life
• Bio: Professor Qualls is the author of The Secular Pilgrims of Victorian Fiction: The Novel as Book of Life (1982), and of articles and reviews on 19th-century English literature and on the Bible and its literary impact. Currently, he is Vice President for Undergraduate Education at Rutgers. In the past he has served as Chair of the English Department, Director of the English Graduate Program, and Dean of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences. His particular focus as a member of the Rutgers community has been the ways graduate and undergraduate education should work together constructively in a research university. In 2004-05, he chaired the Task Force on Undergraduate Education, a group of faculty, staff, and students appointed by Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick to examine thoroughly and then reorganize undergraduate education at Rutgers' New Brunswick/Piscataway campus. Professor Qualls was named the 2006 New Jersey Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support Education.
• Education: PhD, Northwestern University MA, Northwestern University BA, Florida State University

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• Dianne F. Sadoff
• Professor Emerita of English
• At Rutgers Since: 2006
• Retired Since: 2016
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• Primary Areas of Specialization: Film and Cinema Studies; Victorian Literature
• Book(s):
  
  Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot, and Brontë on Fatherhood
  
  Sciences of the Flesh: Representing Body and Subject in Psychoanalysis
  
  Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates, co-edited with William E. Cain
  
  Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century
  
  Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen
• Bio: "I’m the type of life-long learner who likes to learn a new discourse for every project. I take pride in my ability to teach students the pleasures and skills of interdisciplinarity. My students learn to apply the discourses of political science and history to the study of fiction and the tools of gender studies, psychoanalysis, and the history of feminism’s emergence to the study of women writers. In my film and literature classes, I teach students to read film through the lens of aesthetic, visual-culture, and historical analysis and to understand the difference that media makes to the study of narrative structure and situation. By teaching my students in an interdisciplinary way, I hope to inspire them to become life-long learners too. "
• Education: PhD, University of Rochester MA, Oregon State University BA, Oberlin College

Other Publications

• “Charles Dickens”
  (co-edited with John Kucich) The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (ed. Nancy Armstrong, 2006)
• “‘Appeals to Incalculability’: Sex, Costume Drama, and The Golden Bowl”
  Henry James Review 23, 2002
• “‘Hallucinations of Intimacy’: The Henry James Movies”
  Henry James at the Movies (2002)
• “Histories of the Present”
  Victorian Afterlife: Contemporary Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (co-edited with John Kucich, 2000)
• “‘Intimate Disarray’: The Henry James Movies”
  Henry James Review 19.3, Fall 1998
• "The Father, Castration, and Female Fantasy in Jane Eyre"
  Jane Eyre: A Casebook (ed. Beth Newman, 1996)
• "'Experiments Made By Nature': Mapping the Nineteenth-Century Hysterical Body" 
  Victorian Newsletter 81, Spring l992
• "Looking at Tess: The Female Figure in Two Narrative Media"
  The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Thomas Hardy (ed. Margaret Higgonet, 1992)
• "Romola: Trauma, Memory, and Repression"
  George Eliot (ed. K.M. Newton 1992)

Awards and DistinctionsProfessional Memberships and Affiliations

• Visiting Scholar, Department of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002-3
• Visiting Scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley, l991-2
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1990-1
• Editorial Board, Neo-Victorian Studies, 2007-
• Editorial Board, Atlantis, 2005-

Other Information of Interest

• "Dianne F. Sadoff" - New Faculty Profile
  by Carolyn Williams (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)

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• Carol H. Smith
• Professor Emerita of English
• At Rutgers Since: 1959
• Retired Since: 2007
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• Primary Areas of Specialization: Women's literature; Modernism
• Bio: Professor Smith is the author of T.S. Eliot's Dramatic Theory and Practice (1976), as well as many essays on 20th century writing and questions of gender. Her current research centers on the modernist poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), including H.D.'s work on film in the 1930s and her use of ideas and methods from psychoanalysis. Professor Smith was also active in Women's Studies.
• Education: PhD, Michigan University MA, Michigan University BA, Ohio Wesleyan University

Articles

• "Review of The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction"
  American Literature 70.3, September 1998
• "Review of The Men of 1914"
  American Literature 62.2, June 1990

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• Carolyn Williams
• Distinguished Professor of English
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• Office: Murray Hall, Room 020, College Ave Campus
• Primary Areas of Specialization: Victorian Literature and Culture; Victorian Poetry; Victorian Theater
• Field of Interest: Gender & Sexuality, Poetry & Poetics, Victorian
• About:

  Carolyn Williams specializes in Victorian literature and culture. She has recently published a study of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, entitled Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (Columbia University Press, 2011). The author of Transfigured World: Walter Pater’s Aesthetic Historicism (Cornell, 1989), she has also co-edited Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (with Laurel Brake and Lesley Higgins, ELT Press 2002). She edited a special issue of VLC on Victorian Studies and Cultural Studies (1999) and an issue of the Pater Newsletter on Queer Pater Studies (2007).

  Her current research is on Victorian stage melodrama, conducted under the working title, “The Aesthetics of Melodramatic Form.” She is also currently editing The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama (forthcoming 2017). Some recent publications include: “Stupidity and Stupefaction: Barnaby Rudge and the Mute Figure of Melodrama” in Dickens Studies Annual (2015), “Melodrama,” for the New Cambridge History of English Literature (Victorian volume), ed. Kate Flint (2012); Jane Eyre 2011 (on the film) in VLC (2012); “The Gutter Effect in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love,” in Graphic Subjects, ed. Michael Chaney (2011); “Eve Sedgwick, the Boston Years: Her Humor and Her Anger,” in Criticism (2010); “Walter Pater, Film Theorist,” in Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts, ed. Elicia Clements and Lesley Higgins (2010); “Parody and Poetic Tradition: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience,” in Victorian Poetry (2008); “Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama,” in Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion, ed. Lauren Berlant (2004); “Pater’s Impressionism and the Form of Historical Revival,” in Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture, ed. Suzy Anger (2001); “Intimacy and Theatricality: Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy,” in VLC (2000); and “Parody, Pastiche and the Play of Genres,” in The Victorian Comic Spirit: New Perspectives, ed. Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (2000).

  Until 2010 she was Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Writers at Rutgers and the Writers from Rutgers reading series. She was the founding Director of Writers House since 2008 directed by Mark Doty. She has served as Chair of the Department since 2010. Outside of Rutgers, she has served on the Supervisory Board of The English Institute, the Executive Board of The Dickens Project, the Advisory Board of NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) and the PMLA Advisory Committee as well as the editorial boards of Victorian Literature and Culture, English Literature in Transition, and Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film.

  She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004-5, the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1999, and the Scholar-Teacher Award in 2010.

• Book(s):
  
  Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody
  
  The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama
  
  Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism
  
  Victorian Literature and Culture, 27.2 (1999) "Editors' Topic: Victorian Studies and Cultural Studies"
  
  Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire
• Undergraduate Courses Taught:
  • Principles of Literary Study
  • Byrne seminar: Melodrama
  • Byrne seminar: Poets of New Jersey
  • Byrne Seminar: The Poetry of Astronomy (with Andrew Baker)
  • Dickens and Eliot
  • Victorian Literature and Culture
• Graduate Courses Taught:
  • Autobiography/Genre Theory
  • The Victorian First Person
  • Victorian Autobiography
  • Victorian Fin de Siècle
  • Victorian Poetry
  • Victorian Theater and Theatricality
• Awards:
  • The Rutgers Faculty-Scholar Teacher Award, 2010
  • Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2004-5
  • Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rutgers University, 1999
  • Beatrice, Benjamin, and Richard Bader Fellowship in the Visual Arts of the Theatre, Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1997-8
• Other Publications:
  • "Parody and Poetic Tradition: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience" 
    Victorian Poetry 46.4, Winter 2008
  • "Vehicular Traffic," a response to James Chandler at the conference on “Languages of Emotion”
    Textual Practice 22.1, 2008
  • "Genre Matters: Response" 
    Victorian Studies 48.2, Winter 2006
  • "Teaching Autobiography" 
    Teaching Literature: A Handbook (2002)
  • "Pater's Impressionism and the Form of Historical Revival" 
    Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture (2001)
  • "Parody, Pastiche and the Play of Genres: The Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan" 
    The Victorian Comic Spirit: New Perspectives (2000)
  • "Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama" 
    Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (2004)
  • "Introduction: Victorian Studies and Cultural Studies" 
    Victorian Literature and Culture 27.2, 1999
  • "'Genre' and 'Discourse' in Victorian Cultural Studies" 
    Victorian Literature and Culture 27.2, 1999
  • "On Pater's Late Style." 
    Nineteenth-Century Prose 24.2, Fall 1997
  • "Utopia, Limited: Nationalism, Empire, and Parody in the Comic Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan" Culture and Politics at the Fin de Siècle(1994)
• Membership Affiliations:
  • Member, Modern Language Association
  • Member, American Association of University Professors
  • Member, Northeast Victorian Studies Association
  • Member, North American Victorian Studies Association
• Other Information of Interest:
  • "Giving Inspiration" Writers at Rutgers Reading Series by Carolyn Williams 
    (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 2)
  • "Jayne Anne Phillips" Writers at Rutgers Reading Series by Carolyn Williams
    (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 2)
  • "What the Dickens?" by Carolyn Williams 
    (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)
  • "Susanna Moore" Writers at Rutgers Reading Series by Carolyn Williams 
    (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)
  • "Dianne F. Sadoff" - New Faculty Profile  by Carolyn Williams 
    (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)
• Education: PhD, University of VirginiaMA, University of VirginiaBA, Wellesley College