Emeritus Profiles

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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

Curriculum Vitae

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