Faculty Profiles
- Teresa Ramoni
- PhD Candidate
- At Rutgers Since: 2020
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- Primary Areas of Specialization: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century American Literature, Film Studies, Adaptation Studies, Television, Music.
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Expository Writing, College Writing, Principles of Literary Study.
- Awards:
April 2023, The Marius Bewley Prize for the Best Essay in Coursework, Honorable Mention. "'What was taking place behind the curtained bed' : Reading Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood as a 'Rape Novel.'"
May 2020, Best Horror Film, "Captor." Inwood Arts NYC Quarantine Film Festival.
- Other Publications:
"'If the answers were on tickets': the Formal and Filmic Politics of Langston Hughes' Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz." Literature/Film Quarterly, 53.4, 2025.
"'What was taking place behind the curtained bed': Reading Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood as a Rape Novel." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 44.1, 2025.
"Review: Women's Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound." Sound Studies Review, 1.2, 2023.
"'To Mimic My Voice': Gender, Power, and Narration in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 2023.
With Margaret Toth, "'Their Voices Ring in My Ears': Laura, The Fugue, and Adaptation." Adaptation (Oxford), 14.1, 2021.
"Plaintive Restraints: Facing the Music of Kate Chopin's The Awakening." The Sigma Tau Delta Review, Vol. 94, 2019.
- Membership Affiliations:
The Literature/Film Association
- Other Information of Interest:
Conference Papers:
September 2023, "'Stabler's back. But Liv never left': The Problematization of the Ending in American Episodic Television." To Be Continued 3: Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations. University of Delaware.
April 2023, “Getting out of the Ring: Metaphor and Mythology in The Wrestler (2008) and Lights Out (2011).” Rutgers Graduate English Symposium.
April 2022, "Where the Crawdads Go: Charting Community, Genre, and Prestige in Reese's Book Club." Rutgers Graduate English Symposium.
February 2022, "'My Book Was Then As You Are Now': The Intertextual and Interpersonal Connections of E.M. Forster's Howards End and Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance." Literature Film Association/The Association of Adaptation Studies Joint Conference.
- Education: BA, Manhattan College