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Kean University

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Education

  • Ph.D., Literatures in English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2004

Courses Taught

English Composition I and II; Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines I and II; Effective Speaking; Creative Nonfiction; The Personal Essay: Theory and Practice; Advanced Essay Writing; Women Writers Workshop: Personal Narratives; Introduction to the Study of Literature; Literary Theory; American Literature through Romanticism; Single Author Study: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Shakespeare for Everyone; Children's and Young Adult Literature; Literature and Film; Journeys, Voyages, and Quests in Literature; Reading the Environment; Senior Capstone Seminar in Literature: Literary Ethics; Senior Honors Thesis; Culture, Ideas, and Values (Honors); Civilizations I and II.

Research Interests

Ethics and alterity; the essay; creative nonfiction and memoir; 19th- and 20th-century American literature; Sephardic Atlantic history and diaspora; composition and pedagogy; general education and writing program administration