The Department of English at Rutgers University–Newark includes more than two dozen nationally and internationally recognized scholars, novelists, and poets publishing on a wide range of literatures and topics.
Aesthetics
Sadia Abbas, Manu Samriti Chander
African American Literature
Sterling L. Bland, Belinda Edmondson, Barbara C. Foley, John Keene, Melanie R. Hill
American Literature
Frances Bartkowski, Sterling L. Bland, Belinda Edmondson, Barbara C. Foley, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rachel Hadas, Melanie R. Hill, Cathy Park Hong, John Keene, Malcolm Kiniry, Laura Lomas, John Keene, Gabriel Miller, Frank Garcia
Arabic Literature
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Sterling L. Bland, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Melanie R. Hill, Jack Lynch
Caribbean Literature
Children's Literature
Diasporic Literature
Drama
Patricia Akhimie, Malcolm Kiniry, Gabriel Miller
Early American Literature
Early Modern Literature
Sadia Abbas, Patricia Akhimie, David Baker
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Manu Samriti Chander, Malcolm Kiniry, Jack Lynch
Feminist Theory
Fiction
Sadia Abbas, Frances Bartkowski, Alice Elliott Dark, Barbara C. Foley, Melanie R. Hill, John Keene
Film
Global Literature
Sadia Abbas, Patricia Akhimie, Manu Samriti Chander, Laura Lomas, Amir Moosavi
Graphic Novels
Historiography
Islamic Literature
Latinx Literature
Frank Garcia, Rigoberto Gonzalez, John Keene, Laura Lomas
LGBTQ Literature
Frances Bartkowski, Cat Fitzpatrick, Rigoberto Gonzalez, John Keene
Literature and Medicine
Literary Theory
Frances Bartkowski, Manu Samriti Chander, Belinda Edmondson, Barbara C. Foley, Melanie R. Hill
Marxist Theory
Medieval Literature
Mythology
Rachel Hadas, Stuart Hirschberg
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Sterling L. Bland, Manu Samriti Chander, Janet L. Larson, Laura Lomas
Nonfiction
Sadia Abbas, Patricia Akhimie, Sterling L. Bland, Rachel Hadas, Melanie R. Hill, Malcolm Kiniry, Jack Lynch
Persian Literature
Poetry
Sadia Abbas, Cat Fitzpatrick, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rachel Hadas, Stuart Hirschberg, Cathy Park Hong, John Keene, Jack Lynch, Brenda Shaughnessy
Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Sadia Abbas, Belinda Edmondson, Laura Lomas, Amir Moosavi
Race Theory
Sterling L. Bland, Manu Samriti Chander, Melanie R. Hill
Religion and Literature
Sadia Abbas, Carol F. Heffernan, Melanie R. Hill
Rhetoric
Stuart Hirschberg, Malcolm Kiniry
Romanticism
Manu Samriti Chander, Jack Lynch
Shakespeare
South Asian Literature
Translation
Travel Literature
Twentieth-Century Literature
Sadia Abbas, Frances Bartkowski, Sterling L. Bland, Cat Fitzpatrick, Belinda Edmondson, Barbara C. Foley, Rachel Hadas, Melanie R. Hill, Stuart Hirschberg, Laura Lomas, Gabriel Miller, Amir Moosavi, Brenda Shaughnessy
Victorian Literature
Visual Arts
Sadia Abbas, Frances Bartkowski
War and Literature
Women's Literature
Sadia Abbas, Patricia Akhimie, Frances Bartkowski, Belinda Edmondson, Carol F. Heffernan, Melanie R. Hill, Janet L. Larson
More Information
Write to English@newark.rutgers.edu for more information.