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 literature and topics.
African American Literature
Sterling L. Bland, Belinda Edmondson, John Keene, Melanie R. Hill, Naomi Jackson, Simeon Marsalis
African and African Diaspora Literature
Belinda Edmondson, Melanie R. Hill, John Keene, Simeon Marsalis, Naomi Jackson
American Literature
Sterling L. Bland, Belinda Edmondson, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rachel Hadas, Melanie R. Hill, Naomi Jackson, John Keene, Malcolm Kiniry, Akil Kumarasamy, John Keene, Simeon Marsalis
Arabic Literature
Asian American Literature
Cathy Park Hong, Akil Kumarasamy, Eun Jin Kim
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Sterling L. Bland, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Melanie R. Hill, Jack Lynch
British Literature
Manu Chandler, Belinda Edmondson, John Keene
Caribbean Literature
Belinda Edmondson, John Keene, Laura Lomas
Creative Writing
Rigoberto Gonzalez, James Goodman, Brenda Schaughnessy, Alice Elliot Dark, Naomi Jackson, Akil Kumarasamy, Simeon Marsalis
Creative Non-Fiction
Gaiutra, Naomi Jackson, Akil Kumarasamy, Salamishah Tillet
Drama
Early Modern Literature
Sadia Abbas, Patricia Akhimie, David Baker
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Feminist Theory
Fiction
Sadia Abbas, Melanie R. Hill, John Keene
Film
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Catherine Fitzpatrick, Eun Jin Kim, Melanie R. Hill, Carol F. Heffernan, Belinda Edmondson, Frank Garcia, Laura Lomas
Historiography
Immigration Literature
Eun Jin Kim, Laura Lomas
Islamic Literature
Latinx Literature
Frank Garcia, Rigoberto Gonzalez, John Keene, Laura Lomas
LGBTQ Literature
Catherine Fitzpatrick, Eun Jin Kim
Medieval Literature
Music and Literature/Sound Studies
Sterling L. Bland, Naomi Extra, Melanie R. Hill, Simeon Marsalis
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Sterling L. Bland, Manu Samriti Chander, Belinda Edmondson, Laura Lomas
Persian Literature
Poetry
Rigoberto Gonzalez, Brenda Shaughnessy, Simeon Marsalis, Naomi Extra
Prison Literature
Religion and Literature
Rhetoric
Stuart Hirschberg, Malcolm Kiniry
Romanticism
Science Fiction
Shakespeare
Social Protest Literature
Frank Garcia, Melanie R. Hill, Naomi Extra
Translation
John Keene, Amir Moosavi, Laura Lomas
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
Women's Literature
Sadia Abbas, Patricia Akhimie, Belinda Edmondson, Carol F. Heffernan, Melanie R. Hill