Faculty Research and Teaching Interests

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. BlandBelinda EdmondsonBarbara C. Foley, John Keene, Melanie R. Hill

American Literature

Frances Bartkowski, Sterling L. BlandBelinda EdmondsonBarbara C. Foley, Rigoberto GonzalezRachel Hadas, Melanie R. HillCathy Park HongJohn Keene, Malcolm Kiniry, Laura Lomas, John KeeneGabriel Miller, Frank Garcia

Arabic Literature

Amir Moosavi

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir

Sterling L. BlandRigoberto GonzalezMelanie R. HillJack Lynch

Caribbean Literature

Belinda EdmondsonJohn Keene

Children's Literature

Rachel Hadas

Diasporic Literature

Belinda EdmondsonJohn Keene

Drama

Patricia Akhimie, Malcolm Kiniry, Gabriel Miller

Early American Literature

Malcolm Kiniry

Early Modern Literature

Sadia AbbasPatricia Akhimie, David Baker

Eighteenth-Century Literature

Manu Samriti ChanderMalcolm KiniryJack Lynch

Feminist Theory

Frances Bartkowski

Fiction

Sadia Abbas, Frances Bartkowski, Alice Elliott Dark, Barbara C. Foley, Melanie R. HillJohn Keene

Film

Sadia Abbas, Gabriel Miller

Global Literature

Sadia Abbas, Patricia Akhimie, Manu Samriti Chander, Laura Lomas, Amir Moosavi

Graphic Novels

Patricia Akhimie

Historiography

David Baker, Jack Lynch

Islamic Literature

Sadia Abbas, Amir Moosavi

Latinx Literature

Frank Garcia, Rigoberto Gonzalez, John KeeneLaura Lomas

LGBTQ Literature

Frances Bartkowski, Cat FitzpatrickRigoberto Gonzalez, John Keene

Literature and Medicine

Rachel Hadas

Literary Theory

Frances BartkowskiManu Samriti ChanderBelinda EdmondsonBarbara C. FoleyMelanie R. Hill

Marxist Theory

Barbara C. Foley

Medieval Literature

Carol F. Heffernan

Mythology

Rachel HadasStuart Hirschberg

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Sterling L. BlandManu Samriti Chander, Janet L. Larson, Laura Lomas

Nonfiction

Sadia AbbasPatricia AkhimieSterling L. BlandRachel Hadas, Melanie R. HillMalcolm KiniryJack Lynch

Persian Literature

Amir Moosavi

Poetry

Sadia Abbas, Cat Fitzpatrick, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rachel Hadas, Stuart Hirschberg, Cathy Park Hong, John KeeneJack Lynch, Brenda Shaughnessy

Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Sadia Abbas, Belinda Edmondson, Laura Lomas, Amir Moosavi

Race Theory

Sterling L. BlandManu Samriti ChanderMelanie R. Hill

Religion and Literature

Sadia AbbasCarol F. HeffernanMelanie R. Hill

Rhetoric

Stuart HirschbergMalcolm Kiniry

Romanticism

Manu Samriti Chander, Jack Lynch

Shakespeare

Patricia Akhimie, Jack Lynch

South Asian Literature

Sadia Abbas

Translation

John Keene

Travel Literature

Patricia Akhimie, Jack Lynch

Twentieth-Century Literature

Sadia Abbas, Frances BartkowskiSterling L. Bland, Cat Fitzpatrick, Belinda Edmondson, Barbara C. Foley, Rachel Hadas, Melanie R. HillStuart HirschbergLaura Lomas, Gabriel Miller, Amir Moosavi, Brenda Shaughnessy

Victorian Literature

Janet L. Larson

Visual Arts

Sadia Abbas, Frances Bartkowski

War and Literature

Janet L. Larson, Amir Moosavi

Women's Literature

Sadia AbbasPatricia Akhimie, Frances BartkowskiBelinda EdmondsonCarol F. HeffernanMelanie R. HillJanet L. Larson

More Information

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