English Department Full Time Faculty

English @ Drew -- Meet the Faculty
Sandra Jamieson (Department Chair, 2008-2011), Professor of English, and Director of Composition Office: Sitterly House 107 Campus Extension: 3499 Email: sjamieso@drew.edu . Areas of Specialization: Composition theory and pedagogy; creative non-fiction (articles and travel writing); contemporary American literature, Ethnic-American literature; critical theory. . Recent Publications: Books: Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum, with Linda Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, and Robert Schwegler (Heinemann, 2000), Winner of the WPA Best Book Award for 2000-2001; The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines: An Instructor's Desk Reference, with Rebecca Moore Howard (Bedford Books, 1995). Book chapters: “The Vertical Writing Curriculum: The Forgotten Core of Liberal Arts Education” (in Composition(s) in the New Liberal Arts, Ed. Joanna Castner Post and James A. Inman. Hampton Press, 2009). “One Size Does Not Fit All: Plagiarism Across The Curriculum” (in Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies. Ed. Amy Robillard and Rebecca Moore Howard. Heinemann-Boynton/Cook. 2008).

Mandakini Dubey, Assistant Professor of English (on leave, 2008-2009) Office: Sitterly House 305 Campus Extension: 3815 Email: mdubey@drew.edu . Areas of Specialization: Victorian literature, Anglophone literature, colonial discourse analysis, postcolonial literature, gender and sexuality.

Jim Hala, Humanities Chair (2008-2011) Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 205 Campus Extension: 3297 Email: jhala@drew.edu . Areas of Specialization: Old & Middle English literature; Celtic and Continental European Medieval literatures; Linguistics; critical theory; gender studies; film. . Publications: "The Parturition of Poetry and the Birthing of Culture: the ideas of Aglaecwif and Beowulf" in Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. "Gender, Narrative and Interpretation in Literature and Film" co-authored with Wendy Kolmar in Creating an Inclusive Curriculum: A Teaching Sourcebook from the New Jersey Project.

Wendy Kolmar, Professor of English, Director of Women's Studies, and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Faculty Development Office: Sitterly House 204 Campus Extension: 3632 Email: wkolmar@drew.edu . Areas of specialization: Victorian literature; women's literature; Gothic and supernatural fiction; women's studies and feminist theory; film studies. . Recent Book Publications: Feminist Theory: A Reader co-edited with Fran Bartkowski (Mayfield, 2004); Ghost Stories by British and American Women: An Annotated Bibliography co-authored with Lynette Carpenter (Garland, 1999); Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Sourcebook from the New Jersey Project. Co-edited with Ellen Friedman, Charlie Flint, and Paula Rothenberg (Teachers' College Press, 1995).

Cassandra Laity, Associate Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 207 Campus Extension: 3141 Email: claity@drew.edu . Areas of Specialization: Anglo-American Modernisms, modern poetry, feminist criticism/theory, critical theory, late-Victorian poetry and fiction. . Recent Publications: Books: Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T.S.Eliot ed. with Nancy Gish (Cambridge University Press, 2007); H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence, (Cambridge University Press, 1996; paperback edition 2009). Articles: "T.S. Eliot and A.C. Swinburne: Decadent Bodies, Modern Visualities and Changing Modes of Perception," in Modernism/Modernity.

Neil Levi, Associate Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 308 Campus Extension: 3821 Email: nlevi@drew.edu . Areas of Specialization: Twentieth century British and comparative literature, Modernism, critical theory, the Holocaust. . Recent Publications: Books: Modernism, Dirt, and the Jews (Fordham University Press, 2009); The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings, co-edited with Michael Rothberg (Rutgers University Press, 2003); Articles/other: Special Issue on "Antipodean Modern" Australian Cultural History, Vol 25 (2006) co-edited with Tim Dolin; “The Persistence of the Old Regime: Late Modernist Form in the Postmodern Period (Jameson, Badiou, Mosley),” Modernism and Theory: A Critical Debate, edited by Stephen Ross (Routledge, 2008). "Auschwitz and the Remains of Theory: Toward an Ethics of the Borderland" in Symploke: A Journal of the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural, and Theoretical Scholarship; "'See that straw? That's a straw': Anti-Semitism and Narrative Form in Ulysses" in Modernism/Modernity.

Frank Occhiogrosso, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 201 Campus Extension: 3287 Email: focchiog@drew.edu . Areas of specialization: Shakespeare; Renaissance literature; Modern drama; American drama. . Recent Book Publications: Shakespeare in Performance: A Collection of Essays, an edited volume (University of Delaware Press, 2003); Shakespearean Performance: New Studies (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2008): in progress: Shakespeare Closely Read. ""'Give Me Thy Hand': Manual Gesture in the Elliott-Olivier King Lear" in Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of performance Criticism and Scholarship.

Nicky Ollman, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 106 Campus Extension: 3300 Email: nollman@drew.edu . Areas of Specialization: Seventeenth century and Eighteenth century British literature with a focus on literature by women; fairy tales.

Patrick Phillips, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Office: Sitterly House 305 Campus Extension:3954 Email: pphillip@drew.edu . Areas of specialization; Poetry, fiction, Renaissance literature. Recent Book Publications: Boy: Poems (University of Geprgia Press, 2008), Chattahoochee (University of Arkansas Press, 2004)

Robert Ready, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 203 Campus Extension: 3302 Email: rready@drew.edu . Areas of specialization: Nineteenth century British Literature; creative writing; contemporary literary theory; interdisciplinary humanities. . Publications: Hazlitt at Table (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1981); "Dominion of Demeter: Mary Shelley's 'Mathilda' in Keats-Shelley Journal: Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and their Circles.

Peggy Samuels, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 208 Campus Extension: 3086 Email: psamuels@drew.edu . Areas of Specialization: Milton, seventeenth-century British literature, contemporary American poetry, creative writing (fiction and poetry), Bible as literature. . Publications: Books: Emily Bishop (Cornell University Press, forthcoming). Articles: "Verse as Deep Surface: Elizabeth Bishop's New Poetics, 1938-39" in Twentieth-Century Literature; “’Composing Motions’: Bishop and Alexander Calder” (in ed. Angus Cleghorn and Bethany Hicok, Ohio State University Press); "Duelling Erasers: Milton and Scripture" in Studies in Philology

Gerry Smith-Wright, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 206 Campus Extension: 3287 Email: gsmithwr@drew.edu . Areas of Specialization: 19th century American literature, Women's literature, African American literature, Ethnic-American literature. . Publications: "Revision as Collaboration: Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes were Watching God as Source for Alice Walker's The Color Purple" in SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women.

Tiphanie Yanique, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Office: Sitterly House 304 Campus Extension: 3608 Email: tyanique@drew.edu. . Areas of Specialization: Fiction and Creative non-fiction, Caribbean Literature . Recent Publications: The Saving Work (Kore Pres, 2007), "How to Escape From leper Colony" (Boston Review, 2006)

.........Martin Foys, Visiting Associate Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 303 Campus Extension: 3344 Email: mfoys@drew.edu . Areas of Specialization: Old & Middle English literature; critical theory, New Media studies, digital scholarship Recent Book and Electronic Publications: Virtually Anglo-Saxon: Old Media, New Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print (University Press of Florida, 2007), 2008 Finalist for the Modern Language Association’s First Book Prize, awarded Honorable Mention; 2007 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists [ISAS] Best Book Publication Prize. The Digital Edition of the Bayeux Tapestry (Woodbridge/Leicester: Boydell & Brewer/SDE), 2003 [CD-ROM], 2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title; 2005 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists [ISAS] Best Edition Publication Prize.
Come back soon to learn about our new hires: * Melissa Nicolas, Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator; * Sarah Wald, Postdocral Fellow in Environmental Studies (who will teach courses on eco-criticism and environmental literature); * Erin Boade, Postdoctoral Writing Fellow; * Michelle LeFrance, Postdoctoral Writing Fellow. ..............................................................................................................................................
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