The English Department is part of Humanities at Wagner with office[s] located on the [2nd and 3rd] floors of Parker Hall.
Dr. Anne Schotter, Professor
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., City University of New York
Academic interests: Medieval Literature, medieval reception of Latin literature (especially Ovid), gender in medieval literature
Courses taught: Chaucer, Medieval English Literature, Sex and Gender in Medieval French Literature, British Literature Survey The City in Literature, Human Rights and Literature, World Literature
Publications:
Books Edited:
The Middle Ages (Longman Anthology of British Literature, vol. 1A), ed. with Christopher Baswell
(gen. ed. David Damrosch and Kevin J. H. Dettmar), 4rd ed. (2009).
Ineffability: Naming the Unnamable from Dante to Beckett, ed. with Peter S. Hawkins (1984).
Articles:
"Rape in the Medieval Latin Comedies," Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, ed. Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M.Rose (2001).
"The Role of the Feminine in Dante's Model of Literary Influence," Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony, ed. John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi (2000).
Dr. Susan Bernardo, Professor
B.A., Gordon College; M.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Academic Interests: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's fiction, Ecocriticism, Oscar Wilde's Essays and Short Fiction, Victorian Fiction, Star Trek: Voyager
Courses Taught: English Gothic Fiction/ The Study of Fairy Tales/ Science Fiction/ Orphans, Poverty and Scandal in 19th Century British Literature/ Romantic Poetry, Revolution, the Slave Trade and Women's Rights/ Crime and Violence in 18th Century British Literature/ Introduction to Literary Analysis and Theory/ World Literature
Books:
Co-author: Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion (Greenwood, 2006)
Co-editor: Gender Reconstructions: Pornography and Perversions in Literature and Culture (Ashgate, 2002)
Book Chapters:
"Nature, Community and the Self in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Nicola Griffith's Slow River" in a book tentatively titled Environmentalism in the Realm of Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Christopher Baratta (Cambridge Scholars Press,expected 2012)
"Of Emorys and Warricks: Self-Creation in Cyteen" in The Cherryh Odyssey, ed. Edward Carmien (Wildside Press, 2004)
Recent Conference Presentations:
"Programming Love and Art in Star Trek: Voyager" (2010)
"Janeway Among the Victorians: Nostalgia and the Gendered Self in Star Trek: Voyager" (2010)
"The Paradox of the Self in Star Trek: Voyager" (2008)
"Suicide, Secrecy, and Language in Collins's The Law and the Lady" (2007)
Dr. Bernardo's Website
Dr. Christopher Hogarth, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University; BA, University of Bath, UK
Academic Interests: Comparative Literature, Modern Languages, African Literature (especially Senegal), Literary theory, 19 & 20 Century European Literature (especially France, Italy and the UK), Cinema.
Courses taught: World Literature, Introduction to Literary Theory, Italian Literature and Cinema, Advanced French Composition.
Dr. Hogarth's Website
Dr. Ann Hurley, Professor
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Brown University; Ph.D., S.U.N.Y. Albany
Academic Interests- Early Modern studies, intersections of literature with the visual arts and visual culture, 17th century nondramatic literature, Donne studies, women writers of the 17th century, rare book and manuscript studies.
Courses Taught- Renaissance and Restoration literature; Shakespeare; Advanced Drama: Renaissance and Modern; World Literature
Publications:
Women Editing/Editing Women: Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism (2009),
John Donne's Poetry and Early Modern Visual Culture (2005) (Winner of International Price for Distinguised Scholarship, John Donne Society, 2006)
"So Rich a Tapestry": The Sister Arts and Cultural Studies (1995)
Currently in progress: A scholarly edition of two plays by the 17th century dramatist, Elizabeth Polwhele
Dr. Erica Johnson, Department Chair, Associate Professor of English - (curriculum vitae)
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Academic interests: postcolonial literature and theory, transnational modernism,Caribbean literature, comparative literature
Courses Taught: Modernism, Postcolonial Literature, World Literature, Literary Migrations
Publications:
Caribbean Ghostwriting (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2009)
Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003)
Work in Progress:
Mortified: Representing Women's Shame, co-edited with Patricia Moran
Dr. Peter Sharpe, Professor
B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A.,University of Michigan; Ph.D., New York University
Academic Interests: literature of the modern American South; African American literature; Native American literature; contemporary Irish literature; modern poetry (American and British); creative writing; journalism.
Research interests: Metaphor theory and modern American poetry; Native American literature; the grotesque and Gothic in literature of the modern American South
Courses taught: American Literature WWI to Present; African American Literature; Contemporary Irish Literature; Growin' Up In Dixie: Southerin Women Writers; World Literature; Feature Writing; Sports Journalism; Reviewing
Publications:
The Ground of our Beseeching: Metaphor and the Poetics of Meditation (Susquehanna University Press)
Lost Goods & Stray Beasts (Rowan Tree Press)
ADJUNCT STAFF
Prof. Matt Kubacki
Matt Kubacki is a songwriter, screenwriter, and film producer. His most recent songs can be heard on Brooklyn artist the Reverend John DeLore's albums "Little John the Conqueror" and "Songs from Church Avenue." He also most recently co-wrote and co-produced the short film "The Pilgrim & the Private Eye." He teaches "Discovering Gotham," a course about the literature of New York.
Prof. Claire Regan
Prof. Claire Regan is a full-time journalist with more than 30 years of newsroom experience. As Associate Managing Editor of the Staten Island Advance, she coaches editors and reporters on content and design and supervises the college internship program. Her editing and design work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the Society for News Design and the New York Press Club. Prof. Regan is a board member and past president of the New York State Associated Press Association and a board member of the New York City Deadline Club. She is a presenter at journalism conferences sponsoDan is a doctoral candidate in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center,
Prof. Daniel Venning
Prof. Venning ia doctoral candidate in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center working on a dissertation on Shakespeare in Germany in the Nineteenth Century. He has published articles or reviews in publications including *Asian Theatre Journal*,*Forum for Modern Language Studies*,* Performing Arts Resources*, *Theatre Journal*,*Theatre History Studies*, and *Theatre Survey*, and has given papers at a wide variety of national and international conferences. Dan is also served for two seasons as the Associate Dramaturg for the California Shakespeare Theater. He holds a B.A. in English and Theater Studies from Yale University and an M.Litt. inShakespeare Studies from the University of St Andrews.red by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the Garden State Scholastic Press Association and the New York News Publishers Association. Prof. Regan is proud to be a graduate of Wagner College.
Departmental Contact:
Ms. Rosemary Anarumo, Secretary
Parker Hall, Room 313
(718) 390-3256 | Fax: (718) 420-4158 | E-mail: ranarumo@wagner.edu
